Like the last invaders from back in ‘75 (Seventeen Seventy Five that is), it seems that Google, a new dreadnought, has its sights on Boston and they’re planning on more than a fortnight’s stay. Amidst not so subtle clues, like job listings for Google and YouTube for the Boston area and search insider gossip, the [...]
Category Archives: Organic Search
SEO for Events and Seasonal Promotions
February 21, 2007 – 4:48 pm
Organic Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has a lot of strengths when compared to other marketing channels. SEO can build long-term equity for a website, providing a cost-effective supplement to paid search ads, media buys, and many other forms of online advertising.
But one area where SEO traditionally fell short is with seasonal or event-driven promotions. SEO [...]
What is Social Media Optimization?
November 22, 2006 – 5:39 pm
Social Media Optimization is a concept that is making its way into mainstream marketing publications. Social Media Optimization or SMO is a concept coined by Rohit Bhargava of Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide. In his 5 Rules of Social Media Optimization, Rohit explains that:
“The concept behind SMO is simple: implement changes to optimize a site so [...]
Best Practices for Integrated Search Engine Marketing (SEM)
October 22, 2006 – 5:21 pm
As advertisers increasingly seek to synchronize their pay-per-click and organic search engine marketing campaigns, a new strategic discipline is emerging-integrated search engine marketing. The goal of an integrated SEM campaign is to deliver better overall ROI than search engine optimization and pay-per-click campaigns would have yielded independently. This article outlines the opportunities that are unique [...]
Evaluating Visitor Quality without Transactions
September 2, 2006 – 4:10 pm
For transaction-based e-commerce websites, search engine marketing offers an unprecedented level of ROI measurement and accountability. E-commerce vendors can track their ROI on a keyword-by-keyword basis right down to the very last cent. But for other types of sites, evaluating the success of the campaign is more of a challenge. Consider, for example, [...]
Reaching the US Hispanic Market with Healthcare Search Marketing
June 22, 2006 – 5:32 pm
Many healthcare companies recognize the US Hispanic market as a growing part of their business and online strategy, and their websites are slowly beginning to reflect this. Although this is considered a major step toward successful marketing to the US Hispanic audience, providing a Spanish sub-section of a website or dedicating a few pages of [...]
What is Personalized Search?
April 4, 2006 – 5:11 pm
Put most simply, personalized search is the delivery of search engine results that are uniquely tailored to both keyphrases and individual searchers. For example, in the early days of search, everyone searching for the phrase “AMD” would get the same results, whether they were interested in silicone chips or semiconductors, or age-related macular degeneration. With [...]
Report from the Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York City
March 22, 2006 – 5:06 pm
The search marketing space continues to grow by leaps and bounds, and if this year’s record crowds at Search Engine Strategies in New York are any indication, the search space will not be cooling down anytime soon. For those who could not attend here are some of the highlights from the conference from an organic [...]
Can Blogging Drive Traffic to a Pharma Site?
February 1, 2006 – 4:55 pm
So, what is a Blog?
A blog is nothing more than a web page; but it is a special kind of web page. A typical blog is a website with regularly published “articles” that are displayed “newest first”.� Blogs have certain attributes that distinguish them from standard web pages; namely, ease of web publication and mass [...]
How does video search benefit health-related websites?
January 21, 2006 – 4:08 pm
Apple’s successful launch of video to its popular iTunes service has generated a lot of media buzz about the growing search demand for videos.
For both Google and Yahoo, video search appears to be all about content distribution and maximizing additional revenue streams. Health related websites that offer education videos and video testimonials on your website [...]
