Born and raised in Richmond, BC, Canada, Courtney has also lived in Australia for two years. Her love for traveling, photography and passion for designing beautiful web sites, as well as her attention to detail are what brought Abalone Designs, Inc to life.

Have you ever had a proposal, estimate or quote for search engine optimization work and wondered what goes into the pricing? What makes one site need more work than another? Why do some sites increase...

By about 2pm everyday, each of my team members has spoken to a good handful of clients and potential clients who have been speaking with other SEO firms. This an absolutely wonderful thing to see, as ...

Link development can be an absolute nightmare. It takes up most of a marketer’s time and the yield isn’t always what we originally hoped. Worrying about PR, one way inbound links, triangle linking, wh...

With the help of MSN, recently I’ve been ... about the Google of old. Remember those days? When you could take a good quality site, add a few ... get a few incoming links and ...

've found myself involved in a lot of ... about the dropping ... of link ... lately. Numerous people have said to me that they think incoming links no longer hold as much weight

We all know it's good practice to put ... ... page titles, meta tags and alt tags. But here are a few places you may not have thought about.1. Tables - You're most likely familiar with

We have a running joke in our office that one day we’ll load a page and it will say “You have reached the end of the World Wide Web” and it will be the truth. I’ve visited so many web sites in my time

These days, it seems everyone is ... a Toolbar and Desktop search, from Google and MSN to Search Engine ... ... and Internet Service ... As none of these are being released

f you're anything like me, you have a ... search engine and you're loyal to it. You never use any others (which made this research ... for yours truly), insist yours is the be-all and end-

If you read The Search Engine Showdown at ... you know Google is my ... search engine. Why? Google always offers the most results for any given search