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July 2016 Top 20 Websites

All Hail the Top 20

Here are your top 20 most visited websites, as reported by Quantcast, for both standard and mobile web browsers in the United States over the past 30 days.

Top 20 Websites

Top 20 US Websites Desktop

Oh How The Mighty Have Fallen

There has been a handful of notable changes over the past three years in the top 20 websites. However, the following are no longer part of the elite. Maybe one day they’ll make their way back.

  • HuffingtonPost.com
  • LinkedIn.com
  • Blogger.com
  • WordPress.com
  • Ask.com
  • About.com

Portfolio Updated!

Spring Ahead

Once the new year clicked over we hit the ground running and really haven’t looked back. We hope 2013 has been treating you all well.

Jtree has renewing clients and shiny new clients to celebrate. And, as such, we figured it was time to refresh the ole portfolio – both the full listing and featured clients sections have recently been updated.

Here’s a few snaps:

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Welcome Aboard Newbies!

SEO Isn’t Typical Marketing

SEO is Necessary Marketing (for Websites)

In this day and age, the Internet is rapidly becoming the hub of marketing, and consumers are looking more to their computers to find commodities of life. For this reason, savvy business owners are turning to SEO companies for their advertising needs. One of the key issues in online marketing is staying at or near the top of the search engine result pages (SERPs) so customers do not have to scroll through pages and pages of competitor results. Business owners need someone with an insider’s look at how Google works; a professional to keep track of how often search engines update their ranking criteria.

Why Do I Need an SEO Company?

In the same way businesses need a tax preparer or an attorney, you need an SEO professional. Unless an individual is aware of all the Google ranking criteria, plus able to stay abreast of frequent algorhythm updates, they are going to need to rely on an SEO specialist. While business men and women are busy keeping their company running efficiently, the SEO expert can maintain the company website’s position at the top of the SERPs.

Turbulance is the Norm

Google ranks websites according to several key factors, and puts the best ranking websites at the top of the SERPs. The ranking criteria changes often, with 2012 having the most far-reaching and sweeping changes yet. Some of the changes this year have been in regard to the quality of content available on a website. Google has grown more intelligent over the years, and now, actually look for well-written articles as part of the ranking criteria.

A few of this year’s ranking criteria updates dealt with:

  • Quality of backlinks (lowering the rank of websites that have an abnormal number of low-quality, incoming links)
  • Quality of On-Page SEO (lowering the rank of websites that are overly optimized)
  • Quality of website content (lowering the rank of websites that contain poor, or low-quality content)

These are just a few of the highlighted ranking criteria changes. Unless you fully understand these and other SEO-related ranking criteria updates, your company will benefit more by having you doing the job at which you are best. Leave SEO for the pros.

Who to Hire?

Boise SEO SERP

Boise SEO SERP

The easy way is to find an SEO company whose website is at or near the top of their industry in a search of your locality. This will be a good indication that they know what they are doing, and that they can also keep your company at or near the top of the SERPs for your industry.

When it comes to ranking, monitoring, and reporting, let the experts keep tabs on your keyphrase rankings. Call the friendly professionals at Jtree today, and let them do for you what they do best for themselves and others.

See Also: The Top 5 Reasons Why Businesses Choose Jtree

Sunset Cap

Sunset on the Founder

Sunset Cap

Josh Laughtland Featured in Sunset Magazine

Jtree’s founder, Josh Laughtland, was recently featured in the February 2012 edition of Sunset Magazine. Grab the tablet edition…

Not for SEO mind you, but for three of his favorite northwest hot springs destinations. Josh runs a couple websites specific to recreation of the geothermal sort (hot springs), which happen to bring in tens of thousands of unique visitors each month.

His first geothermal website, IdahoHotSprings.com, started out as a hobby shortly after moving to Boise to attend college at Boise State. It contains years of his personal trip reports besieged from many adventures throughout Idaho and the northwest.

Josh has driven, hiked and spent multiple days backpacking through pristine wilderness to reach the Northwest’s most incredible hot springs.

He also helps operate CaliHotSprings.com, which features geo-location, interactive maps and detailed information about California’s natural geothermal wonders.

Follow @hotspringsguy on Twitter
Visit the Hot Springs Blog
Josh on Google+