JC Penney Receives a Google Penalty

Posted on February 13, 2011 by TrafficBlogAdmin

The New York Times took an inside look at JC Penney and found that they were engaging in less than ethical SEO tactics. Specifically, they were purchasing thousands of low quality links in an effort to rank higher for very general and competitive terms. Did it work? Yes, for a while – and over the holidays, arguably the most important time of the year. However, once Matt Cutts from Google got wind of it – Google demoted their site by a ‘manual’ penalty. Former #1 organic rankings on Google are now showing up around #71.

The moral of the story- buying links is bad. It works, but only for a short time. And then you pay the price.

Read the full article here.

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Google Webmaster Tools and Analytics showing signs of togetherness

Posted on February 8, 2011 by TrafficBlogAdmin

Welcome news for those of us who pour over stats all day long. Google Webmaster Tools, which has become a more important tool over the years for all webmasters, is now allowing the ability to link an account to Analytics. Vanessa Fox lays out the details here, from an original post by Istavan Turk. Google has also just added some comments here.

Both of these tools are indespensable in their own right for any SEO, but having them talk to each other finally is a great development.

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Bing stealing from Google?

Posted on February 1, 2011 by TrafficBlogAdmin

Google has been suspecting for a while now that Bing is ‘copying’ their results to a certain degree. One Google engineer wouldn’t go so far as to call it stealing – but he likened it to running a marathon being carried on someones back the whole way and then jumping off at the finish line.

So Google sets up a sting operation  – by hardcoding search results for certain gobbley-goo phrases (which they’ve never done before) to see if similar results showed up in Bing. A few weeks later – they did!

Read the whole facinating article, written and researched by Danny Sullivan:

http://searchengineland.com/google-bing-is-cheating-copying-our-search-results-62914

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Pottery House- Frank Lloyd Wright home in Santa Fe For Sale

Posted on November 10, 2010 by TrafficBlogAdmin

In a sign of what surely is the times of how the real estate business is changing, Trafficdeveloper has been hired to market a home for sale in Santa Fe designed by none other than Frank Lloyd Wright himself.

The Pottery House is an amazing home, set on a 9 acre hilltop parcel with probably the best views in Santa Fe. It is the only one of many Frank Lloyd Wright homes built in adobe. Originally built as a spec home in 1986, this property is now on the market for the first time ever. The family has listed the sale price at $6 million.

So why not hire a real estate broker or agent? Maybe, the old model of taking a sales commission on the sale of a property is going away. Maybe, it’s more effective to market the home yourself, online, or hire an SEO Expert to do the work for you. Whichever route you decide, hiring an SEO who is qualified in marketing real estate is almost certainly going to be cheaper than paying a typical realtors commission fee.

We’re excited about the challenge of rounding up a buyer for this very unique Frank Lloyd Wright home for sale. Surely, there is someone out there who loves Santa Fe, admires the work of this reknown architect, and wants to live in a home that is also a work of art?

Trafficdeveloper will find that special someone, and lead them straight to the seller.

We’ll keep you posted on how things go, meanwhile visit their website to get a better sense of a home that has been featured in Architectural Digest, among other places.

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Constant Contact Marketplace Review

Posted on November 6, 2010 by TrafficBlogAdmin

Trafficdeveloper has been a business partner with Constant Contact since the early days. We’ve found their products to be easy to use for our clients, provide great reporting insight, and they are always adding new features.

We’ve been listed in their “Marketplace” section for some time now, but we need some reviews! The catch is – only our Clients who are using our Email Marketing Services through our relationship with Constant Contact are able to review us.

So – attention all clients – give us a few nice words if you’ve enjoyed how we’ve made your business more profitable using Constant Contact.

Contact Contact Marketplace

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Trafficdeveloper Tops the List of ‘Web Design Firms’ in the New Mexico Business Weekly

Posted on October 26, 2010 by TrafficBlogAdmin

For the 4th straight year, we’ve been included in the New Mexico Business Weekly’s “Web Design Firms” list, recently published in their October 22nd issue. We were surprised to see that we are #1 on the list this year! Thanks to all our clients – without whom we would not be where we are today. Muchas Gracias!

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Our New Website

Posted on September 24, 2010 by TrafficBlogAdmin

We have just completed and unveiled our new site and we are so glad we finally took a little time to devote some attention to ourselves. Focusing on clients is our job and it is what we do day in and day out, it is what we love. But our site was produced years ago and wasn’t indicative of our company’s abilities any longer. Our new site has a look that mirrors the innovation we provide to our clients and new content that explains what is involved with being a full service web design and development firm and educates our users on web marketing.

Please take the time to look around and see what has changed. We have always offered our clients complete online marketing services, but that was not obvious on our old site. Our search engine optimization has always been the best in the business with experience that dates before Google! But it has become quite evident to us that in order to provide our clients with sites that can successfully compete in rankings, we need to be the ones to design, program and host as well. With complete control over every asset of your site, it enables us to ensure that your site is not only found online, but once found, it’s look promises to be clean and innovative, it’s function seamless, and it’s performance at its best.

The Trafficdeveloper team consists of expert SEO marketing professionals that have the ability to catapult your site to the top of the rankings on major search engines through different campaigns and strategies. We can find the solution that best fits with your company’s needs and budget in an effort to provide you with the utmost of visibility online.

Our designers are award-winning with experience that dates back to the commencement of the internet. We work with our clients to provide unique, clean designs that portray the same professionalism and integrity your business does. Whether you are interested in a brochure site, ecommerce site, or blog, we can deliver a site that functions as well as it looks.

Our programmers have the ability to create custom applications in order to make your wishes a reality. Custom programming gives us the ability to offer our clients the full gamut of possibilities when it comes to intranets and extranets. No matter how large or small the project we work to make our interfaces effortless to navigate and our applications comprehensive and robust.

Hosting looks new to our services, but we have been providing hosting to our clients for 10 years now. Having direct access to the server allows us to take care of development issues quicker, troubleshoot problems faster, and generally maintain a safe and secure hosting environment.

Please peruse the new site and send us your comments! We appreciate your feedback.

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TrafficDeveloper wins 2010 Small Business Heavyweights Award

Posted on September 22, 2010 by TrafficBlogAdmin

Small Business Heavyweights Award

The New Mexico Business Weekly honored 25 outstanding small companies at its first-ever Small Business Heavyweights awards celebration this past July 2010.

The judges were asked to consider only New Mexico companies, including nonprofits, that had 25 or fewer employees and had been in business at least a year. They were asked to rank the companies on the uniqueness of their product or service offerings, their staying power in business and their contribution to the community.

Chris Kramer, President and SEO expert of TrafficDeveloper attended the ceremony and graciously accepted the award. After being in business for over 10 years TrafficDeveloper has increased its services to include web design, graphic design, and hosting in addition to search engine marketing. After surviving the poor economy for the past couple of years TrafficDeveloper is emerging as a business with staying power with the ability to provide a complete suite of online services to its clients.

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