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Rob Chant |
Improve Your SMB Site with These 2 Basic SEO Metrics Unique search landing pages and unique keyword visits are two metrics that are directly actionable for small businesses, no matter what your level of SEO expertise.   |
Search Engine Watch
October 4, 2010
Ray "Catfish" Comstock |
The Challenges of Measuring SEO Success, Part 3 A deep dive into how businesses should use Webmaster tools search rankings, brand vs. non-brand traffic, and long tail keyword performance to gain actionable strategic insights that drive SEO beyond just understanding performance. |
Search Engine Watch
February 18, 2011
Rob Chant |
Why SEOs Shouldn't Fixate on Keyword Rankings Focusing only on where you rank for a small group of keywords is a bad investment for many reasons. Some tips on how to diversify your efforts. |
Search Engine Watch
July 7, 2010
Jeremy Bencken |
Reports of the Death of Guest Blogging for Link Building are an Exaggeration Ask yourself these three questions to help maximize the effect of your next guest blogging campaign. |
Search Engine Watch
December 2, 2008
Mark Jackson |
Link Building, Circa 2008 SEO isn't as easy as it was in years past. At one time, optimization meant dropping some keywords in your meta keywords tag, using your most important key phrases a dozen or so times on a page, and exchanging links with anyone who had a Web site. |
Entrepreneur
May 2008
John Jantsch |
The New Frontier These days, everyone's blogging. Is it time for your business to join the club? |
Search Engine Watch
February 16, 2011
Gareth Owen |
SEO and PPC: A Love-Hate Relationship Three big trends are changing how we attribute value in SEO. We are increasingly turning to tactics that were previously considered to be the realm of paid search professionals to meet client expectations. |
Search Engine Watch
May 3, 2011
Kristi Hines |
How to Use Blog Commenting to Get Valuable Backlinks and Traffic Blog commenting can help you build relationships and authority in your industry. This will ultimately lead to organic links and new traffic. |
Search Engine Watch
September 13, 2010
Kaila Strong |
Search and Social: Are You Missing Out? Examining social media's impact on search, and how best to integrate a bit of social into your search engine marketing (or search into your social media marketing). |
Search Engine Watch
August 12, 2010
John Lynch |
SEO for Start-ups: Build Authority Offsite How new online businesses can quickly create organic visibility while simultaneously building trust and authority within their domain. |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2009
Carrie Hill |
SMB Link Building Without a Dime Link building doesn't have to be expensive. The first step in finding good links actually started a while ago, when you got to work writing great content that others will want to link to. Next comes scoping out your top-ranking competitors and copying what they're doing right. |
Search Engine Watch
May 28, 2009
Justilien Gaspard |
Promoting Your Blog You've followed everyone's advice and started a blog. Now it's time to gain exposure and readership. |
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
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. |
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
August 29, 2008
William Flaiz |
There's No Secret Recipe to SEO Some marketers are looking for a secret, step-by-step recipe to SEO success. But while a general framework is necessary to be effective, the search engine optimization process must be adaptable. Here are some tips for guiding you down the path to SEO success. |
Search Engine Watch
July 9, 2010
Rob Chant |
How to Make Social Media Work for Your SMB The key to social media marketing for small- and mid-sized businesses is to build relationships and become an appreciated part of your community. Some tips to get you started. |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 2010
Rob Chant |
Small Business and Search: Where's the Return? (Part 2) SMBs generally have relatively tight marketing budgets. Here's how you can quickly figure out when you'll see a return on your SEO or PPC investments. |
Search Engine Watch
August 16, 2010
Josh McCoy |
Your Blog...Your Best Friend, Or Your Worst Enemy Is your blog off topic? Having an on-site blog can help your online efforts or greatly detract from you from your SEO and site conversion goals. |
Search Engine Watch
August 31, 2009
Liana Evans |
Can Social Media Be Measured? There's a lot of debate around whether social media marketing can be measured. There's also a cauldron of bubbling issues around exactly what companies should measure when it comes to social media marketing. |
Search Engine Watch
January 11, 2011
Kristi Hines |
Is Link Relevance as Effective as Anchor Text? Obtaining links from high authority pages will increase your site's authority. Here's how to find pages with strong relevance to the keywords for which you want to rank. |
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
October 29, 2010
Rob Chant |
Preparing Your Small Business Site For SEO A starter guide for small business owners who are launching a brand new site and approaching search engine optimization for the first time. |
Search Engine Watch
February 22, 2011
Erez Barak |
Search + Social: A Growing Relationship Make sure you're tracking, measuring, and analyzing three key indicators in real time: SEO, social, and business. |
Search Engine Watch
February 11, 2010
Justilien Gaspard |
How to Build Links, Increase Traffic and Exposure Getting your company's content published on third-party Web sites helps generate links and increases traffic and exposure. Five tips for streamlining the process. |
Search Engine Watch
July 12, 2010
Ray Comstock |
The Challenges of Measuring SEO Success, Part 1 Some of the most common challenges of reporting on SEO performance, plus solutions. First of a three-part series. |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2011
