Content Marketing, Internet Marketing, SEO
5 Ways To Make Your Blog Magnetic
by Jacob Smith On January 17, 2012
Blogging is an important component in most Internet marketing strategies. And since you’re making the effort to write them, why not ensure they’re read by the audience you want to attract. I came across some excellent suggestions from Bamidele Onibalusi of YoungPrePro to help you make your blog magnetic. 1. Have a Clearly Defined Point … Read More
Content Marketing, Internet Marketing, SEO
A Recipe You Can’t Share: Internet Marketing Mix
by Jacob Smith On January 10, 2012
In case you didn’t know already, the days of applying single tools in Internet marketing are long gone. You can no longer just use SEO, or PPC or blogs to attract your ideal audience. The trick is to create the right mix. Yes, it would be great if you could follow a recipe, Martha Stewart-style. … Read More
Analytics, SEO
Google is Hiding Data from Us Under the Guise of Privacy
by Paul Fleming On December 7, 2011
We recently mentioned that Google announced that they will be encrypting Search for Google users who are logged into their accounts and we are now starting to see some real impact from that. Some clients are being affected more than others. Ultimately it’s not a huge issue. Yes it’s absolutely annoying and frustrating but not … Read More
SEO
Google’s Panda is Not Cute Nor Cuddly for Some
by Paul Fleming On November 1, 2011
For the uninitiated, Google has this algorithm that they use to judge the value of websites and to rank them accordingly. They’ve done a pretty good job of it too. It’s not perfect of course, there are plenty of poor search results, folks who game the system, poor quality websites that rank well, but for … Read More
SEO
Desire Paths and SEO
by Jacob Smith On October 25, 2011
Matt Mullenweg, during his recent “State of the Word” presentation, fielded a number of interesting concepts that are driving development priorities for the ubiquitous open source software. The most intriguing, to me, was that of desire paths (wikipedia definition here), which Matt referenced to show how Automattic was watching the trends in plugins and themes … Read More
Content Marketing, Internet Marketing, SEO
Content, Content, Content
by Guest Blogger On August 23, 2011
As a client facing member of the Dinkum team, I am sometimes called upon to discuss SEO with clients. Most often I am answering questions on basic concepts, which clients who have recently signed on want to understand. Sometimes I chat over the same things with clients who have been around for a while, but … Read More
Content Marketing, SEO
Clientspeak – Can You Speak Their Language?
by Guest Blogger On July 8, 2011
Recently I posted about a client who was confused by the industry jargon that we had inadvertently allowed to creep into the assessment document that we delivered to him. I have been on the lookout since then for places where we can do a better job of explaining what we do, or what information we … Read More
SEO
Wishing SEO Was Easy..Or Sexy?
by Paul Fleming On April 26, 2011
Every now and again as we’re planning out a campaign or building links or performing an analysis, I think about that easy button that Staples put out. Click…keyword rankings #1. Click…huge traffic increase. Click…huge conversion increases. Click…me on beach drinking beer or possibly umbrella’d cocktail. I have a feeling that sometimes our clients wish that … Read More
SEO, Social Media
Social Media and its SEO Influence
by Paul Fleming On March 18, 2011
We’ve suspected it for a while now but it was recently confirmed by extremely reliable sources (Matt Cutts from Google actually) that social media is having a greater influence on search rankings. A web page stacked up against another web page with the same credentials will apparently be given greater weight if it is shared … Read More
SEO
SEO In The News
by Guest Blogger On March 1, 2011
In the last couple of weeks, Search Engine Optimization has made the news! I expect to read about SEO on blogs posted by fellow practitioners. But Bob Garfield, of On the Media on National Public Radio hosted an interview radio show segment on this very topic called “How to Cheat Google.” He interviewed David Segal, … Read More