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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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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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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Google User Profiles

October 20, 2008

Just added my Google User Profile – should be interesting to see how they use these in the future. Bryan Phelps on Google

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Google Webmaster Tools Inaccuracies

August 23, 2008

I’ve usually found Google’s webmaster tools to be fairly accurate.  However, I have a site that shows I rank for some pretty competitive terms. I don’t even need to show you my analytics to prove that I don’t rank in the top 10 for [cell phone].  But if anyone trusts these rankings and would be [...]

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Recent Changes in Local Search

August 8, 2008

I’m a little behind in my feed reader so I don’t know if this is old news but this is the first time I have seen localized search results when i am not logged in or there is no geo-qualifier in my search term. Notice the local search results in the middle: In addition to [...]

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Another PPC Ad Gone Awry

June 18, 2008

Maybe modesty is in the eye of the beholder? Click to enlarge

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Funny Google Ads

May 19, 2008

We have all seen various instance of horribly placed ads or unrelated Google Adwords or other advertising. Irony? Advertising for Smarter.com.

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