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Sustainable SEO

Sustainable SEO – 3 Key Factors for Success

Before Panda, SEOs were using relevant keywords and building good content. They were making sites accessible to search engines, and focused on quality link building. But for...
Improve Google Places Ranking

10 Ways to Improve Google Local Ranking

June 7, 2011   |   Web Design and Promotion
anking locally is much more critical with the evolvement of local listings across the web such as Google Places, Bing BBP, Yahoo local, and the various social media channels....
new Paradigm of SEO

Facebook & Twitter: The new Paradigm of SEO

April 26, 2011   |   Getting Social, Web Design and Promotion
Social media sharing has a proven impact on the search engine results pages according to data presented by SEOMoz at the SMX Elite conference in Sydney. While Google and Bing are...
Focus on Conversions

Focus on Conversions and Not Clicks

April 26, 2011   |   Web Design and Promotion
Conversion is more important than clicks when drawing conclusions about the paid search...
Checklist for a Quality Link

Checklist for a Quality Link

April 26, 2011   |   Web Design and Promotion
Link building can have a strong and positive effect on search engine optimization efforts. As algorithms for the major search engines change, it's important to stay on top of the...
Facebook PPC Campaigns

Facebook PPC Campaigns

Facebook PPC campaigns can be a very cost effective way to drive traffic to a business Facebook page or website. There are distinct differences between Facebook and Google ads...
Local & Hyperlocal Promotions

Local & Hyperlocal Promotions and SEO Impact

March 22, 2011   |   Getting Social, Web Design and Promotion
The importance of Local and Hyperlocal promotions is increasing day by day. Today, Local results are viewed millions of times a day with 20% of searches on Google being local in...
New Google AdWords

New Google AdWords Report Shows ‘Free Clicks’

January 31, 2011   |   Web Design and Promotion
Google launched a new report in AdWords to help advertisers measure interactions that take place before a click-through for video ads, display ads, product extensions and location...
AdWords Report

New Google AdWords Report Shows Click Type

January 17, 2011   |   Web Design and Promotion
Ever wonder what the effectiveness of your AdWords sitelink extensions are? Do people really click on those additional links, or just your ad’s headline? Google AdWords just...
Compiling Negative Keywords

Google Introduces New AdWords Feature for Compiling Negative...

January 12, 2011   |   Web Design and Promotion
Google introduces a new AdWords feature that will allow users to compile negative keywords at the account level to implement across similar...
Reaching International Customers

Reaching International Customers Through...

December 8, 2010   |   Web Design and Promotion
On Monday, December 6th, Google launched Google Global Market Finder, a free online tool that helps advertisers find new markets to target in international countries. The tool...
Quality Becoming a Factor

Quality Becoming a Factor in Google Reviews

December 7, 2010   |   Web Design and Promotion
In response to a recent article published in the New York Times, Google has amended parts of its Google Places local search algorithm to take into account user experience and...
Paid Search on Facebook

Paid Search on Facebook

November 15, 2010   |   Web Design and Promotion
In this session of PubCon Las Vegas, Keith Posehn of Zorz spoke about how to best optimize Facebook PPC campaigns and landing...
Post Click Conversion Performance

How to Increase the Post Click Conversion Performance

November 15, 2010   |   Web Design and Promotion
Channeling traffic to your website is just the first step of locking in new customers and conversions. John Ellis, George Aspland, Janet Driscoll Miller and Brian Massey tackled...
Large Scale PPC Campaigns

How to Effectively Manage Large Scale PPC Campaigns

November 15, 2010   |   Industry News, Web Design and Promotion
This session of PubCon Las Vegas focused on the challenges of managing large scale paid search campaigns across multiple channels and the best techniques to effectively manage PPC...
Hardcore PPC Tactics

Hardcore PPC Tactics

November 12, 2010   |   Web Design and Promotion
In the first session of PubCon Las Vegas we learned some advanced and not so obvious tactics to more efficiently manage and optimize our PPC...
Trends Impacting Online Search

Trends Impacting Online Search

November 12, 2010   |   Web Design and Promotion
We have compiled a list of trends that are continuing to impact online search. Stephan Spencer, Greg Boser, and Mike Grehan provide...
Solutions to In-House SEO

PubCon Session: Solutions to In-House SEO, PPC & Campaigns

November 11, 2010   |   Web Design and Promotion
The session “In-House SEO, PPC & Campaigns” offered tips on how best to build a team that can combine efforts to collaboratively reach marketing goals and optimize the website...
Google Boost Ads

Google Boost Ads – Local Business Advertising Placement

November 1, 2010   |   Web Design and Promotion
Google recently launched its new location-based ad feature named Google Boost. The location-based ad will show up in the sponsored links section. This product is currently in beta...
Twitter: the Search Engine

Twitter: the Search Engine

October 14, 2010   |   Getting Social, Web Design and Promotion
Twitter search queries are up in number, making it not only a friendly social media channel, but a competitive search engine as...
Social Media and Real-Time Search

How Social Media and Real-Time Search Can Impact your SEO

August 26, 2010   |   Web Design and Promotion
Customers can now get even fresher suggestions to find the latest and most relevant content for their search. Getting real-time suggestions is part of Yahoo!'s latest...
Web Design at SES San Francisco

Eye Tracking Usability and Neuromarketing Research to Improve...

August 20, 2010   |   Web Design and Promotion
At SES San Francisco 2010, the "eye tracking usability and neuromarketing research" session was focused on improving your website layout and design to enhance visitors' online...
Short Tail vs. Long Tail links

Short Tail vs. Long Tail links: What should your strategy be?

August 19, 2010   |   Web Design and Promotion
Are you building quality trust worth links? Get tips from expert Jim Boykin with...
Deep Dive into Analytics

Deep Dive into Analytics: When Bounce Rate no Longer Floats your...

August 19, 2010   |   Web Design and Promotion
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...
Real Time Search

Real Time Search and How to Optimize Your Site

August 17, 2010   |   Web Design and Promotion
Here are three easy steps on how a marketer can use real time search to influence their online optimization efforts: know what’s hot in the news, create relevant content and...
Sitelink Extension Feature

Google Introduces New Sitelink Extension Feature

August 17, 2010   |   Web Design and Promotion
Google has introduced a new Sitelinks feature which allows customers to further engage users on their websites by listing up to four links to click on an individual...
Deeper Into Your Analytics

Delving Deeper Into Your Analytics

Any company can attempt to get more traffic to your hotel’s website. But are they driving the right kind of traffic? The number of visitors a site gets is a great first step to...
E-Mail Newsletter Blast

Tips & Tricks for a Successful E-Mail Newsletter Blast

June 16, 2010   |   Web Design and Promotion
Get the latest tips and tricks to make your next E-Mail Newsletter a success while keeping in line with the Best E-Mail Marketing...
Increase Traffic to New Domains

Build Relevance and Increase Traffic to New Domains

June 16, 2010   |   Web Design and Promotion
New hotel websites can compete against older existing domains by following a proven method with three easy steps....
PPC Site Links

PPC Site Links

June 3, 2010   |   Web Design and Promotion
Jazz up your PPC text ad by adding site links. By enabling site links in your PPC ad, you offer the user several options in your text ad – all of which will be hyperlinked to a...