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).
The focus [...]
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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 Wednesday of this week (April 29), our own Dave Reske will be participating in a panel discussion led by Chris Brogan on “Innovative Marketing Programs Using New Media” at the Inbound Marketing Summit in San Francisco, California.
In his presentation, Dave plans to talk about how you can leverage new media tools to develop and execute innovating marketing [...]
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You once had first page placement, maybe even the number one spot…but now all of a sudden you don’t. So what happened? Does Google hate you? No, probably not. Here are five reasons why you may have lost your ranking, including a few quick-fix steps to getting back in the game.
1. New Competition- It’s entirely possible a new [...]
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The management aspects of an Internet marketing campaign can often be daunting. With campaigns that often have hundreds, if not thousands, of keywords to oversee, report on and manage, it can become an effort-intensive endeavor. There are, however, several tools available to the individual who knows where to look and how to decipher the information objectively, [...]
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Generating leads today in a slow economy is not an easy task. Business budgets are on hold or have been cut back and marketing departments all over are working amidst an air of uncertainty. As marketers are having to do more with less, there is an increasing demand for PPC programs to deliver more and more leads. [...]
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We all know that search engine algorithms are a black box. No one knows for sure which factors are accounted for and how heavily they are weighted, but through experience and trial and error, we here at Nowspeed have uncovered four factors that can help boost your organic rankings and beat out the competition:
Proper Keyword Selection: [...]
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At this point, we’ve covered all of the static parts of a website required to make it a successful demand generation tool: Exceptional branding reinforced by well-organized information and relevant high-quality content — all expressed in a sharp, compelling design.
However, a successful website isn’t static like a brochure or a catalog. It’s dynamic and interactive [...]
