SEO / SEM
A search engine optimization blog for hunting outfitters, guides and lodges to help their internet marketing presence. 3plains has been performing organic SEO since 2001 for the hunting, fishing and outdoor industry.
Changing Web Companies
June 08, 2016 by Ryan Trask
For some clients, changing web companies is and can be a miserable and gut-wrenching experience - how to tell your old company you are firing them and then hoping your new web company actually can deliver what they say they can and are going to do.
Cheap SEO Is a Complete Waste of Time & Money
October 30, 2015 by Ryan Trask
Every week, we phone calls from business owners needing SEO and attempting to understand what SEO ultimately costs. We have found these business owners call us and either think we are way too expensive, get incorrect information or got fed a line of bullshit by another company of what it costs or what goes into SEO.
Mobile Friendly Website Example
June 23, 2015 by Ryan Trask
We did hear from several of our customers asking about what is all entailed with moving their website over to a mobile friendly design and what makes a website "mobile friendly". So let's take a look at one of our fishing website design customers Aabsolute Charters who moved their website over to a mobile friendly design last week.
Mobilegeddon - The Sky is Not Falling
April 21, 2015 by Ryan Trask
If you haven't heard yet, Google has a big algorithm update out today. If you remember Y2K, the grid did not go offline because of a 2 digit issue. In my opinion, Google announcing this new mobile update is no different.
Bing Search Gaining Traction - Up to 20%
April 18, 2015 by Ryan Trask
Bing crossed the 20% threshold in search for the first time in March. That's according to a new U.S. desktop search report from comScore, released this week.
Quality Website Traffic + Leads = Bookings
January 20, 2015 by Ryan Trask
In 2011, we began a SEO campaign for a customer. When we first started working with the customer a few years back, they were under the assumption being #1 in the search engines is the end-all-be-all.