SEO and User Experience Work Together
The overarching goal of SEO and SEM is to drive traffic to a company’s website. This can be done is various ways, but they all amount to creating numerous inbound pathways to various pages of the website. Correctly determining and implementing appropriate keywords throughout webpage content is one of the most important things a website owner can do to help promote their site. However, when website owners start to focus on creating a website that is optimized only for the search engine crawlers, neglecting the user-experience, it doesn’t matter how much traffic is pushed to the site, visitors will leave as soon as they arrive. The two components have to work hand-in-hand and receive equal attention for complete SEO success. Google Analytics can help a website determine what keywords are pulling visitors in and to what page of the site. Keyword research will show a website owner what users are searching for. The goal should be to edit the pages that aren’t drawing traffic and enhance the ones that are by incorporating new keywords with the old ones that work. What website owners need to be conscious of is keyword stuffing. Content should be optimized for search engine spiders CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Social Media Timing Factors
Social media has forever changed the way businesses interact with their consumers. Social networks allow customers to express their opinions about a product or service in real time and broadcast it to their online network. Tweets and posts are shared around the world in a matter of seconds, putting your company’s name in front of an even bigger audience. Customers demand one-on-one interaction with brands, large and small, through social networks. A well organized social media marketing campaign can create huge opportunities for companies to connect with their target audience on a personal level and keep them engaged with the brand, turning them into loyalists and ambassadors. But before any of that can happen, you have to connect…and connections require timing! In order to make CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Look at Your Analytics for Trends and Insights
One of the most important things a site owner can do is keep a watch on their site’s analytics. I don’t recommend that you scour the data daily and panic over hourly dips in traffic, but it is important to know what is going on with your site. SEO is not a set-it-and-forget it kind of thing, so routine changes, tests and general tweaking becomes a critical component of ongoing success. But you will never know what is or isn’t working for your site unless you look at your analytics and identify important trends. Focusing on one specific piece of data (page views, for instance) means you are missing out on the bigger picture; you lose the forest for the trees. Here are 3 things to CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Blog Posts to Read for July 21, 2011
Below you will find our favorite blog posts that are related to SEO, search engine marketing and social media marketing from this past week. Please feel free to visit each, we hope you find them as helpful as we do! Want to Build Your Email List? Follow These Steps. This post includes ways to build your email list with the help of your current customers. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE 23 Ways to Leverage a Blog Post for Content Marketing Success This post shows 23 ways to use a blog post to get the highest return on investment from each piece of content. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE What Your Business Needs To Know About Google+ This post offers thoughts, recommendations and resources that help to demonstrate CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Is Your Site Optimized for Transactional Search?
If you were to look at the average search engine user, their search history would boil down to three basics types of search—informational, transactional and navigational. An informational search is when they are looking for information, perhaps the answer to a question. Transactional searches are when a user is looking to take action, they’ll use words like “buy” or “download” in their search query. Navigational searches are when a user searches by brand or product name. All three of these search types are important and your site has to be optimized for each one of them. Informational search is usually the easiest to optimize your site for. It’s just a matter of selecting and incorporating the right keywords on your site’s pages. Navigational search occurs CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Categorizing Your Inbound Links
While it’s not fun or glamorous, it is important that site owners conduct a full link audit once a year. Depending on how long you have been engaging in link building, you might have thousands of links to sort through, but it has to be done. Digging through you link portfolio is important for several reasons. First off, it helps you identify any holes in your link building strategy. Do you have hundreds of links from blog commenting but only three local search profiles? Secondly, organizing your link portfolio will alert you to any “bad links” that are pointing to your site. A few is common, but if you are seeing hundreds of links coming from cloaked text, pornography sites, link exchanges and so forth, CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Product Review of Link Research Tools Link Building Toolkit
Links are the bread and butter of SEO. A major contributing factor to the search engines’ algorithms, links help build a site’s trust factor, drive targeted traffic and increase brand presence online. Developing and implementing a diverse link building campaign is one of the most important factors contributing to overall SEO success, but it is not an easy task. One of the most complex tasks associated with link building is identifying and organizing the inbound links your site has, as well as discovering new places to get a quality link. The Link Research Tools (LRT) Research Center has 10 different link data tools for users, making it one of the most comprehensive link building toolkits available. Their tools uncover more data about your CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
SEO Video Tip – Content Recycling Requires Synergy
