What Happened to My Precious Keywords?
(Not Provided) Increases to 51% of Referring Keywords In October of 2011, Google began encrypting search data in an effort to offer greater security to the personalized data of its users. As a result, the referring keywords used by people to find your content online were hidden in Google Analytics and replaced with (Not Provided). […]
Consolidate Your Website’s SEO Value With Subfolders
Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Doctor Gachet sold for $82.5 million at Christie’s New York in 1990. A 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO was purchased for the sum of $35 million by a car collector in the United States. What do these two items have in common? Nothing. However, they are both objects that hold a […]
Identifying Impacts from Search Engine Algorithm Updates
As search engines continue to evolve, it is becoming more important than ever to monitor organic traffic to your website. While some webmasters and SEOs will argue that as long as you are employing white hat tactics, you don’t need to monitor your traffic and rankings, I’m not completely sold. In fact, I think […]
Let’s Get Personal; Why Your Rank Shouldn’t be Your Only Focus
It is easy to rely on keyword rankings as a determinant of SEO success, but whether you are tracking your rankings manually or using a tool to determine your position in search results automatically, the rankings shown won’t tell the whole story. Rankings are a barometer, but in the big picture, they’ve become too variable and […]
Recent Google Algorithm Updates Causing Ranking Volatility
Google has released multiple updates to its algorithm over the past several months, which have caused an increasing amount of volatility in the rankings. On May 22, 2013, Google confirmed the Penguin 2.0 update. On June 11, 2013, Google confirmed monthly updates of Panda. On June 25, 2013, Google confirmed a phantom update rollout […]
SEO Experiments – Evolving the Parallel Path Organic Search Offering
Parallel Path’s Chief Data Office-fur A Google search for “search engine optimization” will return upwards of 64 million results – the majority of which are tips, tutorials, and beginner guides. Every SEO has their own opinion on what factors and elements affect SEO and to what degree, but not everyone can back these opinions with […]
SEO Strategy vs. Tactics
by Chris Thompson with Hardy Kalisher Do you have an SEO strategy? That question might be the most important question you can ask your SEO agency. Yes, “SEO strategy” has become something of a trendy term and as a result is it is used by many, yet understood by few, and developed by even fewer. […]
Getting the Facts Straight on Social Media and SEO Part 1
As the SEO industry continues to develop and evolve, social media is becoming an undeniable, albeit still relatively small, force in the search engine algorithms. It may sound cliché, but with the recent influx of articles and blog posts on social media and SEO, how are you to know what is true, let alone what […]
Case Study: Defining Value in SEO
Our role as SEO consultants is to partner with organizations and to create value through search marketing. However, creating value can be a challenge for many reasons. Goals may not have been clearly defined, the execution of strategies may not be not be possible, or access to analytics data may be lacking or corrupted. Despite […]