Tag Cloud - search engine marketing (SEM)

Backlinks and your linking strategy play an important role in technical SEO. These helpful links can give your rankings a boost. When multiple other sites that Google considers reputable link to your site, it helps to give your site a vote of confidence as well. Since the search engine wants to find and display sites […]

How to Increase Pages Per Visit and Dwell Time | How to Decrease Bounce Rate | Conversion Rate Optimization No two websites are the same; yet there are aspects every brand should convey through their website such as value, a message, the product or service on offer, and a call-to-action (CTA). And, it’s important to […]

By Benu Aggarwal, Milestone Internet Marketing Effective internet marketing in the year 2020 will be a powerful promotional agent for the hotel industry – from major franchise chains in urban cities to independent inns in rural countryside. As we envision the possibilities this year, hoteliers must take a proactive approach to internet marketing and direct […]

One of the most successful and challenging things about marketing on the internet is that the impact of your marketing efforts is measurable. While critical to your initiative, the measurement of true return on investment (ROI) for the lodging industry is a complex exercise since the results manifest themselves across multiple channels. What further compounds […]

What are the top ten things hotel marketers need to focus on to get digital traffic and booking right? 1. Online Inventory Make sure you have sufficient inventory allocated for all sales channels, especially on your site. Your independent and brand.com website is the most cost efficient tool for a hotel to receive reservations, as […]

The URLs on thousands of Google+ Local pages for hotels were hijacked last week and changed to redirect to third party booking sites. With the help of our newest product/web tool, NaptuneTM, Milestone was able to immediately conduct a full-scale audit and we were able to verify that all of our clients’ pages were unaffected by this issue.

Google’s Hummingbird delivers users highly relevant results no matter how or where they search from.

Learn more about ranking, penalties and mobile during the Q&A session with Google’s Matt Cutts at SMX Advanced.

In this session, panelists focus on key elements that deliver maximum SEO success.

Google continues to expand its paid search services globally, adding enhanced sitelinks for all Adwords accounts and improving geo-targeting capabilities in nearly a dozen other countries. With this move, Google becomes a more attractive paid search option and positions itself to capture a greater percentage of the PPC market share worldwide.

It’s known that quality scores are the primary measure of a keywords relevancy and an indicator of future performance. As such, we havegone into great detail as to how quality scores reflect Adwords’ PPC algorithm.

While many businesses may be engaged in Pay Per Click advertising, there may be a few who are not taking advantage of using negative keywords. In this article, we will outline the importance of using negative keywords, and we’ll begin by listing the adverse effects of not doing so.

Whether you are working with a smaller budget or simply looking to cut down on costs, spending your PPC budget wisely is more important than ever. Instead of simply pausing your campaign or lowering your daily budget, try thinking smarter and following the tips included below to keep costs down and conversions up!

Amit Singhal joined Matt Cutts, head of Google’s quality control and webspam team, on the 2nd day’s keynote at PubCon Las Vegas, 2011. In his keynote, Matt gave his thoughts on what the future holds for search from a high-level (10,000 ft view) and low level (1 ft view). Here are some excerpts from this keynote and subsequent Q&A after the keynote address.

Expanding your business presence in the online social media world is more than crucial these days as SERPs are including social signals in regular search results. This is something we have seen more frequently in both Google and Bing starting late last year.

The recent Google Panda update just made great content critical; social media is grabbing all the headlines; search gets more powerful every year. How do they all play together? How do you increase your odds of being found both in search and social media? How will you consistently create content your users will enjoy?

A new tool in Google Analytics shows you how your Organic, Paid and Social Media Channels all assist each other in generating revenue.

Matthew Bailey (Site Logic), Marty Weintraub (Aim clear) and Tami Dalley (ROI Labs) discussed the importance of using, understanding and analyzing web analytics data. No matter which analytics software we use, the information available is important and critical in making any decisions to business model, strategies etc.

Milestone’s President, Benu Aggarwal, will speak at the upcoming Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Francisco and will discuss search engine and social media marketing best practices.

Real time search getting greater prominence as people seeking more real time results over traditional search. With more and more people getting hooked on twitter and facebook, search engines are partnering up with social sites like twitter to provide search relevance at a much quicker pace.

The most effective strategy to dominate the top of SERP’s is by claiming your own business listing. Google and other search engines position local results at the top of the golden triangle, which attract the most traffic and clicks.

At SES San Jose, Heather Lutze shared the basic elements of search engine marketing. A great overview for those new to SEO and PPC.