Firstly, I want to apologize for this taking so long, but I actually thought I’d never get around to it. I wasn’t sure what to write. I didn’t know if I wanted to get into technical summaries and my opinions of panels; if I wanted to go in the look at the pictures of drunk SEO people etc..

Then something happened. I came across a post on Outspoken Media written by Lisa Barone that talked about personal branding in SEO and the race to  follow the SEO Stars. I suggest you read it and read the comments too. Very worthwhile. I even learned a new word: Scoble. In any case, where it took me was what I took back from SMX West 2009 in Santa Clara and how it turned out to be much more rewarding than I thought because of the personal branding.

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Marketing to mobile users, and in cellular environments is very much different from traditional web marketing methods. I’ve tried to list here a few topics to think about whenever starting to plan your mobile SEO strategy.

Mobile SEO Basic Guidelines

Mobile search is growing rapidly and Google is, as usual, very dominant. When you create the mobile version of your site, follow the basic SEO guidelines, but pay attention to the following issues: Read More »

There aren’t many places on the web today, where you can place your highly valued, original content and wait for the traffic to come. Most of these content sharing sites are spammy and don’t contain any non-commercial content. Since I’m an SMO freak and really obsessed with finding new ways to promote our content via various web 2.0 and social media channels, when I ran into the flagships idea I couldn’t avoid trying it. Read More »

On Monday, Nov 17th COMSCORE announced the viability of view-through metrics as a key performance indicator for Web advertising.

According to their announcement:

“The comScore norms data provide compelling empirical support for the belief that there is a quantifiable view-thru impact of online ad exposures on brand value and sales.”

View Through metrics – what does it mean and how does it work?

View-throughs, or post-impressions as they are also known, generally refer to online conversions that result from a user seeing an ad online but not clicking on it at that moment.

View-throughs work by leaving a cookie on a visitor’s computer when they are exposed to a banner. Then, when that visitor goes to the site that was advertised on the banner, the system looks up the cookie and can identify the site on which the banner was seen. This way the conversion (if there is one) could be accredited to the relevant banner.

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As you know two members of our team have just passed the Google Adwords Qualified Professionals test with flying grades (and we knew they would ).

Following their successful passing of the accreditation and the results we see every day from the PPC campaigns they manage, I have asked them some key questions about the way they use web analytics to improve the campaigns’ ROI.

During our conversation we started to compare the various ways people advertise their products today. Whether it be by “traditional” methods like TV, radio and print or by online campaigns like Adwords, advertisers are constantly looking for ways to increase their conversion rates and ROI. This is when the discussion took a turn towards behavioral targeting and the possibility to retarget visitors. So I decided to write about retargeting and PPC instead. Read More »

Marketing Strategy and Multi Variable Testing:

The original phrase tells you that “you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink”. I don’t necessarily agree with that when it comes to marketing and especially web marketing. I think you can definitely convince a horse to drink, if you know the horse well enough. Read More »