by Gerard Manning | Feb 20, 2014 | Blog
Why Your Small Business Needs a Website Imagine this: You run a local bakery, and your customers love your fresh sourdough and croissants. But every day, someone walks in and says, “I didn’t even know you were here!” You’ve been relying on word-of-mouth and social...
by Gerard Manning | Feb 14, 2014 | Blog
The Canonical URL tag has many similarities to the 301 Permanent redirect from an SEO standpoint. With a Canonical URL tag, you are letting the search engines know that the pages should count as one, while still leaving all the pages online for visitors. With a 301...
by Gerard Manning | Feb 10, 2014 | Blog
When asking if Link building is dead, this tends to mainly relate to forms of link building so in that manner, certain forms of link building no longer become useful, as it tends to get overused, abused and pushed beyond Google’s ethical link building limits. So in...
by Gerard Manning | Feb 7, 2014 | Blog
Main Search Entities are shown in the first table (Google, Yahoo and MSN). As posted in our previous top search engines from 2002 – 2005, Google in 2002 had approximately 16% of search share, and going to Dec 2013, Google sites are showing to have over 67%. On...
by Gerard Manning | Feb 6, 2014 | Blog
Looking back from 2002 to 2005, these are the top search engines in the U.S. along with their percentage of search engine traffic. Back in 2002 Google was NOT the major player that they are today. Back in March of 2002, Google had 16% of the top searches, with Yahoo...
by Gerard Manning | Feb 4, 2014 | Blog
This Permanent redirect coding is for the web.config file on IIS and is for redirecting specific pages within your website to either another page within your site or outside of your website. 301 Permanent Redirects are helpful for passing on link juice/PageRank for...
Gerard Manning is the owner of Manning Search Marketing and has been working in the SEO industry since 2000. Originally started with Enquiro Search Solutions (now known as Mediative). Was previously a Research Assistant on Inside the Mind of the Searcher that was released in 2005.