Email marketing can provide a relatively steady drip to your sales funnel, but it hinges on your ability to understand and adapt to campaign metrics. Statistics such as open rate, click rate, unsubscribe rate and more can provide deep, useful insight into what customers on your email marketing list are actually looking for. By digging into …
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Long Tail Keyword: An SEO Gem
Changing your SEO keyword strategy can help you generate more qualified leads, create more conversions and ultimately increase your website’s profitability. Although short, concise search terms are more popular and could potentially generate more traffic to your website, choosing a key phrase that contains three to five keywords can result in a smaller, more specific …
Website SEO and PPC
A Combined Strategy for an Extra Lift Managing website SEO so you appear on the first page of a Search Engine Results Pages (SERP) seems to be every online marketer’s goal. Organic SEO is a long-term strategy. It can take years… especially if the competition has been at it for awhile. Studies have shown there’s …
SERP Results in Post-Authorship World
The Affects of Google Authorship & Hummingbird If Search Engine Results Page (SERP) results are on your SEO radar, you’ve probably noticed some changes. If not, we’ll explain how Google Authorship and algorithmic updates like Hummingbird are affecting the SERP page layout. If this sounds like geekery to you, it actually isn’t. If your business …
SEO Penalty for Going Overboard
For us White Hat SEO Practioners, Matt Cutts‘ announcement about Google’s plan to launch a new over-optimization penalty was music to our ears. For our clients who do everything by the book, this is great news as they’ll have a better chance for ranking higher in Search Engine Results Pages (SERP), drive organic search traffic to their …
Rich Snippets Reduction Change
Google’s Trick or Treat? Last week at PubCon Matt Cutts announced a 15% reduction in rich snippets. For SEOs this was big (and for some disappointing) news. In this post I’ll explain (in as geek-free language as possible) what this means to businesses who are vying for higher visibility on a Search Engine Results Page …
New Webmaster Tools Warning
Reminder About Manipulative Techniques On the official Webmaster Tools blog Grey Hat SEO practitioners got yet another warning to stop manipulative and deceptive behavior. Before you read any further be warned that this post is a bit of a rant. If you dare read on I promise to provide useful information about the recent Webmaster …
Do More Indexed Pages Affect Ranking?
When Bigger Doesn’t Mean Better Rankings When does having more indexed pages translate into better SEO rankings? The answer to this question isn’t a simple Yes or No. Sorry to say the answer is… it depends on keyword cannibalization and your optimization strategy based upon keyword research. I’ll explain how this relates to Google indexing …
Manual Spam Action News
New Video. Old Message. Evergreen Advice. As an online marketer I routinely review SEO trends. Google’s Matt Cutts released a video in August but it was recently picked up by the Search Engine Journal on October 16. This is a case where I can honestly say “we told you so.” In this post I’ll explain …
Free Keyword Tools & Advice
Seeking SEO Stats Using a keyword tools for online marketing is a no-brainer. Understanding what search phrases your audience uses, and how competitive they are, is an essential element to White Hat SEO. So what are the best keyword tools available? In this post we’ll share a handful of resources. Keyword Tools Provide An Approximation One …