No matter which industry you're in, if you're a business that sells products online, your ecommerce conversion rate is one of the most valuable pieces of data available to you. After all, this number is a loud and clear reflection of your ability to turn passive shoppers into active paying customers. How’s that for powerful?
Effective listening skills are at the core of SEO "I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.” Henry J. Kaiser Listening served Kaiser well. He became known as the father of modern American
If you’ve been reading about Knowledge-Based Trust (also called the “Truth Algorithm”), you know that Google has looked into ranking websites based on the factual information it contains, either instead of – or more likely in addition to – rewarding sites with quality links pointing to the site. Google engineers published a paper about this technology
Boy, were we happy to read “How Hiring a Journalist Can Improve Your Content Marketing” by Robert McGuire (March 31, 2015) on the Content Marketing Institute website. We’ve been advocating the use of professional journalism techniques in content marketing since at least 2013 and it is wonderful validation to read this recommendation on a well-respected
Get targeted demographic data for free with Google Analytics Companies can spend thousands and thousands of dollars trying to get a good handle on their target markets and still not feel as though they have a true picture. Meanwhile, other companies don’t spent any time or resources getting to understand their
Making lemonade from lemons: Google’s new 100% secure search This week at The Search Guru, we’ve been hearing a lot of buzz from clients about Google’s move to secure search (and the chatter hasn’t been favorable). We understand – and we’d like to clear up some misconceptions, from our perspective, about how
Getting back to SEO basics! Today, let’s talk about some basic building blocks of SEO and how monitoring our competitors can help us spot weaknesses in our own sites. Search engines, such as Google and Bing, receive huge numbers of queries every day, as people type terms into their search engine
Does using title tags well on your site make a difference in rankings any more? Recently, The Search Guru did an in-depth analysis of top ranking pages in a particular client’s industry. As part of the analysis, we determined: which pages from our client’s site were ranking well for highly sought-after keyphrases which pages from
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
