I just read a report based on Experian/Hitwise data that showed that the majority of searchers use 3 or more key phrases. Keeping this in mind, would you optimize your site to included longer search...

As an analyst, I have noticed better conversion rates for second iter search engines in the category of Images. Many users have recognized that Bing Image results are more user friendly than Google....

The biggest difference between SEO and SEM is organic vs paid.
SEO = Search Engine Optimization
SEM = Search Engine Marketing

SEO = you can enhance SERP results by tweeking chances on your...

I appreciate all for the very insightful comments and recommendations.

I did ask, "what else" but all the responses are welcomed.

I sometimes go to WebTrends and due to time, I hope all the...

There are so many recommendations on SEO but my question is: How do you measure it? How do you know that your SEO tactics/optimization actually worked? I think one way is to track the amount of...

One of my client's site is actually going through a site refresh. As an analyst, I advise to monitor the site's web analytics for at least the first 6 months and see if there were any increase in...

This is great. Thanks for all the links.

I would also add that this professional should have a strong curiosity to keep up with trends, best practices, and with case studies of what other businesses have know that worked and did not worked....

I just read that Google have added new filters:

Here's a list of the new filters:

* Past hour
* Specific date range
* More shopping sites
* Fewer shopping sites
*...

If you had podcasts or audio feeds about your product or brand, how have you optimized this audio for SEO?

Most importantly, how do you track this audio for success in regards to analytics? Do...

I just read on a blog about optimizing SEO for emails.

I do think that optimizng the subject line is most important to ensure that the intended recipient actually opens and reads the email.
...

Thanks for sharing the pigeonrank system. It had be going until I saw one of the questions regarding if the smartness of pigeons and then I realized it was an April Fools prank. Thanks for the...

As we all know, Google Analytics and other web analytics tools do provide a list of referring keywords. Thus, have you used web analytic reports to decide and then optimize your keyword list.

I suggest you to check out some plug-ins for FireFox. I have used a few for SERP and SEO,

Could very be. I do suspect that this is just the beginning of Google launching a newer more intelligent search engine to reflect both natural language and semantic. What do you think?

I just read on mashable today about how Google has increased their search box. This change reflects the trend that many users include more than 2 search terms to generate a search. ...

i read a blog post this morning on Search Engine Land about how the number of keywords or keyword phrases have increased, thus the power for one individual keyword has decreased. I think people do...

I personally have used google trends as a form of assessing the online landscape. I think it is very helpful more from a macro than a micro level. I dont know how it can be used for PPC but I do...

As you know, there are a few semantic web search engines out there. Do you use them? If so, what do you think? Do you optimize your your web sites for these search engines like:
opencalais.com and...

Though if you optimize your site for SEO, it will affect both Google and Bing. But I just saw this interesting post on this site: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/090904-121551
So what do you think?

Hi
Though I am a frequent poster, I just noticed the tag option on this site. So I wonder, what effect does tagging do with the posts here versus the posts that are not tagged?

I also advise on focusing on a few long tail keywords.
Check this out: http://www.searchengineguide.com/matt-bailey/keyword-strategies-the-long-tail.php

Optimizing your SEO on your site is always a good thing. It will help generate visitors to your website, especially if its an e-commerce site.

Very good post. Thanks for sharing.

I personally did not see any difference with Caffeine what so ever but I do wonder if Caffeine works better for popular search terms.
http://mashable.com/2009/08/10/google-caffeine/

Thanks for sharing that post. I will check it out and post results.

Do you use Google Caffeine? Did you notice a difference in your search results? Or most importantly, will you optimized your website differently for Google Caffeine?

From an analytics perspective, will the tags associated with each article help drive traffic to the site?

Make sure you optimize the site as much as possible for content and keywords so your site can be found by the search engine crawlers.

Wow, that is a good list. Thanks. I will also add using quantcast to get a glimpse of behavioral demographics and keywords that drive traffic to other sites.

Many posts on this forum mention tools but some are self promoting. I just want to compile a list of sites where one can use to obtain SEO/competitive intelligence insights? (Better if there are free...

Canada Fred, I like your style. You said it as it is!

I just tested it and I liked it. Now I will test it tomorrow with client's site and I will report finding if they are significant.

I never heard of warrior forum either but it sure looks very commercial focused.

I will get the app and let you now. It sounds fun and also addictive.

I totally agree with Akki. This original poster information is not contributing valuable content to this board.

Just remember that if its grey hat - it may quickly become black hat than white hat. So be cautious and careful.

Also make sure the site you recommend/add to the social bookmarking site provides value to the visitors so the site can get voted and it will receive higher visibility and ultimately, visitors and...

Social bookmarking sites provide websites a great opportunity for visibility and for SEO. You may find this blog helpful: http://social-media-optimization.com/2008/03/top-10-social-bookmarking-sites/

Can you please clarify what this list means? Is this the recommended format to type on Google search box to generate results?