Archive for P.J. Fusco

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• On Kindergarten & SEO
  Search marketers can find inspiration from Robert Fulghum's credo in "All I Really Need to Know." Jul 1, 2009
• Twitter 101: Tweetable SEO
  Twitter should not be ignored if you seek one more way to rank in search results. Jun 17, 2009
• Future Proofing SEO
  If you're in a rush to establish a social presence, you can leap before you lurk. Jun 3, 2009
• Why Not a Widget?
  Widgets are a cost-effective link-building tactic even in a tough economy. Here are the nuts and bolts of using these software applications to build SEO. May 20, 2009
• Measuring Social Media Optimization
  If something is worth doing, it's worth measuring. How you can measure your social media initiatives. May 6, 2009
• Finding Link Targets
  Steps for building a link-building strategy for targeted phrases to raise your Web site's visibility in search engine results. Apr 22, 2009
• SEO Tools: Link Analysis, Part 3
  Free and low-cost tools for assessing the quality of backlinks. Apr 8, 2009
• SEO Tools: Link Analysis, Part 2
  Anchor text link analysis tools that assess the role that targeted phrases play in signaling relevancy to the search engines. Mar 25, 2009
• SEO Tools: Link Analysis, Part 1
  Free link-analysis tools from Google, Yahoo, and SEOmoz reveal some signals that Web pages send to search engines. First in a series. Mar 11, 2009
• SEO Is Not Free
  Three ways organizations neglect search engine optimization. Feb 25, 2009
• Keyword Analysis Exercise: Comparing Google, Yahoo, and MSN
  In an exercise using RANKS.NL, learn which keyword density elements help optimize a Web page for the three major search engines. Third in a series. Feb 11, 2009
• Yahoo and MSN on RANKS.NL
  A look at how a tool can show keyword density's role in positioning in Yahoo's and MSN's search engine result pages. Jan 28, 2009
• SEO Tools for Work and Play
  A look at the role keyword density plays in signaling to Google that a Web page is about a particular topic or item. Jan 14, 2009
• Nine SEO Tips for 2009
  Attain improved search results in the new year by making the most of your natural search acumen today. Dec 31, 2008
• What Next?
  Three prognostications and a few general observations about the state of search in 2009. Dec 17, 2008
• Goal-Oriented Content Optimization: The Final Stretch
  How to manage the signals your Web site's content send to the search engines. Dec 3, 2008
• Goal-Oriented Content Optimization
  Content optimization is a time-honored strategy for attaining and maintaining top performance in the search engines. Here are some goals to set. Nov 19, 2008
• Six Last-Minute SEO Tips for the Holidays
  Making the most of online holiday sales is never a set-it-and-forget-it proposition for online retailers. Nov 5, 2008
• Three SERPs x Top Ten = SEO 101?
  How relevant are Google, Yahoo, and MSN Live Search results? Here's an exercise to see how the three engines compile page-one results. Oct 22, 2008
• Search Tools for Your SEO Toolbox
  The search engines provide some of the best tools, free of charge, if you know how to use them. Oct 8, 2008
• Book Review: Search Engine Marketing, Inc.
  Search marketing experts Mike Moran and Bill Hunt update their must-read guide to driving qualified traffic to your Web site. Sep 24, 2008
• Tactical Link Building: Finding Link Targets
  How to find link targets to help you construct a sustainable long-term link-building strategy. Sep 10, 2008
• Tactical Link Building: Reliable Directories
  Developing good backlinks is an essential part of any successful SEO strategy. Aug 27, 2008
• SEO Toolbox Tips
  What information is important to your natural search knowledge base? Here are a few places to check out. Aug 13, 2008
• A Natural Disposition for Search
  Having a natural disposition for search is all about creating an environment from which you can sustain your Web-land like a wetland. Jul 30, 2008
• Christmas in July?
