25 Jan 11 SEO for Mortgage Websites

For over a decade, Bryan Dornan has led many successful internet marketing campaigns that have resulted in high ranking mortgage websites.  The SEO director has created and managed hundreds of  lead generation campaigns that resulted in mortgage websites producing a variety of quality mortgage leads for lending professionals in all 50 states.

Organic SEO – Hire a SEO company that has a proven track record in the mortgage industry.  You want to work with a company like Nationwide Marketing or the Lead Planet because they practice safe organic SEO and understand mortgage lending and have the ability to get your websites ranked higher on Bing, Google and Yahoo.

Pay Per Click Advertising – Natural search engine optimization take time, so in the meantime PPC marketing is a quick way to get leads online.

Mortgage Rate Alerts – When interest rates fall to a point that motivates your prospects it is a good idea to let them know.  Borrowers want to work with loan companies that are on the ball.

Dornan has founded several successful mortgage marketing companies like the Lead Planet, Smart Lending, Mortgage Lenders Plus and Nationwide Marketing. Take advantage of his custom lead generation services and enjoy the benefits of receiving quality leads on your website.  Call Bryan Dornan at 760-579-9336 and get a SEO or lead generation consultation at no cost.

14 Jan 11 Online Marketing Tips for Small Businesses

Small business internet marketing can be complex, but if you work with an experienced online marketer to produce a pragmatic marketing strategy to ensure maximized profits for many years to come. Most new small businesses do not survive to see their 2nd birthday. The fact is that most of them fail because they are unable to market themselves to generate the revenue needed to survive in today’s competitive environment.  Traditional marketing like direct mail, radio and television can swallow a marketing budget quickly.  Small business internet marketing is essential to provide company info, promote your business and generate the leads you need to pay the bills.

1. Develop a Comprehensive Website – The site should represent your company’s vision, business niches and offers the ability for customers to find you or buy your product or services.
2. Submit Your Website to the Free Directories – Join the local directories, ie. Yahoo Local, Google Local, Super Pages, etc.
3. Network with Other Companies – Find added value businesses that could link to your website – Google, Bing and Yahoo still calculate links into search engine rankings.  
4. Hire a Marketing Professional to help you with SEO – Work with an experienced marketer who offers cost effective search marketing solutions.
5. Join the Social Networks and Promote Your Business (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc.)
6. Manage Your Reputation Online – Publishing articles are a great way to strengthen your image and help secure online reputation management.
7. Submit Press Releases – Issuing press releases enables you to announce new products, services in a creative manner while enhancing your professional image online.

19 Jul 10 Online Lead Generation

With almost 12 years of online lead generation experience, I definitely feel comfortable talking about SEO strategies and internet marketing execution.  Most businesses live or die based on their ability to generate leads.  Really either you buy leads effectively or you generate leads online from your website or through email marketing.  Bryan Dornan and Nationwide Marketing offer result-driven lead generation services that will improve your internet marketing both short and long term.  My team of lead generation specialists eats drinks and sleeps lead generation and search engine optimization. 

We offer the following lead generation services for start-ups and small business internet marketing solutions.

• Organic Search Engine Optimization
• Local Search Marketing
• Opt-In Email Marketing
• Pay-Per Click Lead Management
• Online Affiliate Marketing
• Voice Broadcasting

Tags: Nationwide Marketing, small business internet marketing

25 Jun 10 Online Reputation Management

One of the hottest SEO services in 2010 is online reputation and brand management.  In this “information age” we are living in, managing your reputation online is more important than ever.  Did you know that people are searching for your name on Google all the time?  Other search engines, like Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com are being used as a tool to examine your reputation online.  Don’t forget the social media networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.  Word travels fast with social network media and they have search engines integrated into their systems. 

Search Engine Optimization is an Effective Tool for Online Reputation Management   

A recent Microsoft survey, “Online Reputation Management is essential in a connected world,” stated that 78% of recruiters are using search engines and 63% are using social networks, to conduct background checks on candidates.  As an employer myself, I’ve received a lot of internship applications from students who are just plain careless about their online reputation.  For employers the world wide web is considered a global talent pool because anyone in the world can have a presence online. Image is very important for business and if you are serious about maximizing opportunities then you must manage your reputation online. 

