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Search Engine Watch
June 29, 2009
Ron Jones |
Blogs and Blogging 101, Part 1 Search engines will reward a site that has quality content with good rankings. For many sites, one of the easiest ways to add that quality content on a consistent basis is by starting a blog.   |
Search Engine Watch
January 20, 2009
Carrie Hill |
Testing Your Online Business Plan Monetizing a Web site is so much more than slapping some ads on a page and waiting for the checks to roll in. You need to create a business plan, and test viability of that plan before you spend any money on marketing and development. |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 2009
Melissa Mackey |
PPC Integration: Integrating PPC with SEO, Part 2 Marketing silos aren't inherently bad, as long as there is communication. Sharing research and results between PPC and SEO teams will help improve both channels. |
Entrepreneur
May 2007
Janelle Elms |
Along for the Ride Find out how search engines can drive visitors to your ebay listings. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
May 23, 2008
William Flaiz |
How to Take on a Major SEO Client Taking on a large search engine optimization client can be a daunting proposition. But it's simple, when you break it down: first, give them what they need; then give them what they want. Finally, give them what they don't yet know they need. |
Search Engine Watch
December 15, 2010
Gareth Owen |
How Will SEO Evolve in 2011? SEO, rather than being purely an ongoing process of optimization, will be more influential as part of a campaign-led marketing strategy. We'll need to work with our clients to ensure this happens. |
Search Engine Watch
January 13, 2011
Kaila Strong |
Are You Losing Out On Targeted Social Media Traffic? An overview of the top social media referrer sites, and a few best practices to help you in your social media marketing efforts. |
Search Engine Watch
May 20, 2008
Aaron Shear |
Social Media Marketing in an Enterprise Environment Social media sites like MySpace or Facebook, and even long-standing social media tools like blogs remain a mystery to many large organizations. But that's all beginning to change, as more big businesses find ways to incorporate these elements into their overall marketing strategy. |
Search Engine Watch
November 11, 2008
Carrie Hill |
Six Things You Might Be Doing Wrong (And How to Fix Them)! When you look at what is and isn't working for a small business Web site, you'll find that the most frequent issues fall within six categories. Some are flaws in site architecture, while others are the result of poor planning or marketing discipline. All are fixable, if you know what to look for. |
Search Engine Watch
January 27, 2009
Mark Jackson |
SEO Web Site Review: Water Filter Corner This Web site recently launched and has several elements that need to be corrected to lay a sound foundation for future SEO success. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2007
Chris Boggs |
Super Bowl SEO: Who Had the Best Organic Gameplan? A look at Super Bowl advertisers' search engine optimization efforts for terms related to their TV campaign. |
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
January 12, 2009
Ron Jones |
Search Ad Quality Score 101, Part 2 Getting a good quality score requires that you create relevance and continuity from beginning to end of the search experience. Then you need to test, test, test. |
Entrepreneur
October 2007
Gwen Moran |
Keep Them Posted To create an effective blog for your business, follow these tips. |
InternetNews
February 11, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Should Yahoo Buy Six Apart? When Six Apart bought blogging community LiveJournal in January, it acquired an extra 5.5 million users and serious gravitas. But can it make it as a standalone business? |
Search Engine Watch
October 29, 2009
Melissa Mackey |
Popular PPC Pitfalls, and How to Prevent Them Three of the most common search advertising pitfalls can be avoided. Here's how. |
Search Engine Watch
December 9, 2008
Carrie Hill |
PPC & SEO -- Two Great Tastes that Taste Great Together Put peanut butter and chocolate together and you get something that transcends each of the individual ingredients. The same effect can be had when you combine paid search advertising with search engine optimization efforts. |
Search Engine Watch
February 22, 2011
Melissa Mackey |
AdWords Campaign Experiments: Details and Pitfalls Campaign Experiments is a great enhancement that can really take your PPC campaigns to the next level, but it also poses many challenges and can be quite confusing. |
Wired
September 2006
Charles C. Mann |
Spam + Blogs = Trouble Splogs are the latest thing in online scams - and they could smother the Internet. |
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
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
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 6, 2009
Justilien Gaspard |
