Bryan Phelps - Utah SEO

Hi, I'm Bryan Phelps. I'm a Utah SEO consultant and help businesses around the country improve their presence on the web through my Utah Internet marketing company, Big Leap Web including search engine optimization, PPC and other online marketing services.

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SEO Tip – Link to Yourself

July 18, 2011

Just a quick tip but I’ve been pretty absent from my own blog so I figure it’s better than silence, right? Right? Internal linking isn’t exactly a secret but many people fail to do it.  Beyond just linking to other pages or posts on your website, I 100% recommend linking from the post/page you’re writing [...]

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Link Spamming Doesn’t Work?

September 23, 2009

You often read that links placed in sidebars or footers from irrelevant sites don’t hold much value.  You also hear that reciprocal linking is useless.  Guess what? They both still work and many SEO companies are putting their clients at risk. Example: SummitDentalofLaMesa.com If you scroll waaaaaay down to the bottom of their page (just [...]

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Google Search “Me”

September 22, 2009

I don’t know if I’d quite call this an Easter Egg but if you’re logged in to your Google account and do a search for “me”, your Google Profile will show up on top.

SEOMoz Pro Training Seminar Review

August 29, 2009
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I recently had the opportunity to attend SEOMoz’s 2009 Pro Training Seminar in Seattle.  The seminar has been going on for several years but this is the first year that I’ve been in attendance.  The focus of the seminar was tips, tricks and tactics and they definitely lived up to it.  Each of the speakers [...]

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“A SEO” or “an SEO”?

January 30, 2009

I always struggle when I’m talking about or writing SEO and whether it should have an “a” or “an” in front of it.  In my opinion, it seems to flow more naturally when pronounced “an SEO” but from years and years of struggling to stay awake in English class, I was always taught that it [...]

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How Accurate are Google’s Search Volume Estimates?

January 29, 2009

I have a particular website that ranks #1 for a few different key phrases.  I compared my December keyword referrals to Google’s approximate search volume for December and was very surprised to see that they don’t quite match up….at all. Keyword #1 Google claims approximately 33,100 searches in December My #1 ranking only received 2,428 [...]

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Recommended SEO Blogs

January 22, 2009

Although I may be MIA from my own blog, I keep a close eye on many of the popular industry blogs.  I always like finding new blogs or bloggers who write great posts though.  Here are some of my recent favorites: Ann Smarty – Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal is a very popular blog [...]

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Crunch Lunch Slides

December 22, 2008

I recently gave a VERY quick 5 minute presentation on SEO at Crunch Lunch. It was a really cool event where there were 10 presenters, given 5 minutes each to discuss their topic. You can view my SEO presentation and check out 9 others about various business topics. This was the first Crunch Lunch event [...]

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Google Doesn’t Trust Itself

December 17, 2008

I occassionally check my spam filter (even though GMail is the most accurate email service I’ve ever used) and was surprised to find spam from Google itself. Stop spamming me Google!

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