Increasing Conversions by Removing Usability Roadblocks
What is conversion optimization Conversion optimization is the process of testing your website and landing pages to improve your conversion rate. A conversion rate is the percentage of visitors who complete the desired action on a page (example: submitting a form or...
8 Tips to Improve Your Website’s Internal Linking Structure
A website’s internal linking structure is a crucial part of the overall SEO strategy. Whether it is the end user or the search engines, it is important to optimize a site’s internal structure for maximizing the benefits. If you plan to obtain high rankings in search...
Link Building – What Works
Over the course of the last week, I have seen people saying what works and what doesn’t in link building – and they all contradict each other. Some say the old fashioned link request from webmasters is dead and guest blogging is the way to go, while others...
5 Basic Tips for Creating Profitable Niche Websites
Recently I have been doing a lot of building niche websites and blogs. I have learned a lot through my extensive research and through actual testing in various markets. For anyone who is thinking about building a niche website or blog, there are some basic, yet...
Improve SEO With Free Analyzer From BlogGlue
BlogGlue is a blog marketing plugin that creates related links between partner blogs as well as on social media. Although not advertised they have a solid SEO Analyzer built into the system. The SEO tool lets you grade your posts before you publish them and even gives...![Making Money Online with SEO [Webinar Replay]](https://www.stayonsearch.com/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/70_webinar_replay1.jpg)
Making Money Online with SEO [Webinar Replay]
Hey guys, I wanted to give everyone who missed the webinar a few weeks back, a chance to watch the replay. Daniel Lew and I discuss a number of different tactics and strategies for turning your SEO efforts into dollars. We went for almost two hours, so there is a lot...
5 Tips for Optimizing an E-Commerce Site
One of the golden rules of SEO is that you have to optimize each and every page of your site individually. On-site optimization includes conducting keyword research based on the content of a page, writing a unique title tag and Meta description that reflect the...
How to Conduct Keyword Research for a New Website
Would you like to rank for a keyword like “business”? 101,000,000 monthly searches broad and 550,000 exact searches a month! Well I bet you would like that, ha? Let me ask you something, what kind of website would you run if you ranked for such a keyword? That is a...
SEO Experts Are Holding Back Important Strategies
I’m very excites to be sharing my first guest post here on StayOnSearch which is ran by one of the good guys online..Mark Thompson. What I’m looking to achieve in this post is just to shine a little light on the world of seo. Seo is my passion and something I been...
How to Blog Comment as an Effective Link Building Technique
Blog commenting has been and still is, an effective link building technique…when done right. Simply running a piece of software that blasts out irrelevant comments to 1,000’s of blogs will just piss off a bunch of blog owners and/or HURT your rankings. ...
Setting a Foundation for SEO: Writing your First Content
Search engine optimization needs to be correctly integrated from the start of a website for best results. With the correct implementation of on-page SEO and solid content writing you will be able to rank much sooner. But, a lot of the time we have clients come to us...
Design to Convert!
You can design a website in a thousand different ways but above all your designs should convert casual viewers into loyal users and buyers. One way to do this is by incorporating conversion optimization into your website designs. Your website will only have a few...
Does Google Have A Record On You? How to Protect Yourself!
If you are using any of Google’s products, then Google might have a dossier on you. But the question is who doesn’t? Many people are uncomfortable with the amount of information Google gathers and stores on its users. With the recent privacy rules update, Google now...
Website & Landing Page Design Elements for Usability and SEO
Driving people to your website is only half the battle. Once you get them there, how do you lead them to where you want them to go on your site? Having a well designed website will help give your users a great experience, find what they are looking for and be more...
How To Craft the Perfect Meta Tags
I know it may seem very basic when creating Title and Meta tags for your website, but it can be a much more involved process if you are looking to go from good to great. Many clients are under the impression that as long as they have their keywords in the title and...
How to get the Most Out of Social Media Connections – It’s Not All About Traffic
Advertising on Facebook quadrupled last year. More than three-quarters of big American companies use some sort of social networking, and most small businesses take off from social media-induced traffic. It’s clear that Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and their...
