Posted by Alicia Magda on Jun 7, 2009
As a social media savvy web site owner, chances are you have a Facebook Business Page, Twitter profile, LinkedIn profile, and a blog. If you haven’t utilized these sites yet, you definitely should - stat! Your social media profiles may be on entirely different sites, but the web is more connected than ever before. Read [...]
Posted by Alicia Magda on May 17, 2009
If you’ve been reading up on SEO, chances are you’ve heard of Social Media Optimization, or SMO. SMO allows you, a business owner, to effectively market your brand to the public on social media sites. Unlike buying ad space on a billboard or in a magazine or newspaper, SMO gives you the power to have [...]
Posted by Alicia Magda on May 17, 2009
Your favorite Solid Cactus SEO Team is now on Twitter! Each member of the SEO Team will be tweeting on our various SEO and SMO initiatives throughout the day, providing SEO insights, links to informative articles, and displaying our bright and always engaging personalities.
Follow us:
Alicia Magda, SEO Team Leader
Jeff Stolarcyk, Senior SEO Account Manager
Shannon Mullery, [...]
Posted by Alicia Magda on Apr 14, 2009
Rand Fishkin’s post on SEOmoz today, “There’s Way More Than 2 Ways to Make Money with SEO” is absolutely golden, and I’ll let Rand’s awesome and very handy chart speak for the article itself:
If you work in SEO, want to enhance your own site’s SEO, or in any utter “SEO” throughout the day, this chart [...]
Posted by Alicia Magda on Mar 25, 2009
This week your favorite tiny SEO girl is representing Solid Cactus SEO at Search Engine Strategies (SES), one of the most popular Internet marketing conferences out there. Brad Hoppy from Solid Cactus’s PPC Team and I are having a great time attending interesting sessions and meeting some awesome people. Twitter is repeatedly being touted as [...]
Posted by Alicia Magda on Feb 10, 2009
Wanted: Long-term SEO strategy, increased traffic and revenue in 6-12 months. Will care and nurture SEO campaign.
Now that’s ideal, but not always a reality for site owners. I was just reading Mark Jackson’s article, “Give SEO Time!“, and oh my, how true it is! Mark explains just how much SEO is a long term relationship [...]
Posted by Alicia Magda on Feb 4, 2009
We’ve been using Facebook.com as part of our Social Media Optimization (SMO) strategy for our clients by designing attractive Facebook Business Pages for our clients, and we’ve seen clients receive traffic from Facebook and buzz created about their brand. When discussing our Facebook plan-of-action with our clients, we’re always asked, “but how will the kids [...]
Posted by Alicia Magda on Jan 27, 2009
The face of organic search results is continually evolving. We’re seeing blended results made up of news articles, images, and now, “favicons” alongside search engine result listings. According to MarketingVOX’s article, “Google Tests Site Favicons in Select Search Results”, Google is now showing favicons, the small, usually branded icon next to a site’s url in [...]
Posted by Alicia Magda on Jan 22, 2009
SearchEngineLand.com’s “The Obama Effect: Google Says President Changed Search Activity” shows just how much we as a country are now receptive to change. That willingness to change doesn’t stop with President Obama supporters, but extends to the search industry in general. Search engines aren’t just a service we use to find that gadget or online [...]
Posted by Alicia Magda on Jan 20, 2009
I read an article by eMarketer today called “Internet Users Spending Even More Time on Web”, noting that Americans spend 30% of their leisure time online. Chances are, a large chunk of that 30% is going to be searching for topics or products they like via Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and etc. Personally, I now shop [...]