Posts Tagged ‘Keyword Research’

Free Long Tail Keyword Analysis, SEO Research and Measurement Tool from BusinessOnLine

November 11th, 2009 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

Today at Pubcon I will be announcing a new keyword analysis, research and measurement tool from BusinessOnLine that is free and built simply using Excel.  This search analytics tool can be used to baseline and understand the long tail keyword performance of your Web site.  At SES in San Jose, I told people of the importance of understanding your long tail performance over time as another key indicator of the success of your SEO campaign.  However at that time, I told people that it is virtually impossible to do this in most existing analytics platforms and that we use a proprietary tool to accomplish our long tail baselines and subsequent performance monitoring.  Well after I said that I felt like I had let some people down by not giving them a solution to the problem.  So for Pubcon 2009 here in Las Vegas, I wanted things to be different.  So I had Ilya, the mad Russian scientist of BusinessOnLine who is an Excel expert, but together a simple tutorial on how to build an long tail keyword analysis tool for FREE :)

So, here is the (more…)

Keyword Research Should Be An Ongoing Process for Your SEO Campaign

October 17th, 2008 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

Keyword research is the foundation of search engine optimization. Understanding what words and phrases that people are using to search for your products and services and then optimizing your site to target those phrases is the essence of SEO. Typically keyword research is done at the beginning of the project and it drives the optimization efforts. But in order to maximize the success of your SEO campaign, it is very important to have a system in place to monitor the effectiveness of your keywords on an going basis and adjust your campaign accordingly.

The most important step in this process is to set up your analytics package so that you can track conversions on your site by referring keyword and differentiate between paid and organic traffic. Keyword phrases that have the best conversion rates should obviously be the number one priority of your SEO campaign. So identifying these keywords on an ongoing basis and integrating them into your optimization should be the cornerstone of your campaign. That’s why it is essential to have your analytics set up properly to (more…)

4 SEO Tips for Improving Your Search Engine Optimization Strategy

April 4th, 2008 by Ray "Catfish" Comstock

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 302 redirects to 301 redirects, optimizing content, are all techniques that can be used to optimize a Web site for search engines. How you put together the master plan of utilizing those techniques on an ongoing basis is your SEO strategy. It may seem at first like an exercise in semantics but its important to understand the difference. A person can employ a number of (more…)