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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 September 12, 2008 Chris Boggs |
SEO Reporting: Going Beyond Rankings Enterprise-level SEO provides consistently outstanding ROI over the life of the project. One of the best ways to substantiate this is through ongoing reporting. But if you're just tracking organic positions and nothing else, you're doing a disservice to your clients. |
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 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? |
Search Engine Watch July 26, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Search Marketing UK: A Buyer's Guide Search Engine Marketing - A Buyer's Guide focuses exclusively on agencies operating within the United Kingdom. |
InternetNews April 30, 2004 Robyn Greenspan |
Searching for Balance Not all search campaigns are created equal, as Internet users reveal which engines provide the most relevant organic and paid results. |
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 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 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 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 November 22, 2010 Bas van den Beld |
Rules You Have to Know Before You Can Become an SEO Client Living by these seven rules will help you become a client that search engine optimizers will accept and respect. |
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 March 3, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Search Engine Optimization in a Down Economy During the last downturn, we witnessed Google become a leader in their space without a huge marketing budget. They had a better widget. |
Search Engine Watch July 18, 2008 Chris Boggs |
SEO Is Not a One-Time Fix More and more marketers seem to understand the value and the importance of search engine optimization. But there are still those who feel that everything can be accomplished in 3 months. That theory couldn't be further from the truth. |
Search Engine Watch July 31, 2008 Ron Jones |
The Future of SEM Education Online advertising continues to grow in both good times and bad. That's good news for search marketers, and highlights the ongoing importance of search education. |
CRM July 1, 2007 Colin Beasty |
Business Problem: A Company's Marketing Department Cannot Effectively Track and Manage Campaigns Across Multiple Search Engines. Tech Solution: Search engine marketing tools. |
Search Engine Watch December 23, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Social Media and SEO -- Friends with Benefits? For those of you whose responsibilities - either directly or indirectly - involve organic Web site optimization, here's a look at how you can get SEO benefits out of social networking. |
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 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 October 14, 2010 Jason Tabeling |
Why You Should Combine Your PPC & SEO Strategies Here's how advertisers can develop a search strategy that effectively coordinates paid and organic listings. |
Search Engine Watch March 30, 2009 Joshua Palau |
Search is Search: Paid and Organic Search Synergies You don't have paid search goals and organic search goals; you have search goals. There are opportunities for synergies and savings once you understand how the two can work together. |
Search Engine Watch October 14, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Are You Measuring SEO Success Correctly? Ranking reports are flawed because they depend on everyone seeing the same search results, which just doesn't happen anymore. SEO success should be measured by the lift in organic search engine traffic. And to do that, you need to make sure your analytics are set up correctly. |
Search Engine Watch August 31, 2010 Adam Audette |
How Do You Find High-quality SEO Services? A few tips and guidelines that will help you in your search for a quality search engine optimization partner. Also, five warning signs of bad SEOs. |
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 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. |
CRM January 24, 2011 Dettmann & Kalkofen |
New Year, New SEO Rules Big changes influence how digital marketers do business. |
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 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 January 31, 2008 Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketers' Wish Lists, Part 2 Predictions of the future of Internet marketing from several search marketers and social media marketers. |
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 February 16, 2009 William Flaiz |
The Best of Outsourced: 10 Greatest Hits The author bids farewell to Search Engine Watch by revisiting some of the hottest topics in search marketing agencies from the past 18 months. |
Search Engine Watch October 26, 2010 Jeremy Bencken |
How to Value Links? Perhaps the hardest question to answer in search engine optimization is how much to budget for link building. Here's how you can establish a fair ROI for link building. |
Search Engine Watch August 15, 2008 William Flaiz |
The Evolution of SEO SEO has not simply shed its dubious roots; it has become a legitimate, reputable component of a proper client marketing mix. |
Search Engine Watch June 7, 2010 John Greer |
How to Measure Success in an SEO Campaign Measuring search engine optimization results is more difficult than building a single graph. Use these metrics to gain a much better picture of your natural search health. |
Search Engine Watch July 14, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Choosing a Search Engine Optimization Firm Marketing Sherpa has released the 4th edition of its Buyer's Guide to Search Engine Optimization Firms, a comprehensive look at the players in the industry. |
Search Engine Watch April 7, 2011 Guillaume Bouchard |
Managing SEO on a Global Scale Tips on how to obtain synergy and negotiate red tape when managing SEO efforts across different brands and offices in different locations or countries. |
Search Engine Watch May 5, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Selecting an SEO Firm: The What, How, and Who Selecting a search engine optimization company, or finding someone to do SEO in-house, can seem difficult, but it doesn't have to be. |
Search Engine Watch March 31, 2004 Arnaud Fischer |
Paid Search Programs Finally Growing Up The search industry has come a long way. Enhanced keyword targeting capabilities and powerful new bidding and analysis tools have raised the value of search as a promotional channel. |
Search Engine Watch February 25, 2009 Eric Enge |
Maintaining an SEO Log At its root, SEO is an inexact science. It's a world where we follow best practices and use our best judgment to make decisions on what to do next. |
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 May 5, 2010 Gareth Owen |
Search Doesn't Only Happen on Search Engines Search will still be focused on optimization of keywords for maximum ROI, but companies and agencies must put those searches in context and measure individual campaigns with a range of different metrics. |
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. |