Link Building: What’s the Best Approach?
If your link building efforts have fallen flat as of late, perhaps it’s time to reevaluate your approach. Let’s assume that the key to content is the quality of that content. Does it inform? Does it instruct? And, perhaps most importantly, does it build links? The...
Sizing Up Your SEO Campaign Ahead
SEO’s and internet marketing professionals like to credit themselves with any and all of a customer website’s success in the search engine rankings. Most SEO professionals do work hard to promote the pages of clients and boost their position in the...
6 Offline Marketing Tips You Should Consider For Your Online Business
Once you have a website, or other online business, the hardest part is yet to come. In short, you need to market your website so as to attract more readers and, hopefully, more revenue. Online marketing tips are, of course, absolutely vital. These allow you to find...
Ways to Market your Business Post Penguin and Panda
At the end of April, Google’s latest algorithm update Penguin changed the way we market our websites forever. Combating over-optimized websites, the algorithm hit thousands of websites and slashed the rankings of hundreds of web pages. Even if you’re an innocent...
Google Penguin: AKA, “Get Your Act Together”
Since Google’s newest and somewhat controversial algorithm update dubbed “Penguin” first hit the web in April 2012, users quickly discovered that Google’s update was anything but small, cute and cuddly. Hundreds of thousands of websites were slapped with Google...
The Developer, The SEO Specialist: How to Play Nice
The SEO Specialist and Web Developer relationship is very important. If the communication between the two is lax, the client is the one who suffers. I have been developing websites for the past six years, and until recently I have not had the opportunity to work with...
Live From SMX Seattle: Conversion Optimization – Winning After They Arrive
Moderator: Jeffrey Rohrs, Vice President, Marketing, ExactTarget Speakers: Scott Brinker, President and CTO of Ion Interactive Robert Bergquist, CEO of Widemile Tom Leung, Business Product Manager at Google Jonathon Mendez, Founder and CEO of RAMP Digital Tom Leung...
100 SEO/SEM Blogs You Should Subscribe To
Below is a compilation of 100 of the best blogs in search. The blogs are organized by “theme” including internet marketing news, SEO, eCommerce, social media, blogging, and web design. Feel free to leave me a comment with your own SEO blog and I will...
5 Reasons Why Your Site is Not Ranking Well?
Recently I have spoke to a number of people who have wondered why their websites are not ranking well. Of course that is going to depend on a case by case basis, but there are 5 things I will check first before I give them an answer. 9 times out of 10, if they are...
Pros & Cons for Various Types of Content Creation
Content development is the foundation for any good internet marketing strategy. The content type and quality will determine how well the content is perceived by the readers. There are many ways you can create great content for your website, but it is important to...
Using Social Media to Build Your Ecommerce Business
Social media, networking, tweeting, status updates, joining groups… all these terms are becoming part of everyday life for many and with social media offering such a wide spectrum of advertising space; employing SEO into your latest Tweets is a trick worth noting! The...
Quick Tricks to Checking Your Backlinks
Having backlinks is vital for good SEO. Knowing how to monitor your backlinks is beneficial to improving it.
8 Greyhat Tactics SEOs Are Using, Use at Your Own Discretion!
Throughout my 5 years as a SEO and Internet Marketer, I have seen a number of tactics that were borderline unethical (depending on who you talk to in the industry). Even though people won’t admit it, SEO’s are using some or all of the tactics I am going...
Marketing SEO vs Webmaster SEO
Ideas about different types of SEO approaches.
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My Thoughts on the Newest Google Algorithm Update [w/ Results]
On Friday, Google officially announced an algorithm change that is one to pay attention to. Typically when Google updates their algorithm, it is something so minor that you wouldn’t really notice a huge increase/decrease in your traffic and organic rankings. ...
Complete Guide to the Google Panda Update: 50+ Articles & Resources
Have you been searching and searching for more information the Google Panda Update, formerly known as the Google Farmer update? Search no further! The following is a timeline of articles, videos and resources about the latest Google algorithm change. More than enough...
