Social & SEO – How to Leverage Social Media to Achieve Better SEO ResultsPresenter: Ray “Catfish” Comstock, Director Search Marketing, BusinessOnline Track: Advanced Tactics and Optimization Monday, April 22, 2013   1- 1:50 pm ET / 10 – 10:50 am PTRegister Now with the BusinessOnline Discount Code: BOL15   Session Description: We will discuss the Direct SEO impact [...]

Mitul Gandhi, founder of seoClarity and BusinessOnline Director of Search Marketing Ray “Catfish” Comstock discuss how to solve for advanced SEO challenges specific to enterprise organizations.   Catfish describes the methodologies BusinessOnline uses to solve for these specific enterprise search challenges and how the seoClarity tool offers unique solutions for challenges such as: Technical  Challenges Huge number of pages (100,000+) [...]

Many people get myopic when they approach SEO and think that it’s all about optimizing their HTML pages. While your HTML webpages are primary ways that people may first encounter your brand and website online, your website is often a repository of other very useful files that your regular users and brand advocates have come to know and trust you for. Did you know that you can optimize your file types that are not HTML webpages to give you more value in the search engines?

Establishing a global web presence and optimizing for search engine results is more than just translation. In fact, without a true understanding of the cultural, political, linguistic, and social differences of the targeted country, marketers run the risk of driving users away. And, without the proper International SEO Strategy, they run the risk of something worse – never being found by users in the first place. Take a look at some of the best-practices and strategic tips below to help you gain international exposure and SEO value.

Social media optimization is the art of fully leveraging your social networks to extend your messaging to as many people as possible. There is a subset of those activities that can have a dramatic effect on search engine optimization. In this article I will be discussing the value these activities can bring to your SEO campaign in addition to how using SEO metrics to help paint an ROI picture around your social media campaign.

There are a number of reasons why any company should consider blogging. The social media opportunities, networking opportunities and ability to enhance brand reputation are all compelling reasons to participate in blogging. Often times however, these benefits are hard to quantify in a way that illustrates the ROI that is achieved through blogging. Fortunately, blogging [...]

Having a consistent SEO process is critical for any SEO company as well as any SEO professional. By taking the time to write out a training manual for your employees (even if you haven’t hired any yet) you accomplish a couple different things. First, defining your SEO process allows you to be more consistent in [...]

One of the more interesting questions that has emerged recently in the world of SEO is the mystery of the Viewstate variable. This handy little invention of Microsoft’s twisted mind allows form users to recapture data they had previously typed in a form in the event that they hit the back button after already submitting [...]

Having an ongoing search engine optimization strategy is essential for any successful SEO campaign. And there is a big difference between SEO strategy and SEO techniques. I define SEO techniques as the actions that one takes to optimize a certain segment of a Web site. So in other words, having keyword focused title tags, changing [...]

Today I was reading an outstanding article about Meta Descriptions by Barry Welford and I thought I would share a couple more thoughts I have on the subject. In Barry’s article he mentions about the importance that description tags play in creating the snippets that the search engines display in the SERPs (search engine results [...]