Matt Cutts, head of Google’s spam team explains in this video how Google search works. A must watch for any business owner, blogger or webmaster.

AppBotic has some cool features that that help make useful apps for small business owners.

AppBotic Features

SEO

After implementing some SEO, AppBotic is now at the top of the search engines for multiple keywords. Keywords including “mobile app builder” and “app creator“. These keywords help bring in over 5k visitors (as of 2/20/12) a month to the AppBotic website. Just a reminder that a great SEO campaign is the key to free traffic. More traffic = more sales.

Give us a call at 1-818-937-3042 or use the contact form and we can discuss how quickly we can start implementing a sound SEO strategy for your business.

SEO

After coming up with our SEO strategy we immediately wasted no time putting it into action. Using our whitehat SEO techniques, Carpet Wagon began to rise in the search engine results pages. Within the first month of our SEO campaign, Carpet Wagon was ranking for competitive keywords like “carpet los angeles”. If you were to bid on that keyword in google adwords, that would cost an estimated $2.43 PER CLICK. Carpet Wagon now ranks #1 on the first page of Google(2/20/12), for that keyword, in the organic listings, free.

They also rank for many other local keywords that helps drive free traffic to the Carpet Wagon website.

Web Design

In order for us to implement our effective SEO techniques on the Carpet Wagon website, we needed to make a few changes. One main change was the design of the website. We needed to grab the attention of the visitor and have them take action and call Carpet Wagon. We also set up a shop at home page where customers can set up in home appointments.

These were just few of the many changes we’ve made to the Carpet Wagon website.

Give us a call at 1-818-937-3042 or use or contact form for a no-obligation quote on your web design needs and we’ll show you how a new website with proper SEO can add profit to your business.

We consulted with SABI and made some integration suggestions for their app.

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Student Wall

These were just some minor suggestions that were made. We wanted to make sure SABI students and users get the most out of their mobile app.

If you are interested in having a mobile application developed, the best thing to do is to give us a call at 818-937-3042. We’ll set up a time for a no-obligation consultation. During that consultation we’ll make sure that a mobile app is right for your business. We’ll strategize creative ways to make sure that users keep it on their phones and that it will drive new business to your operation.

Give us a call today at 1-818-937-3042 or use our contact form and we’ll get started.

In order to make sure people stay, you need to make sure that your website is up to par with what people like, what they want, and what they feel comfortable with. Here is a little checklist so that you can test your website, and find out how professional it is.

Does your background consist of a color other than white?

If it does, you should seriously consider changing it. Most successful websites have a white background with purpose in mind, and that is because white backgrounds not only make it easier to see, but they also communicate emotions like purity, grace, tranquility, and cleanliness. They also help the lettering to really stand out, so try to keep your background white if at all possible.

As far as design goes, do you use a lot of bright colors?

If you do, then you might want to think about some other choices. Bright colors distract from the purpose of your site, and they also need time for your eyes to adjust to. You might not have a ton of bright colors, but if it is enough that you need to refocus your eyes just to read the letters, then you will probably lose traffic because of it. Instead of bright colors, think of dark blues, greens, grays, or other neutral colors like this. Then, have your logo be bright and “out there” for the biggest effect. If your entire page is bright pink, that is probably bad. But if your page is white and blue, with a big pink heart at the top with your logo on it, then it will be eye catching without being too distracting.

Try to keep all these things in mind when you are designing your web page, and you might start to notice that your website looks more and more professional.

Need a website but don’t know where to start? Do you currently have a website or blog but need a marketing strategy? Do you know your target audience and do you know how to reach them?  Rank High Solutions is a Los Angeles Web Design and SEO company that offers top of the line consulting services to small businesses.

Creating this app was a real treat. Thanks to Avo Barsoumian of Carpet Wagon for allowing us to be apart of your mobile app development project.

Check out the app screen shots to the right

Want to tap in to the growing mobile market? Get a mobile app developed for your business today! Contact us for a free quote.

Why the name change?

We have grown over the past year in offering SEO, web design and other various internet marketing services. For 2012, we want to expand our services and offer direct mail advertising for our clients. We have a unique system in place that will generate massive exposure for our current clients and future clients to come.

Online Local Advertising is HOT

With various “deal of the day” websites like Groupon popping up online, it’s no secret that combining an online marketing campaign with traditional direct mail marketing is a force to be reckoned with.

We have a new system that will guarantee more exposure for our small business clients while at the same time build them an online presence.

Rank High Solutions Focused on SEO

Our main goal for Rank High Solutions was to offer small businesses top quality SEO services at reasonable prices. In doing this we learned that SEO alone is an effective way to drive traffic to our client’s websites but not the only to gain exposure.

Therefore, we are no longer focusing on search engine optimization alone but rather taking a inbound marketing approach.

Which is why we’ve changed our name from Rank High Solutions (SEO focused) to J & C Marketing solutions.

We still offer top quality SEO, web development and internet marketing services along with our new found love for inbound marketing solutions.

The Do-Follow Attribute

Regardless of anything mentioned in this article this is the most important part. The social bookmarking website cannot use the no-follow attribute in their outbound links. The whole concept of the no-follow attribute is to prevent Pagerank from being passed as well as link value. It has already been stated as recently as June 2009 by Google’s Matt Cutts that no-follow links do not get any value; this includes anchor text\keyword value. Below is a copy of this statement…

“Now let’s talk about the rel=nofollow attribute. No-follow is method (introduced in 2005 and supported by multiple search engines) to annotate a link to tell search engines “I can’t or don’t want to vouch for this link.” In Google, no-follow links don’t pass PageRank and don’t pass anchortext [*].

