We sometimes get a call from a frantic prospect who says something like “I absolutely have to rank Number 1 on ‘convertible frammis’ by Monday.” Never mind that it’s Thursday afternoon, and that he means through organic search only …no PPC allowed. We can only speculate as to what motivates a normally sane marketer to [...]
Continue Reading Add comment August 7th, 2008
We’re continually amazed by the number of our good clients who are happy for us to help them with search engine optimization (SEO) …until it comes time for link building. They’re quite happy for us to worry about their keyword/keyphrase identification, page or H1 tags, alt-tags …all that gritty technoid stuff. But mention inbound links, [...]
Continue Reading 1 comment July 17th, 2008
We’ve relayed a number of forecasts showing a continued rise in online ad spending for this year, despite the economic uncertainties. One of the latest comes from researcher eMarketer, showing online ad spending reaching $27.5 billion, up 28.5% over 2007. No surprise, this spending will be driven largely by paid search engine advertising, which is [...]
Continue Reading Add comment June 23rd, 2008
It may be tempting to think of search engine optimization (SEO) as an optional expense or activity… something that can be put off almost indefinitely, with no real harm done. In reality, nothing could be further from the truth. By failing to optimize your website, your B2B is probably missing much if not most of [...]
Continue Reading May 12th, 2008
Like every organism in nature, your company is constantly evolving: developing new products or services, addressing new markets, changing its image to the world (aka branding). That means that your website – as the company’s “front door” these days – absolutely must evolve to keep pace. Few things are more off-putting to prospects than learning [...]
Continue Reading May 5th, 2008
You spent thousands of dollars outsourcing the design and development of your beautiful shiny new website …or you had capable people in house who developed it. Either way, it cost you and your company valuable resources, i.e., time and money; and no doubt plenty of blood, sweat and tears. From planning and development to developing [...]
Continue Reading Add comment March 24th, 2008
While we couldn’t agree more, fortunately we didn’t have to say it; David Meerman Scott did, in his recent RainToday article. David acknowledges off the top that his premise is a fairly sweeping generalization …but one based on his personal review of more than 1,000 websites. By and large, he says, agencies are conditioned by [...]
Continue Reading Add comment February 7th, 2008