Link Marketing for Travel and Tourism Businesses Good link building is just good marketing. That especially applies to the travel and tourism industry. The trick is targeting the right sites. |
Search Engine Watch
September 25, 2006
Catherine Seda |
Compare & Contrast: Search Ad Program Strategies Google, Microsoft and Yahoo's pay-per-click (PPC) programs are similar, but each have unique features that require different campaign tactics to use effectively. How do you get the maximum advantage from each program? |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2010
Gareth Owen |
Who Does Your SEO Team Speak to? Good SEO doesn't happen in a vacuum. Here's how to integrate SEO activities with display, affiliate, and social media campaigns. |
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
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 13, 2009
Mark Jackson |
Addressing the 'O' in Search Engine Optimization Tips for improving optimization efforts. |
Search Engine Watch
October 28, 2008
Mark Jackson |
The Ghosts of SEO Past and Future When banner ads first came out, there was hardly enough inventory to satisfy advertisers' needs. Paid search and search engine optimization changed all that. But SEO, too, has changed radically in the last decade. |
Search Engine Watch
November 8, 2005
Catherine Seda |
Using Search for Public Relations & Reputation Management If you're only using search engine marketing to sell your company's products or services, you're missing out. |
Search Engine Watch
March 31, 2008
Kevin Newcomb |
Highlights from the SEW Blog: March 24-28, 2008 Good Google bombs... Google webmaster tools... Google no longer a portal?... Search within a search... Yahoo and the future of search... Google video ads... Non-text contextual ads... Social media: one size does not fit all... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
April 7, 2009
Mark Jackson |
Don't Overlook Local Search Opportunities With local search, there are many free or low-cost opportunities for local advertisers to get found. How many businesses, both small and large, are taking advantage of local SEO? |
Search Engine Watch
October 1, 2010
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
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. |
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
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. |
Search Engine Watch
January 26, 2011
John Lynch |
4 Reasons Why SEO is Underfunded Advice for SEOs on how to overcome four of the most common problems: short-term vs. long-term goals, organizational constraints, too much jargon, and misunderstanding the value of SEO vs. PPC traffic. |
Search Engine Watch
February 2, 2010
Herndon Hasty |
Selling Search up the Chain: Money & Traffic Looking to start a search campaign quickly? Make your case by focusing on the money and traffic that can be gained. |
Search Engine Watch
February 17, 2009
Mark Jackson |
Ignorance: The Trouble with People Who Claim SEO is Snake Oil A response to a recent article claiming that SEO doesn't work, and that its practitioners are a bunch of snake oil salesmen. |
Search Engine Watch
June 30, 2005
Chris Sherman |
What's Cooking in Search Engine Labs Want a peek behind the scenes at the research and development efforts going on at the major search engines? Here's where to find the freshest info. |
Search Engine Watch
April 20, 2009
Ron Jones |
SEO Tools 101, Part 1 Getting started in SEO can be overwhelming, but your job can be made easier with the right tools. Here's an introduction to some of the keyword tools, site-grading tools and linking tools that will give you an edge in your search engine optimization efforts. |
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
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
January 4, 2011
Ryan Woolley |
How to Structure an AdWords Account -- A Practical Guide A walk-through of some of the core components in setting up your Google AdWords account, plus tips on particular AdWords features that can help improve your program's performance. |
Search Engine Watch
November 20, 2008
David Szetela |
More from the Mailbag: Quality Score Mysteries and Great PPC Learning Resources David digs into the reader mailbag to discuss Google's quality score issues, and some good beginner resources for learning PPC advertising. |
Search Engine Watch
February 21, 2006
Shari Thurow |
News Search Engine Optimization News search engines offer companies a great way to receive targeted traffic related to breaking topics through press releases and other public relations information. |
Search Engine Watch
January 18, 2007
Kevin Newcomb |
Weather.com's SEO Efforts Rest Heavily on Analytics Data from Coremetrics Web analytics informs virtually all of the site's search marketing efforts. |
BusinessWeek
May 7, 2007
Helm & Lehman |
Buying Clicks To A Tragedy How news outfits boost Web traffic when stories like Virginia Tech break. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2009
Sage Lewis |
Do Follow Pros and cons of building links through blog comments. |
