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What Do Caffeine And Mayday Mean For B2B Marketers?

Written on July 28, 2010 by admin

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Most of you have heard about Google Caffeine which launched last month and the algorithm update made in
May, nicknamed Mayday. For many B2B sites the algorithm change resulted in a loss of rankings and
traffic. Now that several weeks have passed, marketers are wondering how these
changes affect their website and what changes (if any) they should make. This column offers
practical advice for B2B marketers regarding these recent Google updates.



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Blekko: New Search Engine Lets You “Spin” The Web

Written on July 28, 2010 by admin

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Did you think the search engine wars had devolved into a fight between only Google and Bing? Think again. New challenger Blekko is stepping into the fray, opening to limited beta testing today. It offers a compelling way to “slash the web” and put a particular spin on your search results.
Blekko isn’t a Google-killer. Nor [...]



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Demand Media’s eHow.com Using Interesting Expired Domain Redirect SEO Strategy

Written on July 27, 2010 by admin

Filed Under: book, marketing, seo

Perhaps part of the “interesting data” Richard Rosenblatt was talking about was link anchor text on expired domains & cybersquatting efforts that he could redirect in bulk at high earning eHow pages.

Not to fear, Demand Media is a trusted Google partner, so the algorithm and engineers are prohibited to take action against the same activity which would get your website removed from the search results.

Google’s blind eye and double standards toward the large MFA spam sites are becoming such a big issue that it looks to be at the core of the marketing strategy for new search engines!

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Interview of LinkedIn’s Marketing Manager - Andrew Chang

Written on July 25, 2010 by admin

Filed Under: Advertising, book, marketing, searchengineguide, seo

by Manoj Jasra

Search Engine Strategies is less then a month away and this year it’s taking place at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Earlier this week I had the opportunity to catch up with Andrew Chang, Marketing Manager at LinkedIn, to get some insight into his session on PPC and SEO best practices–specific to B2B. Read our conversation below:

[Manoj]: Your session at SES is related to SEO/PPC strategies with regards to B2B, how does LinkedIn become part of equation?

[Andrew Chang]: Millions of people visit LinkedIn each day to connect and re-connect with colleagues and business associates. Our members come from all walks of life - accountants, financial advisors, attorneys, web developers - and they are well-connected and active professionals that many B2B marketers are trying to reach. For this reason, we built and launched our own self-service PPC advertising offering called LinkedIn DirectAds (http://www.linkedin.com/directads) that allows anyone with a LinkedIn account to place text ads on prominent pages and target those ads to only people you’re trying to reach.

A quick example of how this works: One of our most successful customers is an e-learning company that’s trying to attract the attention of primary school teachers to sign up for a Master’s degree program in Education. Over 214,000 LinkedIn members have identified themselves (in their LinkedIn profiles) as being in the “Primary/Secondary Education” industry. Within a few minutes, the e-learning company created a text ad and start displaying the ad only to those 214,000 members when they visited LinkedIn. Teachers click on those ads to learn more about the Master’s programs and the e-learning company pays for those clicks.

[Manoj]: How has the game of lead generation changed in 2010?

[Andrew Chang]: Two ways: Social media and mobile. The increased use of social media services like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter is forcing businesses to rethink how they spend their time and budgets. On LinkedIn, thousands of LinkedIn Groups have sprouted up and liked-minded professionals are engaging in conversations that span the buying cycle. Businesses should be thinking about how they might engage with prospective customers within these groups, encouraging their employees to participate in these conversations. Increased mobile internet access worldwide requires that businesses take a second look at how people experience their website, emails, and other marketing assets from mobile devices.

[Manoj]: I’ve always thought that the importance of SEO never weakened over the years, what do you think?

[Andrew Chang]: Even though I work in online advertising, I always recommend to business and website owners that their websites and web content is optimized for both search engines and social media. I’ve noticed that in recent years this has become easier to say but more and more complex to do. Just take a look at the Google’s Webmaster Central Blog and you’ll see that it’s not just about having the right content on your pages and getting high quality websites to point to your content. With YouTube videos, tweets, and other online assets now crawled and indexed in search engines, you need to think about SEO for more than just your website content.

