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Book Summary: Sales Engagement by Medina, Altschuler, and Kosoglow

September 15, 2020

My name is Jason Levin and I am a Marketing Consultant for RankSense. I help our users achieve their goals with our technology and educational resources.  I am a big fan of business books, and enjoy sharing my findings with others.  Last month, I covered The Sales Acceleration Formula by Mark Roberge. In this article,...

My SMX West Experience and Pitching the Business Value of SEO

March 05, 2008

I haven’t been blogging as often as usual lately and it’s about time I get back on track. I attended my first search marketing conference last week. I do not consider myself much of a conference-goer and I am not really much of an extrovert. Previously, I’d been to only two conferences—JavaOne in 2003, but...

The Unsuspecting Recruit: Why every SEO MUST learn Internet security

February 06, 2008

Internet security is a big problem, and it isn’t just for the IT staff anymore. It affects us as SEOs. Don’t believe me? Consider the incident reported at the end of last year by security research firm Sunbelt Software. …criminals are now combining SEO tactics and booby-trapped Web pages, and doing it systematically. By posting...

Writing for People (and Search Engines): How to improve click-through rates for organic listings

January 15, 2008

Another new year has come and many of us are still analyzing the balance of successes and failures of the previous one. It is definitely a useful chore. I am happy to count this blog as one of my successes. It was humbling to see it included in SearchEngineLand’s blogroll and nominated for Best SEO...

Share and Share Alike

December 11, 2007

Last May I decided to start this blog as the key driver for my personal branding strategy. The idea was that, in order to attract attention, I would share my most valuable ideas and insights. My geeky side loves to teach and share, but my business side tries to prevent me from releasing potentially sensitive...

Google: The New Market Gorilla

December 06, 2007

Every company, big or small, faces unfavorable market conditions at some point in its trajectory. The common sense thing to do is to try to adapt—modify the business strategy to survive and continue thriving. Unfortunately some companies, especially big and successful ones like Google or Microsoft, are stubborn and prefer that the market adapt to...

Pay to Play: Common sense tips to help you improve your Google Adwords Quality Score

November 30, 2007

One of the most frustrating aspects for novice pay-per-click (PPC) marketers is the so-called ad quality score—a method search engines use to measure the relevancy of an ad for a particular keyword. The ad quality score affects the minimum bid price, position and display eligibility. Poor ads cost a lot more and are less likely...

A Little Personality Goes a Long Way

November 28, 2007

If you read my last post on advanced keyword research, you probably thought that there was no way you could look deeper into your search visitors’ desires. Well, think again. I want to share a clever technique I’ve been using for several months now to drastically improve the conversion rates of some of my projects....

An Active Mindset: 100 new RSS subscribers and the power of endorsements

November 20, 2007

Everybody in the search marketing industry has fallen head over heels for social media. Certainly it’s nice to see those traffic spikes in your website stats. Personally, I see social media as excellent for viral marketing, branding and long-term relationship building. But I don’t see that new visitors coming to a site from social media...

A World of Bugs and Logs: Advanced Web Analytics

November 19, 2007

As search marketers we need to know if our efforts are paying off. How many visitors are we getting? What channels are they coming from? And more importantly, how many of those visitors are taking the action (conversions) that we want them to take? For all this information, we rely on Web Analytics. There are...

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