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Search Engine Watch January 5, 2009 William Flaiz |
Search Shifts and Predictions for 2009 2009 will see search engines focusing less on new product innovations and more on new revenue streams during our economic crisis. |
Search Engine Watch September 2, 2008 Mark Jackson |
How Much Are You Spending on SEO? SEO deserves its rightful place in every company's marketing budget. |
Search Engine Watch May 25, 2006 Chris Sherman |
U.K. Search Marketing Environment Thriving The total market for search marketing in the U.K. grew at a blistering 100% rate in 2005, and further double-digit gains are expected for this year. Four key trends are driving this growth. |
Search Engine Watch March 24, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Is There Such a Thing as the Perfect SEO? SEOs are being asked to do an awful lot. But is it right -- or even smart -- to expect an SEO to be a jack-of-all-trades? |
Search Engine Watch August 27, 2010 Marty Weintraub |
Online Marketing Fundamentals For New Professionals, Part 2 A new crop of search marketers need to learn the fundamentals of our industry. Class is in session once again. Today's lesson: organic and paid search for newbies. |
Search Engine Watch September 28, 2005 Chris Sherman |
How are Search Marketers Performing? A new study sheds light on the performance of search marketing firms, concluding that many are missing opportunities and failing to provide important services for their clients. |
Search Engine Watch April 7, 2010 Kevin Gibbons |
How to Deal With Difficult SEO Clients Some tips for working effectively with the more difficult types of clients: the impatient, the "voodoo" believers, the serial ditchers, the amateurs, and the downright hostile. |
Search Engine Watch October 2, 2007 Kevin Newcomb |
Search Budgets to See Double-Digit Growth A significant number of advertisers plan to increase both their search ad spend and SEO budgets next year, according to a MarketingSherpa report. |
Search Engine Watch October 24, 2008 William Flaiz |
The Organic and Paid Balancing Act As SERP listings and functionality changes, there are still two types of listings that have weathered the storm and are still attainable for marketers: traditional organic listings and paid search listings. |
Search Engine Watch March 2, 2009 Joshua Palau |
5 Search Topics You Need to Discuss with Your Client Knowing how to talk about these topics will improve your client communication and help foster more effective and rewarding business relationships. After all, search marketers are communicators first |
Search Engine Watch November 28, 2007 Steve Haar |
SEO Expectations and Commitments You need a strategy to educate the decision-makers who will never actually do SEO, but who cut the check or approve the time spent for SEO. They need to know what to expect, and what's expected of them. |
Search Engine Watch May 11, 2009 Joshua Palau |
Why Settle for Best Practices? Part 2 As a marketer, you can't take SEO for granted when working with an agency. They may be following best practices to build a search-friendly site, but don't assume they're implementing a full-blown search engine optimization strategy. |
Search Engine Watch January 20, 2009 Mark Jackson |
The Better You Rank...the Better You Rank! The more popular your Web site is, the better the likelihood that your Web site will rank. You need to maintain momentum in your SEO and general marketing efforts to keep a steady flow of traffic coming to your Web site. |
Fast Company David T. Scott |
4 Reasons Why SEM Is Better Than SEO Search Engine Marketing -- placing ads that appear above search results -- should already be in your bag of tricks. It's is more accountable, because sites like Google offer in-depth data about the performance of your ads. |
Search Engine Watch January 30, 2009 Elisabeth Osmeloski |
2009 is a Year of Change for Travel Search Marketing The economy is forcing travel search marketers to change the way they approach online marketing. The travel vertical is already one of the most advanced groups of search marketers, but the industry has been under more pressure in recent months to make their campaigns count. |
Search Engine Watch May 8, 2009 Chris Boggs |
Customer Segmentation and SEO -- A Beautiful Couple Search engine optimization on its own can be a very useful tactic to bring leads to your site. But developing a deeper understanding of your primary markets and using customer segmentation in your content become important SEO considerations that can lead to a higher probability of conversion. |
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2007 Alex Porter |
