Back sometime in 2007, Google was continually rolling out new features into what is currently known as Google Webmaster Tools. Over the years Google Webmaster Tools ( GWT ) kept providing more insight into what Google knows about your website including search and link stats, found issues, and even site performance metrics.
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If you are a seasoned Google AdWords and Analytics user, you’ve probably seen that the clicks from your paid search programs usually don’t match up to the number of visits in Analytics. Why not?
One problem is that sometimes the clicks from Google’s Content Network are listed in the referral medium, not CPC. Internal ‘test clicks’ [...]
Internal link building can help boost your SEO efforts and can help provide clues to search engines as to which pages of your site are most important and which deserve more attention.
Now that you’ve completed keyword research and optimized webpage elements such as title tags, meta info and urls, how are you ensuring that your search engine optimization strategy is still working for you? Chances are, if you’ve implemented these web changes and haven’t looked back, it probably isn’t.
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Blogs and topic-specific websites are a great resource for peer views and information. The SEO industry is not different than any other as many blogs and websites present information in a nicely packaged format and can provide an “ah-ha” moment for anyone at any time. One such occasion comes to mind… when I stumbled across [...]
How much does Google use the Keywords Meta tag in main search results? ” Basically not at all”, according to Matt Cutts a Google software engineer. Too many people have spammed the Meta Keywords tag, so Google doesn’t use the tag to rank sites in their index at all (though other search engines might).
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A few weeks ago I conducted a webinar entitled, “How to Social Media Optimize Your Website”, where I provided a short list of ideas for enhancing websites by making them more social media friendly:
Let your website visitors share and bookmark your content with “add-this” www.addthis.com or “share this” www.sharethis.com
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If you and your company struggle to find fresh, new content that you can not only frequently post to your website, but also optimize for search engines, it might serve well you to look right below your nose at your eNewsletter strategy for help.
eNewsletters already contain valuable information that you share with your email [...]
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Tomorrow I’m presenting a webinar on how to integrate social media into your search marketing programs. It’s always exciting to find ways to make marketing programs work harder by leveraging two elements together to get more effective results.
Search Marketing is critical to the success of any social media marketing program, since you must get [...]
On October 7-8 Nowspeed will be offering free 15-minute consultations at the Inbound Marketing Summit being held at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA. Our team of directors will be on-site to provide strategic advice and specific recommendations on how you can optimize your website, landing pages, search engine marketing and social media to improve [...]
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