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 March 16, 2010
The phrase content is king goes way back to 1996 from an article by Bill Gates called Content is King. Since then, there have been countless article and presentations about how important content is. Most of them are around the context of making the sale or engaging visitors. Content is still king, but I would [...]
Posted in Marketing, Web Strategy | Tagged content strategy, Market share, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, SEO, tips, Twitter, Web Strategy
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 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 22, 2009
Another music video parody from Hubspot. This one again about inbound marketing. I think these message can never been seen and shared too much to marketing professionals to drive the point home the importance of inbound marketing. Take a look. What do you think?
Posted in Marketing | Tagged blogging, Communication, HigherEd Web, inbound marketing, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, SEO, YouTube
Recent Comments