The Best Ranked SEO graph below identifies the SEOs in Boise that have the top organic keyphrase rankings in Google and Bing for the keyphrase “boise seo”. We selected “boise seo” because it is a top keyphrase for Boise’s local SEO market industry and the results are verifiable.

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Previous Scan: 02.20.10
Last Scan: 03.07.10

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note: scores are a measure of visibility where larger scores represent top keyphrase rankings, keyphrase ranking data for score assignment is queried directly from Google and Bing and is freely available to the general public, companies not located in the Boise area and other vertical websites have been omitted, ranking data is obtained from scanning ONLY the first 6 pages of SERPs

03.07.10 Top 5 “Boise SEO” Keyphrase Ranking Leaders

1. Jtree.net Search Marketing (operates SEOBoise.com) [last week: #1]
2. SEO Boise (this website) [last week: #3]
3. Cendesic [last week: #2]
4. Clean Web Design [last week: #5]
5. Tsuvo [last week: not in top 5]

Who’s Involved?

Based on the results of monitoring the top websites related to the keyphrases that drive SEO and Internet Marketing traffic to Boise websites, we’ve compiled a list of companies that offer SEO as a service in the Boise area.

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Why Do This?

If you are trying to find a reputable SEO to help improve the keyphrase rankings of your website(s), identifying one that has achieved good rankings for their own website is your first step. If an SEO can’t get their own website to rank, chances are they won’t be able to get your website to rank either.

The Best Ranked SEO graph below identifies the SEOs in Boise that have the best keyphrase rankings in Google and Bing for the keyphrase “boise seo”. We selected “boise seo” because it is a top keyphrase for Boise’s local SEO market industry and we wanted the results verifiable.

02.26.10 Boise’s Best Ranked SEOs for the Search Phrase “Boise SEO”

Previous Scan: 02.20.10
Last Scan: 02.26.10

note: scores are a measure of visibility where larger scores represent top keyphrase rankings, keyphrase ranking data for score assignment is queried directly from Google and Bing and is freely available to the general public, companies not located in the Boise area and other vertical websites have been omitted

02.26.10 Top 5 “Boise SEO” Keyphrase Ranking Leaders

1. Jtree.net Search Marketing (operates SEOBoise.com)
2. Cendesic*
3. SEO Boise (this website)
4. Reverb7*
5. Clean Web Design*

* = companies that DO NOT offer Internet Marketing as their primary service (i.e. offer web/graphic design and development, branding etc. in addition to SEO related services) have been denoted because most multi-service companies cannot service infrastructure other than their own, while companies solely dedicated to Internet Marketing/SEO can typically provide service for ANY platform

The good news is; the same traditional SEO methodology applies to socially produced content. If optimized properly, content produced on social networks like Facebook and Twitter will show in the same search results as your website or blog.

Watch the SEOmoz video below for additional information:

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StumbleUpon, now back under the control of the original owners after being ‘let-go’ by eBay, has rolled-out some significant updates. The homepage features more content, the entire site has been re-designed and a new emphasis is being put on the user’s friend network. The stories you see and submit are now heavily focused within a user’s network (verses the entire SU network). What this means is that stories you see are derived from your friend network, instead of the entire SU network. Same goes with the stories you submit. Gone are the days of instant traffic off a carefully-placed SU submission… unless you have thousands of friends.

Luckily, the SU focused friend network feature update is in beta. If you don’t like it, leave feedback. The owners have historically been very receptive to user input.

StumbleUpon vs Digg vs Twitter vs Tumblr (Unique Visitors Chart)

Bing and Microsoft have been in the news lately regarding deals that in effect add social search results to mainstream search. Bing has a beta setup, and Google just launched Social Search – an experimental Google Labs product.

It should be noted that Yahoo! has already integrated social with their search results. Once a search is performed, users have the option to view search results from a variety of social networks and authority websites (see below image).

Usability

• Google’s experimental social integration has to be activated in Google Labs before it can be used as a search option.
• Bing’s social integration is only one click away from the homepage and does not require activation; users will have easier access to this feature than in Google.
• Yahoo!’s integration is the most usable; options to view results from social networks are displayed immediately after a search is performed.

Functionality

Google Social Search

From the mouth of the Goog:

The way we do it is by building a social circle of your friends and contacts using the connections linked from your public Google profile, such as the people you’re following on Twitter or FriendFeed. The results are specific to you, so you need to be signed in to your Google Account to use Social Search. If you use Gmail, we’ll also include your chat buddies and contacts in your friends, family, and coworkers groups. And if you use Google Reader, we’ll include some websites from your subscriptions as part of your social search results. More…

Bing

Bing’s social integration is exclusive to Twitter (and eventually Facebook), while Google and Yahoo! both show results from multiple social networks that include Twitter.

Yahoo!

After a search is performed in Yahoo!, users have the option to view results from other social networks and authority websites from a list generated based on the keyphrase searched.

Endgame

Bing is focusing on Twitter while Yahoo! and Google are focusing on a number of social networks that include Twitter. Yahoo! doesn’t give you the option to select which social network to show results from – they decide for you based on the search phrase, while Google Social Search focuses on networks that the user is already engaged in.

However you slice it, social content is in the process of being integrated into mainstream search. Further integrating Social into SEO.

Twitter is big, and has a prolonged buzz effect, but is still relatively small in comparison to social networks like Facebook and MySpace both in Idaho and the United States.

Social marketing, integrated social marketing (ISM), social media marketing or whatever you want to call it is HUGE! With so many networks itchin to monopolize your time without any real giveback how on earth are you supposed to figure out which ones are ‘worth it’? Glad you asked, intrepid social marketing knowledge seeker – see (and freely embed) the Social Conversation Prism:

The Conversation Prism by Brian Solis and Jesse Thomas

Also known as the ‘why you need a professional social marketer’ prism.

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PPC Tool : Google AdWords Bid Simulator

Have you ever wondered about the potential benefits a bid increase would bring to your Google AdWords PPC campaign? End the wonderment…

Google’s AdWords PPC Bid Simulator can help answer important campaign-related questions like:

• How many more ad impressions and clicks could potentially be received if I up my Max Cost Per Click (CPC) bid?
• What is the potential CPC of the new clicks received from upping my Max CPC?

PPC Tool : SEMRush

SEMRush allows you to quickly generate 6 reports that are split between organic SEO and PPC. Punch-in a competitor URL, domain or keywords to find out which organic and paid keyphrases are being targeted, and how much it is costing them. SEMRush is a great tool for gauging the value of both organic and paid traffic.

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