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Archive March 2010

Jumping Through Hoops: Enterprise Level SEO Tips

It’s hard to keep up with the latest and greatest SEO tactics. Add thousands (or even millions of pages) and corporate hoops to jump though, and that is the hell an enterprise SEO point person deals with every day. Educating key decision makers, overcoming budget issues and keeping everyone on the same page were all… Read More

SEO

Automating Twitter: Can Humans & Robots Tweet in Harmony?

The session was titled Automating Twitter. Whispers. Sneers. Suspicions abound. Was this the beginning of the end? The dawn of a new corporate spam? There have been shady APIs and coded bots in the past, sure- but those mostly were, and in various circles continue to be, totally frowned upon. I’m glad to report that despite… Read More

Social Media

#SESNY 2010: Don’t Be Negligent, Carpe Display

The rise of exchanges in display advertising is making it look a hell of a lot more like search. Display is making headway from a shot-in-the-dark branding channel tactic to a highly targeted conduit for brands to capture the right audience, with the right dialog at the right time.

Paid Marketing

SEO Still Drives Awesome Traffic, Show It Some Love

In a performance-driven world where clear-cut metrics can be a marketer’s best friend, the fear of anything less can seem too discouraging for words no matter how valuable it truly is. This SES New York session (which was awesome) on the State of Search track was SEO Performance Marketing: Paid Search is Accountable So Why Not… Read More

SEO

Eye Tracking Research, All It’s Cracked Up to Be?

Knowing and understanding how consumers interact with your website is valuable information that can be obtained by looking over their shoulder. This approach is creepy and tedious. Instead, you could utilize eye tracking studies, but they can’t tell you the whole story. Read on for coverage from the Eye Tracking Research Update session at Search… Read More

Analytics