Search engine optimization (SEO) requires time and money. Are you putting your efforts into the right places? This column will examine tactics for improving the effectiveness of SEO initiatives, such as Web site structure, link building, and social media marketing, as well as business issues such as selection of an SEO provider, managing your reputation management, and the process that goes into a proper SEO initiative. This column will ultimately help you to determine where you may want to spend your time and/or money so that you are successful in gaining traction in this very dynamic medium.
Quit obsessing over backlinks. Instead focus on how you can provide something of value to your consumers.
How can you make your consumers' visit more productive using data you already have?
A tool makes search more social. Here's how.
Restating SEO in terms that are more likely to be understood by other marketers could increase comprehension, gain stronger buy-in, and lead to larger budgets.
In order to receive buy-in, build momentum, and show positive growth that the SEOs know is possible, we must educate the masses, develop the bigger picture, and hold people accountable.
Three examples of tweaking your SEO reports to make your efforts more valuable.
What are the big areas of opportunity, what's changed, and what's stayed the same?
Five techniques to ensure your website is optimized from a global SEO perspective and allows for increased visibility to drive traffic and conversions and ultimately business value.
If you want to use Google to determine searcher intent, you need to disregard your own common sense and be willing to accept that your intuition could be wrong.
Incremental gains in SEO get harder to achieve, but not impossible. Here's how to overcome obstacles.
Give visitors all over the world a passport directly into your content with these five tactics that can and should be applied to any multinational website.
Should marketers prepare for the day when they will not be able to obtain keyword data from web analytics packages?
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A look at the key benefits of HTML5 and what types of sites can gain the most from it.
A look at the major differences in the new enhanced Twitter profile pages.
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June 6, 2012
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