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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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Some readers may be surprised to discover that despite the opportunity organic search offers—a recent Shareholic study showed organic search drives nearly half of all traffic, 5 times more than social networks combined—many executive budget holders are still reluctant to make an initial substantial investment in SEO. Other, battle-scarred veterans will not be nearly as surprised. Whatever your perspective, the reluctance by senior management to take the leap and make an initial substantial investment in SEO, while theoretically understandable, often leaves the SEO professional lobbying for budget in a chicken and egg, catch-22 situation. “Show me you can move the needle before I am willing to invest”, they are told, but without the resources, technology, and budget it can be … Continue reading
2012 has been an exciting and busy year, both in the search industry and here at Conductor. Panda updates are a regular occurrence these days, with Penguin forcing the industry conversation on quality into the spotlight. The SERPs got a facelift, kicking off the year with Search Plus Your World, and incorporating Google+ into many of their search offerings–transforming local places results while introducing the Knowledge Graph. Below, we’ve highlighted our 10 most popular SEO blog posts from 2012, featuring guest posters like Adam Dince (Head of Organic Search for Deluxe, E-Business), joint research with Search Engine Watch, and posts from our in-house SEO expert Brian McDowell, Director of Research Nathan Safran, and Conductor CEO Seth Besmertnik. We’re always looking … Continue reading
At Conductor’s C3 conference last month we presented new research that gave attendees a view of how SEO is maturing in the organization (Why 2013 Will be the Year of the SEO). We looked at factors like headcount, budget, where SEO sits in the organization, and more, and concluded that SEO is indeed rapidly maturing in the organization. Over the course of the conference, several agency partners inquired how responses might have differed for agencies versus in-house SEOs/consultants. Having received a strong survey response from agencies—more than a quarter (27%) of the 616 respondents from our joint Search Engine Watch survey were agency professionals— we decided to shed some light on how our agency friends’ practices and goals differ from … Continue reading
Adam Dince is currently acting on behalf of Deluxe Corporation as Head of Natural Search Optimization I’ve always been a bit of a tech geek. When I joined the Navy at 19, I simultaneously started an IT consulting business on the side. I’d regularly make house calls to local Coronado, California homes and help set up computers, teach people how to use software, and fix broken hardware. After my Navy days, I enrolled in college and got bit by the Web design bug. This led to my IT business morphing into a Web design company. I loved working with the many small businesses that enlisted my services, but eventually, sitting behind a computer and coding all day became too monotonous for … Continue reading
Our recent joint survey of 616 Search Engine Watch readers showed that Marketer’s SEO budgets have increased over the last 12 months, with 66% of search marketing budgets increasing in the last 12 months, 26% by more than a ¼. While the budget questions in our survey gave us a view into how search marketers’ budgets have grown in the last 12 months, it did not provide an immediate forward facing look at budget investment and it also did not contextualize Marketer’s planned investment in search against other web technology initiatives such as social, email and mobile. A new study from the folks that put on the etail conferences (covered by Marketing Pilgrim) shows that when search budget investment is … Continue reading
In the joint research we did with Search Engine Watch and presented at Conductor’s customer conference, C3, on September 20th, we asked Search Marketers about their SEO budget allocation, headcount, technology adoption, C-suite buy-in, the use of search metrics in the organization, and more. (See Search Engine Watch’s writeup of the research.) The resulting data was fairly definitive about the rate with which SEO is maturing in the organization (download the full study), but one of the most interesting and eye-opening statistics to come out of the research was the revelation that the second most common place in the organization for SEO is now in its own department: Why is this so significant? Because it used to be that the … Continue reading