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Boise’s Best Ranked SEOs | 8

Welcome to the 8th Edition of Boise’s Best Ranked SEOs

Where we produce a graph of Boise SEO companies ordered by their ability to rank for the keyphrase “boise seo”.

Who’s Involved?

Companies that offer SEO as a service in the Boise, Idaho area.

Why Do This?

If you are trying to find a reputable SEO to help improve the keyphrase rankings of your website(s), identifying one that has achieved good rankings for their own website is your first step. If an SEO can’t get their own website to rank, chances are they won’t be able to get your website to rank either.

Learn more about how to hire a credible SEO with the SEO Hiring Guide.

8th Edition Boise SEO Rankings

The 8th edition rankings remain steady this month inspite of the increasing number of companies in the Boise, Idaho area that offer SEO. Instead of attempting to display ranking information for all of the SEO companies we track, the new format of the Boise SEO Ranking Updates will feature the top 5 SEOs that rank for the keyphrase “boise seo” in Google.

The Top 5 SEOs graph below identifies the SEOs in Boise that have the best keyphrase rankings in Google for the keyphrase “boise seo”. We selected “boise seo” because it is a top keyphrase for Boise’s local SEO market industry and we wanted the results verifiable.

Top 5 SEOs for “boise seo” in Google

The Top 5 SEOs in Google for “boise seo”

SEOBoise.com (this website)
Jtree.net
WebCentric
Tsuvo
Cendesic

Note: Scores are a measure of visibility – where larger scores represent top keyphrase rankings. Ranking data for score assignment is queried directly from Google and is freely available to the general public. Ranking data is obtained from scanning ONLY the first 6 pages of SERPs.

SEO Boise (.com) is operated by Jtree.net, a Boise, Idaho based SEO, PPC and Social Internet Marketing consulting firm that has provided services to over 70 companies and agencies over the last 10 years.

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Avoid Duplicate Content Penalties with the Canonical Link Element

Published by jtree in duplicate content, sem, seo, seo boise, seo tips, seo tools on February 18th, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Duplicate Content Can Pinch Your SEO Efforts

Not only can duplicated content make it difficult for search engines to index your web pages properly, but it can lead to penalties that could dramatically effect a website’s ability to rank well for targeted keyphrases in the major search engines.

As websites grow-up, the potential for duplicate content increases. Sites that contain a lot of content might have a variety of different URLs that all reference the same location. This issue can often impact smaller websites that show up in search engine results with and without the ‘www’ in front of the corresponding URL.

An Open Standard Solution Supported by Google – Yahoo! – and Microsoft

Even though Google Webmaster Tools has an option to select the ‘www’ preference for the URLs of your website, a tactic with more control that is acceptable for other search engines was needed. The canonical link element was developed to help search engines determine the preferred URL to be used for your website.

When linking to pages of your site or blog, utilize the canonical link element in the header portion of your links.

Here’s the canonical link element in action:

<link rel="canonical" href="http://example.com/page.html"/>

This tells the search engines that the prefferred URL is http://example.com/page.html (note: without the ‘www’). Where canonical = preferred.