Articles – Timely and Relevant
As thought leaders, we make our opinions known. We try to cover everything that’s timely and relevant in search and social media. That includes search engine marketing articles, social media articles and PPC articles. And if there’s something we haven’t covered that you’re interested in, let us know.
Why you need SEO now
We all get caught up in day-to-day activities and are continually reprioritizing projects. As a result, long term goals can easily become demoted to the bottom of your list when daily tasks seem more urgent. Unfortunately, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is too often one of these goals.
Keyword Bucket Optimization
What do fried chicken, popcorn, and keywords have in common? They are best served in buckets of course! During our Advanced SEO Webinar on content writing, we explained how using keyword buckets greatly increases the effectiveness of your website optimization as well as successfully guide search engine spiders through pages deep within your website.
Developing Successful Landing Pages
The good ol’ elevator pitch has been an important tactic of salespeople probably before elevators were even invented. Taking people hostage in a confined space to listen to your pitch doesn’t seem like the ideal selling situation, but it sure can teach us the value of being clear, to the point, and persuasive.
Social Media Marketing for SEO
Social Media Marketing has become the elephant in the room that everyone is talking about. However, many marketers are having a difficult time grasping how to best leverage off of this innovative tool. Below are some helpful tips on how to best utilize social media to improve SEO through building inbound links and optimizing a corporate blog.
Online Reputation Management
So you have utilized SEO and your website is climbing up Google’s Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). Break out the bubbly! It’s time to celebrate, right? Not necessarily. The can-of-worms marketing types like to call Online Reputation Management (ORM) might be..
Google Universal Search for SEM
Everyone knows the saying “The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread” but now marketers everywhere are embracing “The Best Thing Since Universal Search”. So what is this most recent Google innovation that has turned Search Engine Marketing on its head? In attempt to get their users..
Five Common Mistakes in a PPC Campaign
Pay Per Click (PPC) is the current in-demand online advertising strategy that has been growing as the most fastest and sought after. Due to its popularity and the fact that it delivers results almost overnight it is increasingly used by advertisers to direct visitors to their website using search results.
Content Optimization for SEO
For any website to be constantly present on the first few Search Engine Result Pages (SERP’s), content optimization plays a vital role. It is very clear that content is a critical asset that determines how best the site is in terms of the information that it provides to the visitor. Content is not only important for the visitor, it is also important for the search engines as well.
PPC Testing – Five Mistakes to Avoid
Pay per click advertising is always a work in progress. Testing remains the underlying task for every online advertising firm from start to finish. Improvement to any process or campaign can be judged solely from the ability to evolve, which in turn is a product of concrete changes determined via testing.
Steps to Follow in Keyword Research
Keyword research is the most important activity for an SEO campaign. The importance of the Keyword Research lies in the ability to research, trace and evaluate a keyword so that the keyword can be used to draw more traffic to the site.
SEO – Best Marketing Strategy for Economic Crisis
As major financial institutions crumble and banks lending less, businesses are starting to feel the heat. With smaller budgets and lighter wallets, consumer spending has also decreased. Pushing through theses troubled times means cutting costs without being too conservative…
Search Marketing in Uncertain Times
Most successful search engine optimization experts will testify to the constantly changing environment of paid search marketing. The rules of the game are always evolving with promotions, seasonal changes, bid prices, and placements. Over the midst of all this confusion looms the current economic crisis; adding to the unsettling mix are fears…
SEO – Public Relations for the 21st Century
Public relations have always been an important aspect of marketing and advertising, and PR firms have dominated the marketing landscape in print, radio, and television. However, in the digital world, many PR agencies seem clueless when it comes to online marketing. As these agencies slowly discover the importance of search engine optimization (SEO), they begin to realize…
Reeling in the Sales
After months of web design changes, search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and other internet marketing strategies has increased traffic to your site. But unfortunately, this does not mean more conversions. While online marketing may attract the visitors, what seals the deal? Here’s where web conversion and page optimization practices come in…
Driving Sales using Search Engines