Get Control and Manage Your Online Reputation 

Set up a Website – Purchase your domain name. For less than $10 a year, you may be able to use name as a domain name. This will give you an edge to protect yourself from others who may share the same name as you. If your name isn’t available, then use your middle initial, your full middle name, or a shortened version of your name.  After buying a domain name, you should have a company like Smart Search Strategies create a website that promotes your name or business.  Utilize this website as an opportunity to feature your career highlights or business niches.  You can’t risk your reputation, because if you take a pro-active approach you will be able to control your image and reputation online. 

Publish a Blog - Another method that Bryan Dornan’s SEO team recommends is have a professional blog created in an effort to promote your business and add credibility to your name.  The search engines bots typically recognize the weblog as being associated with your business or name and often rank you site favorably. 

Social Media Marketing - Promote your business or name on social networks: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google. Just like your website and blog, these are significant opportunities that can benefit you and your ability to succeed with internet reputation management.  The Wall Street Journal recommends to visit Facebook.com and to set up the appropriate usernames to claim your short URL. For LinkedIn, create a custom URL when editing your profile. For Twitter, just register your full name as your account name. Finally, for Google, go to Google.com/profiles and fill out your profile completely, because the most thorough profiles for each full name will appear at the bottom of the Google search results. 

Publish Articles Online – Contribute content to other sites. By writing an article you can build credibility and benefit from having another link indexed that comes up on a search when someone is querying your business or name. 

Become an Online Authority - If you share expertise on the internet, locate bloggers and traditional journalists online and build relationships with them. Comment on their blogs or articles for a few weeks and then send them a note with resources, tips, or even your story. 

We recommend being proactive managing your reputation online.  It is much better for people to see positive results show up when they Google your name.  Please complete this quick request form and get a no cost evaluation for online reputation management.  – content sources:  Wall Street Journal, Google and Twitter

Tags: brand management, online repuation management

22 Jun 10 Searching for the Right SEO Company

Nationwide Marketing posted an interesting article on finding the best SEO company. They talked about how times have changed marketing online and that SEO  is much more comphrehensive today than it was, say 10 years ago. 

Choose the SEO Company that Best Meets Your Business Needs

Today raising your website ranking to the first page of Google, Bing or Yahoo has become challenging.  There are several types of internet marketing that you should know about.

• Organic Search Engine Optimization  – Natural search engine placement
• Paid Search Engine Marketing – Pay-Per- Click and Paid Inclusion

Nationwide is a San Diego SEO company that was founded by Bryan Dornan in 2002.  Read the original Nationwide Marketing article online at > Choosing the Best SEO Company to Market Your Business Online

Tags: Organic Search Engine Optimization

08 Jun 10 Article Marketing and the Highs and Lows of SEO

Someone asked me the other day about the value or de-value of article marketing.  This person was frustrated because all of the articles they posted had very little if any on their search engine rankings.  Let’s be honest…organic search marketing can be a tiring process that has its highs and lows.  Even people like me who are very passionate about search engine optimization get tired when we hit walls optimizing.  Many A few years ago article marketing was hot topic for the SEO world.  After a while the search engines caught on to the aggressive internet marketing that SEO operatives were using and it seemed that at least Google was not valuing the links as high anymore. 

As a publisher and SEO specialist I have always valued content and posting articles online.  Posting articles on article directory sites, blogs and websites creates a new opportunity to promote websites and brand companies.  To me, the recent Google May Day algorithm update reiterated that search engines are committed to driving traffic to relevant authority websites.   I noticed that websites I’m working that were negatively affected by the Google May Day update were my sites that had little or poor content.   Most of the other websites saw the traffic volumes remain steady and some websites have even experieiced a pleasant rise in rankings. 

