Keyword Research: Getting Started
Let’s sit down together and have a little talk about how we should tackle your keyword research with your new website or even a simple redesign (adding SEO in, if you have not before). First thing I would like to talk about is how we should start thinking about what keyword phrases to brainstorm:
1. Think of phrases that are more than 1 word (this will eliminate a lot of the “broad phrases” that may come to mind).
2. Think of what [...]
Solving the Online Sales Tax Riddle
Sales tax is an important part of ecommerce, but is growing increasingly difficult to keep track of. Ecreativeworks offers a way to make things easier and give your website the sales tax coverage it needs.
Comments Continue ReadingICANN Votes to Expand Available Web Domain Suffixes
Are .com, .org, and the like not enough? An international internet governing body has voted to allow new, custom suffixes for website domain names.
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SEO is too big! Baseball is too big! 3 analogies aren’t enough (see two posts ago on this blog), so here’s one more!
Comments Continue ReadingLet’s Build it Together
If you are like me, you may consider yourself a “jack-of-all-trades” kind of person. I myself like to know as much as I can about everything and many times think I can do just about whatever it is that I put my mind to . But, there are just some things that you need to be an expert at and being just “Ok” won”t cut it. I have come across this a few times in my personal and professional life. [...]
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On the surface, baseball and SEO couldn’t me more dissimilar: One is a 160+ year old sport pitting man against man in a test of skill, speed and strength; the other is an ever-evolving science practiced by the internet savvy to boost search engine rankings. But, upon closer inspection, there are many ways in which the two are alike.
Comments Continue ReadingGoogle Analytics – Even Better with Webmaster Tools
Google has announced a pilot to integrate some data from Webmaster Tools with Google Analytics.
“The initial release will be a set of reports in Google Analytics using search data from Google Webmaster Tools. This includes query information, clicks, impressions, clickthrough rate, and average position. You’ll also be able to use Google Analytics advanced data filtering and visualizations with this data.”
This news is incredibly exciting for internet marketers, especially those who value the data they are used [...]
Your New Site Launched – You’re Done Now, Right?
As Scott pointed out in his blog post last month, “website projects are a lot of work!” Once all that work is done and your shiny new site launches, nothing sounds better than just not thinking about your website for a while. Just because the launch was successful, it doesn’t mean you can relax quite yet.
URL’s often change during site builds, especially if using a new ecommerce software or drastically changing your sitemap. When that happens, you can end up [...]
Billion Dollar Google
A recently released report states that Google provided roughly $1 billion in economic activity in Ecreativeworks’ home state of Minnesota in 2010. The report lists the Google-generated economic activity for every state in the US, which totals an estimated $64 billion. The mapped out, state-by-state report of Google’s economic activity can be found here.
Since the report was created by Google themselves, it’s entirely possible that they’re taking some liberties as to what accounts for “economic activity.” The report is based [...]
Sizing up the competition: Can I beat them?
If you don’t follow me regularly on this blog, I work primarily with new website projects and one thing that I do on a regular basis is size up the competition for my clients. What happens is, my client will give me a list of around 5 websites of companies that they feel are their biggest competitors. What happens after I research them and give my feedback often times surprises them. I will admit that when I first started doing [...]
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