  With the holiday season only four months away, here are some tips to make link building a no-brainer. Jul 16, 2008
• Link Building: A Legacy of Lazy Linkers
  Lazy linkers, random linkers, and lethargic spiders. What's a link builder to do? Tactics for getting your site right. Jul 2, 2008
• Link Building Starts at Home
  Several link-building tactics that require attention. First in a series. Jun 18, 2008
• SEO Is Not Free
  Three ways organizations neglect search engine optimization. Jun 4, 2008
• Content Optimization: Building Success into Your Strategy
  Who should own the keyword research process for building a content optimization strategy into your organization? May 21, 2008
• Content Optimization: Managing the Gap
  Recognize opportunities to amplify the contextual signals the content is sending to the search engines by way of title tags, heading tags, and more. May 7, 2008
• Content Optimization: Creating a Master Keyword List
  Some tips on how to avoid drowning in words by teaching yourself to swim through the data. Apr 23, 2008
• Content Optimization: Keyword Effectiveness Indicators
  What the heck is KEI, and why does it need to be analyzed? Apr 9, 2008
• Content Optimization: Keyword Analytics Tools
  Two tools aim to provide a more accurate estimate of available search referral traffic. Mar 26, 2008
• Content Optimization: Keyword Suggestion Tools
  How to start optimizing your site's content today using tools from Google, Yahoo, and Quintura. Mar 12, 2008
• Content Optimization
  Ensure your content has a chance to be found for all the right words with keyword research. Feb 27, 2008
• Chicken Soup for the SEO Soul
  How SEO professionals can salvage their reputations in the face of unjust criticism (and blog posts). Feb 13, 2008
• Five Getting-Started Blog Questions
  A blog can enhance a company's online reputation, recruit new clients, increase site traffic, and be a significant part of a long-term link-building strategy. Jan 30, 2008
• The Wonderful World of Widgets
  Widgets contribute to a global SEO campaign in three different ways. Jan 16, 2008
• Adventures in Searchandising, Part 3
  Enhance the contextual relevancy of key category pages within a complex database-driven Web site by understanding what keywords and phrases drive your revenue. Last of a three-part series. Jan 2, 2008
• Adventures in Searchandising, Part 2
  What happens when the major search engines meet guided navigation and extreme pagination? Part two of a series. Dec 19, 2007
• Adventures in Searchandising Part 1
  Behavior targeting, personalization tactics work well for internal site search, but not so for Google, Yahoo, and MSN Live Search. Here's why. Dec 5, 2007
• Thankful for PageRank Updates, Blended Search
  Why we should give thanks for Google's green pixels, blended search results, and cliques. Nov 21, 2007
• Getting Out of Search
  How to hide and remove Web pages from search engine spiders and avoid a meta misadventure. Nov 7, 2007
• Tags, Customized Search, and SEO
  Tagging and tag clouds provide an unrivaled form of alternative navigation. Though they're just one tactic of many, they should not be ignored. Oct 24, 2007
• Socially Optimal
  Social media optimization builds on best practices for a Web site's natural SEO campaign. Oct 10, 2007
• Picture This, Part 2: For Pix and Clicks Go SMO
  Popular photo-sharing sites can raise your Web site's overall visibility. Here are 12 tips to begin. Sep 26, 2007
• Picture This, Part 1: Get the Most From Universal Search
  Use targeted keywords and fundamental SEO tactics to let images help improve site ranking. Sep 12, 2007
• Three Reasons Not to Read This SEO Column
  Planning for SEO setbacks. Aug 29, 2007
• Holiday Shopping: Wrap It Up
  These are the dog days of summer, but the clock's is ticking. Time to get e-commerce sites ready for the holiday sales surge. Aug 15, 2007
• If Harry Potter Did SEO
  Traditional wizards and witches are replaced with Web wizards, widgets, and wands. Aug 1, 2007
• Personalized, Universal and Optimized
  SEO as it relates to Google universal and personalized search. Jul 18, 2007
• For Your Reviews
  How to set up product reviews on retail sites for maximum SEO impact. Jun 20, 2007
• The Duplicate Content Debate
  From an SEO perspective, too much duplicate content can land your site in the netherworld of Google's supplemental results. Jun 6, 2007
• How Web 2.0 Affects SEO Strategy
  To find success in Web 2.0, marketers must evolve their SEO strategies. May 23, 2007
• SEO Site Analysis: Knowing the Score, Part 4
