Small Business SEO Tips
Happy Friday to all!! It’s a beautiful day: the sun is shining, birds are chirping… a perfect time to share a few small business SEO Tips. These tips came from a great post at Search Engine Land – I want to highlight the ones I live and breathe by:
Have web analytics on your site right away. Far too often I see that people don’t see the value in analytics and it makes me scratch my head. What [...]
Comments Continue ReadingDoes your target audience suffer from online ADD?
Being online all day for work, I come across a fair number of websites. I also suffer from online ADD – a common ailment of web users.
The symptoms are very clear: visits under 10 seconds, high bounce rate, and a lack of any conversion whatsoever. What is the cause of such a horrible disease? Poor Navigation and content organization. “But I have a navigation point that clearly says ‘Products’…isn’t that good enough?” In truth – [...]
Scratching the Surface on Search Engine Marketing & Mobile Phones | # 1
Adding some different ideas to my day and to investigate a new topic, I started researching websites on a mobile phone or PDA. This is where we will see an increase in activity over the years to come.
57% of U.S. citizens have a cell phone and 19% of them use the internet. These are small numbers compared to our friends over seas, but it will grow and become the “hot spot” to attract internet browsers to your sites.
I found in [...]
Hi, There!!
My name is Tracy Just and I’m happy to be the newest member of the ecreativeworks. I’ve been an internet marketer for over six years, and most of my experience is in search engine optimization. I’m excited about the team we’re building here – we all love SEO and wow is there a lot talent here: ) Keep an eye out for these future topics – How to Write Great Web Copy, Keywords that Sell, Get [...]
Comments Continue ReadingMeasuring Success: Dependent on Web Site Statistics?
Question of the day: Do you measure your success of a new website by the statistics you can find online?
I was in a meeting with a client of ours that was concerned about their web site statistics on a site that was only three weeks old. We talked about their Google PageRank, their fluctuation in placement on terms, what could be hurting them and what could potentially make their presence on the web known. After three hours of discussion, we [...]
Optimizing Links for YouTube, Google Video, and Images: Search Engine Trends
In a recent newsletter I read about search engine optimization a recent discovery was reinforced. Companies, clients, individuals trying to market a product or service should start optimizing their videos and images for YouTube, and Google: Video, News, Images, Local and Blog Search.
In the recent presentations I have had the opportunity to sit through, most of the presenters used clips from YouTube to demonstrate a point. It was a marketing class, but the increase in these sorts of clips were [...]
Entering the “Sneaky” World of SEO
I’m new to the game, so to speak. Just graduated from college and taking a stab at “real life.” So I landed a job with a company in MN that does industrial search engine marketing called ecreativeworks. I was excited to start and expand on my knowledge of Search Engine
Optimization. Little did I know that I would be so overwhelmed with information that I would oversleep on my first full week of work. A little embarrassing, but that isn’t the [...]
Who cares about Canada? Quick Tip # 3 – The importance of local search.
During the various SEO discussions I have everyday, I frequently hear things like, “I really don’t care about Canada” and “I could care less if someone from California comes to my site”. Why would people say such things? Because it’s too expensive to ship their products! They know they can be more competitive in a specific geographic area.
Quick Tip: Make sure you are optimizing your site for regional search terms.
Here in Minneapolis, there are various regional additions to search [...]
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