Category Archives: Search

Using Excel To Group Long Tail Keywords on Search Engine People

My latest guest post, “Using Excel Formulas To Group Your Google Analytics Long Tail Keywords Into Themes
“, is live on Search Engine People’s blog.

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Shifting Markets to Follow Markets

Google has begun to roll out Enhanced Campaigns, and the reactions have been mixed. At least until the middle of this year the older format, now called Legacy Campaigns, will remain as they are, though any new ones will be Enhanced by default.

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Google, Now with Travel Times

Recently an SEO specialist I work with, Ana Diaz saw something interesting. A number of travel queries came with a map, with a route, distance and travel time displayed.

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Graph Search: More Searching Social than Social Search

Facebook has actually been providing a social layer to search for a while now, with both Bing and Blekko using Facebook information to rank results.

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Time, Competition, Adwords and Market Dynamics

3am is not the busiest time of day for search. Nor is it the best for conversions. For organic traffic, this does not matter. Ranks do not change depending on the time of day or week in the search results. The same is not true for paid search.

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