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Google SEO Starter Guide 2010

Posted on October 9, 2010November 20, 2012 by Philip Busk

Google has just released a new SEO starter guide. The new guide is more complete, has more examples, and covers wider range of issues, including mobile content and images. I highly recommend that anyone who is launching or reworking a website review this document before you start. > Google SEO Starter Guide

Link Building can be Detrimental to your Wallet

Posted on September 4, 2010February 17, 2016 by Philip Busk

In a recent article in Inc Magazine, a on-line merchant of gift baskets discusses how a link building campaign cost him 4 million dollars. The loss comes both from a direct drop in traffic to his site and indirectly from the money that he had to spend on AdWords to bring traffic while his site was banned. While link building is an important part of any marketing effort, I would disqualify anyone who is sending bulk emails promoting this as a service. I feel that anyone doing link building in ...

Yahoo’s transition Bing Search and Ad results

Posted on August 24, 2010July 16, 2011 by Philip Busk

It looks like the transition of Yahoo to Bing for it’s advertising platform (Micro-hoo) is finally happening. In case you were not aware, Yahoo has been testing the use of Bing for its search results for several weeks. Yahoo made the full-time switch to Bing results last week (if you search on Yahoo, you now get Bing results). The date for Yahoo to start using Bing's AdCenter platform has been less clear, but it appears now that the transition will start later this week. see: https://www.ysmblo...

Bing’s Updated Webmaster Tools

Posted on July 21, 2010June 24, 2013 by Philip Busk

An update to Bing's webmaster tools was announced today. Webmaster tools provides valuable insight into the search engine's view of your website. Unlike Web Analytics, which shows you what traffic came to your site, webmaster tools tells you what search phrases triggered the Search Engine to display your content in the search results and if that content was clicked or not. Bing's new interface does list the search phrases your site is displayed for, which is especially useful when your site i...

Saving Search Rank When Launching a New Website

Posted on July 13, 2010January 19, 2012 by Philip Busk

On July 14, 2010, I will discuss how to maintain Pagerank when you update or launch a new website with the North Alabama Web Developers group. In this meet-up we’ll discuss Google webmaster tools, Google analytics, sitemaps, and using redirects to map content with the .htaccess file (emphasis will be on Apache/Linux hosting). Please visit the meet-up site for details and sign-up. https://www.meetup.com/web-99/calendar/13878846/ Slides from this discussion are here: Maintain Pagerank wh...

How to Diagnose Lost Search Engine Traffic

Posted on June 30, 2010February 19, 2020 by Philip Busk

When dealing with a decline in traffic it is important to determine the source of the problem. Is the change something indirect that you can't control such as change in a search algorithm or a new competitor in the market, or is the change due to something more direct, like recent (well intentioned) changes to your site or a a server outage? The clues are all in your Analytics data. Is the loss from a single referer (Google, Yahoo, Bing)? Is the traffic loss clustered around a specific ...

Yahoo to Microsoft AdCenter Transition Update

Posted on June 24, 2010June 5, 2014 by Philip Busk

I attended a seminar today that discussed the Microsoft (AdCenter) /Yahoo (Panama) transition. I have hit several preliminary discussions on this topic at conferences, but this was the first one that had any real information about the Microhoo transition. The seminar was lead by representatives from Microsoft and Yahoo and they set forth a time-line that showed the transition starting in August for completion by mid-October. They were careful to point out that this transition only effects sea...