• The relevance of architecting a resilient link
• How link building influences site exposure and traffic
• Advanced business-to-business search engine marketing

The first segment Search engine optimization consultant, Lauren Williamson and president, Steve Thomas of The Net Impact shared valuable insight about the role linking plays in building the search engine optimization (SEO) strategy.

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Think of your Web site as a popular portal, recognized for being a network that everyone relies on for industry specific information, news and data.  

During another segment, Web Account Manager, Sonya Sawall provided a pithy overview of how business decision-makers buyers are using search engines to find strategic partners and vendors. To review the presentation, click on “Advanced B2B Search Engine Marketing.”

Web Account Manager Discusses Advanced B2B Search Engine Marketing

From social media networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and other microsites, Ms. Sawall evaluated how the mediums emblemize business-to-business search engine marketing. Moreover, the use of these Internet marketing tools bolsters the linking strategy and other search engine optimization objectives.

Towards the end of the seminar, Angela Cicerelli explained how social media networks, such as FlickR YouTube, are generating significicant sources of traffic and even appear in search engine query results.

Also, for those naysayers, who question the validity of the aforementioned search engine marketing mediums, Ms. Cicerelli and Steve Thomas, evaluated the efficacy of mixed search engine and social media.

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Recently, we updated our company site to a content management system. We’ve been making regular site updates to ensure that our Web site is cached on the major search engines. Although our Web design company provides search engine optimization services, and we manage our CMS, we think that our company is pretty set in the SEO marketing. Are there any other services that we’re missing out to maximize our site’s online presence?

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Kudos for understating the importance of making regular content management system updates to improve your site’s exposure to search engine traffic. However, link building is another critical component of the search engine marketing strategy.

Frequently undervalued and understood, link building is the process of enticing other sites to link to your organization’s Web site. Theses links are emblematic of a site  ‘endorsement.’ The objective is to acquire more link endorsements, which innately drive more site traffic.

Another underlying value for link building or link management is that the more links or endorsements (links), the higher a site’s page rank via major search engines.

And while, your organization may try to manage all areas of your search engine optimization via your content management system, link building is merely a science, requiring:

• External Web site linking
• Internal Website linking
• Link bait development
• Natural link content development

Each page of any site acts as its own piece of real estate on the Internet.  For obvious reasons, the web page with 68 page links pointing toward it outpaces the page with 16-outboud links.

As for the architecture of your site’s content management system, internal linking is important too, along with a solid link bait and natural content development system.

Contact the experts of linking building and the innovators of a CMS, built for SEO.

If your prospective target audience is unable to find your Web site, this is an indication of a misaligned web marketing strategy. The Net Impact, a St. Louis-SEO company, improves site’s search ranking by providing the following services:

• Keyword Research
• Meta Tag Analysis and Recommendations
• Optimization of Content for the home page and key landing pages
• Manual Search Engine Submission of your website to Google, Yahoo and MSN

Keyword Research — Keyword research is the foundation of search engine optimization. When consumers conduct searches via Google,  they enter keywords specific to their query. For obvious reasons, Web sites, hoping to generate leads, require keyword research to capture online traffic.

Meta Tag Analysis and Recommendation – Meta tag analysis is another component of keyword research. Based oo a site’s keyword research, meta tag descriptions, titles and headings should reflect the strategy. This is often referred to as “Google analytics consulting.” Moreover, other technical processes are involved in synchronizing a site’s keywords and meta tags to assure high online visibility.

Optimization of Content for the home page and key landing pages – Now once, your site is comprised of the appropriate keywords, it requires optimization. The step involves developing marketable content, which appeals to major search engines, and possesses the appropriate balance of keywords. In order to maximize a site’s traffic potential, each web page is treated like its own piece of Internet real estate, known as a landing page. These pages are quite important for marketing specific products, services and promotions.

Manual Search Engine Submission – Once the pages of your site are optimized for traffic, a manual submission  to major search engines (Google, Yahoo and Bing) assures that sites are cached on these directories.

Read more about search engine optimization (SEO) services.

Anytime an organization has a page on Facebook, the social media networking site enables you to advertise your website, company as well as any events or special causes.  The link, from the Facebook to the site plays an integral role in the search engine optimization. Given Facebook’s customized geo-location targeting age and interests, it exemplifies how social media networking complements your company’s SEO.

SEO Tip: Remember to measure your target audience, on Facebook, based on consumers specific to your criteria.

Between surveys, photos, videos, several content tools can be applied to the Facebook canvas, enticing consumers to become fans and engaging the dialogue.

