Everyone (well at least those of us in the SEO world) knows how valuable a strong, high quality inbound link can be for your website's link profile. Inbound links help drive traffic to your website, influence your search engine rankings, and help search engine spiders find and index your site's pages (among other benefits). What some people may not know is that all links are not created equal. Links from popular blogs with a strong community following not only offer the same benefits as any other link but also provide increased brand awareness and can help build industry awareness. However, due to the format of most blogs, the power of these links can begin to decrease as time goes on, even within a few days. As new blog posts are written, older posts undoubtedly move deeper into the site. More...

You may have thought that Aztek was only a Cleveland web design firm. However, you would be wrong. Aztek is also a provider of a wide range of web marketing services including SEO (search engine optimization), online marketing, social media integration, email marketing and more. Not only do we offer these services, we are experts in online marketing. Aztek has been an Adwords Certified Partner for over a year now. Just this week, our web marketing team successfully renewed our partnership with Google by passing an updated advanced Search Advertising exam. More...

1. Content is a cookie, and once they're done eating it, they should want more.
2. Tell a story.
3. Tell your story one snippet at a time. Being too broad makes you boring.
4. The hook comes first. More...