Search Tools for Your SEO Toolbox
The search engines provide some of the best tools, free of charge, if you know how to use them. Oct 8, 2008
Book Review: Search Engine Marketing, Inc.
Search marketing experts Mike Moran and Bill Hunt update their must-read guide to driving qualified traffic to your Web site. Sep 24, 2008
SEO Toolbox Tips
What information is important to your natural search knowledge base? Here are a few places to check out. Aug 13, 2008
A Natural Disposition for Search
Having a natural disposition for search is all about creating an environment from which you can sustain your Web-land like a wetland. Jul 30, 2008
Christmas in July?
With the holiday season only four months away, here are some tips to make link building a no-brainer. Jul 16, 2008
Link Building: A Legacy of Lazy Linkers
Lazy linkers, random linkers, and lethargic spiders. What's a link builder to do? Tactics for getting your site right. Jul 2, 2008
Link Building Starts at Home
Several link-building tactics that require attention. First in a series. Jun 18, 2008
SEO Is Not Free
Three ways organizations neglect search engine optimization. Jun 4, 2008
Content Optimization: Managing the Gap
Recognize opportunities to amplify the contextual signals the content is sending to the search engines by way of title tags, heading tags, and more. May 7, 2008
Content Optimization
Ensure your content has a chance to be found for all the right words with keyword research. Feb 27, 2008
Chicken Soup for the SEO Soul
How SEO professionals can salvage their reputations in the face of unjust criticism (and blog posts). Feb 13, 2008
Five Getting-Started Blog Questions
A blog can enhance a company's online reputation, recruit new clients, increase site traffic, and be a significant part of a long-term link-building strategy. Jan 30, 2008
Adventures in Searchandising, Part 3
Enhance the contextual relevancy of key category pages within a complex database-driven Web site by understanding what keywords and phrases drive your revenue. Last of a three-part series. Jan 2, 2008
Adventures in Searchandising, Part 2
What happens when the major search engines meet guided navigation and extreme pagination? Part two of a series. Dec 19, 2007
Adventures in Searchandising Part 1
Behavior targeting, personalization tactics work well for internal site search, but not so for Google, Yahoo, and MSN Live Search. Here's why. Dec 5, 2007
Getting Out of Search
How to hide and remove Web pages from search engine spiders and avoid a meta misadventure. Nov 7, 2007
Tags, Customized Search, and SEO
Tagging and tag clouds provide an unrivaled form of alternative navigation. Though they're just one tactic of many, they should not be ignored. Oct 24, 2007
Socially Optimal
Social media optimization builds on best practices for a Web site's natural SEO campaign. Oct 10, 2007
Holiday Shopping: Wrap It Up
These are the dog days of summer, but the clock's is ticking. Time to get e-commerce sites ready for the holiday sales surge. Aug 15, 2007
If Harry Potter Did SEO
Traditional wizards and witches are replaced with Web wizards, widgets, and wands. Aug 1, 2007
For Your Reviews
How to set up product reviews on retail sites for maximum SEO impact. Jun 20, 2007
The Duplicate Content Debate
From an SEO perspective, too much duplicate content can land your site in the netherworld of Google's supplemental results. Jun 6, 2007
SERPs and the Super Bowl
The upcoming game provides an interesting macro-analysis of natural search results, and perhaps some insight into the game's outcome. Jan 31, 2007
SEO Best Practices: 20 Questions
How can you tell if your site adheres to SEO best practices? Start with honest answers to the following 20 questions. Jan 17, 2007
Resolve to Produce Great Content
If you do one thing to grow your search engine referrals this year, focus on producing great content. Jan 3, 2007
Site Architecture and SEO
You have to crawl before you can run. And before creating keyword-targeted content, you must make that additional content manageable. Dec 20, 2006
Search's Long Tail and SEO
The long tail isn't a threat to branded search. It's a well-rounded, unbranded complement to natural search engine referrals. Nov 22, 2006
The Tail That Wags the Web
The long tail operates in a way contrary to how brands prioritize SEM strategies. Nov 8, 2006
"Classic" SEO?
