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If a Marketer from Mars landed on Earth today, read through the last 12 months of tech news, and was … Continue reading → - Conductor's Top 10 Posts for 2011
2011 has been both an exciting and tumultuous year in online search. From changing SERPs, to the focus on quality … Continue reading → - The Retailers Most Likely to Take America's Money Online in Holiday Season 2011
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Our guest poster Amado Candelario is the SEO Manager for Apartments.com, living on the line that separates web development and user experience. He uses data analysis to drive SEO initiatives that maintain and increase organic search traffic to both Apartments.com and RentalHomesPlus.com. No blog post in the month of January is complete without talking a little about 2012, and I won’t disappoint. 2012 was full to the brim with gifts from all the search engines, and not just the mighty G. Never before has the inbound marketing community been so directly involved with influencing changes in algorithm updates and, to some extent, linked to products created due to the impact of these algorithm updates. Before you start … Continue reading
Any hint of an ‘Apple’ product these days garners its fair share of coverage, but even by Apple standards, in the lead-up to the September 12th launch event the coverage was fast and furious online. Rumors and speculation about what Apple might launch, from a larger iPhone to a mini-iPad flew thru the Blogosphere while supposed leaks of the new phone were covered far and wide. To get a sense of which tech blogs won the digital media coverage war, we tracked 71 high-volume search terms readers might use to search for Apple coverage. Half the terms were keywords searchers might use to search for iPhone coverage (e.g. ‘iPhone 5’, ‘iPhone rumors’…) and half were iPad keywords (e.g. ‘newest iPad’, … Continue reading
Check out Conductor’s own Senior Research Analyst, Nathan Safran on Search Engine Watch in a contributed article about how Google + could threaten Google’s core search business. We are pleased to announce that Nathan will be a regular contributor at Search Engine Watch. Look out for his monthly article there. In addition, he will also be a regular contributor to SearchEngineLand.
2011 has been both an exciting and tumultuous year in online search. From changing SERPs, to the focus on quality that Panda brought with it, to Google encrypting search queries, a lot has happened in our industry this year. Conductor has been there along the way and have hopefully contributed positively to the discussion. We’ve also been privileged to host great content from some super smart industry veterans like Ambar Shrivastava (formerly of The Ladders,) Jeff Herbst from 2tor, and Shelly Towns from Angie’s List. * *If you are interested in guest-blogging for us in 2012, reach out to Nathan Safran, Senior Research Analyst at Conductor. Be sure to stay tuned for more great research, information, tips and webinars in … Continue reading
Jeff Herbst heads up the organic search strategy at 2tor, Inc (a Conductor Searchlight customer) which partners with prestigious research-based universities to deliver rigorous, selective degree programs online to students globally. 2tor has partnered with the University of Southern California’s School of Social Work to deliver their Masters in Social Work program online. I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to put it together this “Rethinking your Keyword Strategy” series for you and I hope you’ve found it to be beneficial so far. In today’s final installment, I’ve outlined several themes and specific examples you should consider when building categories within Searchlight. Back in October, I had the opportunity to speak about this topic at Conductor’s C3 conference. In case you missed part 1 and part 2 of … Continue reading
Jeff Herbst heads up the organic search strategy at 2tor, Inc (a Conductor Searchlight customer) which partners with prestigious research-based universities to deliver rigorous, selective degree programs online to students globally. 2tor has recently partnered with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to deliver their prestigious MBA online. Last week, we published part one of my (originally) two part series on “Rethinking your Keyword Strategy.” In that first post we reviewed the steps required to organize the data needed to execute a keyword strategy re-evaluation. In this post we are going to cover the next two steps, regarding how you can prioritize and categorize your Keyword Scorecard to drive business intelligence. In my final post, I’ll cover several category themes you can build … Continue reading