No-follow links definitely don’t pass PageRank. Over the years, I’ve seen a few corner cases where a no-follow link did pass anchortext, normally due to bugs in indexing that we then fixed. The essential thing you need to know is that no-follow links don’t help sites rank higher in Google’s search results.”

Quotation Source: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/

So, with these above statements we can fully accept that no-follow backlinks have absolutely no value in terms of search engine optimization. With this lesson we understand that the social bookmarking website must not utilize the no-follow attribute in their outbound links.

Tagging to Promote Indexing

One of the big issues with social bookmarking backlinks is they get completely de-indexed from search engine indexes. This is due to the fact of the hundreds of thousands of web pages that social bookmarking websites create and search engines won’t index many of them. This is usually because of the lack of inbound external and internal links to the web page.

We can prevent this by using the tag system properly. Usually most bookmarking sites will have a tag cloud of the most popular tags. You should try to find a tag that is relevant to your site that is displayed normally in this cloud. This helps search engines find your backlink much easier and also promotes a lot of internal linking to your specific bookmark. Without proper use of tagging you’ll find your social bookmarking backlink will get lost in the mix and never be indexed.

Stay Active in the Community

Just like with tagging being active in the community helps get your social bookmarking links indexed. This is because your user id or profile will link back to all your social bookmarks and help search engines find them much easier. It’s a good idea to rate or comment on some of the popular social bookmarks in that community and even contribute in some of their forum communities. You’ll find the most popular social bookmarks are provided by people who are very active in the community.

Need SEO services but don’t know where to start? Do you currently have a website or blog but need a marketing strategy? Do you know your target audience and do you know how to reach them?  Rank High Solutions is a Los Angeles Web Design and SEO company that offers top of the line consulting services to small businesses.

SEO occurs through the optimization of a website (case in point being your business one) to appear on diverse search engines such as Yahoo, Google, MSN and others. Your main target is the public who are potential clients, and through Search Engine Optimization, you are making as effectively as possible, for people to view your website through their searches. For instance, if you own a SEO Company, you would undoubtedly want your Company to appear on any search engine for “Seo Company Los Angeles”.

The goal is for your Company or business to be prominently displayed on all search engines when a certain keyword phrase is entered. It is obvious that if your business website does not appear, your competitors’ almost certainly will. According to analysis, more than 80% people depend on the Internet for much of their requirements, from making payments to procuring goods and services. In fact, search engines like Google are liberally used to track businesses which are of the nearest distance, and potential clients can observe a list of options from inventory, pricing details, location and contact information. Whatever they are looking for can be found in websites which are optimized.

Websites which show up in “organic” search results primarily have keywords which are optimized, done by a keyword research specialist to create numerous phrases to add in to your website. META tags and keywords of a website in particular, are updated via HTML code. It is also pivotal to construct the “page Rank” of a website via receiving incoming links from other websites to point to your own – indicating to Google and all other search engines that your website is an important one. But of course, this must be prepared by experts in the SEO area.

Rather than pay huge sums of money for each click or/and impression (known as Pay Per Click advertising) without optimization utilizing SEO methods, having your website appear on Google, Yahoo or any other search engines naturally or organically is unsurpassed. This is more efficient compared to paid ads which are displayed under the banner of “sponsored ads” in the right side of search results. Statistics show that more than 80% of Internet users have a preference to click on the “organic” part, which is situated on the left side.

For a business of any scale, it is crucial to have preferably more than one link to your website on the very first page of any search engine, paying special emphasis on Google. What you need is daily traffic which in turn, can very well be new clients when your website appears in the search results page. This will not incur any costs, but if executed properly, will instead, create a flow of steady business all the year round for you. Seek SEO specialists near you and negotiate for a good deal. In some cases, you may also obtain free consultations when your websites are examined. It is highly recommended that you do this, as the results would be worth your while.

Absolute Link – This is a hyperlink displayed on a web page with no anchor and is displayed as the actual URL of the hyperlink.

An Attribute or Alt Tag – The accurate way to say this is the alt attribute, it’s not a HTML tag, it’s an HTML attribute. The alt attribute is the alternate description tag used in a HTML image syntax. This is used if the browser cannot display the image. This is also used to describe what an image is to search engine crawlers.

Anchor Text – This is the clickable text in a hyperlink that is displayed on a web page.

Backlink – The is what they call a link from one website to another; also known as an inbound link.

Cloaking – This is a black-hat SEO technique and should be avoided at all costs. Basically it’s when a web server shows one web page to search engine crawlers and another to actual human visitors via the reporting user agent.

Deep Linking – This is when you build backlinks to your internal web pages; this excludes your homepage. This can also be used when talking about internal linking and refrencing making sure all your web pages are somehow internally linked.

Keyword Density – This is the percent of a specific keyword or phrase appearing in content. This should not be considered when writing content; content should read naturally and not contained stuffed keywords.

Long Tail Keyword – This is a keyword that consists of more than 3 words; an example would be “How To Do SEO”.

Meta Description Tag – This is what appears as the description in search engine results underneath the web page’s title. It’s located in the head section of an HTML document.

On-Page SEO – This is referring to actual optimization of your web pages to make them optimal for search engines. This would include, but not limited to, title tags, heading tags, internal links, meta description, etc.

Off-Page SEO – This is the process of building backlinks to your web pages.

One Way Link – This is a backlink that you do not link back to anywhere on your website.

Pagerank – This is a value 0 through 10 given by Google to web pages based on the quality of their inbound links.

Redirect – The process of redirecting domains, web pages or URLs to another.

Robots.txt – This file is used to control what sections or web pages of your website a search engine crawler can or cannot crawl.

Need SEO services but don’t know where to start? Do you currently have a website or blog but need a marketing strategy? Do you know your target audience and do you know how to reach them?  Rank High Solutions is a Los Angeles Web Design and SEO company that offers top of the line consulting services to small businesses.