Local Organic Rankings Review: October 2009 – January 2010

Our website launched just a few months ago and as any SEO practitioner knows, organic rankings take time, strategy and a great deal of effort to achieve the ideal results. In comparison to some websites out there, ours is in its infancy and because of such it is necessary for us to reflect upon our own organic SEO endeavors to see how we are performing. Generally, organic SEO performance reviews include a wide variety of KPIs, but for the sake of this article, we’re simply going to show you some key local organic rankings we’ve achieved. It’s always good to show our readers and potential clients that we aren’t all talk and that we do garner some rather impressive results, so below we’ve compiled some examples of our progress.

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8 Questions to Ask a SEO Company Before You Sign a Contract

SEO is not just getting first page rankings or driving traffic, it is about measuring KPIs that are relevant to the business. Unfortunately, the most difficult part about hiring an SEO company is wading through all of the spam, jargon and sales pitches to find a company that will collaborate with you for the long-term to drive results that benefit you. Below we have compiled a list of 8 questions that will determine if the SEO company utilizes proper methods and is a good fit for your company. In addition, we also outline some of the words shady SEO companies use to attract clients.

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The Efficacy of Ethical SEO

As an ethical SEO company, it is unfortunate that we have to fight to remain distant from the negative connotations associated with general SEO practitioners. In recent years, the marketing power of a properly organized and executed SEO campaign has become common knowledge amongst business owners and as an unfortunate result, many have experienced a less than ideal business partnership with some companies. To make matters worse, companies are unaware that the techniques many of these practitioners use are not only expensive, but highly damaging to your brand and business. In this article, we aim to shed some light on the shady SEO industry by exposing certain common methods that are used and how to diagnose them, what proper SEO methods are, and how ethical SEO future-proofs your company’s online presence in respect to search.

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What’s It Like To Work With Forge?

Our focus as a company has always been to provide highly professional, transparent SEO services to our clients and communication is a critical part of that. In conversations with our clients we get to learn about the reasons why they picked Forge to be their SEO company, why (or if) they were apprehensive before signing on, and all the juicy morsels of feedback and criticism that we can handle. In this article, we aim to shed a little light on how we go about our day to day activities and how we interact with our clients.

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The 18 Must-Attend SEO Conferences of 2010

Each year thousands of SEO professionals get together at conferences to share ideas, promote strategies, and to discuss the best practices for their industry. Since the search engine algorithms continue to drastically change, these conferences are always packed with intense amounts of information and are amazing places to network and learn. For those of us that have been fortunate enough to attend the prominent conferences in the past, almost all agree that they are invaluable events.

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