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Best of 2009: SEO Tips and Tactics, Part 2

Webbiquity

Find the answers to these questions and many others here in more of the best SEO articles and blog posts from 2009. SEO Ranking Factors for 2009 by WebProNews. Mike McDonald provides his own take on SMX Advanced 2009 here, outlining the most important current ranking factors with title tags and anchor text at the top of the list.

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Why Marketers Should Be On the Lookout For Unjustified Survey-Based Conclusions

B2B Marketing Directions

In my experience, most unjustified conclusions arise from blurring the lines between correlation and causation. One of the fundamental principles of data analysis is that correlation does not establish causation. Note: To see this and other examples of nonsensical correlations, take a look at the Spurious Correlations website.)

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5 Ways Bartending Prepares You for a Career in Sales

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

There is a similar correlation in sales. Not only are you upselling them from the bottle of box-worthy merlot to a 2009 Chateauneuf-du Pape (fancy French wine) prior to the event, you’re asking them to pay for it at the end. The customer should be carefully guided through the sales cycle with their needs as the priority.

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When You Should (and Shouldn't) Rely on Correlation

B2B Marketing Directions

Much of the heavy lifting in marketing data analysis involves correlation. In simple terms, correlation is a relationship between phenomena or things - "variables" in the lingo of math and statistics - that tend to vary or occur together in ways that aren't due to chance alone.

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11 SEO Myths That Will Damage Your Rankings in 2022

Brightedge

Tools like Data Cube and Site Report from BrightEdge allow you to track your rankings over time and correlate changes with new optimization strategies. Google regularly provides updates for web admins on Google Search Central , its search-focused podcast Off the Record , and its principal company blog, The Keyword. Now, Onto the SEO Myths….

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Ensighten Transforms Web Tags into Rich Customer Data

Customer Experience Matrix

If origin stories count, and I think they do, then it’s worth noting that Ensighten’s started in 2009 as a digital analytics agency. Frustrated by the limits that traditional tagging methods placed on clients’ ability to move quickly, the firm developed an engine to generate custom sets of tags for each Web site visitor.

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Why Marketers Must Beware of Bad "Research-Based" Conclusions

B2B Marketing Directions

The PA report then provides data that shows the correlation between the use of predictive analytics and demand generation performance. One of the fundamental principles of data analysis is that correlation does not imply causation. The following chart illustrates why this principle matters. There are a couple of important lessons here.