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John McCarthy
To 301 or Not to 301, That Is the Question
ADOTAS – In any given month, I conduct between five to 10 SEO campaign audits. What is an SEO campaign audit? An SEO campaign audit assesses the current search-effectiveness of a website. The audit helps identify what needs to be done to improve the SEO campaign and how to prioritize [...] More...
Rest in Peace, Yahoo! Paid Inclusion
ADOTAS – Yahoo! Paid Inclusion was born March 2004 in the Silicon Valley region of California and goes to the digital marketing ether on Dec. 31, 2009. YPI as it was sometimes referred to by search engine marketers spent the past five years helping small, medium-sized and large businesses around the [...] More...
D’oh! Not-so-best SEO practices
ADOTAS – While attending a recent trade show, I provided “live” SEO site assessments for a number of companies. A typical live SEO site assessment involves a brief Q&A about the goals of the site with the company followed by 10-15 minutes of targeted SEO research and analysis. My SEO [...] More...
SEO just might not be for you
ADOTAS – Although I am a big believer in the value of SEO, sometimes an SEO campaign is not in a client’s best interest — at least initially. During a recent conversation with the president of a B2B technology company, I asked why he was considering implementing an SEO campaign. [...] More...
Defusing a SEO bomb after it goes off
ADOTAS — At 3 pm on a Friday, I received a phone call from a public relations agency regarding a crisis management issue. Within a few days, the local press would release a negative story about the agency’s client. Apparently, a former employee was going to air some dirty laundry regarding [...] More...
Goldilocks and the 3 eCommerce Clients
ADOTAS — Once upon a time there were 3 midsized clients that elected to develop their eCommerce websites on a shoestring budget. As Goldilocks tried to market these 3 clients websites using SEO and paid search, she quickly found out their decisions to be…well…frugal is the word that came back [...] More...
Trust Me – I’m a Professional … SEO
ADOTAS — At WebMetro we typically provide SEO Action Plans as part of campaigns. As the name implies, an SEO Action Plan is a strategic plan to achieve the ranking, traffic and return on investment objectives from the SEO campaign. Typically our SEO Action Plans are 90-days in duration, but [...] More...
No SEM Value Meals Sold Here
ADOTAS — The other day I followed up with a company that I spoke to earlier about creating a paid search campaign. This company, located in southern California, is an original equipment manufacturer that primarily sells to other businesses within the state. While this company could sell their products outside of [...] More...
Building Brands One Non-Branded Keyword at a Time
ADOTAS — I never believed search built brands until recently. To me brands are usually built by basic brand pillars or attributes such as service, quality or innovation, yet often comprise critically important differentiation intangibles such as feelings and experiences. These feelings and experiences are developed and communicated by brand advertisements. [...] More...
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