By Mike McCready on July 22, 2010
You have a beautiful and functional redesigned website that your organization has invested months in user research, design and testing. You’re getting close to launching the redesigned website soon. But wait! You’re going to spill the link juice. The basic concept with link juice, is the more credible websites that link to your site, the [...]
Posted in Redesign, SEO | Tagged Google, link juice, Redesign, SEO
By Mike McCready on November 12, 2009
PDF files have been around for a long time and Google has been indexing PDF files for almost as long. Unfortunately, some basic best practices still go over looked to ensure proper indexing of PDF files. Just do a Google Search for PDF files, and you will see a lot of search results with irrelevant [...]
Posted in SEO, Tips & Tricks | Tagged Data Formats, Google, Microsoft Word, PDF, Portable Document Format, Search Engine Optimization, search results, Searching, SEO, serp
By Mike McCready on October 5, 2009
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can be an overwhelming task, but it doesn’t have to be. Once you’ve identified the strategy for your website (eg. goals, audience, messages, etc.), you can then start by building your keyword list. We will be going through this exact exercise over the next few months as we work not only [...]
Posted in Analytics & Measurements, Marketing, SEO, Tips & Tricks | Tagged Google, Keyword, Keyword research, Promotion, Search Engine Optimization, Web search engine, Web Strategy
By Mike McCready on September 14, 2009
I’ve been interested in conversions and landing pages for some time, but just from a theoretical approach. As the college where I works gets ready to launch a new marketing campaign, I’m planning on using Google Website Optimizer. My goals are simple: 1) determine which landing page is best and 2) get a better understanding [...]
Posted in Analytics & Measurements, Marketing, SEO, Tips & Tricks | Tagged Analytics, Conversions, Google, Landing page, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, Search engine, SEO, Tools
By Mike McCready on July 17, 2009
Wow! This is my first blog post in 2 1/2 weeks. That’s what happens when you go on vacation with no laptop – it was great! Well, we are about to embark on a major web redesign. One of the areas of concern that we have in the successful execution of the project is to [...]
Posted in Analytics & Measurements, Redesign, SEO | Tagged Analytics, Design, google analytics, HigherEd Web, Marketing, Redesign, search engines, SEO, strategy, Web analytics, web design, Website
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