If your business development has tapered off and you’re losing potential sales to a competitor, poor visibility on the internet may be the cause of your woes. Your website may be up and running with the web pages filled with content, but what’s missing are the leads and the sales. Here’s how search engines have become crucial in the B2B space…
SEO – Is there a Secret Recipe
Almost every business strategy comes with a set of processes that require timely and accurate implementation for an effective output. That is, a strict plan is to be maintained and followed for success. Search engine optimization is not, however, a straight-forward process. There is no real guide book…
Importance of Domain Names in SEO
The e-commerce world has seen many start-ups; some made it big, while others floundered into non-existence. More often than not, a brilliant idea gets stifled by the sheer immensity of the Web. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an internet marketing strategy that provides online businesses with better search rankings and, ultimately decides the success or failure of an online venture…
Google Insights – New Tool for SEO
Google Inc. plays a pivotal role in our online world with its dominating presence in the search engine arena. As a result, optimizing web sites for a higher place on Google’s search engine rankings has become an essential part of a marketing campaign. Search engine optimization or SEO is an organic process…
Google Chrome – Changing Face of SEO
The launch of Google’s new browser, Google Chrome, has signaled the start of a change to the search engine optimization (SEO) world. SEO is the process of organically increasing the search engine rankings of a website and, thus, increasing traffic…
Use of Analytics in SEO
Google Analytics is a tool that can be very helpful to web developers and site owners in the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) process. Adding a simple Java Script code to each web page, Analytics shows how traffic finds a web site…
Search Engine Market Share
The fight for search engine market share is not really a fair one – the largest player keeps itself out of the fray and has consistently expanded, while the rest have seen their share of the pie diminishing rapidly over time. With almost 80% control, Google is a mighty force…
Exploiting Google Sitemaps for SEO
First introduced in 2005, Google Sitemaps is a service that allows web developers and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Firms to submit an index of web pages of a web site to Google. Sitemaps uses the XML-Sitemap format (XSLT) and was adopted by other major search engines as well…
Setup a PPC Campaign
A successfully targeted search engine optimization campaign can channel large volumes of traffic to your website as it elevates your business to the top of the web rankings.This may not happen….
Cross Promotion – Unique PPC Campaign Strategy
As pay per click (PPC) costs rise, businesses search for new ways to save money yet still attract visitors to their landing pages. They need a strategy for not only channeling traffic to their websites, but for wining customer loyalty and repeat visits….
PPC Campaign Management – Practices to be Avoided
Because pay per click (PPC) is an aggressive and effective marketing tool, “black-hat” PPC methods will always be available. These unethical tactics can help a business secure keywords for its website without having to pay a high bid price. Black-hat PPC is risky business, though, and should be avoided. An experienced….
SEO using Link Exchange
Link Exchange (also called Link Trade or Link Swap) is the practice of exchanging links with other websites. The simplest way to do this is to email another website owner and ask if….
Running a Profitable PPC Campaign
Return on investment (ROI) has to be your primary concern in a Pay Per Click campaign. You can determine ROI by calculating how much revenue click-throughs…
Content Optimization
Optimized content creates a distinctive and wholly individual appeal to a web page by taking into consideration every potential visitor…
SEO for Blogs
You can improve a blog’s search ranking by using these five simple SEO strategies…
Use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for SEO
Part of an effective SEO strategy is maintaining the right content-to-code ratio, using plenty of relevant content, and filling the page with as much text and as many links as possible…
Are All SEO Companies Equal?
At a time when greater understanding of marketing is becoming essential in the SEO industry…
Getting the Right Keyword Fit
At Webmarketing123 we can’t emphasize enough the importance of choosing the right keywords…
How To Create Effective Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising Campaigns
Let’s walkthrough how users typically find your product (or service)…
SEO Practices to Avoid
You have spent hundreds, if not, thousands of dollars to achieve the perfect website for your company only to discover that no one can find you on Google…
What is Pay Per Click advertising?
Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising is a type of online advertising in which advertisers pay for the visitors that arrive on a web site…
Building the right links.
Link building demystified
If you want to rank well, acquire targeted traffic, and build a strong brand, you should have a focused link building program in place as a part of your overall SEO strategy…
Benefits of a focused PPC advertising campaign
While a search for PPC advertising in any search engine would pop up at least 1000 pages..