People don’t realize that your presence on LinkedIn can be optimized for search as well. At a personal level, your own LinkedIn profile often appears in search results when people search for you by name. To make a great first impression, you should make sure that your LinkedIn profile is current and complete. Here’s a link to our learning center where you can learn more: http://learn.linkedin.com/profiles/overview/

Companies also can have their own pages on LinkedIn and you may be surprised by how many people click over to your company’s profile after visiting your personal profile. Anyone at at company can edit the company’s profile on LinkedIn. To learn more, check this out: http://learn.linkedin.com/company-pages/

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How To Transform Search Behavior Into A Great Search Experience

Written on July 23, 2010 by admin

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You’ve done your research. You understand how consumers search for your products and services. Now, what do you do with this insight?
In my previous article about Giving Customers What They Want, I outlined an approach to creating a search behavior model that can be used to develop your information architecture and your website content strategy. [...]



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Working with Navigation in SEO [SEO Fundamentals]

Written on July 21, 2010 by admin

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You Keep Using That Keyword. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

Written on July 15, 2010 by admin

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by Stoney deGeyter

Keyword research is a funny thing. You can gain a lot of knowledge about what words people use when searching on the engines, but it tells very little about what a person wants when they search using a particular keyword or phrase. The intent behind the search is the missing component, and I don’t know of any keyword tools that get far enough inside the searcher’s heads to know what exactly the searcher’s intent is.

Many people, when performing keyword research, look primarily at the search volume of a phrase and whether the phrase appears relevant to what they do or sell. On that analysis alone keywords are chosen or rejected.

Search volume isn’t always the best way to choose keywords.

A targeted phrase isn’t always as it appears

A lot of phrases can change meaning significantly just by changing word order or the addition or removal of a qualifier. Lets say you sell a brand of underwear called Awesome Underwear. Well, if a keyword phrase is “awesome underwear suck,” clearly that is not a phrase you want to target or use on your website. Or perhaps you see searches for “awesome underwear wedgies.” In most cases this would be caused by people searching for information on how Awesome Underwear causes wedgies, a major complaint spreading like diarrhea throughout the internet.

On the other hand, what appears to be a negative phrase for one company can actually be a positive for another. Perhaps there is a company called Bad Ass Undies that’s known for creating underwear that actually prevent wedgies, even in the toughest of boy’s locker rooms. In this case, searches for “bad ass undies wedgies” is performed by people looking for more info on how the undies work and if, alas, they truly can stand the wedgie test. If you’re optimizing the website for Bad Ass Undies, “wedgies” a word you definitely want to target.

As I said earlier, sometimes changing the word order can have a profound effect on whether a keyword phrase is a viable one or not. A good example of this is is “wedding planning” vs. “planning wedding”. Some may be looking for a person to manage their wedding while others may be looking for tips on how to plan a wedding themselves.

Finally, there is always the case where a phrase changes meaning without changing word order but by changing the inflection used in the searchers mind.

This happened to me the other day as I was looking for a headset for my phone. I saw a box on the shelf that read “cordless telephone headset.” My first thought was, “oh, look, a cordless headset.” But alas, it was merely a headset for a cordless phone. Two very different things but both use the same words in the same order.

Before deciding to optimize your site for “cordless telephone headset” you need to determine what it is people are looking for. Get this wrong and your visitors will quickly leave.

The best tool I’ve seen for determining visitor intent is Google. Do a search for your phrase and look at the results. If the majority of the results are cordless headsets then you have to assume this is what people mean when they type in that phrase. When people land on your site using that phrase, these are the products you need to display. If you show corded headsets for cordless phones instead, you’re going to have higher bounce rates.

Understanding your visitors intent with keywords doesn’t always boil down to the obvious. This is a good check for all of your keywords. Sometimes there are other industries you may not be aware of that are using the same terminology. A quick check in the search results can be quite telling as what your keywords actually mean.

This post was inspired from The Princess Bride themed presentation I gave in early 2010 at SEMpdx’s Searchfest titled Inconceivable Content: The Dread Pirate Robert’s Guide to Creating Swashbuckling Content, Pillaging the Search Engines, and Commandeering a Treasure Trove of Conversions. If you enjoyed this post you also might enjoy other posts inspired from the same. Search for “inconceivable content” on this blog to find them all.

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