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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 November 10, 2008 William Flaiz |
Universal Search: The (War) Elephant in the Room If universal search is the search marketer's war elephant, we must realize that focusing all efforts in harmony is the only way to properly address the challenges it presents. |
Search Engine Watch July 17, 2009 Chris Boggs |
Building Directory Links: A Valuable SEO Tactic? One of the longest-tenured tactics in link building is to build links within topical free and paid directories. Is that still a valuable SEO tactic? |
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 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. |
CRM January 24, 2011 Dettmann & Kalkofen |
New Year, New SEO Rules Big changes influence how digital marketers do business. |
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 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 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 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 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 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 November 24, 2008 William Flaiz |
Great Expectations: How to Communicate SEO Value Even after you've won the client's business and run a successful program, you still have to show the client what you did for their money. |
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William Flaiz William's company Razorfish provides solutions that help clients measure and optimize their web site investments. |
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 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 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 March 2, 2010 Herndon Hasty |
Your Locations are Your Biggest Digital Assets A physical address has huge online implications. While you're covering your assets, make sure to build up your presence for local-based searches. |
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 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 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. |
Search Engine Watch February 17, 2011 Steve Beatty |
Ways to Improve Brand Awareness by Building Links These strategies make use your internal assets to simultaneously build links and brand awareness, improve your company's SEO visibility, and help you achieve your goals. |
Search Engine Watch August 3, 2010 Adam Audette |
How To Not Fail At SEO How to incorporate search engine optimization into your companies and web ventures so they succeed. These principles, if integrated and committed to, will greatly improve your chances for success. |
Search Engine Watch March 2, 2009 Ron Jones |
Local Search 101, Part 1 Are you looking to venture beyond the printed yellow pages? You should be. As the economy opens the door of opportunity for many people who have lost their jobs, more small businesses are turning to local search. |
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 March 13, 2008 Steve Haar |
Defending SEM During a Recession If a recession does come, search marketers will need to defend their budgets, and even their jobs. Defining past value to the company, and future contributions, can be a straightforward process. |
Search Engine Watch July 28, 2010 Gareth Owen |
Defining Search Engine Optimization in 2010 Taking the time to identify your market and focusing on how to build relationships with those relevant sites will put you above SEOs who are still focusing on outdated tactics. |
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 October 28, 2010 Jon Schepke |
Google Place Search: Location Information Just Became More Critical Google's new Place Search makes it more important than ever for business to implement a local search, online review, and SEO strategy to achieve prominent visibility in Google's results. |
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 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. |
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 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 March 31, 2009 Mark Jackson |
3 Keys to a Successful Web Presence A sound organic search strategy should be the core of every business's marketing efforts, but being found is just the beginning. |
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 January 17, 2008 Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketing "Resolutions" for 2008 We've collected the New Years resolutions of several search engine marketers, sharing their priorities and plans for 2008. |
Search Engine Watch January 23, 2008 Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketing Predictions for 2008 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 April 13, 2010 Adam Audette |
Want Big SEO Results? You Need Big SEO Ideas If you want your search engine optimization campaigns to produce big results, optimizing title tags and meta data isn't enough. You need thought leadership that can generate a strategic view of SEO and help put it into action. |
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 April 29, 2011 Derek Edmond |
How to Establish a B2B Social Media Benchmarking Plan Some ways you can develop performance measurements for social media initiatives that tie into the search engine marketing needs of your clients. Also: tips on establishing metrics aligned to your Internet marketing objectives. |
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. |