Tag Archives: seo

Getting the most from Google Analytics: Custom SEO Dashboards and Email Reports

By Brian Rants | Published: June 5, 2012

Google Analytics SEO Monitoring Dashboard

Google Analytics works pretty well out of the box, but with a little bit of work you can turn this Ford Focus into a Porche Boxster. Here are three SEO dashboards I use to understand how our clients sites are performing in Google. Even better, I’ve included the link where you can add these dashboards to YOUR Google Analytics account! SEO Monitoring Dashboard Description: Taken from the fantastic SEOBook.com, this is a powerful 360 view of your organic SEO performance. Link: Click Here This Week vs Last – Dashboard & [...]

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What 3 Months of SEO Can Achieve

By Brian Rants | Published: February 27, 2012

When times are tight, how should you spend your marketing dollars? Companies are increasingly coming to us to leverage the varied tools of online marketing such as automated marketing and SEO & PPC marketing. We provide weekly reports, but after 3 months I like to prepare an aggregate report showing what we’ve accomplished. While manufacturing isn’t as mature a vertical as something like software sales, what we achieved in three months is pretty darn remarkable, wouldn’t you say?! 2012-02-27 Example Rankings Report

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Top Reasons To Be A StumbleUpon User

By admin | Published: January 13, 2012

If you’ve never used StumbleUpon, you’ll be pleasantly surprised how simple and easy it is to use. But there are far more reasons than that to use this popular social network. StumbleUpon, much like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, is another way of sharing and consuming content online. But StumbleUpon brings some unique differences to the table. First, let’s look at a few important stats. According to recent reports, StumbleUpon: Sends more traffic to US websites than top social network Facebook Has had an 118% increase in active users since 2009 [...]

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Why Alt Tags Matter: SEOing An Image Based Website

By admin | Published: January 5, 2012

When you have a website packed full of images, such as an eCommerce or photography site, you have much more than text at your disposal to inform users and search engines what your site is truly about. That is why Alt Tags are so very important. While most people will tell you that Google and the other major search engines no longer rely as heavily on Alt Tags (really ‘Alt Attributes’ if you want to get technical), they are still very useful for a number of reasons. Alt Tags [...]

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The Top 10 Reasons to Use Magento Go

By admin | Published: October 20, 2011

As you may well know, Blue Riot Labs has recently partnered with Magento Go as a design service provider. Magento Go is considered the fastest growing ecommerce platforms available today and it’s incredibly secure and easy-to-use. But in case you’re still on the fence about whether or not Magento Go is right for you, here are the top 10 reasons why Magento Go is the perfect platform to sell your products and services online. Fully-Customizable: Our designers will work with you to determine the best look and feel for your [...]

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Content Marketing 101: Seven Tips for Content Marketing Domination

By admin | Published: June 23, 2011

The Internet has changed the marketing and sales game and that means the old ways of doing things are no longer effective. You can’t just blast out advertisements to get in prospects’ and customers’ faces like you could in the ‘old days’ of marketing and advertising. Instead, these days you need to bring the customers to you and one of the most effective ways to do that is through content marketing. To help you build content marketing campaigns that boost traffic, sales and reputation, here are seven tips that you [...]

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3 Online Tools for Spying on Your Competition

By admin | Published: May 24, 2011

Thanks to the Internet, it’s easy to spy on your competition. What’s that? You don’t like spying? You think it’s wrong? Well, if you are a business owner and you think it’s wrong to spy on the people and companies competing against you, you’re about to be in for a big surprise. Whether or not you’re spying on your competitors doesn’t matter, because you can bet your competition is spying on you. Ethical or not, spying on the competition is a business practice that has been used for centuries. Back [...]

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How to Boost Your Link Building

By admin | Published: May 12, 2011

If you’re familiar with SEO in any capacity, you probably know by now that search engines love backlinks. A backlink is nothing more than a link that points back to your website from another source. The more backlinks your website and individual web pages have pointing back at them, especially if those backlinks come from authority sites, the higher you’ll rank for your chosen keywords. However, as with most things you should focus primarily on quality rather than quantity when it comes to building your website’s backlinks. First, let’s [...]

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Having Trouble Setting Up An E-Store? Try BigCommerce

By admin | Published: May 4, 2011

Nearly ten years ago, it was considered risky to order goods and services online. People just didn’t do it because they were afraid of getting their credit card numbers stolen. And while the risks today are even more severe, times have certainly changed with regards to online shopping. These days it is extremely commonplace to order goods and services online. With everyone having a computer at home and a computer-like smartphone in the pocket, online shopping is here to stay. For that reason, most retailers now have a fully functioning [...]

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5 Must-Have Features That Your Mobile E-commerce Website Should Have

By admin | Published: May 2, 2011

Your E-commerce website may be doing well, but if you don’t have the following five features imbedded into your site, you may be losing out on business, customers and money. Lots and lots of money. Just by adding one or two features, features that can be added with easy-to-use plug-ins, you can improve the usefulness, navigability and the overall value of your E-commerce site. That means customers will be more inclined to visit again and again, which is perfect for your bottom line. Pay attention to the five must-have features [...]