Blog: Digital Marketing
No matter what you are in the business of selling, people will use all types of phrases to describe it. Over many years I have played a role in the optimization of hundreds of websites. At the start of every one of the projects, the business owner or marketing team responsible for the sites’ success...
In part two of this three part series I introduced eight types of traffic sources your business can utilize. In this third and final article, I will address traffic sources that should be kept away with a 10 foot stick. In search engine optimization (SEO) we classify traffic sources as either being...
A newcomer in the social media game, Google+ has yet to receive the credibility and brand exposure of Facebook. Google+ is, however, becoming an integral part of generating online visibility for your company – especially following Google’s announcement on Wednesday that all Google Places Pages...
In the Part One of this three part series I dove head first into Google Analytics traffic sources. Google Analytics splits traffic between Search, Referral and Direct. However, there are multiple traffic sources that branch off of these three core categories. Breaking Down the Three Core Traffic Sou...
How are people getting to your website? Is it directly through a search engine organically or by clicking on an ad? There is a plethora of sources that drive traffic to your websites and new sources are being created every day. Understanding your current traffic sources is the first step in formulat...
Most Companies have a website with information about who they are and what they do. However, most Companies do not continually grow the content on their website. It remains stagnant, unchanging. Yawn. Website content or onsite SEO has always been important. But today, more than ever, it is vital tha...
On a daily basis, many people will use a computer, and of those computer users, almost all of them will surf the internet. Of those internet users, the vast majority uses Google for their searches on the web. The question I ask you is: Do you know the best search practices for Google? A study at Ill...
Each month now Matt Cutts posts some information about the changes to Google's search algorithm. You can visit the blog here. This is a great resource and helps us in the SEO world determine if we need to make any changes to our SEO strategy. However, for those of you that are not experts, here is t...
Local search is changing the way consumers find and purchase products. Google is an ever evolving animal with the most recent change being Google’s algorithm adjustment referred to as the Penguin Update (Previously known as the Webspam Update). This update is Google's way of cracking down on s...
Let’s look at one of the biggest topics in search marketing today… reputation management. Total online reputation management is a crucial and time consuming part of online marketing. It can be done by a small business owner in their spare time or by a professional SEM agency for a large corporation....
