Keyword stuffing might help for short-term visibility on SERPs. More often, these website pages are quickly targeted by Google and other search engines. After a few months, it’s typical that those keyword-stuffed pages have lost momentum and are ranked poorly (if at all).
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Google Analytics: Are You Flying Blind? Part 2
In our Google Analytics Part 1 of this two-post series we equated not reviewing and understanding your Web Analytics program to a business running without financial reports like a P&L or balance sheet. If you don’t understand your website’s performance or it’s not configured properly, you are flying blind. Here are the 3 remaining changes …
Google Analytics: Are You Flying Blind? Part 1
Imagine running your business without financial reports. No P&L. No balance sheet. No cash-flow analysis. Crazy, right? Well, if you don’t have a Web Analytics program, like Google Analytics, and it isn’t configured properly, it’s like flying blind. Theoretically your website is a salesperson who is available 24/7, 365 a year that takes no vacations and is …
12 Best Practices for Email Marketing (Part 3)
Here’s Part 3 of our Email Marketing Best Practices series, the following are tips 9 through 12 that will help deliver results in your email marketing efforts. Miss the first two installments? Check out Part 1 or Part 2 for tips 1-8. 9. Before You Hit Send Ask a buddy or trusted business associate to …
Online Sales: 8 Follow-Up Best Practices (Part I)
Your online and offline marketing is working as evidenced by the phone ringing, contact forms completed, and referrals received. A critical next step in the online sales loop is follow-up. Time and money has already been spent on lead generation, so now it’s a matter of connecting with your prospect. We’ve found 8 best practices …
Spectrum Snippet: Search Engine Marketing Juice Lost with Google Panda 2.5
If you thought you beat Google’s Panda for search engine marketing (SEM) juice, you’re in for a surprise. Among the latest victims of this week’s Panda 2.5 release are some surprising names like The Today Show, Consumer Affairs, Technorati, PR Newswire, and Business Wire. It could be they’ve lost SEO visibility because they weren’t sending …
Spectrum Snippet: Contrarian Perspectives on Link Building
Contrarian Perspectives on Link Building Hopefully you’re aren’t one of those CEOs who started a company with the following business plan: put up a website, buy a bunch of links for SEO Link Building, smack together some content and push out a couple of press releases… and poof a successful internet business is born. Those …
Online Management Tools: CEO Guide To Managing Business
You’re busy running your company, juggling several strategic hats to manage the business—offline and online—to compete in the this fickle and ever-changing world. There are several online management tools you’ll want to have handy especially if you’ve embraced technology to grow your business. Are you armed with a smart phone, laptop, and other gizmos so you can …
Blog Marketing: 10 Sources for Inspiration
All too often when we work with clients on a blog marketing strategy, we get these questions: What should we write about? Where do you go for inspiration? As any writer knows, getting stuck comes with the territory. Here are a few of my favorite sources for inspiration when looking for blog marketing ideas or snippets …
In SEM What’s Wrong With A Good ROAS
What’s Wrong With A Good ROAS In SEM (Search Engine Marketing) ROI (Return on Investment) or ROAS (Return on Ad Spend)…which one will give your business the most accurate PPC profit metric? Search engines have no way of incorporating your actual Pay-Per-Click costs, therefore the numbers returned by their systems are incomplete at best.