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From Good to Great Content

January 3, 2012 By Brent Chaters Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Marketing, Search, SEO Tagged With: good, google, page title, Search, search results, SEO, seo strategy

Google vs. Data

October 18, 2011 By Brent Chaters Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Analytics, Search, SEM, SEO Tagged With: access data, adwords, data, data google, except google, google, opt out, privacy, Search, users, webmaster tools

Social Media and SEO

March 5, 2011 By Brent Chaters Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Facebook, Search, SEO, Social Media, Twitter Tagged With: bing, blogs, facebook, lastly, link, link building, linked, little seo, page, pages, platforms, relationships, Search, searches, SEO, social, social media, tweets, Twitter, youtube

Google Instant Some Random Thoughts

September 9, 2010 By Brent Chaters Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Search, SEM, SEO, Technology Tagged With: google, google instant, lemming mentality, letters, pages, predictive search, results, Search, speed results, suggestion, suggestions, terms, trend

Why Organic Search Has a Better ROI

July 15, 2009 By Brent Chaters Leave a Comment

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 […]

Filed Under: Marketing, Search, SEO Tagged With: better roi, content, link, links, organic, organic search, pages, paid search, Search, search engines, site, webmaster

Brent Chaters is the author of the O'Reilly book Mastering Search Analytics: Measuring SEO, SEM and Site Search as well as Multichannel Marketing Ecosystems: Creating Connected Customer Experiences. Brent has been working with internet based technology since 1998, he has won two TV Ontario awards. Brent has worked for large world wide corporations and small business across multiple verticals including, CPG, Automotive, Financial Services, Entertainment, Technology and Public Sector, helping lead them into the world of digital marketing.

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