  You've completed the SEO analysis of your Web site. Now what? May 9, 2007
• SEO Site Analysis: Knowing the Score, Part 3
  Deepen your understanding of the role keywords play in driving targeted search referrals. Apr 25, 2007
• SEO Site Analysis: Knowing the Score, Part 2
  How to conduct an SEO Web site analysis. Part two of a series. Apr 11, 2007
• SEO Site Analysis: Knowing the Score, Part 1
  How to conduct an SEO Web site analysis. Part one of a series. Mar 28, 2007
• From Good to Great Content
  Great content is the result of following a good-better-best process of optimization. Mar 14, 2007
• DIY SEO
  Reduced to its simplest form, SEO is a four-step process. Feb 28, 2007
• Canonicalization Made Simple
  The road to short and sweet search URLs. Feb 14, 2007
• SERPs and the Super Bowl
  The upcoming game provides an interesting macro-analysis of natural search results, and perhaps some insight into the game's outcome. Jan 31, 2007
• SEO Best Practices: 20 Questions
  How can you tell if your site adheres to SEO best practices? Start with honest answers to the following 20 questions. Jan 17, 2007
• Resolve to Produce Great Content
  If you do one thing to grow your search engine referrals this year, focus on producing great content. Jan 3, 2007
• Site Architecture and SEO
  You have to crawl before you can run. And before creating keyword-targeted content, you must make that additional content manageable. Dec 20, 2006
• Own Your Catchphrases in the Engines
  An unscientific survey shows marketers are still missing the boat on PPC. Dec 6, 2006
• Search's Long Tail and SEO
  The long tail isn't a threat to branded search. It's a well-rounded, unbranded complement to natural search engine referrals. Nov 22, 2006
• The Tail That Wags the Web
  The long tail operates in a way contrary to how brands prioritize SEM strategies. Nov 8, 2006
• Three Questions to Ask Before Initiating an SEO Strategy
  The basic issues that help determine a path toward building an SEO strategy. Oct 25, 2006
• Can Big Brands Own "It"?
  Can major brands own their category in unbranded search results? Oct 11, 2006
• Spider Food and SEO Blunders
  The most common causes of search engine invisibility. Sep 27, 2006
• Well-Seasoned SEO
  It's never too late to help heighten search engine visibility, now and even during the holiday sales season. Sep 13, 2006
• All About Site Searchiness
  Think like a surfer, act like a spider. Aug 30, 2006
• "Classic" SEO?
  Are search marketers in such a rush to establish the credibility of the industry that they can only do so by fiddling with time? Aug 16, 2006
• PPC: In or Out? Part 2
  The seven steps of a finely tuned PPC campaign -- and how to determine who should handle the execution. Last in a series. Aug 2, 2006
• SEO: In or Out? Part 1
  Should SEM be managed inside or outside your business? Part one of two. Jul 19, 2006
• The Write Stuff
  Search engines count on you to deliver the write stuff to them to crawl and index. Jul 5, 2006
• Summer Search Trends
  Get ready for a summer of local and mobile search, along with a helping of pay per call. Jun 21, 2006
• Google Calling?
  If eagerness is a hallmark of innovation, Google will to continue to set the PPC advertising standards for years to come. Jun 7, 2006
• Buying Time With Bigdaddy
  With Google's Bigdaddy update complete, getting a new site listed could take up to six months. How to fast-track that listing. May 24, 2006
• SEO: An Hour a Day
  A new book walks you through SEO, step by step. May 10, 2006
• Mindful of the Medium
  If time is money, Internet time is a fluid currency of choices. These are best made when you're mindful of the medium. Apr 26, 2006
• Time to Spring-Clean Your Site?
  Tips to help you spring-clean your Web site and ease site maintenance going forward. Apr 12, 2006
• Substantiating Search
  Tap into search's head and tail, and you achieve quantifiable latent influence on the overall buying process. Mar 29, 2006
• SEO Mailbag: Search Engine Spam and SEM Salaries
  Answers to some frequently asked questions on reporting search engine spam, plus salary expectations for search marketers. Mar 15, 2006
• Site Maps and SEO
  A well-constructed site map is fundamental to visibility on the Web. Mar 1, 2006
• A Look Behind the Page
  More behind-the-page SEO techniques to encourage search-referred traffic to your site. Feb 15, 2006
• Weaving Relevant Keywords Into Your Site
  You've prepared a list of relevant keywords and keyword phrases to help increase natural search traffic. Now, you've got to weave them throughout your site, too. Feb 1, 2006
• An SEM Diet for the New Year?
