Keyword Research

Jill Kocher on March 30th, 2012

Google’s secure SSL search protects users’ search results and the keywords they searched on. Unfortunately, it also poses a growing threat to data-driven search engine optimization. Firefox recently joined Google Chrome — and Google.com, for logged-i…

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Jill Kocher on January 30th, 2012

Editor’s Note: This is the final installment of a three-part series on optimizing ecommerce pages for search engines. The first two installments, “Part 1: Keyword Research” and “Part 2: Keyword Mapping,” we published previously.

I discussed keywor…

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Jill Kocher on January 21st, 2012

Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a three-part series on optimizing ecommerce pages for search engines. The first installment, “Part 1: Keyword Research,” we published last week.

Keyword research is essential to search engine optimizati…

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Jill Kocher on January 16th, 2012

Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of a three-part series on optimizing ecommerce pages for search engines.

In its purest form, optimizing content for search engines consists of modifying one page to send a strong keyword signal for one keyw…

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Jill Kocher on December 27th, 2011

Optimizing title tags is a bit like eating your vegetables. No one wants to do it, but everyone knows it’s good for you. Search engine optimization professionals universally agree that title tags are the most influential on-page element. SEOmoz recentl…

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