Alternative Media: Search-Engine Marketing: Click, Click ... Are You There? Pharma marketers turn to pay-per-click advertising to boost their product's reach. |
Search Engine Watch June 5, 2009 Joshua Palau |
Checking in on 2009 Search Shifts & Predictions In the online world, we tend to make predictions and never really look back. Today, we'll buck that trend and look at some of this year's predictions, five months later. |
Search Engine Watch December 15, 2004 Chris Sherman |
State of the Search Marketing Industry 2004 Jupiter Research and SEMPO (the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) have released results of separate surveys providing one of the most detailed looks yet at current practices and advertiser spending in the search marketing industry. |
Search Engine Watch October 7, 2008 Mark Jackson |
What You Need to Know Before Committing to SEO Rushing into a search engine optimization initiative without properly planning your SEO strategy is setting yourself up for failure. To enjoy the fruits that SEO can provide your site, you need to be well organized and develop a plan. |
Search Engine Watch December 3, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Marketing: You Like It, You Really Like It Readers say in droves that they like the suggestion of Search Engine Marketing as a term to define promoting sites on search engines... |
Search Engine Watch November 21, 2008 Chris Boggs |
Selling SEO During an Economic Downturn In a down economy, business development for SEO becomes increasingly important. |
Search Engine Watch September 23, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Who Audits the Auditor? There are some individuals and companies who will provide SEO audits. But some of these folks look at this as an opportunity for them to earn new business or referral checks. |
Search Engine Watch July 31, 2009 Joshua Palau |
What Can the Recession Teach Us? This recession is different that the 2000 dot-com bubble burst. It's impacting how we behave personally and professionally. We're being more responsible and looking closer at everything we do, including the world of search. |
Search Engine Watch March 7, 2011 Adam Audette |
Maximizing Your CTR for SEO in Organic Results Be mindful of the way your organic listings appear in the search results. Listings designed to maximize CTR will have a ranking advantage. |
Search Engine Watch December 22, 2008 William Flaiz |
Revisiting My 2008 Search Predictions Reviewing predictions for 2008 which included SEO moving beyond traditional search engines, and the practice going mainstream. |
Search Engine Watch October 23, 2003 Anne Kennedy |
Balancing Paid and Organic Search Listings Do you really need both 'organic' or 'natural' listings, generated by search engine optimization (SEO), and paid placement, aka pay-per-click advertising (PPC), to be successful on search engines? |
Entrepreneur August 2004 Catherine Seda |
In the Click Want all the right people to notice your business? Gone are the days when adding keywords in meta tags to your site produced rankings. You need to make the most of today's hottest marketing method--search engine optimization. |
Search Engine Watch April 14, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Are You Giving Away Free SEO Advice? It can be frustrating for an SEO to go to the effort of crafting a customized proposal for a potential client, who then takes that proposal and implements it on their own. |
Search Engine Watch February 8, 2007 Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketing Shows Strength in 2006 SEMPO's annual look at the State of Search Engine Marketing finds that search continues to grow, reaching $9.4 billion in North America in 2006. |
Search Engine Watch June 10, 2008 Mark Jackson |
SEO Competitive Analysis Search engine rankings change regularly, are different on various data centers, and won't generate traffic to the Web site, much less generate leads and sales. Instead, marketers should be focused on reports that mean something, like a competitive SEO analysis. |
Search Engine Watch March 23, 2010 Eric Enge |
SEO Mythbusters: 3 Rotten Ideas Three outdated search engine optimization tactics you should avoid at all costs. |
Search Engine Watch March 10, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Big Brands are Starting To Get It -- or is Google Starting to Get Big Brands? These larger Web sites have all of the natural elements that search engines look for. All they have to do is build a Web site that is remotely search engine friendly and institute some basic best practices for SEO. |
Search Engine Watch February 11, 2009 Eric Enge |