  Get ready to exercise your mind (and potentially eat your words) to balance SEO and PPC for a healthy Web marketing mix. Jan 18, 2006
• Choosing a Web Design Firm
  How do you find the right Web design firm? Start with the basics. Jan 4, 2006
• Naughty or Nice SEO?
  Organic search marketing initiatives display your company's reputation on the Web. What tactics are you willing to employ to attain top results? Dec 21, 2005
• Search: Bah Humbug?
  A visit with the ghosts of search's past... and future. Dec 7, 2005
• A Well-Balanced Linking Strategy
  The tools, and the strategies, for successful link building. Nov 23, 2005
• Inbound Link Strategies: Movin' On Up
  Have your search results been affected by the latest Google update? How to move out of a bad-link neighborhood into a better one. Nov 9, 2005
• Search vs. the Splogosphere
  Spam blogs have swollen search engines' indexes with... spam. What are users, brands, and e-commerce merchants to do? Oct 26, 2005
• Building Brands Using SEO
  The bigger the brand, the harder it is to get and maintain top organic results in the major search engines. Oct 12, 2005
• Personality Profiles and SEM
  If you handle SEM in a corporate environment, you must learn to handle the seven distinct corporate personality types. Sep 28, 2005
• SEM FAQ: Globalization, Hiring, and Getting into SEM
  Answers to your questions on global SEM strategies, hiring honest SEM vendors, and the education you need to work in SEM. Sep 14, 2005
• How to Use SEM Research
  How to leverage data so the company, from the boardroom to the PR department, buys in to your SEO strategy. Aug 31, 2005
• A Business Case for SEM
  Put your SEM program on target -- and keep it there. Aug 17, 2005
• How SEMs Can Help Protect Brands Online
  Trademark law hasn't caught up with technology. How you can help keep your brand from losing its trademark status. Aug 3, 2005
• The SEM Scam Sales Pitch
  A little research (and some knowledge) helps reveal an SEM scam. Jul 20, 2005
• SEM and the Corporate Blog
  Consider adding a corporate blog to your SEM toolbox. Jul 6, 2005
• Seasonal Search Shifts and SEO
  Prepare for those seasonal shifts in search. Jun 22, 2005
• Where's Your Head At?
  Will Yahoo! Mindset reshape the SEM industry's future? Jun 8, 2005
• The Law of Unintended Consequence
  As far as search engine referrals are concerned, the law of unintended consequence is merciless. May 25, 2005
• Meta Tags and Link Deficiency Confusion
  Are meta tags still important in SEO? How critical are links to your site? A commonsense approach toboth. May 11, 2005
• When Corporate Politics and SEO Collide
  Corporate political storms can drown an SEO project. How to weather the storm. Apr 27, 2005
• An Exit Strategy With an Open Door Policy
  Search engine marketers are in high demand. Before you leave one company for another, prepare accordingly for your departure. Apr 13, 2005
• How to Retain a Good In-House SEM Professional
  Retention is an issue for any business. But in SEM, demand exceeds supply, and competition for your SEM expert's skill set is ferocious. Mar 30, 2005
• How to Find an In-House SEM Specialist
  Need for in-house SEM? There are several paths you can take to find the right person for the position. Mar 16, 2005
• How to Select an In-House SEM Professional
  How to define your SEM business needs and find the SEM professional who can fulfill your goals. Mar 2, 2005
• Corporate SEM FAQ
  What you've always wanted to know about being, working with, or working for an in-house SEM specialist. Feb 16, 2005
• Corporate SEO Implementation: From the Inside Out
  Preparing an organic SEO plan is a relatively simple process. Implementing it is another story. Feb 2, 2005
• Optimizing Corporate Culture for SEM
  An in-house SEM manager's goals include getting all kinds of corporate divisions on board with the program; IT, PR, even legal. Jan 19, 2005
• Learning From SEM Blunders
  Three very bad SEM firms, and three very valuable lessons. Jan 5, 2005
• Search Engine Spam? You're Fired!
  You just learned your SEM firm is spamming the search engines. How to cope. Dec 22, 2004
• From the Diary of a Corporate SEM Manager
  Search Engine Strategies events, search engine spam and shams, and the need for SEM managers in corporate America. Dec 8, 2004

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