Jon's In Waikiki (AKA The Waikiki Marketer)

Google has announced that they’re literally going deep into businesses to take photos inside stores and some offices. This means you’ve got to start thinking hard about what prospective customers and clients will be seeing. Your interior must reflect your marketing in detail, although that should be happening already, right? If you’re after upscale clientele, […]

Shareaholic, a company that provides social sharing widgets/buttons to websites, has reported Pintrest passing Yahoo to become the 4th biggest source of traffic for its clients. In case you’re wondering, Google is #1, Direct Traffic is #2 and Facebook takes the #3 spot. Now keep in mind that Shareaholic’s client base is about 200,000 websites. […]

First, I should be completely honest and say that there are some differences between the search engines. They each have their own unique ranking algorithm and inevitably emphasize certain elements and practices more than another. But, that’s not the whole story, obviously. If you do quality SEO, with quality content that uses your targeted keyphrases […]

There are SEOs out there who will tell you there’s a certain amount of words or a page length measurement that gets high rankings from Google. They’re either uninformed or they’re flat out lying to you. Here’s what you should know. There IS such a thing as too little text or too much. You know […]

Like me, you probably see webpages that obviously are trying to cover all the keyphrases bases, especially on their homepage. It’s clear they’re trying to hit at least 5, 10, sometimes more keywords by stuffing the Page Title, Headings and text to the breaking point trying to get them all in there. Unfortunately, you’re doing […]

It sounds so tempting doesn’t it? Just turn over your off-site SEO to an automated service and submit to hundreds of directories in minutes, even seconds. What you’re really doing is begging Google to penalize your site & keep it from ever ranking. It’s like putting a brick wall in front of your store entrance. […]