Chris Boggs is a specialist with 13 years of experience in online marketing, with emphasis on search engine optimization, social media and paid search advertising. After starting in the field of health insurance, Chris has worked as an independent consultant and with agencies including Avenue A | Razorfish and Rosetta. His daily mantra is to promote effective integration between online marketing campaigns and design, user experience, and conversion optimization best practices.
Chris has worked in search engine marketing within all major industries including extensively in healthcare/pharmaceutical, financial services, consumer products and retail, and B2B. Chris has served on the Board of Directors of SEMPO.org, the Search Marketing Professional's Organization, since 2006, as President 2010-2012 and Chairman 2012-2013. He also serves on the SES Advisory Board and writes for Search Engine Watch and the Internet Marketing Ninjas Blog.
When analyzing your SEO world, it's important to make a non-biased diagnosis of your progress. Use search engines to proactively study your environment and think beyond just traffic and conversions - think about accessibility considerations.
Integration continues to be a problem, especially across organizations with a global market presence online. The solution? Focus on improving these areas in 2013 to drive online marketing integration and enable efficiency across global regions.
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To confidently measure ROI for SEO, you have to temper expectations of high accuracy within exact number of visits or conversions, and lean more toward the school of performance growth as measured by trending lines.
Leadership must understand the who, why, and how of search engine optimization measurement. Start building relationships and turning executives into high-powered SEO champions and evangelists.
An overview of some free and paid tools that executives and non-SEO trained individuals can gain value from when evaluating internal or outsourced search engine optimization efforts.
There are some tactics that should raise a red flag if your SEO company tries to sell them to you. Others are so outdated and worthless, that they should send you packing out the door.
All sites must address technical infrastructure, content and linking strategies. For large e-commerce sites, some problems in these areas are magnified due to the size and complexity of their sites.
How long it takes to show results from SEO will depend on several factors, including age of the site and the level of competition. Another important variable is whether you're working on a new site or updating an old one.
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Requesting links is like asking someone to be your Valentine. You have to be sweet, and you'll get a lot of yeses simply by asking. But if you act strange, or go somewhere that you don't really belong and start asking for Valentines, all you'll...