Dan Patterson
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Use All the Tails in Your Search Marketing Strategy
I’ve been hearing a lot over the last year or so about long tail searches and all that. So today I wanted to talk briefly about why the long tail is important, but also why it should only be part of your overall search marketing strategy.
Understanding the Keyword Cycle
Let’s briefly discuss what head terms and [...]
3 Common URL Problems and How to Fix Them
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As I’ve said in a previous post, SEO can be broken down into a couple of main categories: Content, Architecture, and Links. I think most people understand the importance of building content and getting links, but there are a lot of larger and poorly built sites that struggle with some fundamental problems [...]
Turn Your Site Around with the SEO Hokey Pokey
I think it’s safe to say that everyone is familiar with the Hokey Pokey. You know, that song where you put a body part in, take it out and then shake it all about. Then in the end, you put your whole self in to finish the song.
Surprisingly, this song relates really well to doing [...]
List of Great Firefox Plugins for SEO
I’m a fan of Firefox mainly for the additional functionality you get from using plugins. In fact, it’s always frustrating when I am on someone else’s computer, and I don’t have access to my own set of “tools” that I use on a daily basis. Simply put, if you aren’t using Firefox, you’re missing out [...]
4 Ways Any Business Can Benefit From Social Media
Social media is all the rage right now. You see it in blog posts everywhere. You see Twitter feeds on news shows. In the last month my mother and several uncles joined Facebook! Simply put, social media is all over the place. But is it useful for the average business?
While not all businesses will use [...]
Learn the Basics Before You Try Anything Fancy!
I heard something on the radio a few weeks ago that stuck with me and made me think about the basics of SEO. The line went something like this, “You have to have the fundamentals down before trying any of the fancy stuff. ” So before you go out and try to do things like [...]
Use Trends to Keep Your Business Rocking All Year Long
We all know that almost every business has peak times and low times. The great thing about doing SEO and online marketing is that you can very easily find the peak seasons for searches and traffic in your industry. Once you have that information, you can act on it to keep your business rocking all year [...]
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