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Search Engine Watch December 8, 2008 William Flaiz |
Universal Search Should Be a Plus Variety in the search results gives online marketers multiple opportunities to rank and gain new listing visibility. But how does the user feel? As new listing types begin appearing in results, we often lose sight of whether these listings are really helpful to the user.  |
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 October 14, 2010 Jason Tabeling |
Why You Should Combine Your PPC & SEO Strategies Here's how advertisers can develop a search strategy that effectively coordinates paid and organic listings.  |
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 October 23, 2003 Anne Kennedy |
Balancing Paid and Organic Search Listings Do you really need both 'organic' or 'natural' listings, generated by search engine optimization (SEO), and paid placement, aka pay-per-click advertising (PPC), to be successful on search engines?  |
Search Engine Watch September 12, 2008 Chris Boggs |
SEO Reporting: Going Beyond Rankings Enterprise-level SEO provides consistently outstanding ROI over the life of the project. One of the best ways to substantiate this is through ongoing reporting. But if you're just tracking organic positions and nothing else, you're doing a disservice to your clients.  |
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 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 February 25, 2011 Dave Davies |
Improve Your Organic Rankings With Google Places, Part 1 The basics of a Google Places: how to properly set up a listing and some of the principles behind why this is important.  |
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.  |
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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 February 15, 2011 Alex Cohen |
PPC vs. SEO: Paid Search as Your Organic Competitor The balance between paid and organic results in the SERPs in shifting. Paid listings may increasingly get more clicks at the expense of organic listings.  |
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 March 8, 2005 Chris Sherman |
A New F-Word for Google Search Results A new study has added tangible evidence to the widely held view that top-ranking search results get the most attention from users, and that lower-ranking results are all but invisible to most people.  |
Search Engine Watch June 7, 2010 John Greer |
How to Measure Success in an SEO Campaign Measuring search engine optimization results is more difficult than building a single graph. Use these metrics to gain a much better picture of your natural search health.  |
Search Engine Watch October 13, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Addressing the 'O' in Search Engine Optimization Tips for improving optimization efforts.  |
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 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 October 13, 2009 Carrie Hill |
Saturating Your Message in Search Marketing Tips to ensure your business controls as many spaces as possible on a search results page.  |
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 May 26, 2004 Gord Hotchkiss |
Inside the Searcher's Mind: It's a Jungle in Here! What goes on in the mind of searchers? A research group set out to find the answers -- and came up with some interesting and surprising answers.  |
Search Engine Watch November 17, 2008 Frank Watson |
Creating Simple, Yet Impressive Charts A graph can illustrate the results of your SEO efforts in ways that numbers just can't.  |
Search Engine Watch November 11, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Google AdWords Quality Score -- That's Old-School for SEO By optimizing your Web site for organic search, and building out a bunch of pages for each keyword that you're honestly interested in targeting, you'll likely end up improving your Quality Scores as well.  |
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 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 30, 2009 Joshua Palau |
Search is Search: Paid and Organic Search Synergies You don't have paid search goals and organic search goals; you have search goals. There are opportunities for synergies and savings once you understand how the two can work together.  |
Search Engine Watch July 18, 2008 William Flaiz |
The Holy Grail of SEO The imprecise nature of search engine optimization can put clients on edge. A reliable traffic prediction metric is truly the Holy Grail for search marketers.  |
Search Engine Watch December 22, 2010 Jeff Beard |
12 Days of Business Listings For Holidays and the New Year How is your local business identity performing online? Twelve tips to help consumers find you this holiday season and in the New Year.  |
Search Engine Watch October 10, 2008 William Flaiz |
Search is Not Enough Marketing has grown fairly sophisticated over the decades, and it would be foolish to view search as anything more than a component of a much more comprehensive marketing plan. Gone are the days of thinking that our only job is to drive customers to a Web site.  |
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 December 11, 2009 Chris Boggs |
The Demise of SEO Won't Be Caused by Personalization Search engine optimization is evolving, not dead. Let's forget about rankings and focus on traffic and its quality, and improve the user experience.  |
Search Engine Watch March 17, 2009 Mark Jackson |
Setting Expectations for Search Engine Optimization How many SEOs have suffered because of unrealistic expectations from clients? That situation can be avoided if you spend the time before an agreement is signed to have a frank and sincere discussion with your client about what they can expect from your efforts.  |
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 May 25, 2004 Sullivan & Sherman |
Search Engine User Attitudes With so much interest in search, it's amazing how relatively little research has been done into how people interact with search engines, especially from a search marketing perspective. That's finally changing.  |
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.  |
InternetNews April 30, 2004 Robyn Greenspan |
Searching for Balance Not all search campaigns are created equal, as Internet users reveal which engines provide the most relevant organic and paid results.  |
Search Engine Watch April 25, 2011 Ray "Catfish" Comstock |
3 Use Cases for SEO Tools If you want to improve your SEO campaign, especially if you have a large website, it may be worth your time to investigate what modern SEO tools can do to make you more efficient and help you attain better results.  |
Search Engine Watch March 2, 2009 Joshua Palau |
5 Search Topics You Need to Discuss with Your Client Knowing how to talk about these topics will improve your client communication and help foster more effective and rewarding business relationships. After all, search marketers are communicators first  |
Search Engine Watch July 18, 2008 Chris Boggs |
SEO Is Not a One-Time Fix More and more marketers seem to understand the value and the importance of search engine optimization. But there are still those who feel that everything can be accomplished in 3 months. That theory couldn't be further from the truth.  |
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 June 2, 2010 Kevin Gibbons |
How Is Your SEO Strategy Really Performing? Rankings, traffic, and CTR can be misleading. Here's how to avoid placing too much confidence in the wrong measurements.  |
Search Engine Watch August 29, 2008 William Flaiz |
There's No Secret Recipe to SEO Some marketers are looking for a secret, step-by-step recipe to SEO success. But while a general framework is necessary to be effective, the search engine optimization process must be adaptable. Here are some tips for guiding you down the path to SEO success.  |
Search Engine Watch February 18, 2011 Rob Chant |
Why SEOs Shouldn't Fixate on Keyword Rankings Focusing only on where you rank for a small group of keywords is a bad investment for many reasons. Some tips on how to diversify your efforts.  |
Search Engine Watch January 3, 2011 Josh McCoy |
SEO Factors for 2011 As we begin the New Year, many SEOs have their eyes set on search engine ranking factors. Here are a few areas you should pay attention to - because the engines are already sending subliminal messages.  |
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 October 7, 2008 Mark Jackson |
What You Need to Know Before Committing to SEO Rushing into a search engine optimization initiative without properly planning your SEO strategy is setting yourself up for failure. To enjoy the fruits that SEO can provide your site, you need to be well organized and develop a plan.  |
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 10, 2008 Mark Jackson |
SEO Competitive Analysis Search engine rankings change regularly, are different on various data centers, and won't generate traffic to the Web site, much less generate leads and sales. Instead, marketers should be focused on reports that mean something, like a competitive SEO analysis.  |
Bank Technology News April 1, 2008 Anthony Malakian |
The Pros And Cons Of Search Engines Which has the greatest Internet marketing value for banks: the quantifiable "pay-by-click" model, or the more nebulous 'organic' approach, in which a bank's name naturally rises to the top of search-results?  |
Search Engine Watch March 9, 2004 Jill Whalen |
Measuring Search Engine Success Whether you're optimizing web pages for top rankings or purchasing paid placement links, it's crucial to measure the performance of your efforts. A new generation of powerful search engine analytics software makes the job a snap.  |