SEO Services for Your Business

Hi! My name is Will Hanke, I'm an SEO expert based in Saint Louis, Missouri. If you're looking for search engine optimization for your business website, I invite you to learn more about me and how I can help you kick you're competiton's butt. I'm helping plenty of local businesses doing just that, so why not you too?

If you'd like to learn more about SEO, check out the last few articles I've written below, and let me know if I can help you with anything!

How to Rank Your Corporate Website

Written by Will on May 11th, 2010

It never fails – every speaking event that I go to, and every class that I teach – someone comes up to me and says something like

I’d love to use your SEO techniques, but my website is controlled by corporate, there’s nothing I can do on it. I have no control over the site other than putting my name and hours of operation on there.

Yeah, that sucks.
Click to continue »

 

Google Adds Brand Searches to SERPS

Written by Will on April 30th, 2010

There’s a new change out to the SERPs today which I really like.  When you’re searching for a generic product, say a dryer, you’ll now see that added to the SERP pages is a link to several related brands.

serp for dryers
Click to continue »

 

The Sales Funnel

Written by Will on April 23rd, 2010

How many times should a visitor to your website have to click before they find what they came for?

This can kind of be a trick question.  Obviously, in the perfect scenario, you want your customers to search for you on Google, Yahoo!, whatever and find your call to action page right away.  But that’s not always the case.  What if they land on your home page?
Click to continue »

 

Buying Up Your Domain Names

Written by Will on April 20th, 2010

Should you buy the .net, .org, and .us versions of your .com domain?

Business owners know that they’ve got to own a really good domain name in order to get online.  Most go with their business name, which is a perfectly good strategy for most businesses.  But where the owners fall short is that they only buy the .com version, and ignore the others. This mistake is easy (and cheap) to fix, and could save some big headaches down the road.
Click to continue »

 

Searching the Lou

Written by Will on April 19th, 2010

Is St Louis and Saint Louis the same thing in the eyes of search engines? Should you care?

We’ve got a bit of a unique situation here.  Our fair city is one of the few that is searchable in many different ways – saint louis, st louis, stl and so on.  But does it really matter to you how people searching for local merchants?
Click to continue »

 

How to Become Queen

Written by Will on April 16th, 2010

Can you do things on other people’s websites to increase your own site’s rankings?

So you realize that there are things you can do to your website that will help increase your position in the overall search engine rankings – but let’s think a little bit bigger.  Ok, a lot bigger.  What can you do on other people’s websites that will influence what the search engines think about your site?  Anything?

Yes, lots.
Click to continue »

 

Fix Your Front End

Written by Will on April 15th, 2010

Does it matter if your site uses the www. at the front of the domain?

Here’s a great SEO tip that nearly no business owner is aware of.

Did you know that a simple 4 lines of code can help your website move up the rankings?  Those lines can take any visitor that comes to your site by typing in domain.com and automatically forward them to www.domain.com.  Of course, domain is your website address.

But why would you care if they typed in the w’s or not?  Well, you might not care, but the search engines do.
Click to continue »

 

Page Two, Spiders and SEO Contracts

Written by Will on April 14th, 2010

What percentage of searchers go to page 2 of any Google result?

Sometimes I meet a business owner that has done a little research, changed a few things on his/her website, and is really proud of being on the second page of Google for one of their industry’s terms.  But how many Internet searchers actually go to the second page of a Google result?
Click to continue »

 

Business Owners and Google’s Algorithm

Written by Will on April 13th, 2010

How many different things does Google measure when deciding where to rank your website in their index?

Many business owners are surprised to find out that changing just a few things to their website can result in a decent raise in their overall site rankings.  What they may not realize, however, is that there are more than just a few things that Google measures when ranking their website against their competition.
Click to continue »