SEO Sales and Services - Consulting Cuts Complexity

The changes that have happened over the span of the search marketing industry are enormous but have happened in four distinct waves, the latest of which is peaking right now. These changes have forced a shift in the way strong SEO and SEM firms approach clients and campaigns, most wanting to perform a short round […]

Search Engine Marketing Issues: SEO/SEM Pricing Models

I am a partner in a website design and development company. Within the past year, I have begun to learn as much as possible about the search engine optimization and marketing world. While reading and researching, I have found that there is very little useful information on the current trend(s) of pricing SEO/SEM […]

Strategies to Profit When Click Prices Increase

Final strategy that involves calculating and using your average customer lifetime value as a way to bid at higher prices while remaining profitable.

Search Engine Algorithm Quandaries

Before you make drastic changes to your website after a rocky search engine update, take time to study your web server logs, changes in traffic to your site, and your ranking in the search engines……..

Ethics and Advertising - A Debate in SEO/SEM Circles

On the Internet, the word spam is most often associated with unsolicited junk email but search engine marketers use the word to describe techniques that violate search engine guidelines or are in some way or another based on offering search engines spiders one set of data while presenting another on the site. Over the past […]

Your Search Engine Optimization Strategy: Make Love, Not War

When it comes to search engine optimization strategy, there are basically two camps - those who view search engines as adversaries to be conquered at any cost and those who regard search engines as partners in their online marketing efforts. Long-time readers of my articles probably already have a good idea of which camp I […]