Article marketing requires good planning and a pragmatic plan with a committment for fresh and insightful content in an effort to maximize search engine rankings.  I believe that writing compelling content will enhance most SEO campaigns and separate the performance of websites.   Search engine algorithm changes can be an SEO specialists worst nightmare, but on the flip-side it can be an exciting ride offering the rewards of higher rankings as well.   – Bryan Dornan

Tags: article marketing, Google May Day, organic search marketing

15 Mar 10 SEO Tips for Small Business Marketing

Search engine optimization has become an effective strategy for marketing small businesses cost effectively. SEO requires good content, adequate site structure and a driving force defined by an original “call to action.”

Top 5 Search Engine Optimization Tips for small businesses from Vendor Seek:

1. Use appropriate page titles like Creative Bakery in Chicago, IL Specializing in Wedding Cakes instead of just Welcome

2. Choose the right keywords in your text. See what terms users are searching on in Google and make sure they appear on your website

3. Build a Sitemap so that search engines can easily navigate your web site and include them in the search results

4. Optimize your local advertising by submitting to Google Local, including your physical address on your website and submitting to free directories like Yahoo, Yelp, SuperPages, etc.

5. Analyze your visitors that come to your site using Google Analytics (free) or another web traffic analysis program. This will tell you what people do when they come to your site and how to improve.

09 Mar 10 Maximizing Website Ranking with Smart Search Strategies

A recent study at Forrester revealed that nearly 80% of website traffic is the result of search engines.  That means if you want to increase the volume of website visitors it is imperative that your site be ranked high on the major search engines like Bing, Google and Yahoo.

Most business owners invest a significant amount of time and money trying to get the search engines to rank their website favorably. 99.9% of business owners fail trying to do it themselves, because the search engine algorithms are very complex.  You could do a great job on many aspects of web development, but if you miss a few beats, the search engine spiders will not reward your site with good rankings.  In most cases, the search engine spiders end up missing most of the websites pages because of poor site architecture and no sitemap. 

Search engine optimization, aka SEO, is a pragmatic process of preparing your website for the search engine’s evaluation.  A lot of companies claim they offer SEO services, but very few marketing companies understand the formula for optimizing a website to successfully rank for relevant keywords that get them traffic from visitors that meet the business niches.

In 2000, Lead Planet founder, Bryan Dornan rolled out Nationwide Marketing in an effort to provide internet marketing solutions like web design, public relations, SEO and in addition to direct response for media like TV and radio.  

A few years later, Dornan created a think tank called Smart Search Strategies that focused solely on search engine optimization. This group of talented internet marketers created a unique SEO system that encompassed each component of white-hat search marketing that Google, Yahoo and MSN required for long term rankings.  The SSS project was a huge success and the think tank developed into a full-fledged SEO marketing agency that helped hundreds of businesses significantly improve their ranking online.  Our SEO team offers elite internet marketing services for businesses that are serious about increasing the traffic to their website.

09 Mar 10 Content Really is King

Anyone in the internet marketing arena has heard the phrase, “content is king.”  Many SEO marketers and web developers do not want to admit how important good copy written articles can be for SEO marketing campaigns for most industries.  Let’s face it, when you combine a relevant link building campaign with good keyword rich content, you have most of the formula nailed for successful organic search marketing.  The search engine spiders love content and in most cases so do your visitors, so build your website with insightful content that features a clear “call to action” and incorporate catchy landing pages into the mix to maximize lead generation.  I recommend focusing on posting interesting articles that command the attention of your readers.

02 Feb 10 Google on Page Speed as Ranking Factor

A few months ago, Google’s Matt Cutts informed WebProNews that page speed could become a factor Google considers when ranking search results.  Cutts’ comments usually get a lot of attention with the SEO community.  Many search marketing insiders believe that Google has not considered page speed for ranking websites until recently.  Web Pro News makes it clear that Matt Cutts never actually said that page loading speed would become the top criteria for ranking factor on Google.  Cutts posted an SEO video discussing page speed as a ranking factor on Google.  This has become a popular video with search engine marketing enthusiasts.

Google Video: Is Speed More Important Than Relevance?

