You should be paying very close attention to which keywords are driving traffic to your site. If someone at your company isn’t digging into your keyword referral reports in your analytics tool, you are leaving money on the table. Here’s a list of seven ways to effectively leverage your keyword analytics (for both organic and [...]
Google Predicts Obama for President
February 16, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Barack Obama will be the next president of the United States, according to Google Trends. Based on our previous analysis of Google Trends leading up to Super Tuesday, we predicted Obama and McCain would come out on top after Super Tuesday. As it ended up, Google Trends was only about 70% correct in a state-by-state [...]
Google Predicts Super Tuesday Results
February 5, 2008 by Leave a Comment
According to Google’s results, Obama and McCain will be the front-runners for their parties after today. The amount of Google searches for a candidate’s last name has directly correlated with the winner of that state in every primary and caucus to date. From the Iowa Caucus on January 3rd to Maine’s Caucus on February 1st, [...]
A Blizzard and a Bet: Worth $5?
January 29, 2008 by Leave a Comment
The blizzard that happened on the 28 of this month was a great opportunity, to us. This video was created with no special effects, cgi, or professional stuntmen/actors. The crazy man with his shirt off is Adam, Nelson is filming it, and Scott is driving. The location is right out front of our office in [...]
Handling 301 Redirects with PHP
January 14, 2008 by 2 Comments
What To Do With Your 404 Errors Part 2 of the SEO for PHP Series Blast! I’m late for my Nunchucks class and I can’t find my keys! I was pretty sure I left them right here by my laptop. Ah ha, there they are—glad I finally found them. Good thing I did, ’cause I [...]
Raising the Google Generation
January 11, 2008 by Leave a Comment
A recent conversation with my 4th grade daughter: “Dad, do you have Google Earth on your laptop?” “Sure, sweetie, why?…how do you know about Google Earth?” “We use it at school and I want to check some stuff out. Can I use it for a minute?” “O.k. Do you want me to help you with [...]
2007 Holiday Shopping Season over $29 Billion
January 11, 2008 by Leave a Comment
Comscore just announced that holiday spending topped $29, up 19 percent over 2006 numbers. The biggest single day of spending according to Comscore was Dec. 10 (Green Monday) – with $881 million in sales. Video games went berserk with 129% growth in sales over the previous year. Furniture grew 67% over 2006 and most other [...]
SEO.com Opens New SEO Forum
January 9, 2008 by Leave a Comment
SEO.com is pleased to announce a new SEO forum now available to the public. The forum is still very bare with very few posts but we anticipate that it will start filling up quickly. Visitors may join up and post questions they have concerning any topics relating to search engine optimization and search engine marketing. [...]
SEO New Year's Resolutions
January 3, 2008 by Leave a Comment
The new year is an exciting time–new plans, goals, dreams. Here are some new year’s resolutions related to search engine optimization and search marketing that you might want to incorporate to generate more business from search this year. This year I resolve to: Set specific search marketing goals and lay out a plan to achieve [...]
