Welcome to Seed the Web

Welcome.  This is the formal launch of Seed The Web blog under it’s own stand alone domain (www.seedtheweb.com).

I’ll give you a little backgrounder of why I started this blog…

I was previously working at Sitemasher as the Online Marketing Director and contributed to a blog under their domain.  I loved sharing what I learn within the online marketing world (like search engine optimization, social media , paid search, etc).  Since I am no longer working there (cut backs unfortunately), I wanted to keep up with my posts.  So I built this blog and it is technically a continuation of what I already started.  But what I want to do different,  is REALLY commit myself to more consistent posts.

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What to look for in a search engine friendly platform

When your website is SEO friendly, search engines can visit, read, find, and remember all of the pages within your site. This enables them to know what you are about and to list your pages in relevant search results pages – preferably the first!

I find, however, that website owners will often ask me about search engine optimization (SEO) after their website has been built. This is because they are not seeing the desired results when their new site goes live (such as site visitors or site visitors that convert), and only realize after the fact that their site was not optimized correctly when built. To be effective, SEO is something that you must consider before designing and building your website. Otherwise, you’ll be left with nothing but a great looking site without significant visitor numbers.

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How to Increase Your Online Exposure with Blended Search

You may or may not have noticed, but when you do a search on the top search engines, different kinds of results are creeping in all the time. Search results pages now display content that is beyond text links. These results contain a mix of web pages, video thumbnails, images, maps and local directory listings. This is an emerging trend and called “Blended” or “Universal” or some experts are coining it as “Search 3.0.” You can use this to your advantage by understanding how these results are considered and how you can present your company to have multiple results on these search results pages. You can also offer a richer and more interactive experience to your potential customers and possibly increase click-throughs to your site.

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