Biznology

MAY 25, 2016

I had the good fortune to deliver a keynote address at the Search Insider Summit (SIS) in Key Largo, Florida on May 6th. The venues can’t be beat and your access to experts is unmatched in the world of search marketing conferences. Voice search. As such, I always feel like I learn more than I share.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Millionaires, billionaires, and professional class do show up on Google search, but most of these results are from the news, third-party mention, Wikipedia, and generally anything and everything that Google can find. There a lot more information I could go into. Actually control. There’s the rub. What of Bing and Yahoo!?

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Biznology

JUNE 6, 2012

In these cases, our only option is to help Google crawl and index our content so that the most important content takes its rightful place in Google’s index, and hopefully Google’s search engine results pages (SERPs). James Mathewson is the Global Search Strategy Lead for IBM and the Search Practice Lead for the IBM Design Lab.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Search has been around a long time–since 1995–and even Google has been around since 1998. You would think that by now that we would all be doing every kind of search marketing there is. I am sure that you are working on organic search, which most folks like to call Search Engine Optimization, or SEO.

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Biznology

APRIL 18, 2016

Well, the name of that survey mechanism is your website search. Most companies I work with don’t use any analytics from website search. Some clients are more enlightened, and they at least check out the list of most popular search keywords and try to make sure that the right answers are coming up for those. Like this post?

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

I can’t tell you how often I hear the same thing: “Our website search facility is managed by the IT team.” ” But they are nonplussed at the prospect of the IT managing their website search. Sure, website search has a technology component, but so does your website and so does your email marketing.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Search is a critical piece. Whenever we start to review Google keyword data, one of the most common questions I get is: “How do you know our target audience is actually searching for that keyword?”. Meaning, you’ll rarely see a keyword like “business strategy for HR professionals” have any significant search demand.

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Biznology

MAY 8, 2013

To better understand where the business value is, and to shape its usage to maximize that value, try to see your social platform as an internal Amazon site, but with a twist: instead of moving retail goods such as books and electronics, you are actually moving information. Marketplaces in the real world are fascinating places to visit.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Is paid search part of marketing? Vic Drabicky clearly feels it’s the latter, boldly proclaiming on Marketing Land , “Today, the marketing aspects are all but gone from paid search.” Is paid search part of marketing? Does paid search allow for creativity and passion and art? Paid search is a science.

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Biznology

JULY 1, 2013

Most websites have a lousy search facility. You’ve tried searching websites and you hardly ever find what you are looking for–at least not without a lot of work. What is the search like there? Website search isn’t easy to make work–that’s why most of them don’t.

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Biznology

MARCH 4, 2013

Photo credit: Search Engine People Blog. I had signed to do a corporate training session on search marketing. That way, I know what the participants know and what they don’t know, and I can tailor the information to their actual level of knowledge. Search marketing, of course. I definitely had a problem.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Google is finally “not providing” search referrals for all organic searches. How does a searcher’s privacy affect search marketers? And what do search marketers do about it? When Google sneezes, search marketers catch pneumonia, so what’s the treatment? “Privacy,” they say.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Yes, I am a longtime IT person, but even I will tell you that marketing needs to run your website search, just as marketing probably runs the rest of your website. Well, then why do you let IT decide which messages show up on the search result page? Sure, your IT folks can choose the search engine technology. Like this post?

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Biznology

AUGUST 21, 2013

At least for a moment, let’s not talk about search as a result unto itself. Instead, let’s talk about why search matters to your business—and why it may not be doing its job. But no matter where you rank, too many sites fall down on the job at connecting search results with business results. Or it ought to be.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Analyzing the current landscape and the evolution of information markets by borrowing from a product life cycle framework may assist in developing some educated guesses about what the future may bring. The inefficiencies of the system were one of the most powerful filtering mechanisms in that information life cycle. Distributing.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 2, 2013

I’m starting to see a lot more companies working on improving their website search. But when you think about, someone who is already on your site who is willing to search within your site might be a lot better prospect than someone else. We website owners expect that when we install a search engine, it should just work.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

When all five roles are using the same keywords as the content strategists and information architects (IAs) who work on your website, that’s when the magic we call content marketing happens. Earned: Press releases, blogs, organic search, social outreach, Facebook, Twitter. Search rankings dramatically improved.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

As with traffic and revenues, search hasn’t escaped this trend. In fact, 100% of the increase in overall search volume comes from… yep, mobile. According to comScore (and ably pulled apart by Search Engine Land ), search volume actually fell 6% in November last year. Read on, dear friends. Mobile matters.

