Archive for Online Marketing

AdGooRoo

// April 17th, 2007 // No Comments » // Online Marketing

AdGooRoo is a company providing search marketing intelligence and reporting through their three product offerings: SEM Insight, Natural Rankings, and Trademark Marketing.

SEM Insight is a suite of reports giving you visibility into some key areas critical to search marketing. Notably, it gives you intelligence about the keywords your competitiors are targeting, industry-targeted ad copy that is converting well, comparing two advertisers campaigns in a side-by-side fashion, as well as a handful of other reports.

A sampling of the Natural Rankings features is monitoring that allows you to track search engine rankings for any company. Since this is something you can monitor over time, this empowers you to understand the organic marketing strategy of your competitors, helping you spot weaknesses in your own strategy, or identifying competitors you may not have been aware of. They also have an inbound link report that describes not only the incoming links to your site but to your competitors as well, helping you understand what sites are lending the most authority to improving search rankings.

Finally, their Trademark Monitoring service automates the monitoring and reporting on advertisers who are bidding on or using your trademarks in their ad copy.

Their pricing model starts at $99/month and goes up as you expand your keyword inventory and take advantage of the more advanced features they offer.

AdGooRoo is providing a cohesive set of reports and tools that help automate and manage your SEO and keyword bidding strategy and can scale as your online advertising budget grows.

Keyword Research With WordTracker.com

// April 16th, 2007 // No Comments » // Online Marketing

WordTracker.com is a keyword research tool.

It let’s you research how often people are searching for keywords and how competitive those keywords are. It also helps you find alternative combinations of keywords phrases related to your business or products.

I’ve seen other tools that do some of this, but it’s a competitive price point for what you’re getting.

It’s not a total solution though, as Dan Thies mentions. Doing some targeted research using the advanced Google search features can build on the information a tool like WordTracker gives you to give you a more complete picture of the competitiveness of a given keyword phrase.

Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization

// April 13th, 2007 // No Comments » // Online Marketing

I’ve been asked many times by individuals and companies what they have to do to improve their site’s rankings in search engine results pages.

Recently I’ve been directing people to the Beginner’s Guide To Search Engine Optimization available from SEOMoz.org.

Despite not having been updated in over a year, it still represents a cohesive set of basic guidance for site designers and administrators on the key elements they should consider when architecting a new site or redesigning one with SEO in mind.

It’s an excellent resource for people seeking a basic understanding of SEO and the how to get their sites going in the right direction for better ranking.

Search Engine Ranking Factors

// April 11th, 2007 // No Comments » // Online Marketing

SEOMoz.org has released their second Search Engine Ranking Factors report (with additional commentary on Rand’s blog).

This is the result of voting by 37 of the top SEO experts on the various factors that are estimated to comprise Google’s ranking algorithm.

From the article:

Top 10 Ranking Factors in 2007:

  1. Keyword Use in Title Tag (4.9)
  2. Global Link Popularity of Site (4.5)
  3. Anchor Text of Inbound Link (4.4)
  4. Link Popularity within the Site’s Internal Link Structure (4.1)
  5. Age of Site (4)
  6. Topical Relevance of Inbound Links to Site (3.9)
  7. Link Popularity of Site in Topical Community (3.9)
  8. Keyword Use in Body Text (3.9)
  9. Global Link Popularity of Linking Site (3.7)
  10. Topical Relationship of Linking Page (3.6)

Also interesting was that 56% of the panel felt the SINGLE most important factor to high Google ranking was the “Authority & Trust of a domain”.

Google Website Optimizer

// April 10th, 2007 // No Comments » // Online Marketing

GoogleGoogle has released a new Website Optimizer tool that lets site managers more easily conduct multivariate testing on their content.

What this means is that rather than trying to optimize a single site/page/content block, this tool will let you develop multiple offers or content elements for a given page and serve them up dynamically to a pre-configured segment of your visiting population, and then use analytics to tell you which version of your content performed best against your conversion goals.

Google has partnered with several companies (namely FutureNow, Optimost, EpikOne, ROI Revolution, and SiteTuners.com) to help site managers understand how to run tests and interpret the results.

This is a feature – previously available only on higher-end content management systems or other testing platforms – is now available to anyone with an AdWords account.

Hooray for Google!