Getting Buy-In Is A Crucial First Step in Enterprise SEO Because of their size and complexity, large organizations face some big challenges to planning and implementing an SEO strategy. |
Search Engine Watch February 6, 2008 Gregg Stewart |
Local Search Tactics for Tough Economic Times What tactics and best practices can we glean to improve our local search campaigns in these challenging times of credit crunching and receding sales opportunities? |
Search Engine Watch September 9, 2008 Aaron Shear |
Ready to Finally Try SEO? Is your enterprise taking the first steps toward search engine optimization? The decisions you make now about building an in-house team or outsourcing some or all of your SEO program will either make your life much easier, or lead to problems. |
Search Engine Watch December 21, 2006 Amy Edelstein |
Optimizing Video for Search Engines With the explosive popularity of video content on the web, savvy search marketers can be among the first to catch a prime trend this coming year by optimizing video content to outperform in search engines. |
Search Engine Watch January 24, 2008 Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketing Predictions for 2008, Part 2 We've collected the 2008 predictions of several search engine marketers, sharing their best guesses about the direction of the industry in the coming year. |
Search Engine Watch June 30, 2009 Eric Enge |
Selling SEO Projects Against PPC Campaigns Search advertising is familiar and attractive to budget managers, like a trusted old friend. So how are you going to get some of that PPC budget for your SEO proposal? |
Search Engine Watch April 28, 2005 Danny Sullivan |
Worthless Shady Criminals: A Defense Of SEO SEO has developed a bad reputation, despite having a lot to offer. In this article, a look at why we've arrived at this sorry state of affairs and how everyone needs to reassess the need for search engine optimization. |
Search Engine Watch August 5, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Top SEO Firms Paid for by the Following... The SEO industry needs to mature, become more responsible corporate citizens, and educate the masses, in a non-commercial way. Perhaps, then, we can see more companies putting faith (and budgets) behind SEO efforts. |
Search Engine Watch April 21, 2011 Chris Boggs |
Confidently Projecting ROI for SEO: Can it be Done? To confidently measure ROI for SEO, you have to temper expectations of high accuracy within exact number of visits or conversions, and lean more toward the school of performance growth as measured by trending lines. |
Search Engine Watch September 15, 2009 Carrie Hill |
When and How to Outsource Your Small Business Search Marketing Every small business will reach a point where they have to decide to expand or keep things simple. There are right and wrong ways to hire an outside SEM firm. Following some simple rules can make or break your ROI. |
Search Engine Watch May 10, 2006 Anne Kennedy |
Curbing SEOs Who've Gone Wild When it comes to optimizing your website for search engines, when is "enough" enough? And why is overoptimization a problem? |
Search Engine Watch October 10, 2008 Chris Boggs |
Is Your SEM Truly Looking at Search Holistically? To achieve SERP nirvana, your search engine optimization and paid search efforts must have the same goal. Ask these five important questions. |
Search Engine Watch January 10, 2007 John Tawadros |
The Bigger Question of SEO Is search engine optimization (SEO) rocket science? No. But that doesn't mean it's easy. But SEO's complexity, or lack thereof, matters less than the value it delivers. |
Search Engine Watch February 13, 2009 Joanna Lord |
The Great Career Debate: SEM In-House Team vs. SEM Agency Although the list of unique challenges facing both groups is long, there are key differences to consider before you take a job in-house or with an agency. |
CRM January 22, 2014 Maria Minsker |
B2B Marketing Budgets to Increase by 6 Percent in 2014 Marketers face pressure to justify budget increases with revenue results, a Forrester study shows. |
Search Engine Watch August 18, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Performance-Based Pricing for SEO? Performance-based pricing of search ads makes perfect sense. But for search engine optimization services? The challenge is that SEO has so many variables to consider, many of which are outside the SEO firm's control. |
Search Engine Watch March 6, 2009 Chris Boggs |
Combating SEO Implementation Paralysis For many years, SEO consultants and agencies have faced one major challenge, beyond keeping up with ever-changing organic ranking algorithms: lack of implemented recommendations. Let's look at some causes of this implementation paralysis, and ways to avoid or mitigate its impact. |