- Three Crucial Questions to Ask an SEO CopywriterSearch Engine Marketing
When outsourcing your SEO, says Heather Lloyd-Martin, you have to ask the right questions if you're going to find the right candidate. "SEO copywriting professionals can have a wide variety ...
- Three Ways to Optimize Content Across Channels and PlatformsSearch Engine Marketing
Before you optimize your next piece of content, Ann Handley and C.C. Chapman have some advice. "Bust your content silos!" they write in their new book Content Rules. "Do you ...
- How to Optimize an About Page: Create Information LevelsSearch Engine Marketing
Your About page is one of the most important pages on your site, says Lisa Banks in a post at the Site Reference SEO blog. Done right, it can help ...
- Three Unusual Places Your Keywords Should GoSearch Engine Marketing
You've no doubt optimized your site and marketing materials for top keywords, but have you thought about the influence they can wield in less traditional ways?
Consistently optimized messaging across ...
- Four Keys to Finding Better KeywordsSearch Engine Marketing
In a recent guest post at It's All About Revenue, Brian Posnanski shares tips on finding just the right keywords to boost standings in search results. "Keywords are the ingredient ...
- Put That Bad SEO Experience Behind You, and Move OnSearch Engine Marketing
"Over the last dozen-plus years, unscrupulous SEO [companies] have given the entire search engine optimization industry a bad rep," writes Stoney deGeyter at Search Engine Guide. "It seems like every ...
- How to Use Google's New Metatags to Protect Original Content Search Engine Marketing
In a recent Search Engine Land post, Matt McGee reports on Google's experiment with new metatags designed to help identify original sources of online content found through Google News searches.
Google's ...
- Three Ways to Give Your Blog the SEO TreatmentSearch Engine Marketing
"Sometimes I hear the sound of crickets when I stumble across certain blogs written by small-business owners," writes Samantha McCormick at the OrangeSoda blog. "At first glance, the content is ...
- Two Key Ways to Optimize for Local SearchesSearch Engine Marketing
"When you perform a search at Google or Bing, the results are significantly influenced by your physical location, even on queries where you don't specify a location," writes Ray Comstock ...
- Organic Search Drives Software-Buying DecisionsHigh-Tech Mktg & Sales
Most high-tech companies understand that SEO is a critical channel for driving new clients, revenue and brand exposure. Organic search results are used widely by software buyers to find and ...
- Three Basic SEO Tips to Boost Website VisibilitySearch Engine Marketing
So, you want to improve your online visibility, but you're not an SEO expert. Never fear. C.B. Whittemore from the Simple Marketing blog has a basic SEO primer for you.
As ...
- SEO Tips for BingSearch Engine Marketing
Whether you're a site owner attempting to rank higher in search results, or a Web developer or designer working with a marketing team on a cool new project, it's more ...
- How to Respond When Execs Hound You About Your Search ProgramsSearch Engine Marketing
"You're sitting at your desk and the email lands in your inbox with a thud," writes Michael Brenner at B2B Marketing Insider. "[S]omeone important in your company just did a ...
- Why You Need a Gmail Priority StrategyEmail Marketing
"As a marketer, and one who works for a digital marketing agency that manages a lot of CRM programs for a lot of clients that includes a lot of email, ...
- How to Make the Hottest SEO Trend Work for YouSearch Engine Marketing
"What's the hottest trend in search-engine optimization that you've never heard of (yet)?" asks Christopher S. Penn in a recent post at the Awaken Your Superhero blog. It's LDA, he ...
- Why You Need SEO, Even If You Hate ItSearch Engine Marketing
"Heresy alert," writes Jason Amunwa at The Zest blog. "I've been struggling with a dark secret recently; you see, I realized that I really dislike SEO.
"To me it's like ...
- Google Instant 101Search Engine Marketing
Still wondering how Google Instant—the new enhancement that shows results as you type—changes search marketing?
Well, Google promises to shave 2.5 seconds off each user's search, with the end result ...
- How to Outbid Bigger Competitors on Google AdWordsSearch Engine Marketing
You might think that your small business—say, one with an annual Google AdWords budget of $50,000—has no chance when bidding against larger companies with much deeper pockets. Happily, that just isn't ...
- Four Steps to SEO-Friendly ContentSearch Engine Marketing
"You have a great website. It has beautiful images, a compelling theme and intuitive navigation, all designed to take eager visitors to complete descriptions of your proprietary products and services," ...
- Five Ways Deep Links Help SEOSearch Engine Marketing
Worried that your website's inbound deep links—links to site pages other than your homepage or other top-level pages—are distracting visitors from your main advertising or branding page? Or that visitors ...
- Five Tools, Four Ways to Find Just the Right KeywordsSearch Engine Marketing
In a recent post at the Content Marketing Institute, Elise Redlin-Cook asks the timeless question, "How do you find the best keywords for your audience?" Then she offers some timely advice.
She ...
- Five Reasons to Make Social Media Part of Your SEO StrategySearch Engine Marketing
It's well known in SEO circles that most links created through social media are "nofollow"—and therefore don't help sites rank higher with search engines. Some SEO professionals believe there's no SEO ...
- Four Ways to Optimize Your E-Commerce WebsiteSearch Engine Marketing
"E-commerce sites can be particularly challenging for search-engine optimization (SEO) because they tend to lack unique, relevant content," writes Adam J. Thompson in an article at MarketingProfs. "Most e-commerce websites ...
- SEO Copywriting: Five Secrets to Online SuccessSearch Engine Marketing
According to Brian Clark, founder of Copyblogger, using the right words in the right way in your website copy will consistently help convert visitors to buyers while also determining "how ...
- 'Fresh Content' Might Not Mean What You ThinkSearch Engine Marketing
According to Lee Odden, the SEO concept of "fresh content" has been distorted by a convoluted game of telephone—one person giving information to the next, each with his or her ...