Jeremy Bencken |
21-Day Link Builder Relationship Challenge As link builders, we must give in order to receive. Here are three general categories of relationship-building "gives" that will help you create a worthy relationship foundation and attract an unfair share of links. |
Search Engine Watch
April 12, 2010
Bas van den Beld |
How to Gain Traffic Using Twitter, YouTube Recent developments on Twitter, YouTube will change the lives of search marketers, and show us a new way to look at (non-Google) traffic sources. |
Search Engine Watch
November 8, 2010
Josh McCoy |
Diversifying Your SEO Imagine your site as you would your investment portfolio. Spreading your assets evenly is extremely important to long-term growth. |
Search Engine Watch
April 26, 2011
Garrett French |
Buy Cycle Link Building: A Content Marketing Guide for Link Strategists How content marketers and link builders can play nicely together to build referral traffic by creating informative, high quality, or purchase-inducing content. |
Search Engine Watch
August 18, 2010
Michael Bonfils |
10 Missed Opportunities in Search Engine Marketing in Japan, Part 2 More advice for navigating the Japanese market, including: translations, keyword research, search engine optimization, blogs/ social media, and trust/user engagement. Part 2 of 2. |
Search Engine Watch
August 26, 2008
Mark Jackson |
SEO Success -- Guess What...Content Works! Fixing problems and implementing some search engine-friendly practices can have an immediate effect on a site's search engine rankings. But no search engine optimization technique works better than creating quality content. |
Search Engine Watch
September 27, 2010
Bas van den Beld |
5 Common Mistakes Bloggers Make Here's how you can avoid common blunders when writing blog posts and ensure what you write benefits your readers. |
Search Engine Watch
January 11, 2011
Kevin Gibbons |
10 Tips for Top Business Blogging Is your business blog ready to work in 2011? Read on for some top tips for blogging success. |
Search Engine Watch
February 9, 2009
Ron Jones |
Link Building 101, Part 2 Last week, we looked at on-site linking best practices. Today, we'll look at off-page factors, with five methods you can start using right now to build links. |
Entrepreneur
February 2010
Erin Weinger |
What You Don't Know About SEO It's essential to understand SEO before you spend thousands hiring consultants you may not even need. |
Search Engine Watch
March 17, 2009
Mark Jackson |
Setting Expectations for Search Engine Optimization How many SEOs have suffered because of unrealistic expectations from clients? That situation can be avoided if you spend the time before an agreement is signed to have a frank and sincere discussion with your client about what they can expect from your efforts. |
Searcher
November 2011
Rushton & Funke |
The Goodness in the Evil of SEO - Why Search Engine Optimization Matters to Information Professionals Some information professionals view SEO with some reservation or even actual contempt due to the rampant SEO techniques that reduce the quality of search results by driving traffic to sites that take advantage of trending searches rather than useful information. |
Search Engine Watch
April 22, 2010
John Lynch |
Analyzing the 9 Most Common Link Building Strategies A detailed breakdown of all link major link building tactics, an analysis of costs and benefits, and the risks of incurring a penalty from a search engine. |
Search Engine Watch
December 27, 2010
Kevin Gibbons |
10 Essential New Year Resolutions for Web Marketers Want to really nail your company's web marketing in 2011? Then here are 10 things you can't fail to do. |
Search Engine Watch
June 10, 2008
Carrie Hill |
The Big Picture -- Well-Rounded SEM for SMBs, Part 2 Branding, reputation management, social networking, viral marketing, images, and videos are the current essential tactics for small businesses trying to put together well-rounded online marketing campaigns. |
Search Engine Watch
March 8, 2011
Jason Tabeling |
Keyword Phrase Value: Click-Throughs vs. Conversions Even with a worse search experience and less targeted ads, the consumer mindset is so much closer to conversion that long tail terms are worth the effort. |
Search Engine Watch
June 27, 2008
Chris Boggs |
SEO Basics: Effective Iterative Keyword Research in 2008 The value of any SEO effort lies in the keywords you choose. It's really that simple -- you can't overestimate the importance of strong keyword research. |
Search Engine Watch
March 28, 2011
Ray "Catfish" Comstock |
SEO Training: The Cornerstone of Successful Enterprise SEO Campaigns Which members of your internal team need training, and what that training needs to cover in order to successfully scale SEO across an enterprise-level organization. |
Entrepreneur
June 2007
Catherine Seda |
Rave Reviews On the web, customer testimonials speak louder than advertising. |
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
February 6, 2009
Chris Boggs |
Don't Believe Everything You Read Some marketers choose to base their search marketing strategies on blog posts. |
Search Engine Watch
October 5, 2010
Eric Enge |
8 Flawed Link Building Strategies While there are a few relatively low effort/cost link building strategies, such as directories and reciprocal links, these have limited value. Here's how you can get in trouble when trying to acquire low quality links. |
Search Engine Watch
February 23, 2011
John Lynch |
Mapping Search Strategy to the Buy Cycle A breakdown of the four major stages of a buy cycle, and opportunities in which search marketing, SEO, and PPC can be incorporated. |
Search Engine Watch
September 19, 2008
Gregg Stewart |
Getting to Know Local SEO Local SEO is a must for businesses that sell products locally to a specified geographical area. The channels consumers are using to search are changing. |
