In this example, "dog food" would still be in the small pet store's keyword universe, it just wouldn't make the priority list. But a small pet store in Pacific Beach may want to start off by targeting more specific keyword phrases like "dog food in...
So we've got a ton of profile's +1ing three SEO sites, two carpet cleaning sites, 14 insurance sites, a petfood store, etc. We all know that it’s too early in the game to fully know where the +1 is going as far as its influence on organic results.
Imagine someone searches for "petfood," "organicpetfood," then "best organic cat food" and converts. Petfood" wins. Let's pretend you have a cat food campaign in which you sell three different brands, each of which has a canned, dry, and...
Neil Davidson offers another chapter on the importance of validating your marketing strategy—in the context of this case study, for example, creating a business model and campaign around vegetarian petfood rather than the more limited focus of...