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
By Mike McCready on June 25, 2009
Let me first preface this post by saying ‘I am not a SEO guru.’ I just want to share an experience that indicates how simple this is. I then want to share a slide show from a presentation Google did for a number of non-profits in D.C. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not difficult. Its [...]
Posted in Marketing, SEO, Tips & Tricks | Tagged Google, Google Custom Search, Google search, Keyword, Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, search engines, SEO
By Mike McCready on April 30, 2009
Image via Wikipedia I don’t know if I can offer a absolute yes or no answer. It depends on a number of factors. But what I will do is share our experience (even though in its infancy) and some of my thoughts. Very recently our marketing department took out several ads in Facebook that drove [...]
Posted in Facebook, Marketing, SEO | Tagged Advertising, AdWords, Business, facebook, Google, Google AdWords, Landing page, Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, search engines, SEO, Website
By Mike McCready on March 9, 2009
I’ve been using Google Analytics as a hobbyist for the past number of years. I’ve never really used Google Analytics as a decision-making tool or actively make changes based on results from Google Analytics. We are in the process of implementing a web analytics strategy and Google Analytics will be our tool of choice. I’ve [...]
Posted in Analytics & Measurements, Marketing, SEO, Tips & Tricks | Tagged Analytics, Avinash Kaushik, Google, google analytics, search engines, SEO, Web analytics, Web Analytics: An Hour a Day
By Mike McCready on March 6, 2009
Image via CrunchBase Image via CrunchBase Ever come across a page in Google or Yahoo that when you saw the listing you were like, “Uhhh, I didn’t want that page indexed?” I have. At the college where I work, we had some files on a www4 server that was from our old server and many [...]
Posted in SEO, Tips & Tricks | Tagged Google, indexing, Robots exclusion standard, robots.txt, Search, search engines, SEO