2009 was a Big Year for HighPoint SEO

2009 Was a Great Year for HighPoint SEO

Well it’s December 31st and the decade is coming to a close.  Time to start a new chapter and begin a fresh year!  Looking back over the last 12 months, there have been a lot of changes here at HighPoint.   Particularly with the growth of the company.   We’ve gone from being a one-man show to a team of dedicated SEO professionals each with their own areas of specialization.  Thankfully, our client list has grown right along with our team, and we’ve been able to fulfill our client obligations while increase our profitability in a tough economy.

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Promote Your Business with Online Video

Using Video to Promote Your Business?  You Should Be

Have you considered advertising online with video content?   If you aren’t using Video SEO to promote your business online, there’s never been a better time, and there never will be.  This is a great time to give it a try and start to establish a presence in the Video Marketing world.

Everyone from your little sister to your grandmother is online, and they’ve all shared or watched videos that moved them in one way or another.  By using this powerful medium, your business can harness that power to help promote your brand, sell a product, or even defend your reputation.

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Delicious Bookmarking for Followed Links

Delicious and Twitter CAN be used to Create Followed Links

Social Bookmarking is one of the most popular link-building techniques around, and for good reason. The links from many social sites are “followed”, they allow you to control the anchor text of the link, and you get the added benefit of social promotion and the potential for your links to spread virally.

The primary drawback associated with the social bookmarking links in Delicious and Twitter is that they are not “followed” links.  This simply means that the links you post on these sites do not transfer link value or anchor text to the associated site.  I’ll show you how to get a followed link every time you post to Twitter or Delicious.

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Digg Adds No Follow

You Can’t Just Digg Your Way to the Top Anymore

Digg announced today (9/2/09) that it is now applying the no-follow attribute to any links that are deemed untrustworthy, effectively ending the constant stream of SPAM that is posted to Digg daily.   While they did state that they are going to continue to allow link juice to flow to “trusted” articles, and they are not adding the no-follow attribute to all links, they did not specify what would constitute a trusted article.   Links on user profiles, comments and not-so-popular posts will get the no-follow tag, meaning it won’t pass along link juice.

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Business Blogging for Success - Part 2

Using an Internal Blog to Promote Your Business Website

In the second installment of our Business Blogging for Success series we are looking at best practices for using an internal blog to promote your business and bring more traffic to your website.   Because an internal blog is tied in with your website, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know the source of the information.  Therefore, the mechanics of your blogging are more important than creating an identity, which is an essential element of running an external blog.

As identified in Business Blogging for Success – Part 1, the benefits of running a business blog can be immense, and over time you can use your blog to dominate your industry online.  As with any online marketing, there are rights and wrongs,and it pays to know the difference before you get started blogging.

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Business Blogging for Success

Is your Business Blogging?  You should be.

Businesses should be blogging, it’s the best way to produce new content for their websites and allow them to target the audience associated with their business.   Businesses often feel that they don’t have the time or the content to build their business, and often don’t understand the importance of having a quality blog.   This is a huge mistake, but easily rectified.   We’ll share some of the benefits of having a business blog as well as some of the techniques for managing your blog and keeping it updated regularly.

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Manage Your Business Reputation Online

How important is your online brand?

It’s getting to be more important, and search engines are starting to place additional importance on the relevance of the content source.  Great content from well know brands is always going to rank well, so promoting your business through various mediums is going to be a big help in your branding and online reputation management.  The more places that people can find your business, the better.  Having more options for pushing and controlling your message increases your chances of reaching and engaging your target audience.

As you begin to build your online brand, it’s important that you carry a consistent message, and that you control the information that can be found online.  It’s extremely easy for customers, clients or competitors to write an article, blog post or review your company through a variety of social sites.  Making sure that you monitor, produce and manage your reputation is en essential step to an effective online marketing campaign.  The following steps can help you manage your reputation and come out looking squeaky clean.

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Looking for HighPoint

HighPoint SEO is back on the blog scene…

We’ve been absent from the blog lately, and for our regular readers, we apologize for the lack of content.  We normally post about once every week or two, and while we don’t follow a regular posting schedule, we’ve never skipped a month without a post.  So, where have we been lately?

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Denver SEO Rated Top 25

HighPoint has received a top 25 rating for United States SEO companies from Top SEO’s for their Search Engine Optimization and Video Optimization services for the first quarter of 2009.   HighPoint was rated #25 Organic Optimization firm in January, February and March of 2009, making for an excellent quarter.

Company President Chris Gragg remarked – “It is very rewarding to be recognized for our work on Organic SEO.  We strive to provide our clients with the highest level of service and ensure that they are meeting or exceeding their Internet Marketing goals.  This is the third consecutive month that we have been rated in the top 25, and we are looking forward to more of the same.”

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Twitter Black Hat Bird | Design by@surfdenver

Twitter is being spammed by Black Hat SEO’s to drive traffic to their websites, twitter profiles and blogs.  This is ruining the social media phenomenon and taking away from the community building that is responsible for Twitter’s recent rise in popularity.

I am seeing this more and more lately, and wanted to point out some of the less than savory tactics that are being used by these “Black Birds” so that you can spot them when they come to be your “Friend”.   This is in no way intended to be a list of tips, so the focus will be on some of the more obvious tricks that are currently being used, and I’ll stay away from some of the lesser known tactics.

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