Creating SEO-friendly content is by no means an easy task. Today s Internet is chock-full of spectacular visuals offering everything from streaming video to big glossy-looking pictures. But take away all those special fonts and brightly-colored links and do away with the embedded noises and flashing banner ads and you re left with just the backbone of the Internet the one thing which holds it all together plain simple content. Creating SEO-friendly content is a hassle an ongoing process a chore and the only way to make your pages popular....
RESOLVE SUPPORT ISSUES from your Desktop! Minimize downtime with a remote support solution that lets you resolve issues right from the desktop

Every so often it helps to take a step back from your industry so you can figure out where it is and where it s going. The search industry is no exception. I ve spotted some interesting issues and trends that I d like to share with you. Finding a way to make use of these trends could help you in the long term....
SOLVE SUPPORT ISSUES on the First Call! REMOTELY CONTROL AND CONFIGURE SYSTEMS. Easily install applications, updates. All from your Desktop!

I recently had a go at live twittering a conference and what a pain! First, I was flooding my followers with constant updates. Second, trying to recreate what I live twittered into a blog post was a nightmare, with me literally having to cut-and-paste newer twits above the older ones to reconstruct the proper chronology. There had to be a better way, and now there"s one you can try: Live Twitting.

Click to continue reading...

Why do SEO professionals run ranking reports? Rankings are important because better ranking means that a site can capture higher share of search volume for a keyword. And at the end of the day, that is SEO all about, capturing the as much share of search volume as possible. But does last week's Google announcement about enhancements in keyword level reports means no more ranking reports? I would like to believe so!

Details

Late last week, Google announced on it's blog here, that webmaster account keyword reporting will expand beyond "Top Search Queries" and will provide more information at a keyword level. Key enhancements are -

More Data - Website owners will have access to the following keyword level data -

1. Keyword (Search Query)
2. Impressions (the number of times that your site’s pages appeared in the search results for the query)
3. Clickthrough (the number of times searchers clicked on that query’s search results to visit a page from your site

Getting traffic share from the above data should be a small step!

Number of Keywords - Another key change is the number of keywords in the report. Earlier, only top 100 search queries were displayed but now you can see thousands of keywords for your website! 

Calendar - Now you can look at data for the last month, last week or another other duration, if you want. A search feature/filter also allows you filter the results to your selected keywords.

I am looking forward to moving away from an indicator (keyword ranking) of success to actual metric of SEO success (traffic share)!

Good job Google!