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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 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 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 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 January 31, 2008 Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketers' Wish Lists, Part 2 Predictions of the future of Internet marketing from several search marketers and social media marketers.  |
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 November 8, 2010 Josh McCoy |
Diversifying Your SEO Imagine your site as you would your investment portfolio. Spreading your assets evenly is extremely important to long-term growth.  |
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 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 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 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 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 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.  |
Pharmaceutical Executive March 1, 2007 Alex Porter |
Alternative Media: Search-Engine Marketing: Click, Click ... Are You There? Pharma marketers turn to pay-per-click advertising to boost their product's reach.  |
Search Engine Watch February 1, 2010 Ron Jones |
Universal Search 101 Optimizing for universal search offers new opportunities to develop richer content, explore new marketing channels, and sets you up for future success.  |
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 May 8, 2009 Chris Boggs |
Customer Segmentation and SEO -- A Beautiful Couple Search engine optimization on its own can be a very useful tactic to bring leads to your site. But developing a deeper understanding of your primary markets and using customer segmentation in your content become important SEO considerations that can lead to a higher probability of conversion.  |
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.  |
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 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 September 26, 2008 William Flaiz |
The Universal Mastery of Video Content Video listings cause us to reexamine the way we've traditionally viewed search engines, and this is simply part of the natural progression. After all, it wasn't too long ago when universal search rocked the world of SEO or social media changed how we use the Web.  |
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 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 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 March 27, 2011 Dave Davies |
Improve Your Organic Rankings With Google Places, Part 2 A step-by-step guide to help you better understand how to enter/edit the information for your Places page and send good SEO signals to Google to improve your rankings.  |
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 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.  |
Search Engine Watch February 2, 2009 William Flaiz |
Is Your Landing Page Relevant? Web sites must create landing pages that rank for important keywords while engaging the reader.  |
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 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 July 5, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Keeping an Eye on Google A new report offers fascinating, in-depth insights on how users interact with Google search results, based on studies using eye-tracking technology.  |
Pharmaceutical Executive November 1, 2005 Peter H. Nalen |
Alternative Media: Targeting Audiences on the Web The most important web page to communicate with doctors and patients is the page of results that your potential customers see when they use search engines, such as Google, Yahoo!, or MSN.  |
Search Engine Watch August 9, 2010 Ray Comstock |
The Challenges of Measuring SEO Success, Part 2 How personalization, localization, and update frequency have changed search engine optimization; what the new key metrics are in Google Webmaster Tools; and why user experience will continue to grow in importance.  |
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 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 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 October 23, 2009 Chris Boggs |
It's Not Too Late for 2009 Holiday-Focused SEO Search engine optimization tips for marketers looking to push the needle further during the upcoming online holiday season.  |
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Ron Jones Symetri Internet Marketing provides strategic SEM consulting and training.  |
Searcher November 2011 Rushton & Funke |
The Goodness in the Evil of SEO - Why Search Engine Optimization Matters to Information Professionals Some information professionals view SEO with some reservation or even actual contempt due to the rampant SEO techniques that reduce the quality of search results by driving traffic to sites that take advantage of trending searches rather than useful information.  |
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.  |
CRM July 1, 2007 Colin Beasty |
Business Problem: A Company's Marketing Department Cannot Effectively Track and Manage Campaigns Across Multiple Search Engines. Tech Solution: Search engine marketing tools.  |
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 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 January 30, 2008 Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketers' Wish Lists Predictions of the future of Internet marketing from several search marketers and social media marketers.  |
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 January 20, 2009 Mark Jackson |
The Better You Rank...the Better You Rank! The more popular your Web site is, the better the likelihood that your Web site will rank. You need to maintain momentum in your SEO and general marketing efforts to keep a steady flow of traffic coming to your Web site.  |
InternetNews November 4, 2005 Brian Livingston |
'Googlewashing' Makes Your Site Invisible A growing number of content-based businesses face a serious new threat to their publishing rights and search rankings.  |
Search Engine Watch April 27, 2009 Ron Jones |
SEO Tools 101, Part 2 SEO tools won't solve your problems if you have poor content. But they will help identify problem areas you should address.  |
Search Engine Watch January 31, 2007 Kevin Newcomb |
Search Presents Challenges for Retailers In addition to paid search, retailers should pay attention to search engine optimization and shopping search engines, according to a new study from TrafficLeader.  |
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.  |