Talking about the web
The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. -Roger “Verbal” Kint aka Kevin Spacey This is an example of the downfall or the positive side of Google’s shift to real time search results. I guess it all depends on where your political views land. To me though the recent […]
For a long time, when you talked to a marketer about “Brand Marketing” it was very closely focused on top of the funnel, driving awareness. It was fueled by mass media. It was measured by aided and unaided brand awareness. Marketers would measure brand association to product categories. The focus on brand was always top […]
I had the the pleasure to present at SES Toronto 2012 as well as participate in a post session interview with Matt Bailey. Here’s the video and I’ll be uploading the slide deck as well to slideshare in a bit And here’s the slide deck that was presented. Search analytics for Executives […]
If you’ve been around the search space for any period of time you’ll have heard one of these sayings at some point or another: “Content is King”, “Write for people not search engines”, “Create good content”. AJ Kohn points to a recent Matt Cutts video where Matt talks about content and whether Google will penalize […]
Google announced today that they are going to make some modifications to the way they pass data along to other websites based on if a users is logged into google or not. The full details on this are at: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/making-search-more-secure.html. This has gotten a number of folks in the SEO industry in an uproar. While I […]
I read two interesting articles today, one on using jargon and the other on some new features in the WordPress SEO plugin. What jumped out at me on both of these is a focus on language and complexity. One of the new features of the WordPress SEO plugin is to rate your text on the […]
Go to any search conference today and there will be at least one discussion on Social Media. It is starting to become much clearer how the two connect with announcements from booth Bing and Google that they use social signals for rankings, as well as announcements they will start to use social results much more […]
I’ve seen several different citations on why SEM has a better ROI then SEO. Here are a few of them: SEM is faster, brings traffic to your website quickly, and increases visibility immediate SEM: there is more control over SEM then SEO. With SEM you can optimize the landing page tailored to the SEM experience […]
With the launch of Google Instant I’ve got a few non-connected thoughts on what this means to SEO/SEM as well as to Google, and some questions with how they will adapt to this. First let’s look at the comments I have specifically to Google. A Great Engineering Feat In one way I think this is […]
I’ve recently been hearing that organic search (SEO) has a lower ROI than paid search (SEM). I have a very hard time believing this. I can see SEM having a better conversion rate than SEO, but not a better ROI. Free organic search will ALWAYS have a better ROI than anything you pay for. The […]