http://searchenginewatch.com/ Latest News - Carrie Hill en-us http://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Sat, 26 May 2012 01:29:43 GMT http://ukn.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/rss-powered-by.png http://www.ultraknowledge.com/ http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067217/How-to-Lead-Your-Customers-to-Conversion Visitors are only as valuable as the Web site that converts them. If the Web site doesn't convert, the visitors are worthless. Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:59:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067217/How-to-Lead-Your-Customers-to-Conversion Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2065219/What-Small-Business-Web-Site-Owners-Need-to-Know-About-Page-Speed Is your small business site old or outdated? Here's how to avoid the wrath of Google's new ranking factor. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:00:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2065219/What-Small-Business-Web-Site-Owners-Need-to-Know-About-Page-Speed Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2065057/Holiday-Search-Marketing-Youd-Better-Be Tips for using PPC, retargeting, e-mail marketing, and viral marketing to help boost holiday sales. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:00:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2065057/Holiday-Search-Marketing-Youd-Better-Be Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2049261/Alternatives-to-Google-AdWords-Worth-Your-Time Advertising on a site that serves your niche may cost less than Google. Consider these options. Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:00:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2049261/Alternatives-to-Google-AdWords-Worth-Your-Time Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2065678/Saturating-Your-Message-in-Search-Marketing Tips to ensure your business controls as many spaces as possible on a search results page. Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:00:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2065678/Saturating-Your-Message-in-Search-Marketing Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2066964/Small-Business-Guide-to-Tools-that-Help-Your-SEM There are plenty of tools that a small business can and should use to make their limited time most productive in online marketing. Some are free, some are paid, but all of them are worth the investment of time and money to learn to use. Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:51:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2066964/Small-Business-Guide-to-Tools-that-Help-Your-SEM Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2064942/When-and-How-to-Outsource-Your-Small-Business-Search-Marketing Every small business will reach a point where they have to decide to expand or keep things simple. There are right and wrong ways to hire an outside SEM firm. Following some simple rules can make or break your ROI. Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:31:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2064942/When-and-How-to-Outsource-Your-Small-Business-Search-Marketing Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2048390/Going-the-Distance-Integration-of-Your-Marketing-Efforts Integration is key to online marketing success. A killer idea for e-mail can work wonders when mirrored in a search campaign. There's a lot of opportunity for you to leverage one idea for many different media and many forms of ROI. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:02:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2048390/Going-the-Distance-Integration-of-Your-Marketing-Efforts Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2066707/Dont-Be-That-Site-You-Know-the-One Shopping online shouldn't hurt, cause excessive swearing, or annoy me into not spending money. Here's a list of annoying Web site habits that could be hurting your Web site conversions. Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:55:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2066707/Dont-Be-That-Site-You-Know-the-One Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2065796/Targeting-your-Search-Advertising-for-Success Running successful search advertising campaigns can be a tricky pursuit. Anyone can do it, but being careful and educated about what you're doing is important to seeing a return on your investment. Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:00:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2065796/Targeting-your-Search-Advertising-for-Success Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2064611/Get-Your-Small-Business-Involved-in-Social-Media Any business has the potential to excel (or fail) socially online. Having a game plan is key to making sure you're ready for both instances when your small business participates in social networks. Tue, 21 Jul 2009 13:14:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2064611/Get-Your-Small-Business-Involved-in-Social-Media Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2066390/Are-5-Sites-Better-than-One What's better, having one big site covering five niche topics, or five niche sites that somewhat compete against each other? Having multiple sites is not a bad thing, if you've set them up correctly, and it's possible to rank multiple sites for the same l Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:00:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2066390/Are-5-Sites-Better-than-One Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067578/Taking-the-Fear-Out-of-Web-Analytics-for-Your-Small-Business Do you have Web analytics installed on your small business Web site? If not, you should. How will you know how your Web site is performing if you aren't measuring the right data? Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:03:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067578/Taking-the-Fear-Out-of-Web-Analytics-for-Your-Small-Business Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067918/Dear-Google-Analytics I'm writing an open letter to the Google Analytics folks on behalf of my small business friends around the Web. We're getting a little frustrated with the product, and the so-called "help" within the platform. Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:28:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067918/Dear-Google-Analytics Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2064516/So-I-Have-this-Web-Site Many small business owners think that building a Web site is an end to itself, and that it will simply market itself. They soon find out there's more to it, and that's when the questions begin. Tue, 26 May 2009 16:35:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2064516/So-I-Have-this-Web-Site Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067845/My-Must-Have-List-of-Directories Submitting yourself to directories that are directly related to your business is an important part of directory and linkbuilding research. For links, SERP presence, or traffic, there are a few important directories you should make sure your business is in Tue, 12 May 2009 13:06:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067845/My-Must-Have-List-of-Directories Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2048758/Dont-Ignore-Your-Sitemap Many sites have underutilized sitemap pages. It's really a shame because these workhorse pages get so little credit, and so little attention, but they can be so important for SEO and the user experience you offer. Tue, 28 Apr 2009 05:01:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2048758/Dont-Ignore-Your-Sitemap Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2068065/How-SMBs-Can-Optimize-their-Social-Networking-Time-Part-2 Small business owners have limited time to spend on social media, so where are the best places to focus? Participating in local and niche forums can help you become an authority on your industry. Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:22:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2068065/How-SMBs-Can-Optimize-their-Social-Networking-Time-Part-2 Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067055/How-SMBs-Can-Optimize-their-Social-Networking-Time-Part-1 Many small business owners know that there's benefit to be had from social networking; the challenge is not spending all of your time Twittering away when you have other work that needs to be done. So how do you keep a social networking plan on track with Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:37:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067055/How-SMBs-Can-Optimize-their-Social-Networking-Time-Part-1 Carrie Hill http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2065430/Better-Targeting-Better-Leads-Demographics-for-SMBs Demographic targeting can be intimidating, but it doesn't have to be. Applying some small business common sense to the topic can bring you some great rewards, once you understand who wants to buy what you're trying to sell. Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:57:00 GMT http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2065430/Better-Targeting-Better-Leads-Demographics-for-SMBs Carrie Hill