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The search landscape is changing significantly this morning, and SEOs of all stripes need to pay close attention. I'm going to do my best to summarize the impact of these changes based on what we already know and interpret what's going to change for the field of search engine optimization and what we, as representatives of our clients and our companies, need to know and do. Background ...
There are lots of standardized definitions of SEO (see define query), but few that exist to define or distill the qualities that make a person a professional SEO. The way I see it, there are three ways a professional can be categorized and assigned - technical, self-constructed and peer validated. T...
I recently read Nudge, a book that got quite a bit of press coverage here in the UK after inspiring some political decisions on both sides of the floor. Its core premise is that human decisions are not taken on pure economic terms but rather are susceptible to 'Nudges' or changes in what they call 'choice architecture'. I wanted to present a few ways the core subjects of the book can be applied to SEO and business.
You may have noticed recently that there's a trend of folks who leave search engines crafting their own startups. It made me wonder - how are these individuals doing with the SEO on their own sites? Have they engaged a secret formula that the rest of us don't know to achieve incredible results? Or are they languishing in poor accessibility and SEO tactics gone awry? Since many of these ...
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I was speaking with a potential client the other day who is currently using another companies service for their web development and SEO. Over the course of the last 6 months of this year they have seen a steady decline in traffic and...
Thanks to a suggestion from @links4legends we're strapping on our jetpacks for a bit of SEO prognostication this week. Rand offers up his take on what the future will bring for search marketers. Will classic, content-based SEO still rule the SERPs? Will the social graph drastically alter how results are personalized? What about qu...
1. StatisticsAll these statistics! Traffic, time on the site, bounce rate, oh my! Whatever happened to keeping it to just plain old "hits"? Plus, who possibly has the time to go through all of these measurements?...
When was the last time you had a heated discussion with your developer? Or better yet, when was the last time they rolled their eyes at you when you asked them to make some sort of change to the website? My guess is that it probably hasn't been all that long. Or has it? A higher probability is actually that you work with some wicked smart developers who blow your mind away with their sheer awesomeness!
Brand Names... an interesting subject and one open for plenty of debate that has already had a couple of blog entries on here. I thought it was about time to pass on some of my knowledge when it comes to branding and SERPs for your brandPersonally I have branded a few sites (not going to name lots of names here as that would just be shameless promotion), but I have a coup...
We bloggers talk a lot about finding our voice, that mystical quality that is uniquely us and yet somehow resonates with a wider audience. What happens, though, when your blog gets written by a group of authors? How does a company or community blog find its voice and not just devolve into a schizophrenic mess?
The golden rule when it comes to social media marketing, as espoused by hundreds of 'social media gurus' (you can tell when someone's a guru because it says so on their Twitter profile), is to "get to know your community". Inspired by The Tipping Point, they'll tell you that there's great gain to be had by "influencing the influencers". And they're ri...
The inspiration for this post came when I was chatting with a recently graduated friend of mine who'd been looking for work online. Much like myself when I graduated with that all-purpose English Lit degree, she was looking for copywriting jobs online. Before I started at Distilled I did a bit of freelance writing so I knew exactly where she was coming from. Out of curiosity, I decided to have a poke around craigslist and gumtree- a couple of regular haunts of mine about 18 months ago. The very first thing I noticed was that the vast majority all of the writing jobs mentioned SEO, if not in their title then somewhere in their description. I don't remember it being like that all.
Personally I hate SPAM with a passion and I’m sure many of you will agree that you hate it also. Some time ago, I had a client ask me if there was a way for us to eliminate the SPAM that was generated from his web form. I went to the usual places to see if I could find the answer and was a little let down with the solution, that was presented, CAPTCHA. I’m ...
We all know the conversion benefits of tuning your PPC ad titles to match the exact words the customer typed in their search, breaking out what would be convenient "groupings" of ads with the same landing page into separate ads with separate, search-matching titles.For example, we have a honeymoon registry--but brides might...