Tag: SEO
Google’s Matt Cutts on 3 SEO Tactics To Focus On In 2011
A video of Matt Cutts from Google about what SEO tactics to focus on for 2011
How to Boost Sales with Compelling Buyers’ Guides, Product Descriptions, and Product Reviews
Rob Snell shows the different kinds of text content they create on their online stores, and gives tips on how to leverage your product expertise into online profits. Doing this helps establish your expertise, differentiate your ecom site from all the others, and helps your shoppers decide what to buy.
It also helps your organic search results by making your product pages unique from most other ecommerce sites and by adding much more content for search engines to index and return in search results.
How To Build Business By Focusing On Click-Throughs & Conversions, Not Just Rankings
Many website owners obsess over organic keyword rankings. Our clients often tell us, “We have to improve our rankings for “keyword X!”. However, focusing on rankings as the primarily goal of SEO will not likely deliver the results most site owners want which is to increase business from their websites.
In this example, we will use a client’s Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics to choose the best keywords to focus on first, those bringing searchers to the website who are converting into leads.
SEO: What Works. What Doesn’t
In October Marketing Sherpa released the results of a survey of over 2,000 search marketers asking what are the most effective SEO tactics. Here are the top 5 SEO tactics that are achieving results as well as many tactics that are a waste of time and money.
Video: SEO Link Building. What Is It? How Does It Help Grow Your Business
Learn what linking building is and how it can help increase your business by bringing targeted visitors to your web site who may do business with you and help improve your organic search rankings.
8 SEO Steps During A Website Redesign
Following these simple steps could help improve the immediate impact on search results for a new website, and help avoid the often significant reduction in search traffic after a website is re-launched.
Optimizing for Local Search Even More Important With Google’s New Blended Local Search Results
Google’s new blended local search results may push your traditional organic listings much further down within the search results making it more important than ever to get a local result listed within the “blended” search results on google.com.
J.C. Penny Caught Red Handed by Google Doing Link Spam: Led Astray By their SEO?
You wouldn’t think a major brand like JC Penny would allow itself to be lead astray by an SEO company, but it looks like that’s just what happened as reported by the NY Times. Links were placed on thousands of web sites using deceptive anchor text in an attempt to get JC Penny’s web pages to rank higher. And it worked very well as J.C. Penny had top rankings for hundreds of keywords during the holidays. However they are now penalized by Google. J.C. Penny just fired their SEO company.
How To Improve Organic Search Results With A Simple Site Audit
Having a search engine friendly website, a site with no barriers to the search engines is critical to success within “organic” search engine results. Here are some relatively simple SEO Site Review steps that should help you flush out the most important site wide issues within a small to mid size website.
Google & Bing confirm links shared on Twitter & Facebook have direct impact on search engine rankings
Confirmation. Google has confirmed what we suggested might be forthcoming when we wrote about Google’s expected Caffeine update last year – Social Signals do affect search rankings.