Are search marketers in such a rush to establish the credibility of the industry that they can only do so by fiddling with time? Aug 16, 2006
PPC: In or Out? Part 2
The seven steps of a finely tuned PPC campaign -- and how to determine who should handle the execution. Last in a series. Aug 2, 2006
SEO: In or Out? Part 1
Should SEM be managed inside or outside your business? Part one of two. Jul 19, 2006
The Write Stuff
Search engines count on you to deliver the write stuff to them to crawl and index. Jul 5, 2006
Summer Search Trends
Get ready for a summer of local and mobile search, along with a helping of pay per call. Jun 21, 2006
Google Calling?
If eagerness is a hallmark of innovation, Google will to continue to set the PPC advertising standards for years to come. Jun 7, 2006
Buying Time With Bigdaddy
With Google's Bigdaddy update complete, getting a new site listed could take up to six months. How to fast-track that listing. May 24, 2006
SEO: An Hour a Day
A new book walks you through SEO, step by step. May 10, 2006
Mindful of the Medium
If time is money, Internet time is a fluid currency of choices. These are best made when you're mindful of the medium. Apr 26, 2006
Time to Spring-Clean Your Site?
Tips to help you spring-clean your Web site and ease site maintenance going forward. Apr 12, 2006
Substantiating Search
Tap into search's head and tail, and you achieve quantifiable latent influence on the overall buying process. Mar 29, 2006
Site Maps and SEO
A well-constructed site map is fundamental to visibility on the Web. Mar 1, 2006
A Look Behind the Page
More behind-the-page SEO techniques to encourage search-referred traffic to your site. Feb 15, 2006
Weaving Relevant Keywords Into Your Site
You've prepared a list of relevant keywords and keyword phrases to help increase natural search traffic. Now, you've got to weave them throughout your site, too. Feb 1, 2006
An SEM Diet for the New Year?
Get ready to exercise your mind (and potentially eat your words) to balance SEO and PPC for a healthy Web marketing mix. Jan 18, 2006
Choosing a Web Design Firm
How do you find the right Web design firm? Start with the basics. Jan 4, 2006
Naughty or Nice SEO?
Organic search marketing initiatives display your company's reputation on the Web. What tactics are you willing to employ to attain top results? Dec 21, 2005
Search: Bah Humbug?
A visit with the ghosts of search's past... and future. Dec 7, 2005
Inbound Link Strategies: Movin' On Up
Have your search results been affected by the latest Google update? How to move out of a bad-link neighborhood into a better one. Nov 9, 2005
Search vs. the Splogosphere
Spam blogs have swollen search engines' indexes with... spam. What are users, brands, and e-commerce merchants to do? Oct 26, 2005
Building Brands Using SEO
The bigger the brand, the harder it is to get and maintain top organic results in the major search engines. Oct 12, 2005
Personality Profiles and SEM
If you handle SEM in a corporate environment, you must learn to handle the seven distinct corporate personality types. Sep 28, 2005
How SEMs Can Help Protect Brands Online
Trademark law hasn't caught up with technology. How you can help keep your brand from losing its trademark status. Aug 3, 2005
The SEM Scam Sales Pitch
A little research (and some knowledge) helps reveal an SEM scam. Jul 20, 2005
Where's Your Head At?
Will Yahoo! Mindset reshape the SEM industry's future? Jun 8, 2005
The Law of Unintended Consequence
As far as search engine referrals are concerned, the law of unintended consequence is merciless. May 25, 2005
Meta Tags and Link Deficiency Confusion
Are meta tags still important in SEO? How critical are links to your site? A commonsense approach toboth. May 11, 2005
An Exit Strategy With an Open Door Policy
Search engine marketers are in high demand. Before you leave one company for another, prepare accordingly for your departure. Apr 13, 2005
How to Retain a Good In-House SEM Professional
Retention is an issue for any business. But in SEM, demand exceeds supply, and competition for your SEM expert's skill set is ferocious. Mar 30, 2005
How to Find an In-House SEM Specialist
Need for in-house SEM? There are several paths you can take to find the right person for the position. Mar 16, 2005
Optimizing Corporate Culture for SEM
An in-house SEM manager's goals include getting all kinds of corporate divisions on board with the program; IT, PR, even legal. Jan 19, 2005
From the Diary of a Corporate SEM Manager
Search Engine Strategies events, search engine spam and shams, and the need for SEM managers in corporate America. Dec 8, 2004