Archive for the ‘Enterprise Search Engine Marketing’ Category

Open Graph and SEO

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

Even though Open Graph is meant to weaken Google’s role in the long term as the most important referral engine for traffic to a web site, Google will be extremely important in the near future. Furthermore, even if Google’s importance does diminish, it will likely always serve enough traffic to warrant serious attention from web marketers, and this traffic is extremely important to success with Open Graph as you can use it to catalyze the flow of content from your site into the Facebook referral engine.

How to Block Sitelinks in Google Search Results

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009

How Is Your Web Site Represented in Search Engine Results Pages?

When searching for your Web site, you want to see your Web site listing in the SERPs (search engine results pages) to be the representation of your company/site. For instance, you want the title and the snippet to include the information about your site/page and a marketing statement that will generate clicks. This can be done by optimizing your title tag and meta description tag. But what about sitelinks? Are these links showing up in the SERPs satisfactory?

Country Specific Search and Domain/URL Structure

Friday, September 4th, 2009

Enterprise Solutions to Geodesignate in SERPs When ccTLD Is not Available

Many enterprise companies have websites that contain sections for multiple countries under one domain, instead of hosting ccTLDs (country code top level domain.) For example, www.example.com might have their UK pages (or enterprise companies might call “site”) within the .com domain (i.e. www.example.com/uk/) instead of having www.example.co.uk.

Facebook Vanity URLs - Are You Ready?

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Facebook users will be able to claim “Vanity URLs” to customize the Web addresses profiles starting at midnight Eastern on Saturday, according to a post on the Facebook blog. Currently, users’ profiles URLs have been structured as a string of numbers – as seen here:

Speaking The Customer’s Language

Monday, April 13th, 2009

Marketing on the Web is less about telling your customers what you want them to hear and more about giving them information they need. Brands who cannot embrace this concept will lose trust (and clicks) in the world of digital marketing. The keys to success here are in doing this now, doing it well, and doing it honestly.

Twitter, Brand Management, and the New Social Search

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Yesterday, in a post on my personal blog, I called Twitter a “Real Time Capable Social Search Engine.” Little did I know that elsewhere on the web, Lew Moorman was proposing Twitter as Google’s first real threat to search dominance. I am not prepared to go that far. However, I am absolutely in agreement that Twitter will be used increasingly as a search engine by its users, and is certainly poised to play a major role as social search matures.

Creating Value Through Search

Monday, January 5th, 2009

How can marketers optimize their Web sites to make sure they rank highly in consumer search? They can begin by answering a few simple questions about the content on the site that may serve as a report card for gauging performance and the “value” it delivers to patients.