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 Jeff Stolarcyk on May 15, 2009
This is the last post in our series about the new Google features announced on Tuesday at Google’s Searchology event (which I keep repeating because it’s fun to say).
On the plate today is Search Options, which is maybe the most ‘megaton’ announcement in terms of the way it will actually change the way that Google [...]
Posted by Jeff Stolarcyk on May 14, 2009
Yesterday’s post about Rich Snippets has gotten some great responses from our customers. My inbox is full of people asking how to make this work on their Yahoo store, and the short answer is that we’re working with our crack team of Yahoo Store developers to make this happen.
The next Searchology announcement I’m going [...]
Posted by Jeff Stolarcyk on May 13, 2009
At its Searchology event yesterday, Google rolled out a new feature that has game-changing potential. Well, a few of them actually. And I’ll talk about each of them over the rest of the week, but today the topic is Rich Snippets. Click the link to see Rich Snippets in action in search [...]
Posted by Rebecca Rowett on May 13, 2009
So who would have thought that online shopping sites would be a great tool to utilize to engage shoppers about your products and website? They’re an excellent tool that any business owners should be taking advantage of! Shopping sites are just yet another avenue to consider when working within the realm of social marketing [...]
Posted by Mandy Boyle on May 4, 2009
When was the last time you opened the yellow pages? Yes, I mean an actual phone book.
If you’re like most people, I can guess that it’s been awhile.
According to recent study by the Yellow Pages Association and comScore, local search — the practice of using online search tools to find local businesses, products, or services [...]
Posted by Jeff Stolarcyk on Apr 29, 2009
Be mindful of the domain name you’re seeing the next time you login to Facebook. There’s a password-stealing scam on the loose, collecting info from a authentic-looking login screen on FBAction.com - or really, any site that isn’t Facebook.com.
(via Mashable)
Posted by Rebecca Rowett on Apr 28, 2009
With my recent transition from PPC account manger to SEO specialist, I’m thrilled to become a member of the Solid Cactus SEO team. As I will certainly miss the many aspects of pay-per-click marketing and the clients I have been so lucky to have worked with, I’m excited to enter into the Search Engine [...]
Posted by Jeff Stolarcyk on Apr 27, 2009
According to eMarketer, the number of bloggers and the personal reach of bloggers is expanding and is projected to continue growing over the next five years.
This seems like a perfect place to exhort you to start blogging and tell you that blogging is going to blow the doors off of your online store.
Instead, my advice [...]