Content recycling involves taking a great piece of content and re-purposing it across a variety of platforms to generate more SEO value. Unlike article spinning, content recycling means creating unique pieces of content that fits each medium. Here are 4 best practice tips to make sure you get the most out of your efforts: Watch this week's SEO video lesson here! For more SEO video tips and lessons from Nick Stamoulis, check out the Brick Marketing SEO video lesson archive . CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
What’s New in SEO for July 19, 2011
We have compiled the latest news and updates from the big three, Google, Bing and Yahoo as it relates to SEO and the search engines overall. WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK WITH GOOGLE: Search for recent images Google Images can now be filtered in the left-hand set of tools to narrow your search to just images from the previous week by clicking on “Past week”. WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK WITH YAHOO: Yahoo! Search Trends: Harry Potter Online searches for “the wizarding world of harry potter” are spiking 4,506% this month on Yahoo!. Searches are up 256% on Yahoo! by those seeking “lists of harry potter movies in order”. WHAT'S NEW THIS WEEK WITH BING: How’s the Weather? Introducing New Bing Weather Results Bing recently refreshed the CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Why 301 Redirects Are Important
I had been doing the link building for one of my clients for a little over two years. Not to pat myself on the back, but there were a lot of good, quality links pointing to this site. At the beginning of the link building campaign I laid out a strategy (as I do for all my clients) to help me stay focused and keep my link building efforts diversified. The site was doing incredibly well, ranking on the first page of Google for all its keywords and getting thousands of unique visitors a month. Their conversion rate was up; so was their profit margin. All in all, things were looking pretty good for my client. Then they dropped a bomb on me. Without consulting (or CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
When It’s Time to Revisit Your Keyword Research
The Internet is not a static thing. With billions of pages already published and more being created every day, there is more available content that could possibly be consumed in a lifetime (or even several lifetimes). User behavior changes over time as well; mobile search has exploded, social networking has forever altered the way people connect online, and search is getting more and more personalized. A big part of SEO is being able to adapt to these changes and adjust your SEO strategy accordingly. That is why you should take the time to reevaluate your keywords. When was the last time your optimized your site? Unless you only recently began your SEO strategy, it was probably a while ago. That means you haven’t conducted any CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Relationships Have More Value than Links
Link building is one of the essential components of a strong SEO campaign. The more quality, one-way links you have pointing to your site, the better trust factor your site has. Links also help drive targeted traffic through to your site, which in turn can increase your conversion rate. But I’ve seen a lot of site owners get so focused on getting links that they sacrifice their online reputation in order to get them. Link exchanges, paid links, links to splogs (spam blogs) and “bad” sites (pornography, gambling, alcohol) all detract from you online reputation and trust factor. Besides, the link is not the most important thing in itself. Building a relationship has more long-term value than just getting the links Let’s say you want CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Blog Posts to Read for July 14, 2011
Below you will find our favorite blog posts that are related to SEO, search engine marketing and social media marketing from this past week. Please feel free to visit each, we hope you find them as helpful as we do! Changing your Twitter profile = creating a new identity How you are seen online IS your identity. The image and words that we use in social media profiles will be used by others to form views about us. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE The Correct Way To Comment Before It Goes To My Spam Box Because it’s easy to comment on blogs, people abuse it. That’s why there are lots of spam comments that contribute nothing. CLICK HERE TO CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
User Generated Content Marketing Strategy Tips
A great content marketing strategy needs to attack from all angles. The more pieces of content you can create and push across various platforms the more successful you’ll be. Don’t just limit your content marketing strategy to a blog posts and static articles. Get creative! Incorporate videos, infographics, podcasts, webinars, slideshows and more to make your content that much more engaging. But there is one more piece of content you should also think about incorporating: user generated content (UGC). You’re practically swimming in user generated content and you probably don’t even realize it. Every blog comment, product review, customer e-mail and social networking “shout out” is a piece of UGC that you can leverage for your SEO. Other forms of UGC include: forums and discussion boards, CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Keep Your Social Media Strategy Simple
Social media marketing has moved out of the “Let’s try it and see what happens” phase and has matured into a powerful marketing tool. With millions upon millions of users across wide vast spectrum of social networking sites (not just the Big 3 of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn), companies turn to social media to help them connect with their consumers on a new level, build their online brand presence, create a company voice and more. While most companies (big and small) realize that they have to be involved with social media in some way, many are still fine tuning the details. One of the biggest problems that I have seen with social media marketing is that companies try to take on too much at a CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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