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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

For sustainable, valuable search traffic, you’d better provide it. Satisfying search intent is Google’s fundamental goal. A page that’s well-matched for user intent can outperform those that optimize primarily for search engines—in search and after the click. How Google (and others) define search intent.

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Search: Not Provided: What Remains, Keyword Data Options, the Future

Occam's Razor

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. This encrypted their search queries from any prying eyes, and kept from being passed on to websites the users visits after seeing search results. In this post I want to share four angles on secure search: 1. want to protect user privacy.

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Transcript of Why Local SEO is an Important Lead Generation Channel

Duct Tape Marketing

Justin Sturges: Man, I guess really the … One of the biggest changes that Google just made recently was in not showing advertising on the right-hand side of search results. And again, focusing mostly on a local business, what are the factors that get them to show up in organic search? There’s Localeze, there’s-.

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How Hashtags Can Supercharge Small Business Marketing

YoungUpstarts

For example, if a person clicks on the hashtag #purplemarkers, they’ll typically see a page that aggregates all content with the same hashtag. Start by searching what hashtags your competitors and industry influencers are using. Some social media platforms allow people to follow hashtags. Niche Hashtags.

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Waving Goodbuy: Facebook’s Big Whiff on Traffic of Commercial Intent

Hunter Walker

Despite an incredibly high density of product brand names in the discussion and words like “buy,” Facebook doesn’t seem to recognize this thread as any different than other types of posting. Telling me which of my friends have liked “Apple” and suggesting I target the question to them via @names.

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Startup Marketing: The Nine Levels of Traffic Quality

Software By Rob

From the results fo the aggregate behaviours, real time videos and heatmaps you can mend any deficiencies and make it easier for visitors to your site to become buyers. #4 3 Dan on 01.12.10 at 5:32 pm To optimise conversions you should employ a web analytics provider such as clicktale to show you how your customers enagage eith your site.

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How Hashtags Can Help You Improve Your Small Business Marketing

crowdSPRING Blog

For example, if a person clicks on the hashtag #purplemarkers, they’ll typically see a page that aggregates all content with the same hashtag. Start by searching what hashtags your competitors and industry influencers are using. Hashtags originated on Twitter. how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups.