Many consumers carry out product and pricing research online before buying at a local brick and mortar store. A 2010 survey by BIA/Kelsey and ConStat confirmed that 97 percent of consumers investigate future purchases using online media.
Tag Archives: SEO
Our Daily Best: Week of April 25th
April 29, 2011
As we bid April a fond farewell, we cautiously dip our toes into May. Over the past five days, we’ve savored the sage advice found in Tips & Bits. We’ve been schooled by the wealth of valuable information brought to our attention by The Art of Design and Graphic Design Roundup. And we felt the [...]
5 Simple Tips For Image Search SEO
April 29, 2011
There are a lot of people out there performing image searches when researching products and services. If you have a graphics design website, a photography website, an ecommerce website, or even a personal blog, it is very likely that you have a lot of pictures on your website. You should always be thinking about how to optimize your images. Here is a list of 5 simple image optimization tips that will help you on your journey into image search optimization and SEO for your pictures
SEO Tips For 2011: Writing Optimized Title Tags
April 8, 2011
I’m a sucker for SEO talk. It’s pretty much my favorite thing. And I love it when I hear other SEOs make sweeping generalizations about SEO strategies and methods. For example, I recently overheard someone talking about title tags. Apparently, they should always contain the brand *and* be less than or equal to 70 characters. Sure. Okay. That is the general rule of thumb for title tags. But is it right for every website in every industry all of the time? I say “NO WAY!” Let me tell you why.
Photobomb #17: Gigapixel Image, Macro Shots, SEO and a lot of How-to!
February 17, 2011
You can do it! You can make a Gigapixel Image! You can shoot portraits with a single light! You can get macro shots with any lens! You can even be just like JC Penney (until Google catches you). You can do all these things and more simply by checking out this week’s Photobomb!
Our Daily Best: Week of Feb. 7th
February 11, 2011
Not to toot our own horn, but we pretty much rocked it this week on the daily posts. So much free stuff, tips and help we should be knighted. To us, just another week and it’s just us being Our Daily Best.
Finding Yourself #2: Local SEO Tips & 10 Local Business Listings to Claim
February 11, 2011
In today’s search landscape, if you cannot be found in a local search, you will have trouble competing in your city. You may have an awesome product, venue and/or brand, and your SEO may be awesome, too. You might even have an amazing ad campaign and an incredible publicity strategy. Each of those will obviously [...]
Finding Yourself #1: SEO Basics
January 27, 2011
Getting found is what SEO is really all about. And if you’re not Oprah or Miley Cyrus (2 of the top 5 searched personalities for 2010), you have to do a little more work to rise to the top. So here, based on are some easy and important SEO tips to help you do just [...]
Our Daily Best: Week of Dec. 6th
December 10, 2010
If you missed it… you REALLY missed it. We had SEO, we had web design tools, we had photoshop on your phone, and we even hooked you up with the path to a better career. Maybe next time you won’t be so busy at work? Yet, we still love you, so we have the best [...]
Google Instant Doesn’t Instantly Change SEO
November 12, 2010
Wow. Has it already been two months since Google Instant was launched? Two months in ‘Internet Time’ seems like a decade in real time, doesn’t it? And I think this is a good time to ask, “Has Google Instant really changed anything for SEO?”
5 Free Marketing Resources
September 16, 2010
There are tons of great resources out there to assist you in your marketing endeavors no matter what type of business you have, or products and services you offer. These are a few current favorites – all free – all good.
How to Put the Social into the S of Your SEO
February 12, 2010
Customers come to your site through search via search engines. Basic concepts that help make your site friendly to search engines such as Google include: crawlable relevant content, site organization, links – both internal and inbound from external sites, keyword use, and code optimization.
Web Page Marketing: Getting Familiar with SEO and SEM Basics
October 29, 2009
Are you confused about SEO and SEM? There’s a lot to learn and even the terminology can be confusing. Here, we present the basics in terminology and process to help get you started. Often people will find your website by doing a search on a search engine – such as Google or Firefox. No doubt [...]
Twitter News: Twitter, Microsoft and Google Walk into a Bar…
October 29, 2009
So, Twitter, Microsoft, and Google, walk into a bar together. Then Google says, “Hey, Twitter, how about you let me use your data for my search engines?” And Microsoft says, “Yeah, great idea. How about it?” Twitter smiles and says, “Yes. Let’s do it.” All joking aside, according to the Increase Visibility blog, Twitter did [...]
Menu Design – 8 Do’s and Don’ts of Good Menu Design
August 6, 2009
Seducing search engines with Long Tail Keywords is something to consider when you’re writing copy. You know what I’m talking about, copy that waits for passing search engines then beckons, “Hey, Mr. Search Engine, Over Here, Over Here – I have exactly what that searcher is looking for!” Long tail search terms are important to [...]























September 23, 2011
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