Most website owners know that a great landing page is the key to turning visitors into buyers. The main point to getting a landing page that converts is to test, test test.
This is a mantra that Anne Holland from MarketingSherpa swears by. In a recent interview with Revenews, Anne explains her testing tactics, common mistakes and why lies ahead for landing pages in the future.
We will discuss how to optimize the footer, header and images that expand over the entire portion of a website. We will also touch on the importance of unique title tags and description tags. The end result of these tips will be a few changes that need made to your website.
So you want to be an SEO aye? I’ll be the first to tell you that working as a Search Engine Optimization professional is a very cool gig, but doesn’t come without it’s challenges. SEO’s are a very special group of people (that’s just my opinion) that often have a very diverse set of skills and experience.
Just like any other profession, there are good SEO’s, bad SEO’s, and a lot of other SEO’s in between. Now far be it for me to use this as a place to toot my own horn, but I feel like a pretty good SEO – definitely not an industry leader at this point, but still very far from bad.
People who are new to SEO and PPC often think that having a Google Adwords campaign somehow improves their natural search engine results. Even though Google has insisted that this is not the case, and almost all SEO experts agree, there are still occasional claims of a correlation between paying for PPC and improved search engine rankings. Alternatively, there are some people who claim that their natural search engine rankings dropped when they started paying for ads. (more…)
Online Applications and highly-interactive web sites written in full-on programming languages are becoming the norm on the web, not the rare exception. Measuring these applications is challenging for a whole host of reasons. In my last post, I talked about the importance of automated testing to bring measurement fully into the application development life-cycle. In today’s post, I’m going to cover an issue that plagues application measurement, video and most other rich media measurement – how to balance cost vs. coverage when it comes to measurement.
Google is getting ready to roll out Google Wave, and while it is unlikely that I’ll get an invite, I can still be remarkably interested in what could be a product that will solve some of the problems that I see in how to develop smaller communities of interests around colleges, friends, and others that are a more private and inviting environment than what currently exists as an option for people.
Have you ever considered how your website’s loading time might impact your search engine rankings? It might be time to take a closer look at this as Google and Yahoo! have both brought some attention to the issue recently.
Google’s stance on the issue has always been that page load times do not have an impact in their algorithm – until now. As part of their initiative to speed up the web, Google have said that page load times could become a consideration in the future.
Interesting case I came across yesterday. A URL which 301 redirected went to different URLs in different browsers.
First thought – the server was redirecting different UAs to different pages. But no, the redirect was exactly the same regardless of UA.
So how come different browsers ended up in different locations? In fact the Location was the problem:
A recent video from the Google Analytics Teams is a must watch if you’re trying to put together the perfect landing page for your website.
Called “GWO in 60 Seconds”, the video explains how you can combine Google’s Website Optimizer tool and Google Analytics to produce the most effective landing page.
Numerous companies are losing vast amounts of revenue due to their web sites doing poorly in the search engines. Web sites that are not easy to find via search miss out on attracting new customers as well as repeat customers that use Google to navigate sites they already know about. Is the same true for web sites that are not social media friendly?