Marketing on the Web In the pre-internet world, marketers said there were three things that were important; location, location, and location. It was important to be where your prospects could find you. In small towns, it might have been the square, or on a busy corner, as we moved to the suburbs it became the mall. Successful businesses often worked to assure their buildings and signage projected an image. The kind of image that people would like, remember and want to return to. And of course no one expected to b...
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Marketing on the Web discusses Search Engine Marketing and how it can improve your marketing efforts.
Google September Updates
Google made several significant changes this month that should be on every marketer's radar. 1) Algorithm Change What it means: September 4 we saw a shift in the algorithm. While these updates have become fairly routine, we monitor them because their effects may impact the traffic to your website's traffic. We now know this signal was the initial roll-out of Hummingbird. 2) Intelligent Search (Hummingbird) What it means: September 26 Google announced it is evolving beyond simple keyword matc...
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TLDs or Top Level Domain refers to the .com part of the address. When I started in internet marketing, there were only a few of these. There was .mil (military), .gov (government), .edu (education), .com (commercial), org (non-profit organization) and .net (network provider). This list has grown substantially, with .biz (business), being and early addition (Wikipedia Article). Some countries took advantage of their catchy TLD (.me -Montenegro) and sold domains with their TLD generically. This...
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Need help finding the right keywords to market your business on the Internet? - Marketing on the web's John Allen spoke with Ad4! Group's Chris Gattis on his show at wtkiradio.com - WTKI 1450 AM / 92.9 FM Huntsville and WEKI 1490 AM / 94.7 FM Decatur. Free Keyword Tools: Google's keyword Tool* SEOBook's Keyword Tool Wordtracker's Keyword Tool Excellent article from Casey Meraz on using Google's KW tool here *Note on July 1, 2013 Google discontinued the public version of its t...
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A lot has changed in the way Google displays businesses in the past few years. The changes have come in slowly, so you may not have noticed, but Google Ads that only appeared on the right side of the page have now crept above the left column, pushing organic results down. Businesses that were near bottom on the first page may now be on the second page (or worse). Google is also displaying a "local stack", kind of a phonebook listing at the top of the page for searches it considers local (like...
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This is an ever changing business, and we track the opinions of a number of industry analysts and blogs to stay current. However, SEO isn't a hard and fast science and industry news always has to be weighed against experience and actual results. The last two years have been especially difficult as many of the signals SEO houses have been dependent on have either lost value or become irrelevant. In April, we're headed to PubCon in New Orleans. PubCon is one of the top SEO conferences in the in...
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As a part of your marketing strategy you need to have a Google local page. Google Local (formerly Google Places) is the web equivalent of the phone book. When Google translates a search as local in nature, these listings appear near the top of the search results. Local Listings are now part of Google Plus, enabling people to comment and vote on your business through their Google+ profiles. If you haven’t done so already, you’ll need to sign up for a personal Google+ account to create your...
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