Social media networking tip: Contests and drawings have proved to be an effective incentive to motivate consumers to follow organizations.

Facebook serves as a vital marketing tool, bolstering credibility, enhancing brand awareness, driving Web site traffic. With regular Facebook updates, results show up in search engine results, complementing a company’s Web site  SEO and exposure.

Check out The Net Impact on Facebook

While creating a Facebook micro-site may seem like an arduous process, it’s another marketing tool, which can be initially delegated to a Web design company; and, then managed by one of your socially savvy team members.  Contact the Net Impact for a social media networking consultation.

Q: Rumor has it that Auctori™ resembles the Microsoft Word document programming. Is it true that the content management system is as easy to use as Microsoft?

Thomas:

Developed by the Unified Development Inc. (Unidev ®), Auctori is a Microsoft Certified Web Content Management System (WCMS) built for search engine optimization (SEO).

In other words, the content management system is intended to mimic some of the interface qualities that end users are familiar with using, associated with a Microsoft Word document. 

Q:  How long does it take the average admin to learn the basics of search engine optimization to properly use the Auctori content management system?

Thomas:

The training is easy and almost unnecessary. Since the Auctori content management system is as straightforward to use as Microsoft ® applications, it is easy for most end users to learn to add, update, and modify content without any previous HTML experience. Most administrators catch on in a short period of time. 

 

Q: Is Auctori cost effective?

Thomas:

If you compare the hourly cost of making Website design changes to updating content in-house the savings is astronomical. In other words, dollar for dollar Auctori affords a cost effective search engine optimization solution with a substantial return on investment.

Q: What if a company decides to add a new market niche to their menu of services, how does the content management system integrate the additional search engine optimization components?

Thomas

When The Net Impact developed the Auctori content management system for search engine optimization, we did it to ease organization’s productivity and costs. Since our core competency is Website design and SEO, we can customize any specification, accommodating any design request.

Post your content management system questions below.

Advertisers need not risk running an inept ad campaign, ultimately tarnishing the brand identity. These days, misaligned ad campaigns have a short shelf life. Thanks to Google web analytics, the era of advertising in the dark ages is over.

An essential component of Internet marketing, web analytics tells a compelling story. It conveys visitor behavior, presenting a site evaluation of the proceeding data:

• Keywords and search terms 
• Traffic referrals (which sites are directing traffic)
• Which pages attain the highest traffic and conversion?
• What is the most sought after information on the site?
• Which web page pathways are the most frequently traveled?
• Which pages lack visitor interest?
• How does site traffic navigate through the site?
• Which pages are of least interest?
• On which page do visitors tend to exit the site?
• How to convert more site traffic to ensure the greatest ROI?

Given a blueprint of the aforementioned information, web analytics develops an exacting composite of how to chart a site’s clickstream.

Clickstream tracking is the path of how visitors navigate through a website.

Without web analytics it is merely impossible to measure, evaluate and forecast website visitor behavior. With an accurate visitor analysis, profits and sales are almost a matter of precise calculations.

Contact the Net Impact for a free Google Analytics Consulting assessment!

Auctori is not your ordinary, content management system, bug-ridden with SEO limitations. Programmed with integrated search engine optimization, Auctori refines design into a user-friendly, fuss-free interface—that just happens to give the authors the ability to maintain all SEO features, without hindering a site’s marketing endeavors. That means that Auctori empowers companies to maintain the autonomy or managing their sites regular updates.

To understand how content management systems actually build on streamlining the search engine marketing (SEM) campaign, SEO St. Louis interviewed Steve Thomas president of The Net Impact, Auctori’s proprietary content management system’s creator.

Q:  Most SEO programmers contend that CMSs  are  apt to have glitches, detracting from measuring the paid search conversion rates. Is Auctori any different? 

Thomas: 

 Auctori is distinctive in that it works in confluence with paid search campaigns. Whether the landing page calls for a custom, limited or even a navigation-less interface, Auctori treats each design according to the requirements of your pay-per-click ad search campaign.

 All we have to do is create a variation of master pages. Depending on the purpose or to test the conversion rate of each page, landing pages are designed with Auctori to work in confluence with the secondary, tertiary or even no navigation parameters. Moreover, Auctori eases these design elements with a reusable content block module.

Q:  Does Auctori allow advertisers to track conversions?

Thomas:

Unlike other content management systems where Java Script and the CMS experience irreconcilable differences, inhibiting accurate conversion tracking. On the contrary, Auctori enables the user to embed any JavaScript or even other custom scripts. Not only is Auctori suitable for JavaScript site wide, we developed Auctori to let you track conversions on a page-by-page basis.

