Volume 9, Inc.

Volume 9 Teams with Savory Spice Shop

Volume 9 is excited to announce that we are now managing the inbound marketing for Savory Spice Shop, a local Colorado company offering freshly ground herbs and spices online and in stores across the country.

Whether you are looking for a Chili Powder for whipping up a batch of chili on a snowy day, your favorite extract flavoring for baking, or their now famous Wash Park All-Purpose Seasoning for adding to nearly anything, Savory Spice Shop has become a foodie mainstay. What was just a small Denver spice shop owned by Mike & Janet Johnston a few years ago now has stores nationwide and spice sales around the globe.

In order to keep up with their booming online business, Savory recently found that they needed professional help. Volume 9 has been brought in to team with the designers working on their new website (Top Secret) to ensure the website is SEO friendly upon launch. Additionally we are managing their paid search budget to drive new .

SEO Super Bowl Pick: Pats vs Giants

The big game is on Sunday and everyone is anticipating the Giants vs Patriots rematch. While some people measure scoring trends, recent play, matchup stats and coaching tendencies to make their Superbowl pick, Volume 9 is going to make the pick using a little SEO analysis.

We analyze websites for SEO value every day, giving our clients a bit of insight into how they are doing from an SEO standpoint and how they measure up to their competition. Here are just a few of the data points we look at.

Total Links

The websites are neck and neck on this one. The Giants have over 160,000 links pointing back to their site while the Patriots have just over 180,000 backlinks.

Image courtesy of SEOMoz Open Site Explorer

Facebook Likes

The Patriots are the clear leader here – with over 3,000,000 Likes on Facebook. The Giants aren’t doing too badly, though, with over 1,500,000 Likes.

Website Design Showcase

We are excited about some recent websites we have built or redesigned for our clients. If your website, blog or microsite is in need of a fresh look, don’t hesitate to let us know. We always incorporate SEO best practices in our design work so you will get a new website that is SEO friendly from the start.

http://www.dancestudioinsurance.com/
http://www.bsnprogramonline.com/
http://www.templatesforinvitations.com/
http://paperdirect.com/blog/
http://www.paperdirectcouponcode.com/
http://www.rockymountaindisposables.com/

If you’d like to get a feel for a before and after, check out this blog that showcases the before and after look we designed for CCU.

Volume 9 Gives the CCU Blog a Facelift

Colorado Christian University is a long standing client with Volume 9. Over the last 5 years, we have worked with the College of Graduate Studies to improve their online presence and increase qualified leads to the graduate programs. We have been charged with managing the SEO effort, Pay Per Click marketing and building microsites targeted to specific programs like nursing.

Most recently, we were tasked with improving the look and feel of the CCU graduate program blog. The CCU blog in particular needed a fresh look to stay current, improve user engagement and lower bounce rates. (It just launched last week, so we’ll update you with data on the successes in the new year) Check out the before and after:

Before

After!

Volume 9 is dedicated to helping our clients market themselves online. Our website development .

Panda 2.3 Is Here – Targets Content Farms In Recent Update

The word “quality” in reference to Web content has always been a subjective term, but now, with the Google Panda 2.3 update, quality has become demonstrably measurable. Have you been told Panda has affected your search engine results but are not really sure what that means? Have your website’s rankings taken a nosedive recently, but you changed nothing on your site? Has your site disappeared from page 1 of Google? If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, you will want to know about Panda 2.3.

Let’s start at the beginning.   The main mission of Google is to answer search queries with a list of the most high-quality sites possible, and to do that, Google employs ranking algorithms and updates them approximately 500-600 times a year. Most of these updates are unannounced and go virtually unnoticed by the average site owner, but every once in a while, Google will launch an update that is named (Panda) and announced, “Official: Google Panda 2.3 Update is Live.” Most Google algorithm updates are not announced because the changes do not have far-reaching effects on searches and sites. Consider the Google algorithm is a .