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 Industry

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 [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]

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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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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Customer Reviews

May 30, 2008

If this doesn’t convince you to put customer reviews on your ecommerce site, I don’t know what will.

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Utah CEO Magazine

May 4, 2008

Utah CEO Magazine’s latest edition is about “Web 2.0″ and Utah companies. Geoff Griffin wrote a great article about general outsourcing and asked me a few questions about relinquishing control when you are outsourcing to a tech company where you may not completely understand the industry. The full article is available online (after registering) as [...]

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Utah SEO Dark Lord?

September 10, 2007

Well, I’ve dropped considerably in the Utah SEO keyword race so I’ve found a new niche. I’m going for “Utah SEO Dark Lord”. Apparently this is the technical term for a good SEO specialist. Here’s my proof of qualifications: SEO Master – 97%Are you an SEO Expert? This was a new SEO quiz available on [...]

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