If you have a limited marketing or advertising budget – say less than $10K – don’t waste your money on traditional forms of advertising: the newspaper ads, the television and radio spots, the direct mail pieces. Those forms of advertising are dead. At the least I can hear their ugly gurgling death rattle with each canceled newspaper subscription and with each because-I-don’t-want-to-have-to-listen-to-the-stupid-commercials TiVo purchase.

What’s more, these ad venues are very expensive. Extremely so. A small ad in the daily paper can cost a couple of hundred dollars. And that’s just for a one-day run. If you’ve ever priced out a tv or radio spot, I’m sure you asked the rep not for a pen to sign the contract, but for some antacid to calm you stomach. Read the rest of this entry »

Optimizing a website for search engines is a smart decision for any business — but do you really know all the benefits of a full-service, organic, search engine optimization campaign? If you are a seasoned veteran in the industry, you might, but most people in the industry still don’t understand all the benefits.

I’ll lay them out for you here. Read the rest of this entry »

Eyeflow is an SEO company that was created by Phil Laboon in 2001. Phil has been involved in the SEO industry for several years and after seeing what other Pittsburgh SEO companies where passing off as “ethical SEO solutions” Phil decided to start a company that focused on organic optimization that didn’t violate major search engine’s terms and conditions. Now several years later Eyeflow is one of the largest SEO companies in Pittsburgh providing SEO to not only to clients but to Pittsburgh based web design and traditional marketing companies.

For more information on Eyeflow or if you have a SEO project you need done you can give us a call or email anytime. Our staff lives and breaths SEO and we’ll talk your ear off if you give us the chance! Read the rest of this entry »

Finding the right internet marketing company can be tough, especially if you are limited by geographical location. What this post is aimed to do is help you find a good internet marketing company that will focus on your return on investment (ROI) while using search engine friendly tactics.

First off, since we are located in Pittsburgh we will use “Pittsburgh” as an example city instead of reusing the phrase “any city” over and over again. Read the rest of this entry »

We have all heard about social bookmarking and SEO but does it really work? In my opinion, social bookmarking works to help increase back links to your website which is always good but seems to fall flat as far as long term rankings goes. Unless your social bookmarking campaign really takes off you may only see a bump in rankings for a few weeks; but that is about the longest lifespan you can expect. Read the rest of this entry »