About Leslie Carruthers

Leslie Carruthers is President of The Search Guru, a search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO) and content marketing agency serving medium and large businesses who think big.

Effective landing page: essential for a successful pay per click campaign.

2018-06-14T21:07:35+00:00May 14th, 2012|

An effective landing page is essential for a successful pay per click campaign. With AdWords campaigns, perhaps you follow all of the best practices for: campaign structure keyword targeting negatives and compelling ads But, if you fail to create a customer experience within your site that gets a click – that becomes a conversion –

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Business letters of apology: repair online reputation & mend relationships

2021-04-07T10:35:16+00:00October 18th, 2010|

Business letters of apology: a customer of yours has just written a scathing online review of your products or services. How should you respond? The short answer is that you should write the customer a letter of apology (and, don’t worry, we’re going to include a business apology letter sample!). Regardless

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Best digital camcorder: see what to buy to create a video for your website.

2019-07-02T14:06:15+00:00May 17th, 2010|

The Search Guru shares in-depth tips to help you purchase the best digital camcorder to increase your website’s video content – to draw more traffic. There are many types of digital camcorders on the market today that are designed to make it easy for you to create a video and upload the content online. (The

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Bid management software: compare that to manual pay per click management.

2018-06-14T21:07:35+00:00May 10th, 2010|

Pay per click management: When choosing a company to manage your paid search campaign, there are many factors to consider. What kind of reporting will you receive? Will you have total access to your account? How helpful will your account manager be? Another important factor you should consider is whether manual bidding or bid management

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Choosing keywords to revise web page content: freshen up your website now

2018-06-14T21:07:35+00:00March 1st, 2010|

Spring is coming – so it’s time to freshen up your website by once again choosing keywords for your site and updating your web page content. When was the last time that you conducted keyword research on your site? If the answer is a year – or more – then it’s definitely time to repeat

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Online advertising trends: a steady increase in search based advertising

2018-06-14T21:07:35+00:00February 26th, 2009|

Online advertising trends: a recent eMarketer report suggests a steady increase in search based advertising. In fact, an analysis of these online advertising trends by Online Media Daily states that marketers will actually “rely more on search marketing as many become cautious about spending and look for methods to prove that campaigns work.” More specifically,

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Search engines spiders: spider names and what search engines they belong to

2018-06-14T21:07:35+00:00February 7th, 2008|

Do you know the spiders? If one ever wondered if search engine engineers were a whimsical lot, one only needs to looks at the names of search engines’ spiders to find the answer. Googlebot, Slurp, Ask Jeeves and ia_archiver are some of the spider names used by the most popular search engines on the web.

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