A few weeks ago I was going over a keyword ranking report with a client. One of his most important keywords, used welding positioner, was ranked #9 in Google. He asked me “how many people are actually clicking on the #9 search result?” I didn’t have an answer for him, but I [...] Read Full Story

Putting strong effort into optimizing your site for search engines is commendable and certainly helps visitors find you and ytour products and services.  But, what will they find when they get to your site?  The SEO may be professional, but your visitors are looking for more than a pretty title tag! Here are a few tips on [...] Read Full Story

In a post the other day at the International Industrial SEO blog, I mentioned that in South Korea, home internet connection speeds of 20mbps are the norm, and 100mbps is possible in newer developments.  When watching the Olympics last night, I saw a commercial for a new fiber optic internet service, finally bringing speeds of [...] Read Full Story

Google reached its highest market share yet last, accounting for 70.77 percent of all U.S. searches last month. Yahoo came in second with 18.65%, followed by MSN with 5.36% according to HitWise. If you follow your website’s sites analytics, this will come as no surprise. I’ve seen more and more sites getting over 70% [...] Read Full Story

As a follow up to the post ‘Business Blogs-Who Needs ‘Em Anyway?’, I thought I would post a link to another blog with a great list of the top corporate and business blogs.  Enjoy!  15 Companies That Really Get Corporate Blogging Read Full Story

We’ve all been to the bank and have seen the promotional banners exclaiming: “Let us make your money work for you!” Your website should be working for you, too!  A well-designed industrial website with great organic ranking is a real money-maker.  RFQs will tumble into your inbox and you’ll receive plenty of conversions on your contact [...] Read Full Story

Tracy’s post the other day on cross linking keywords inspired me to write this post on calls to action. The go hand in hand with cross linking, but instead of highlighting the importance of a keyword, they encourage your website’s visitors to complete an action, whether it’s requesting contact information or reading an FAQ [...] Read Full Story

It used to be that a well-designed site (or even a badly designed one!), a healthy dose of thoughtful and ethical site optimization and well-placed backlinks used to be sufficient for top placement in the SERPs (search engine result pages).  With the advent of Universal Search in mid-2007, businesses have been challenged to keep their websites [...] Read Full Story

Cross linking is when you link from one page of your industrial site to another within the copy. Here’s how it works. Google gives more weight in the algorithm, or “credit”, to a keyword that is in a link. Google also gives credit to the page that you are linking for that keyword. [...] Read Full Story

Ecreativeworks has launched a new blog to complement the Industrial Search Engine Marketing blog! The focus of International Industrial SEO is all about foreign search engine optimization for industrial and business to business websites. The blog aims to cover a wide range of topics related to industrial websites and their presence in international search engines. [...] Read Full Story