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Why Does SEO Take So Long?

Why Does SEO Take So Long?

Search marketing’s two halves are so similar and yet so different. A new pay-per-click advertising campaign can be set up and p... 4 Comments | Read More »

SEO Site Migration Checklist

SEO Site Migration Checklist

Migrating a site to a new platform or domain, or implementing a major redesign, is one of the most stressful situations in sear... 1 Comment | Read More »

23 Tools to Research Your Competition

23 Tools to Research Your Competition

Sometimes the best way to improve your own business is by taking a hard look at your competitors. By understanding their most a... 1 Comment | Read More »

Bing Goes Social with New Redesign

Bing Goes Social with New Redesign

Microsoft's Bing search engine will get a major redesign in the next month, extending the tool's integration with Facebook and ... 0 Comments | Read More »

SEO: How to Amplify Keyword Signals

SEO: How to Amplify Keyword Signals

Search engine optimization is all about "signal" and "amplification." The signal is simply using relevant keywords. Amplificati... 2 Comments | Read More »

SEO Professionals Can Harm an Ecommerce Business

SEO Professionals Can Harm an Ecommerce Business

Like Bon Jovi’s song, “You Give Love a Bad Name,” some search engine optimization companies give that profession a bad reputati... 7 Comments | Read More »

Google’s Over-Optimization Penalty an Evolution, Not Revolution

Google’s Over-Optimization Penalty an Evolution, Not Revolution

Google’s much discussed over-optimization penalty turned out to be a moderate evolutionary step in Google’s site quality crusad... 5 Comments | Read More »

22 Free Keyword Research Tools

22 Free Keyword Research Tools

Choosing the right keyword is the foundation of successful search engine optimization. Fortunately there are a number of free o... 0 Comments | Read More »

SEO: Avoid Link Building Shortcuts

SEO: Avoid Link Building Shortcuts

There are no safe link building shortcuts. Instead I want to warn marketers about deceptive search marketers and the dangers o... 3 Comments | Read More »

SEO: Build Relationships, Not Links

SEO: Build Relationships, Not Links

When the Internet was new, it was difficult to find interesting and relevant websites. Link building was easy in those days. It... 7 Comments | Read More »

SEO and PPC: Synergistic or Cannibalistic?

SEO and PPC: Synergistic or Cannibalistic?

Many ecommerce managers wonder whether the paid search ads they place enhance or cannibalize the organic search results. They w... 5 Comments | Read More »

8 SEO Pointers for Ecommerce Product Pages

8 SEO Pointers for Ecommerce Product Pages

Search engine optimization can be the difference between ecommerce businesses that thrive, and those that don't. Optimizing pr... 5 Comments | Read More »

Google's Secure Search Squeezes SEO Planning and Reporting

Google's Secure Search Squeezes SEO Planning and Reporting

Google's secure SSL search protects users' search results and the keywords they searched on. Unfortunately, it also poses a gro... 6 Comments | Read More »

Google Plans SEO Over-Optimization Penalty

Google Plans SEO Over-Optimization Penalty

Google’s head spam cop Matt Cutts announced the impending launch of a new over-optimization penalty to “level the playing gr... 10 Comments | Read More »

Top 5 Reasons to Use Google Webmaster Tools

Top 5 Reasons to Use Google Webmaster Tools

There’s a common misconception that registering with Google Webmaster Tools somehow enables Google more access to information a... 0 Comments | Read More »

SEO for Mobile Apps and App Stores

SEO for Mobile Apps and App Stores

The world of mobile applications is foreign territory to most Internet marketers. App development requires different skills tha... 0 Comments | Read More »

SEO Benefits of Responsive Web Design

SEO Benefits of Responsive Web Design

Site owners have many competing needs when developing mobile sites. Different devices, different capabilities, different screen... 7 Comments | Read More »

BloomReach to Change SEO Technology?

BloomReach to Change SEO Technology?

Search engine optimization, boiled down, is the process of making sure a web page ends up highly ranked on search results, for ... 2 Comments | Read More »

SEO: Optimizing Ratings, Reviews and Comments

SEO: Optimizing Ratings, Reviews and Comments

Content that consumers leave on an ecommerce site can improve the site’s search engine optimization, if the platforms and under... 2 Comments | Read More »

SEO Impact of Google’s Search Plus Your World

SEO Impact of Google’s Search Plus Your World

As search and social become ever more entwined in Google’s and Bing’s algorithms and search results, search engine optimizers c... 0 Comments | Read More »

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