4 Tips to Capture More Leads Quickly & Easily
Of course, email marketing happens to be one of the most cost-effective means of advertising online. But email marketing can be effective only when you have built up a long list of responsive email subscribers. If you want to make money online quickly, you’ll need to...
5 Website Fixes You NEED To Make
A great deal of small business owners has created a website just because others have recommended it. They do not even promote it thinking that customers will find them amidst the millions of others out there. This can be due to the fact that many small business...
3 Ways to Get Your SEO in Shape for 2012
The end of 2011 is coming up…fast. With multiple major holidays on the horizon, the last thing you’re probably thinking about is your SEO. But now is exactly when you should be thinking about it! SEO is incredibly long term, so developing a plan for 2012 now means...
Five Quick Actions to Get Your SEO on the Right Track for 2012
As we move towards a New Year and another 12 months of fervent optimisation, I’d like to contribute a few simple tips that will help keep your SEO on the straight and narrow. These are quick wins for issues that are well within your control, but which are often...
Managing Agency and Client Responsibilities
Recently I wrote a post on how much knowledge a client should have, but along with knowledge also comes responsibility. For any internet marketing agency to work well with their clients, there must be a mutual understanding of the overall strategy, and most...
25 Promises and Advice Given By Unethical SEO Firms
Ahh yes, we have all received e-mails from SEO companies promising the world for $199/month! Unfortunately there are more unethical SEO companies out there than ones you can trust. So if you are a business or organization looking for a reputable firm to hire, how do...
How to Increase How Often Google Crawls Your Website
This is a guest post by Ben Hook, a search marketer and owner of Navaro, a UK based SEO company helping clients to increase their online visibility. When optimising a site most likely you’ll have to be making some on site changes if the site hasn’t previously...
Trying to Find a SEO Company? Check Out FindSEOs.com
Personally I have never been very fond of all of the broad directories out there like Superpages, CitySearch or YellowPages. Mainly because there are just SO many businesses listed in each of these directories, that your head will start to spin. It makes it hard to...
You Need to Know This About Website Graders
I’ve been watching with great fascination as flocks of webmasters and business owners race to the latest website grader. They wait with eager eyes for the newest software widget to tell them why they aren’t ranking well in the search engines. I can...
What Can Online Marketing Do For Your Business?
There’s no doubt that a website hoping to do business has to invest in and have some knowledge of online marketing if they expect to be successful. The sheer amount of information going live on the internet every moment can mean that despite authenticity and quality,...![Can These 13 Search Engines Steal Google’s Crown? [Infographic]](https://www.stayonsearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/google-crown.png)
Can These 13 Search Engines Steal Google’s Crown? [Infographic]
Over 15 years, Google has risen from a mere idea to prominence – and solidified its position as the world’s leading search engine. However, even though Google has absorbed many of its rivals there are still new contenders popping up all the time. Most of these new...
How to Increase Your Page Rank by Getting Links to Your Website
Ever since Google became the major player among search engines, web masters have been trying to figure out the algorithms Google uses to rank websites. Although the actual numbers are a closely guarded secret, we do know that one important factor in ranking pages has...SEM vs SEO: Short-Term vs Long-Term
For clients, it can be hard to see the big picture when it comes to an effective internet marketing strategy. Their initial response is similar to “I need to get traffic to my site immediately. How can I get results today?”. The mentality is always now,...
Back to the Basics: Getting Started with Keyword Research
Keyword Research is the foundation for any good search marketing campaign. Whether you are running a PPC campaign or optimizing your site for search engines, keyword research can make or break your search efforts. If you try to rank for keywords that are too broad you...
How is Google Ranking the Local 7-Pack Listings?
Now that Google has condensed its local business listing results in the SERPs from 10 to 7, it is important to improve your LBL rankings. After reading many articles and blogs, including David Mihm’s Local Search Ranking Factors and through lots of experience...
Create 100% SEO Friendly Pages With the New Website Auditor 2.0
For any company or internet marketer who is looking to better optimize their website for the search engines, it can be a huge time saver to have software that can gather important site data that the search engine analyze when ranking your site. Meet the new and...