…to be continued

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Affiliate Marketing – A referral program, whereby an advertiser or merchant compensates marketers for referring their products, resulting in a consumer designated action, such as a subscription, sales transaction or new customer lead. The referring agent or affiliate is paid a commission or revenue share, based on the terms of the affiliate program. Google employs a similar model to connect advertisers with publishers. Read more about the development of affiliate marketing program  for your organization.

A/B Testing – To ensure that a Web page or ad will command the best conversion rate, most search engine-marketing firms will conduct a series of tests, referred to as A/B testing. It’s the easiest way to analyze the marketability of headlines, ad content, design and landing pages. The test entails developing two versions of a page to compel the desired outcome. Companies, who provide these services, apply a myriad of experiments to improve a search engine marketing campaigns conversion rate. Learn more about A/B Testing for your Web site.

Conversion Rate – A measurement of how well a marketing medium (landing page, ad, newsletter) results in the preferred course of action (as in subscription or purchase). For instance, if you have a pay-per-click ad on Google, and 10 out of 1000 visitors result in a sales transaction, the pay-per-click ad has a 1 percent conversion rate. The average landing page has a seven percent conversion rate.  Read more about website conversion services.

That’s right. Search engine optimization is increasingly easier than ever. Aside, from selecting a domain, developing the URL structure and composing a succinct and compelling meta tag description, a state-of-the-art, Web site content management system simplifies the entire process.

 Here’s what’s needed to get started:

Duly dub the domain. Starting with a domain, select  a keyword combination, which best reflects  your products and services. For instance, HDA, Inc. an online publishing and distributing company  used a similar model to spinoff its online division, HousePlansandMore.com. The site garners top page ranking on Google. 

Search engine optimization tip: Also, beware that the age of a site counts. Search engines are the one beholder, who perceives age, as credible resource. As a result, don’t be too hasty to  drop a domain for a better named version. Instead choose a new domain to brand and link to the company site.  This Web design SEO company is a valuable resource for developing a streamlined search engine marketing strategy.

 

Select words, wisely. As we mentioned last year, the words, which make up the company Web site pages, or the URL structure–should reflect the content of that page. So, avoid naming pages obscure  titles, such as: ‘About Us’, ‘Our Services’, ‘Testimonials’. Since, most consumers are not searching for the aforementioned terms, try to select words which reflect your services and offerings. 

Meta tags matter. Among search engine analysts, the meta tag is a controversial topic. While some contend that the description used to describe a web site are superfluous, evidence shows otherwise. For instance, using the words: SEO St. Louis, the description

(AKA meta tag reads:)

SEO St Louis – Google Page Results

And beyond the domain, url and meta tags, the Net Impact’s proprietary software, Auctori, does the rest of your search engine optimization  (SEO) for you. Read more how this content management system delivers autonomous search engine optimization.

Hi SEO St. Louis:

We’re shopping for a Web design company, who can optimize our site for search engine traffic. Since, we plan to maintain our site’s blog, we need the digital mediums incorporated in our web design. My question is whether it’s possible for a web design company to develop a site for us—with SEO capabilities that we can manage without us having to outsource the content updates? 

In other words, can we hire a Web design company to develop a new site for us to DIY SEO?

JT – Branson, MO

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The answer to your question is quite simple. While, we do not know how other companies manage Web site updates, our proprietary content management system (CMS), Auctori ™ enables you to manage your site’s reigns. From images, new articles, new page titles, Auctori is built to accommodate a site’s development with regard to its search engine optimization specifications.  

This is the process:

We begin with an analysis of your site’s navigational structure, traffic, content and other search engine optimization features. After which time, we’ll confer with you about your organization’s marketing objectives. Based on the information, we’ll evaluate your competition to determine a simple method for incorporating your Web site’s design with a CMS  in attuned with your search engine marketing strategy.

As you can see from the list below, Auctori gives you the autonomy to control the following content:

• Roles based permissions – security and authorization tools for viewing, editing, adding and approving user’s content.

• Content approval workflow – publishing approval tools for easing workflow productivity.

• Dynamic image editing – as for uploading  product inventory, Auctori optimizes images and stores them future re-use.

• Automatic archiving – Auctori doesn’t allow your firm to lose important documents. Organizing, storing and retrieving content is fuss free because, Auctori automatically archives data, assuring 24/7 access.

• Flexible navigation hierarchy – making navigational changes and updates never hinders the integrity of your site’s SEO. Auctori’s intuitive and flexible programming allows for as many modifications – as you see fit.

Read more about a content management system architected with built in SEO.