Google announced today that they are adding real-time functionality to Google Analytics. This will allow webmasters to monitor the number of people and engagement on their site in real-time. This feature will roll out over the next two weeks, but if you want to try it out early, you can sign up for the beta version today.
Fill out the form on this page - https://services.google.com/fb/forms/realtimeanalytics/
Features of the new service include:
Monitoring visits to a site minute-by-minute
The number of people on your site at that moment
Monitoring traffic sources in real-time (referral, Organic or Paid Search, direct, ect.)
Geo Location of your current visitors
Keywords that brought the visitors
Based off our knowledge and experience with SEO, we've been able to create our own SEO process that includes a mix of best practices, tactics, and tools that we've created. By laying out our process, we've really been able to streamline the execution of our SEO projects and deliver our clients some amazing results for them.
We've decided that we don't want to hoard all of this good SEO information to ourselves, so we've published the Highly Relevant SEO Process for you to see.
The process is laid out in a step-by-step format, and it takes into consideration many SEO best practices (such as keyword research, on-page optimization, and linkbuilding), but we've also sprinkled in some other strategies that enhance our SEO efforts.
You can access our SEO process here or just click on the screenshot below.
Please let us know if you have any questions or comments about the SEO process. Enjoy!
Google sent us a bunch of $100 Google Adwords coupons that we can distribute. They are valid through December 31, 2011 so you got plenty of time to use them. This is what the actual cards look like.
If you would like a coupon, please contact us and we will send you the code right away.
Please note: There are only 9 coupons left (including the one in the image ABOVE) so better get a move on!
Update (6-24-11): We are OUT of Adwords Coupons. We have contacted Google for more and will update this as we hear from them.
In this post, I'm going to tell you why SEO is the new Yellow Book. Let me throw some statistics out at you to make you understand how integrated Search engines have become to our lives. There are 4000 web searches per second. Just a year and a half ago, there were only 2000 searches per second. This is quite an amazing stat that should get your very excited about being at the top of the search engines.
74% of people searching for local business information use search engines to find it first. This is significantly higher than the old days when people used the yellow pages first. Think of SEO as the new, de facto investment you need to make as you would your de facto investment in the yellow pages. You now have to make that de facto investment. It has not become more clouded though and not as easy as taking an ad out in the yellow pages.
That’s because there are so many so-called “experts” out there and very few authorities. This course is the authority on search engine optimization.
Another statistic is that for every $1 spent online, it drives $6 offline. If you are actively looking for an agency, consider Highly Relevant's ethical search engine optimization services.
Note: All statistics taken from "The Art of ...
I'm sure that some of you go on Twitter sometimes and are just not sure what to say. Do you just Tweet out what you're doing right now? Do you write about what you're thinking about? Will anyone really care?
One type of Tweet that usually adds a lot of value is links to websites, blog posts, articles, and so on that other people will find interesting.
Today I'd like to talk about three tools that can really help streamline your time on Twitter in order to get this type of Tweet out to your followers -- which, in turn, can also boost your social media marketing efforts.
1. RSS Feed Reader. You need to set up an RSS Feed Reader in order to get all of your articles, blog posts, news stories, etc. in one place -- as opposed to going to each individual site. An RSS feed reader will really save you a lot of time. I personally use Newsfire, but there are other ones out there, such as Bloglines and Google Reader.
Once you find an article or blog post that you'd like to share with your Twitter followers, then you'll need...
2. Bitly. Twitter only allows you to have 140 characters per Tweet. Of course, sometimes URLs are really long and can take up a bunch of the space in the Tweet... which is where Bitly ...
Do I have duplicate Google listings?
First of all, if you want to figure out how to see if your business has duplicate listings in Google Local results, here is a great reference about Identifying and Removing Duplicate Listings.
In addition to searching Google Maps for your business name, you can also search by your phone number as such "310 824 9590". Searching by phone number can help identify duplicate Google Places pages based upon the phone number being used which is especially useful if you have recently changed phone numbers.
OK, I have duplicate Google listings. How do I remove them!?
Removing duplicate listings is a two part process that can take up to and over 72 hours to complete. Many people only do one of the two: they login to their Google Local dashboard, claim ownership of the old listing, remove and/or suspend their old listing and then are done, but that's not enough.
To permanently remove and old or duplicate listing, you must do the following:
Login to your Google Local Dashboard, Claim ownership of the duplicate listing, and remove the listing from your Local Dashboard AND Google maps.
After you have remove it from your Google Local Dashboard AND Google Maps, go to the duplicate Google listing page. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page and click the "Report a problem" link and ...
We are pioneers in conversion marketing, meaning it's not just about driving traffic from the search engines and social websites, it's about converting that traffic into sales and leads for your business.
