Many consider search engine optimization (SEO) - the process of enhancing your Web site’s visibility in the search engines through ways other than paid search ads - a sort of black box. But once the essential features of a search-engine-optimal Web site are laid out in a concise list, SEO is not nearly as mystifying.
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Auckland Chamber of Commerce e-Nabling Business — Auckland, New Zealand
A workshop featuring practical tips and solutions for integrating the latest email marketing and search engine optimization technologies into your marketing mix.
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“…pleased (and surprised) at how much I learned from Stephan Spencer of Netconcepts on how to optimize and generate more revenue and bring more traffic to my sites.”
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Google and Yahoo! have become much more aggressive in their crawling behavior, going deeper into dynamic, database-driven websites than ever before. A closer look, however, reveals that some bad news is mixed in with the good…
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UW E-Business Institute's E-Business Best Practices and Emerging Technologies 7th Annual Conference — Madison, WI
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MarketingProfs Virtual Seminar — online (webcast)
Do you use Google every day? Mastering Google’s powerful search refinement operators and lesser known features could, over a years time, save you days scouring over irrelevant results. Even more enticing is the promise of elusive nuggets of market research and competitive intelligence out there waiting to be discovered.
Learn how you too can become a Google expert searcher and extract invaluable data about your competitors and about the market like never before - with laser-like accuracy and extreme efficiency.
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Seek and ye shall find. But not always.
According to an IDC (International Data Corporation) report from last year, knowledge workers spend 15-30% of their day searching for information. What’s worse, more than half of their online searches fail.
That doesn’t bode well for us, does it? Hopefully, this series has gone a long way to help you make the invisibly rich Internet more visible. We close this series by tapping into the wisdom and experience of two renowned Google experts—Nancy Blachman and Tara Calishain—who share some of their favorite tips, tools, insights, and search strategies for researching with Google.
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There’s a brand new meta search engine on the block called Jux2. Its premise is to find the overlap between the top 10 results across two major search engines. So far I’m really impressed with it. It even has a toolbar for Mozilla FireFox.
Jux2 conducted some tests to determine just how much overlap there is in the top search results on Google versus Yahoo! The results of their tests are very interesting. Such as:
For me, Jux2’s findings were a good reminder that the algorithms of the major search engines are markedly different, more so than one might imagine. So a metasearch engine that compares and contrasts two partially overlapping sets of search results makes a lot of sense. I think I’ll try Jux2 for a while and report back on my experiences.
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This series is all about surprises and revelations—at least when it comes to using Google. And here’s another: some of Google’s most valuable properties aren’t even search engines. Rather, they are resources or tools such as online research assistants, Web-based email, browser toolbars and social networks. These resources can be extremely valuable to marketers and should be considered one of the sharper tools in your research arsenal.
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Now that you are intimate with the range of Google operators to refine your research searches, it’s time to put the knowledge into practice in the real world. It’s also a good time to delve a little deeper into the essential features of the Google interface.
Here, in part three, we’ll apply the secrets of Google in a search for information about the food industry. Then, I’ll share the 20 essential features of the Google user interface—the virtual place where you spend most of your time interacting with Google—and apply those to our search example as well.
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