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Our monthly webinar yesterday was about how to improve your website search in order to make more money.  Did a frustrated searcher just ask again why your site search engine stinks? Site search foments frustration because you can’t deliver on the implied promise: “Type in anything and we’ll find it.” You’re not sure whether the problem is the search engine technology you use, the way you’ve set up the search engine, or that blasted content on your site. Your authors don’t use the right keywords, your webmasters block the spiders, marketers insist on their precious message, and tech support people write entirely in acronyms. Read the remainder of this entry »

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The primary Google Penguin update and all of the subsequent Penguin updates have targeted sites that were guilty of “over-optimization.” These sites were taking SEO to the extreme and participating in activities that the Google Webmaster Guidelines advised against in an attempt to gain an unfair advantage over the competition. Site owners that used a keyword-rich domain name as opposed to the brand name, created keyword-rich microsites to rank highly for specific keywords that would then direct visitors to the main site, wrote low quality content that was written primarily for the search engines instead of target audience members, and relied too heavily on keyword anchor text usage saw a huge dip in traffic and rankings. Read the remainder of this entry »

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Harsh question, I know, but the search results for many website search engines appear almost random. The reason I am familiar with this situation is because clients often ask me for help. They usually start by telling me that their search engine stinks. Now, sometimes it does, but not usually. More frequently, they haven’t done anything except install a search engine. That works about as well as just installing a CRM system. If you just let your search engine lay there, don’t expect to like the results. Read the remainder of this entry »

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“If you don’t have a website, you don’t have a business.”  By now, this maxim is well understood–and it is just as true for B2B businesses as for B2C ones, if not more so.  But what kind of functionality does your B2B website really need?  What website strategies should you pursue for business marketing?  Here are five must-haves for every B2B website.  Read the remainder of this entry »

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The SEO process looks the same, for the most part, for any website owner. Small businesses and large businesses have the same goal–to improve their search engine presence in order to generate more visitors to the site. The process begins with industry and keyword research, then on site optimization, and then ongoing link building. Because enterprise organizations have more resources than smaller companies, it would seem as if an enterprise SEO campaign would be more successful. This isn’t always the case, especially since enterprise organizations often make mistakes that smaller companies do not. Here are 3 common mistakes that large corporations make during an SEO campaign.
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