Hurry up and Do Nothing for Measured Search Marketing Success
Search engine marketing is simultaneously an intense game of taking action to increase sales while also a patient intermission of waiting to see the results. SEM is almost an oxymoron […]
Monthly Archives: May 2006
Book Review: Search Engine Marketing, Inc.
Search Engine Marketing, Inc. Driving Search Traffic to Your Company’s Web Site Authors: Mike Moran and Bill Hunt Paperback: 592 pages, $31.49 Published: July, 2005 I have to admit that […]
Happy Memorial Day
Today we honor our vetererans and remember their service to our country. Freedom isn’t free and it comes at a cost paid by our nation’s soldiers throughout history. Let’s remember […]
Final Checks on an Optimization Campaign
If you are always optimizing pages then you probably know how easy it is to overlook small, but important things. The big stuff like keyword research, good copy, links, well, […]
SEO Quick Tip: Don't Stuff Your Page w/Keywords
Stuffing keyword phrases into your code or in the content is tempting when trying to game the search results, yet does little to enhance the user’s experience. Any keyword usage […]
Lessons From The Apprentice (5.13)
The Candidates Synergy: Allie, Andrea, Brent, Pepi, Roxanne, Stacy, Tammy Gold Rush: Bryce, Charmaine, Dan, Lee, Lenny, Leslie, Michael, Sean, Summer, Tarek, Theresa Prelude: Sean is upset for having to […]
Pet Peeves that Get You Steamed
I’m an easy to get a long with kind of guy but at work I have a few pet peeves that really burn me up. Maybe it’s because I’m the […]
NO ODP!
MSN has released support for a new meta tag allowing webmasters to opt out of having MSN usingODP (a.k.a. DMOZ) descriptions in their search results. This is outstanding! What has […]
Customer Service: It Ain't that Hard
I hate bad customer service. Providing good customer service is not rocket science. In fact it’s easier than, say, stocking shelves, selling a product or filling an order. So why […]
MSN adCenter Launch… too Early?
Ok, so I finally jumped on the train and signed up for MSN’s new adCenter PPC. It’s only been a couple of days, but so far my impression of the […]
Weathering the Test of Time
SEO is all about time. Optimizing a site properly takes time. Getting good quality links takes time. Getting your links to “count” takes time. Tweaking to improve rankings takes time. […]
Get some Now or Later?
Andy Hagans has an interesting post [sorry, link no longer available] in response to an article by Eric Ward about link whoring. Andy’s post talks about the choice between getting […]
Where Have All the Good SEOs Gone, Part II
Last week I posted about looking for good SEOs. I was surprised by the response I got from that post, as many SEOs contacted us willing to do some outsourcing. […]
Lessons From The Apprentice (5.12)
The Candidates Synergy: Allie, Andrea, Brent, Pepi, Roxanne, Stacy, Tammy Gold Rush: Bryce, Charmaine, Dan, Lee, Lenny, Leslie, Michael, Sean, Summer, Tarek, Theresa Prelude: Back from the board room, Lee […]
SEO Quick Tip: Avoid Obvious Manipulation
Optimizing for search engines is essentially a form of manipulation. You manipulate your site to get the search engines to consider it relevant for whatever keyword phrases you are targeting, […]