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Biznology

MAY 30, 2014

This was a fun use of The Search Monitor’s competitive ad monitoring technology , so here’s what we looked at: All PPC activity on keywords related to cheap airfare, cheap hotel and lodging, and cheap cruises. We’ve got more information on the travel section of The Search Monitor blog.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 21, 2020

That’s right, ensuring a high position in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) is one of the best ways to drive customers to your physical store as well, simply because modern customers make sure to research companies online before paying you a visit. Leveraging GMB to rank high in local searches.

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Biznology

MARCH 14, 2013

Yesterday, Rob Petersen, Tim Peter and I gave a Webinar on using analytics to make search marketing decisions. How is your search marketing working? Your analytics are essential to your initial search marketing plan and improvement plans. Do you know how your Web analytics can drive your search improvement plan?

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Biznology

MAY 22, 2013

Search just ain’t what it used to be. Search engines used to be about helping customers find information. But new products like Google Now, Google Glass, and the redesigned Google Maps are beginning to flip the script, moving to an environment where information finds your customers instead. Image via CrunchBase.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

A keyword ontology is a knowledge graph describing relationships between the keywords your target audiences frequently use in search queries and the products and services you sell. It can include other relationships as well, such as taxonomies, information architectures, social listening queries, competitors, etc. ” Why?

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Biznology

MARCH 26, 2012

But when it comes to search engine advertising, like Google AdWords, you need to think about your offer and call to action a bit differently. So the ideal in search engine advertising is to identify an attractive offer that also qualifies. Free information. Image via CrunchBase. This is not news to Internet marketers.

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Biznology

MARCH 8, 2018

After striking out with LinkedIn search, I searched in Google. In particular, the semantics of the URLs plays a big part of how search engines index the content, and ultimately rank the content in their indices. When people are looking for content, more often than not, they search by topic.

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Biznology

APRIL 9, 2018

Sometimes referred to as “search listening,” it starts much the same as SEO research, identifying relevant “parent” and “child” terms that have a high search volume. ” Obviously, this deep insight can also be leveraged to make good paid search buying decisions. Listen and learn.

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Biznology

JANUARY 26, 2011

Andrew Goodman is a writer, paid search expert, and SearchManager Advisor to American Express OPEN , the credit card AMEX markets to small businesses. Andrew has long been known as one of the foremost paid search experts in the world, so if you are interested in Microsoft-Yahoo! Me: How does mobile search play into this Yahoo!-Bing

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Biznology

DECEMBER 8, 2017

You might consider AMP for informational blogs, wikis, or other static help documentation. In the simplest possible terms, tracking users through their information journeys is about matching their cookies to your pixels. If I can’t track user interactions from search referrals to purchase, I can’t do it.

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Biznology

JANUARY 5, 2018

So organic search users in the UK would get US pages. Our UK marketing organization had to spend a lot more money on paid search to get the results they needed, because they simply could not outrank our US pages in organic search. This was a problem when the pages had US-specific offers on them. emphasis mine].

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

So, hot on the heels of the SPYW (Search Plus Your World) incident which created such a stir amongst the Internet industry glitteratti and all of those “privileged” enough to consider themselves on the inside of the industry, Google rolls out a rather curious project called Screenwise. The new project is called Screenwise.

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Biznology

JUNE 25, 2010

I am knee deep in a project for a client that is designed to take their national presence and represent it locally (in Google primarily) through making sure their 28 local branches are found in local searches. Search engine results pages (SERPs) for local search have become increasingly competitive. That's a lot of searches.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 7, 2017

A good thing to keep in mind is that search engine algorithms rate the relevance of keywords on pages and in the meta data, but also evaluate other information like the time visitors spend on your site, the presence of broken links, the inbound and outbound links, bounce rate, the pages viewed and more. Header tags.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 16, 2011

If you’re like most businesses, your 2012 marketing plan relies heavily on search engine marketing. Both paid and natural search continue to offer businesses excellent growth opportunities for the foreseeable future. Search is in big trouble, under pressure from a variety of sources. Antitrust Forces Storm the Castle.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 12, 2017

These are the people who know the most about the products and can give the “inside” information B2B buyers are hungry for. Techies are not known for their ability to make complex technical information accessible to those unfamiliar with the products they build. It’s just hidden from them.

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Biznology

MARCH 25, 2019

The only problem is that staying on top of the latest trends and best practices can be difficult given the increasingly complexity and misinformation surrounding SEO and the constant changes in search algorithms. Transactional: These are search queries that indicate the user is looking to make a purchase. For example, YouTube.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Steve and I argue not only is it going to become necessary to ditch personal information, you can replace it with smarter personalization tactics. 33:56 Personalization without personal information. Search Chat is SoloSegment’s podcast dedicated to all things search AI and content marketing related. 0:00 Intro.

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Biznology

JUNE 8, 2017

They don’t always search for information, but enough do to make search the best way to understand their intentions at each stage in their journeys. Search query analysis is a representative sample of audience intent. In our analysis, 95 percent of search demand is unbranded.

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