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”

1. SEOBoise.com (this website)
2. Jtree.net
3. WebCentric
4. Tsuvo
5. 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.

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.

Additional Information

Video clip of Google’s Matt Cutts explaining the link element…

10 Magnanimous SEO Tips

1. Black hat strategies are hit and miss, not to mention loaded with potential risk. Even if you know what you are doing.
2. Grey hat strategies are often questionable. However, knowing about Black and Grey hat strategy strengths and weaknesses will drastically improve your optimization capabilities. It’s important to note that a White hat tactic can be classified Black just as easy as the other way around. It’s all relative to current search engine ranking criteria.
3. Links with the “nofollow” tag attribute are only useless in terms of backlink credit from Google; many other search engines ignore this tag.
4. Focus on individual web pages versus the entire site; the bulk majority of your traffic will typically be derived from just a few pages.
5. In regard to focusing on keyphrases; keep it short, but sweet. Duplicating keywords/phrases and targeting a bunch will do more harm than good. Think of it more like creating a ‘theme’ for a web page that targets a particular set of words or phrases.
6. Search engines typically have 1,000 results (100 pages) that are returned after a search is performed, despite the number of results that are displayed immediately after preforming a search. The top 5 positions get the most traffic, and most searchers do not often go past the 2nd page of results.
7. Ideally, you want to optimize a site for search engines before it has been designed/developed. This will allow for maximization of SEO potential.
8. A backlink from the Yahoo! Link Directory and DMOZ is worth more than approximately 100-200 backlinks from typical free submission directories.
9. SEO audits and analysis must always come first. Targeting is VERY important.
10. Using Google Webmaster Tools to submit xml sitemaps can speed up re-indexing time. This is also where you can find out if your website has incurred any penalties.

Always remember – content is king, and ‘don’t be evil’. You’d be surprised at how good the Search Engines treat websites and blogs that follow these two simple principles.

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