4 commonsense ways to sell more stuff on your website When people come to your site, they are looking for one thing, and one thing only. For us, our visitors are looking for one product: Top Search Engine Rankings. That’s really it. Sure, they might want top rankings to get more traffic, sales, or to [...]
'I Want My $2!' — The Power of SEO with Conversion
June 23, 2010 by Leave a Comment
In his recent post “A Turning Point in the Field of SEO”, Adam Audette talked about creating the best user experience, and applying SEO to that experience. In my mind, part of giving the user the best experience is to help them to find what they are looking for. Many sites show up great in [...]
Google Caffeine Is Live… Now What?
June 15, 2010 by Leave a Comment
As noted last week, Google’s new system for indexing and delivering fresh content online, Caffeine, went live on June 8th. Before Caffeine, Google used to update their index every few weeks, now it is pretty close to real time, as shown in my last post about Caffeine. For websites who continually update their content on [...]
Is It Time To Give Google Buzz Another Look?
June 14, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Here at SEO.com headquarters, we live in a world of Twitter users. It is not uncommon to see at least 90% of the employees with Tweetdeck up on their second monitors following what is happening in the twittersphere. Recently, Robert Scoble posed the question, “Should we give Google Buzz another look?” Last week at SMX [...]
Google Caffeine Is Live!
June 8, 2010 by Leave a Comment
According to Matt Cutts during the You&A session at SMX Advanced, Google Caffeine is live! In the official announcement, Google reps have said that they created this new index because “content on the Web is blossoming. It’s growing not just in size and numbers but with the advent of video, images, news and real-time updates; [...]
Battling the Ranking Confusion of Personalized Search
April 20, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Checking your rankings every day is a love-hate relationship. You love it because after months of hard work you wake up one morning and finally see yourself in a top position. You hate it, however, because Google’s personalized search results may mean the rest of the world might not see you in that top position. [...]
Discrepancies In Webmaster Tools Clickthrough Data
April 16, 2010 by Leave a Comment
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 comparison to Google [...]
