Posts Tagged ‘Long Tail’

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

November 11th, 2009 by catfish

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…)

Online Marketing Summit (OMS) 2009 Conference Recap

February 11th, 2009 by catfish

Well now that I have almost caught up with the work I missed from being at the 2009 Online Marketing Summit, I have to say, what a fun time! If you missed my presentation on Long Tail Keyword Optimization, Kate Fleming did a wonderful job of summarizing the main points of the presentation. Additionally there were a lot of other great presentors and presentations which made this conference the best one ever in my estimation. Thanks again to Aaron Kahlow and his whole staff of tireless workers for making it such a success. And who can forget the free Jamba Juice!

For my personally, the opportunity to perform and sing in my acoustic project for the first time ever in front of the 100+ people at the Thursday evening cocktail hour was (more…)

A Preview of my 2009 Online Marketing Summit (OMS) Presentation on Long Tail SEO Strategies

January 6th, 2009 by catfish


Wow time sure does fly. Seems like only yesterday I was doing my SEO for 2008 presentation at OMS 2008 here in San Diego and now it’s already 2009! I am really looking forward to seeing everyone again this year and getting another opportunity to talk SEO with so many other industry professionals. And, what’s really exciting for me is that this year, Rand Fishkin will be (more…)

4 SEO Tips for Improving Your Search Engine Optimization Strategy

April 4th, 2008 by catfish

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…)