You probably already know search engines (especially Google) are one of the most common platforms people use to access information on the internet. If you fail to have a presence in search engine results, you’re missing out on a huge potential channel to reach your target audience. Sure, using PPC ads is an easy way to jump to the top of search results without investing in all that organic optimization. Long-term benefits. MORE

Which factors are really most important in search engine rankings? How do search engines treat different forms of keywords? What other tools are worth checking out for keywords, linking and website analysis? Guide to Search Engine Ranking Factors by HuoMah SEO Blog. Q&A: A Few Things You Need to Know About Keyword Usage by Search Engine Guide. Build A Great B2B Search Engine Marketing Campaign by The Milwaukee SEO. MORE

SEO, short for search engine optimization, encompasses any activities to increase your ranking in search engine results in order to drive more traffic to your website. SERP: Here’s another simple one for you — SERP is just an acronym for search engine results page. PageRank (PR): Google assigns every website a value between 0 and 10 (with 10 being the best), this value is known as your PageRank (though it often appears as PR). MORE

Although the world of SEO could change in an algorithm instant, content marketers always have some control — read that, some control — over how their efforts might rank in search engines. Lazy link building. Fewer inbound links. In the past, companies may have had two teams when it comes to their websites — one focused on design/UX-related issues and another focused on search engine optimization. Lazy link building. Hidden links. MORE

Ranking well in organic search results becomes more imperative every day, particularly in the B2B world. 93% of these decision makers use search to begin the buying process. And it isn’t just low-level minions conducting searches at the behest of higher-ups; 63% of C-level executives say they first turn to mainstream search engines to locate information. How important are footer links to SEO? How can PDF content be optimized for search? MORE

How about tools for checking search engine rank, grading the SEO efforts on a website, developing an optimized keyword list, and link building? Counting links the easy way by Searchlight Brian R. Brown , consultant and natural search marketing strategist for Netconcepts , reviews Link Counter , a simple tool to help evaluate links on any website. Links play a very important part in SEO, both internal links as well as external links." MORE

Because blogging helps Indium reach target audiences, get the company message out and -- above all -- get found via search engines and social media. Eventually, these smart people see that blogging thrusts them and their content into the spotlight in a long-term, efficient manner. That could mean theyve been doing the same old thing for too long and are in a rut. At least it is one link in the sales chain. MORE

You probably already know search engines (especially Google) are one of the most common platforms people use to access information on the internet. If you fail to have a presence in search engine results, you’re missing out on a huge potential channel to reach your target audience. Sure, using PPC ads is an easy way to jump to the top of search results without investing in all that organic optimization. Long-term benefits. MORE

This is a list of the 40 most essential search engine optimization (SEO) terms to help marketers communicate with developers and understand how to optimize their websites. This ensures that people who have linked to or bookmarked the old address will automatically get to the new one, and search engines can update their index. Unlike humans, search engines read only the ALT text of images, not the images themselves. MORE

In marketing, a search algorithm is a specific set of rules that a search engine follows to retrieve and analyze data to determine the relevance of web pages in accordance with the search query. Typically, a major goal behind content marketing is improving your site’s rankings on the search engines, especially Google. Dive Deeper: What Is the Google BERT Search Algorithm Update? Link Building. Long-Tail Keywords. MORE