6 Big Benefits of Partnering SEO and PR
There are some new rules to SEO and PR. In his effective work “The New Rules of Marketing & PR”, David Meerman Scott highlighted how marketing and PR have evolved to be more effective when used together...
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There are some new rules to SEO and PR. In his effective work “The New Rules of Marketing & PR”, David Meerman Scott highlighted how marketing and PR have evolved to be more effective when used together...
So here is the deal: Traditional websites frequently rank in mobile search results – especially if you are searching from a SmartPhone. What you may not realize is that the converse is also true – mobile pages can rank well in traditional search. This is quite an interesting phenomenon, and something that we need to address strategically. ...
Today, companies are starting to see the benefits that search marketing can have for their businesses, and are starting to push more of their efforts towards marketing on the internet. The question is, should they handle their search marketing efforts in-house, or outsource it? There are obviously pros and cons of both, but w...
We all love backlinks. We all love visualisation. Boom! Let's mash those two things together. In this post I've collected a bunch of different techniques for visualising your link data. Some of these are useful for analysis, some are useful for management and some are useful for keeping Dr Pete entertained...... :-)
In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand Fishkin explains how to turn boring product pages into conversion-worthy product selling machines. These tips are topical (with the holiday season coming up), useful and in most cases, reletively easy to implement. ...
What is SEO? We all know SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, but why does SEO exist? Why do so many people spend 40 hours or more a week devoting themselves to SEO? Why do companies list SEO as a marketing strategy, and hire in-house SEOs or agencies to optimize them for search? The reason is simple- search drives traffic online. No website...
Google's recent brand update means that a large brand can completely dominate the top 10 with a single website. Is that what searchers really want?
This post is in conjunction with the recent post made by Rand: A Powerful Analytics Tip Every Website Should Employ. Now going one step further, would you be interested in segmenting your traffic data like th...
Last week I covered SES San Francisco for SEOmoz. Every time I attend a conference, I try to attend sessions that will have information I can bring back to the community. Sometimes I look for sessions that aim to answer questions we see a lot in Q & A or that I notice popping up in comments on the blog. Either way, my focus is usually to find information that will be helpful to the communit...
Today, Yahoo! formally announced that it's fully transitioning its search engine backend to Microsoft's Bing. While this is good news on many fronts for marketers (simplification of advertising platforms, a bigger competitor for Google, etc), it's a big loss to webmasters wh...
When I am thinking about mobile SEO, I pay specific attention to the order of the results and the inclusion of Universal Results. In their nature, Universal results are infinitely more clickable, as we know from traditional SEO, but in the mobile world, Universal Results are the fun results – because they are often have more potential for interaction with the phone than they would on a traditional computer.
Tickets are on sale for the London PRO seminar on 25th and 26th October. With two days of unbeatable advanced SEO advice, a classy party and personal access to top speakers, you should get your tickets before they sell out. Read on to learn about how we are shooting for an even higher standard than last year...
Last week SEOmoz released its fantastic new SEO web app to a rocky, yet entertaining start. And while most of us typically think of SEOmoz as, well, a SEO company, a few anecdotes from their most recent launch show how the Mozzers are pretty good at online PR, branding and reputation management as well. Today's post s...
In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Danny Dover tries to answer some of the hard questions in SEO. "If you are such a good SEO, why don't you rank number one for the keyword, SEO?" "How can you provide advice on SEO if you don't work for a search engine?" The answers to these two and some more doozies are below. ...