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A key finding of our recent survey of more than 600 marketers was that one of the top three challenges Marketers cited was insufficient education about SEO. Staying on top of changes in any industry is important in order to able to perform at your best, but nowhere more so in the SEO industry: Google reports rolling out anywhere between 500-600 changes to their search algorithm each year. Conductors Presenting at Pubcon: New Orleans Conference April 22-25 We’re excited to announce that later this month, two Conductors will be heading south to the Big Easy to present at the Pubcon Search and Social Media conference. Director of Research, Nathan Safran will draw on his experience heading Conductor’s Research and Content … Continue reading

Some big news today. Conductor Searchlight has been helping some of the worlds largest brands gain increased SEO insight, continually show natural search ROI, improve search market share and maintain a competitive edge since our official launch last year. In that time we’ve added over 500 brands to Searchlight and developed lots of innovative features based on customer feedback including, LinkCenter, Analytics Integration through the SEO Cloud and Recommendations Dashboard. Our mission is on track  to help companies grow SEO into a successful marketing channel and our customers have been instrumental in this process. With more new features scheduled for release this year, Searchlight requires a series of interface updates to make sure users continue receiving a rich and value added … Continue reading

A sneak peak at a study we will be publishing next month shows that three quarters of search marketers audit their pages significantly less than once a week. The reason that most of these professionals cite?  Time and Scale. The burden on the SEO practitioner to optimize pages at the scale of millions, not hundreds has grown significantly, however resources are not seen nearly as fast an uptick. Our technology platform, Conductor Searchlight, is pioneering the automation of page auditing for enterprise SEO’s with the provision of accurate and actionable recommendations.  Searchlight relieves the pressure on an SEO to conduct manual page and site reviews,  and scales page auditing across limitless volumes of keywords.  The result is that the SEO … Continue reading

One can often tell a great deal about where an industry’s technology is headed by understanding both the size of the opportunity in the space and the operational inefficiencies that plague it. The greater the opportunity (the more at stake) and the greater the operational inefficiencies, the higher the likelihood technology will step in to fill the gap. This can be expressed formulaically as: market opportunity *operational inefficiencies=technology trajectory. The opportunity in SEO is indisputable: according to Comscore, monthly worldwide searches have reached more than 26 billion per month. With 92% of all search engine clicks occurring in the natural search results the opportunities for brands to reach consumers are limitless–provided they are visible in the search engines. market opportunity … Continue reading

Yesterday we saw one of the more colorful Google doodles roll out – and today we understand what they’re up to. Google’s answer to Microsoft’s Bing ‘Discovery Engine’ is Google Instant – their extension of Google Suggest to include actual results. What is Google Instant? As users to the world’s most used search engine are typing to find their latest car insurance, consumer electronics, and directions to their local Starbucks (as if those are needed) they’re now getting different results as they type. As an example – typing car insurance, you’re may get seven different sets of search engine results (SERPs) before you get to the final listings. The Fundamentals of Google Instant These are all Ajax based search results … Continue reading

Conductor was voted as the 16th best company to work for in New York. Conductor was honored to have our people and culture recognized by Crains. Here at Conductor we strive to build a culture which lets each employee make a difference, which ultimately leads to customer success. Continue reading