This Week in “Commonly Asked Search Marketing Questions”
by Preston Van Dyke, July 22, 2011
Hey SEO.com followers. This week we are launching the “Commonly Asked Search Marketing Questions” web series, featuring answers to some questions about basic SEO fundamentals. There are certain concepts of search engine optimization that will likely always remain a ranking factor. Whether you are a new or seasoned SEO professional, it may … Read more
An Over-Optimizing Nightmare: Staying Off Google’s Naughty List
by Kevin W. Phelps, December 22, 2010
Disclaimer: The below post illustrates a personal experience. The views and opinions expressed in this post do not necessarily reflect those of SEO.com or the work performed with their clients. For the most part, link building is pretty straight forward and simple. You can publish your articles, request some directory listings, bookmark … Read more
Simplify. Track Goals. Sell More Stuff.
by Nathan Blair, September 14, 2010
Eliminate everything on your website that doesn’t contribute to the primary objective. Every website has one major objective. It could be a purchase, download, contact form submission, or any number of actions. It also has several other less important but necessary objectives; actions that only indirectly result in a sale. A successful website is … Read more
Building Tracking URLs for Google Analytics
by Scott Smoot, August 26, 2010
This tactic is not really new. In fact, it’s quite old by Internet and SEO standards (being a couple years now). Nevertheless, I see the problem of bad data flowing into Google analytics with enough regularity that I think this deserves some review. Don’t Blindly Trust your Data Too often, webmasters and … Read more
18 Simple SEO Items Commonly Missed in Web Development
by Dan Patterson, July 21, 2010
One of the things we constantly have to do as SEO experts is give recommendations to companies on how they need to change their site so that they can be better optimized. The sad thing is that a lot of the things we recommend should have been done during the Web development … Read more
Discrepancies In Webmaster Tools Clickthrough Data
by Greg Shuey, April 16, 2010
This is a follow up post from my post yesterday about click-through data in Webmaster Tools. After comparing some analytic data and reading numerous tweets and blog posts about the matter, it is obvious that there are discrepancies in the click-through data that is being shown in the Webmaster Tools interface in … Read more
Web Counters are so 90's
by Scott Smoot, February 20, 2009
If you have a website, it’s pretty much a given that you have analytics software for your site. Over just a few years, the software and capability of measuring the varied statistics of your site have gone from rudimentary, to more than most people even understand. I can still remember the days … Read more
7 Ways to Use Keyword Analytics to Your Advantage
by Dave Bascom, February 21, 2008
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 … Read more
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