Competitive Intelligence: Getting the Skinny on Your Competition

by May 9, 2011

Competitive Intelligence Advantage: How to Minimize Risk, Avoid Surprises, and Grow Your Business in a Changing World)
If you’ve ever dreamed of being a spy like James Bond, Jack Ryan or Tom Bishop, the intriguing world of competitive intelligence is your chance. Okay, so it doesn’t include cool cars and you don’t get to use lines like “shaken, not stirred”, but you do get to be a spy-ish.

Semantics and Relevance: Even Keywords Need Support Sometimes

by November 29, 2010

In content, you have synonyms, plurals and related terms. When you read a sentence, you get the meaning of a word based on the context. You get the meaning of the sentence based on the surrounding sentences. In fact, a lot of our reading comprehension doesn’t come because we’re walking dictionaries, but because we use surrounding information to support our understanding of the written word.

Just How Important Are Domains for Keyword Ranking?

by November 25, 2010

You’re setting up your website. You already know you’re going to pay a professional SEO specialist to perform the complete kit-n-SEO-kaboodle, you just haven’t hired anybody yet. Now, you’re pretty sure you read something about domains being important for the process, but how important is it? … and what’s a domain?

SEO Campaigns and the Ever Essential Benchmark

by November 11, 2010

Winning the Business Race We’ve all been there. You have this sweet SEO campaign planned out to the nth degree. You’ve put it into motion. You’re sure it’s going to: Increase your traffic; Boost your ranking; Boost your ROI (Return on Investment). Problem: After three months, your ROI is still a sinking ship. Your ranking seems to have a severe lack of motivation; it hasn’t even tried to move. Worse yet, your visitors have the attention spans of guppies, staying only long enough for the site to load – if you have visitors at all.

Using Google Web Analytics to Check Your SEO Campaign: Keywords

by September 16, 2010

Now, in the SEO industry, Google Web Analytics is a touchy subject. So, for those in the industry who feel the need to yell and rant because I’m adding “Google” to the title, yell on, while I talk to the target audience. Because, you see, GA is a free analytics platform. Thus, it’s widely used [...]

Search Engine Optimization – Long Tail or Short Tail?

by September 6, 2010

When doing your own search engine optimization, you can always find plenty of articles on how to research keywords. You can find tons of tools as well, such as WordTracker and the Google keyword tool. What you get is a list of potential keywords, information on how often they’re searched and, basically, whether they’d be [...]

Finding Keywords for SEO: How Long Does This Take?

by July 16, 2010

One of the search terms that hit our site was “minimum amount of time to find keywords for SEO”. Somewhere out there, someone is trying to find out the shortest amount of time this part of the campaign will take. Sadly enough, this means they’re probably not taking SEO seriously, or believe optimization is a [...]

6 Ways SEO Copywriting Services Work for You

by June 21, 2010

SEO copywriting services – the designation is quite a mouthful. If you can write, these services may also sound like a waste of good money. After all, why have someone write for you when you’re perfectly capable of providing your own content (or copy)? However, SEO copywriting services do make a difference, and in very [...]

SEO and Writing Quality Web Content

by June 8, 2010

There is a lot of information on how to lead a SEO campaign for your online success. You can read, view, subscribe, buy into, etc., but one thing is always clear. Learning how to maximize your SEO in content is the underlying thread. SEO is for the search engines. Web content is for your visitors. [...]

Merging Keyword Strategies and Effective Copy writing

by June 4, 2009

seotoolsWriting SEO (Search Engine Optimization) articles is the exciting mixture of developing keyword strategies that will generate a response from various search engines. SEO articles merge those keywords into unique copy writing material that engages and holds the reader. SEO copy writing creates articles that reach the marketplace in two ways. The first is by anticipating the search terms utilized by the readership. The second is by employing those search keywords to establish links from the reader to the destination site through the search engine.