What is your New Year’s resolution list for 2012? How many of the top ten New Year’s resolutions appear on your list?

In an era where technology advances at lightning speed and pop culture icons come and go nearly as fast, it’s amazing how resolutions continue to focus on the same themes. The wish to improve in certain areas seems nearly universal.

To get a countdown of the top ten New Year’s resolutions for 2012, check out this cool presentation by Empowered Presentations.

Which of these appear on your New Year’s resolution list? What resolutions of yours don’t appear on the list – and might in fact be unique to you?

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If you’re looking for a professional company to oversee your organic search engine optimization services, do some spring cleaning first.

It’s that time of year – the time for spring cleaning – and that concept applies, even when you’re searching for an organic search engine optimization company. Before choosing the best company for your needs:

1. Toss out emails from any company that guarantees #1 rankings in Google. There is no company that can guarantee that prize. And, if you’ve still got some emails in your inbox offering to submit your site to thousands of search engines – or to quickly get your site thousands of inbound links – toss those ones out, too.

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Not getting enough targeted traffic to your site? The Technical Services team at The Search Guru can help!

Here at The Search Guru we know how frustrating it can be when you’ve got a great product and/or service to offer, yet prospective customers just aren’t finding your site. Enter Tech Services!

The Search Guru SEO experts provide many technical services that can boost your rankings and targeted traffic – turning prospects into conversions and sales! Here are just a few of the products we offer:

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Does your website have a case of the blahs? Here’s the prescription for success: a website analysis – and some competitive intelligence, too!

You know the symptoms. Your website traffic is sluggish – and nothing that you’ve tried has boosted its health. At The Search Guru, our SEO experts have helped countless companies – many of them just like yours – diagnose what’s ailing their websites and then ramp up their effectiveness, through a combination of:

• a thorough, personalized website analysis, where we review the backend of your website, its content, keyword strategy, internal linking structure and more; our social media services team will also review the effectiveness of your social media strategy
• detailed recommendations for your site, based on the results of our website analysis, designed to increase targeted traffic, conversions and sales
• a competitive intelligence report on two of your fiercest online competitors, where we let you know what they’re doing wrong and what they’re doing right – from a technical perspective, a content and keyword perspective and a social media services perspective
• detailed recommendations for your site, based on the results of our competitive intelligence services, so that you can take advantage of the opportunities that they’re missing out on

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Organic SEO tips: how to create a landing page

Let’s say that you sell 20 products online, with each one falling into one of two categories: Product Type A and Product Type B. You’ve created a unique page for each of your products, which is terrific, but what’s the next step?

The next step is to create a landing page for Product Type A, with links to each of the ten products in this category, and a landing page for Product Type B, with links to each of the ten products in that category.

This internal linking strategy will accomplish two goals:

• make it easier for human site visitors to find the products they need
• make it easier for the search engine spiders to index the content and return these URLs in response to relevant search queries

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