Our good friend Kevin Spence over at MakeItRank.com invited us to guest post on his SEO blog and to share some more of our experiences in working with clients. As a result, we compiled a list of some of the best tools for seo companies to use to interact with their clients. The article is [...]
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February 11, 2010
February 3, 2010
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 [...]
January 21, 2010
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 [...]
January 19, 2010
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 [...]
January 6, 2010
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 [...]
December 14, 2009
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 [...]
December 9, 2009
5 Critical Mistakes Matt Kelly and the Newspaper Industry Made
Here at Forge we recently came across the article on Gaurdian.co.uk about Matt Kelly of Trinity Mirror slamming search engine optimization for how it has corrupted newspapers, forcing them to abandon their brands in light of obtaining an, “audience beyond anything [they] could hope to achieve in print.” In result, those news organizations that sacrificed [...]
December 7, 2009
Amazon Gift Card Giveaway Winner!
The time is finally here to announce or winner of the Amazon Gift Card Giveaway! We appreciate all of you that participated and especially those of you that entered more than once for a better chance at the prize. We had a great turnout on Twitter and the blog comments clearly demonstrated that many of [...]
December 3, 2009
Get More Traffic Using Google Insights for Search
With its debut in August of 2008, Google Insights for Search became a readily adapted research tool by search marketing experts but has remained somewhat of a mystery to the general website or blog owner. Google Insights for Search allows you to see how the popularity of search terms has changed over the years and [...]
November 30, 2009
Cyber Monday Giveaway: Win $20 from Amazon!
Anyone that has started a blog, much less a new company, knows that it takes a LOT of work. Over the course of the past few months we have slaved away to get things off the ground and thankfully we’ve had some amazing people help us along the way. To show our appreciation, we’re doing [...]