The video is a response to the following user-submitted question:  Since we’re hearing a lot of talk about the implications of Page Speed, I wonder if Google still cares as much about relevancy? Or are recentness and page load time more important?  In the video Matt addresses the question posed to him Relevancy or Page Speed?  Cutts answers, “No. Relevancy is the most important. If you have two sites that are equally relevant, you’d probably prefer the one that’s a little bit faster, so page speed can be an interesting theory to try out for a factor in scoring different websites. But absolutely, relevance is the primary component, and we have over 200 signals in our scoring to try to return the most relevant, the most useful and the most accurate search result that we can find.”  Cutts continued, “If you can speed your site up, it’s really good for users, as well as potentially down the road, being good for search engines.” 

What are Google’s 200 ranking factors for search engine placement?  WebProNews points out that once you get into how much weight each one carries, it gets even more difficult to speculate. 

I think we can all agree that ensuring your website loads quickly is in the best interest of your visitors because offering a good user experience is important to your site’s credibility and we know Google values the “user experience.” Therefore it’s logical to think that Google would factor speed into their algorithm for ranking websites.  Google offer webmasters various tools to enhance the website loading speed.  Read the original WebProNews Article written by Chris Crum > Google Sets Record on Page Speed as Ranking Factor

29 Jan 10 Leveraging Social Media to Enhance Sales

Creating groups on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc. is an easy way to build a network.  Like building a mailing list for regular mail or email, connecting with people and businesses via social networking creates another opportunity to sell your product or services. 

Watch SEO Video with Bruce Clay on Social Networking for Traffic

• Utilizing Social Networking Company Branding
• Developing Business Relationships Online
• Increasing Sales through Social Media Sites
• Joining LinkedIn Groups for Advice
• Joining Twitter for New SEO Strategies

According to Windmill Networking, “Businesses wanting to sell into the Social Web need to recognize that they are participants like everyone else and need to follow the same rules of etiquette and conduct.”  Some business oriented social networking websites allow you to publish you blog and promote your website to specific community groups.  One important aspect key to maximizing business networks online is to create new friends and make additional business connections online.

02 Nov 09 Link Building Tips for Search Engine Optimization

Link building campaigns should be an integral part your SEO marketing plan. Linking should be considered carefully because they can have positive or negative repercussions.

SEO Reference recommends focusing you’re SEO linking on the following:
 Target Linking on Authority Sites
 High Quality Links that Are Relevant to the Site
 Strategically Placed on the Page –
 Use Anchor Text Should Reflect Keywords

Don’t be tempted by shady SEO tricks that deliver quick results to boost SEP results but usually these “black hat” link campaigns raise red flags with Yahoo or Google’s search engine standards.
List of SEO Linking Tactics to Avoid:
1. Never outsource your SEO linking project unless you verify those you link to and they are relevant without being associated with “bad neighborhoods.”
2. Avoid only getting links to your index or home page. Work on getting back-links deep to landing pages with good content that you want to maximize with Google rankings
3. Avoid using linking software or
4. Avoid soliciting link ads by sending bulk emails inquiring about link advertising.
5. Avoid advertising with link building services which feature links through an automated system. Google and Yahoo may penalize sites for the purposes of inflating link popularity.
6. Never automate link submission on your website or blog. We recommend manually approving all link requests.
7. Avoid acquiring a high volume of links overnight. Link building should have even flow. A few new links a day is great, but a few hundred links in a day raises many red flags with Google.
8. Don’t make linking building decisions based on PageRank. Rather build a back-link strategy based on authority sites and relevancy.
10. Avoid generic keywords which are broad and not promoting a “call to action.” of the buying cycle.
Read the original linking article.

22 Oct 09 Free Search Engine Optimization Report

For a limited time, our SEO company is offering a free ranking search marketing report that will show you exactly where your website presently ranks in all the major search engines. Then we will email you our SEO analysis report along with the internet marketing opportunities. Our SEO company will recommend how to increase your search engine ranking, and improve your websites targeted traffic significantly!

For a free search engine optimization report which will tell you exactly where your website ranks in all the major search engines, like Google, Bing and Yahoo. Please complete the simple contact form to the right and Bryan Dornan or one of the SEO associates will follow up with you to schedule your free SEO analysis.