Philadelphia SEO Internet Marketing

SEO, PPC and Social Media Marketing

SEO Tool Review: Scribe for Wordpress

For those familiar with content development, Brian Clark is the well-known expert behind CopyBlogger. Recently, Brian teamed up with a talented crew to create a new SEO-focused tool for use by Wordpress fans.
Since Dinkum Interactive is a big Wordpress fan and uses the platform itself, I took a few moments to take Scribe for a [...]

Your Customer List: Low Hanging Fruit

What do Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Advertising, Email and Social Media have in common? Beyond the obvious, most companies use one of these marketing methods to find customers and make sales. While these methods are arguably among the most efficient marketing methods to find new customers, many businesses overlook a resource that can be [...]

Search Engine Ranking Factors: What Really Matters

Keyword ranking factors have always been a subject of significant debate, which confuse many businesses as they attempt to optimize their websites to perform well for their chosen keywords. I recently encountered a great article on search engine ranking factors on SEOMoz.org that distilled the opinions of 72 high profile SEOs. I think this may [...]

Small Business Online Marketing Tips: Episode 1

Developing a website or diving into the world of online marketing can seem pretty daunting, especially to small businesses. Since many don’t have web designers on staff or the technical know-how, I thought that an occasional post highlighting resources that small businesses will find helpful in their online marketing efforts would be in order. Today’s [...]

Philadelphia Internet Strategy

Philadelphia because it lies south of New York. Many of the companies we speak to are just south as well when you  ask them about their online strategy. As much as we hate to admit it there is still a serious issue of information lacking. The companies are lagging behind in knowledge.
What is your [...]

Did you optimize that press release?

To get it off my chest – first rule about using press releases – have something to say. Now if you are not optimizing  your release, you may be wasting your time and money. Press releases can be distributed for free or for cost at hundreds of online sites, but they are worthless if [...]

15 minute SEO – Covering the basics

Those who know SEO understand that we can’t cover a whole lot in 15 minutes but there’s great value in at least understanding some of the basic concepts so that we can be more informed in our Web choices. The fabulous folks aver at Talance invited us to give a group presentation covering some of [...]

Keep them out of the Philadelphia online marketing scene

Time to call out a few companies for doing the wrong thing and I see I am not alone. Chris Silver Smith , Barry Schwartz, and Gabriel Goldenberg all agree with me or should I say I agree with them. It is about time the community spoke out more about these [...]

Not having analytics = driving with your eyes closed

SEOmoz has a report on Searchfest 2008.
I found this section to be most insightful.
About web analytics:

Analytics does not simply equal “reports”
Not having analytics = driving with your eyes closed
Search analytics = 5 step checkup:

phrases
page views
time on site
bounce rate
conversion

The time on site combined with the number of page views is the most useful data
Conversions are slightly [...]

Ask not what your search engine can do…

I’m a fan of the underdog. If I don’t have a vested interest in a football game, I’ll quietly go against the favorite because I like competition better. Ask.com has never been a big player but more of an innovator and have done some interesting things through the years. The concept of a user actually [...]

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