Category: SEO

Pop quiz: You’re buying a website domain. You sell disco balls. Disco-ball-fever.com is $200. Disco.ball is $20. Which one do you buy? Answer: If you are trying to maximize how many people can recall your website domain five seconds after seeing it, then buy disco.ball. You’ve probably seen the internet awash lately in bizarre domain extensions. Speculators, […]

There’s been a tremendous amount of chatter recently about rich snippets vanishing from Google search results, whether it’s Amazon losing their review aggregate snippets or a wholesale reduction in video snippets. What we’re really talking about are changes to the rich snippets algorithm. That’s right, we need to go deeper. There’s an algorithm within the […]

The Rich Snippets Algorithm is by AJ Kohn, originally posted on Blind Five Year Old.

Collecting, storing, and managing big data can be an invaluable asset for a business; however the thought of analyzing a copious amount of data – even if it does reveal a hidden company gem – can appear to be an exhausting, time-consuming, and repetitive process. As SEER interns, we had the amazing opportunity to research […]

These days it seems like there’s a new site that pops up every day claiming to be the next best thing when it comes to promoting your business, but does your site really need another social media platform to manage? Well, if you’re going to add additional social platform to your roster, Pinterest is the […]

In 2014, digital advertising can have so many meanings to so many different people, companies and agencies.  Regardless of what it means to you, it is extremely powerful.  I could be a little biased considering I work at SEER, a digital agency, but online marketing may be the most important investment, other than in employees, […]

Starting in April 2014, you may have noticed social referrals from Facebook coming into Google Analytics (GA) as source/medium lm.facebook.com and l.facebook.com. These referral visits from Facebook were being reported as visits from an unknown source until Facebook implemented the link shim. The link shim is designed to protect users from having their personal identifying […]

At SEER, we believe in being as close to the cutting edge as possible as it relates to the web. Fortunately, one of our own, Nico Miceli, attended Google I/O. One of the things he brought back (other than his fancy watch) was an example of how Apps are changing the mobile search rankings display — and […]

Story Developing – Follow me on Twitter @chadgingrich for updates. Today we started seeing across many clients that video snippets stopped appearing in the SERPs for domains.  YouTube snippets are unaffected, however, it seems that video snippets may be going the way of authorship thumbnails.  No official word from Google yet, however, the change seems to […]

The result of good SEO is traffic, conversions, and community. Recently, a conversation around the value of the Yahoo directory listing came up at SEER, and it turns out that, in most cases, there is no traffic coming from Yahoo directory listings. In gambling terms, if you bet that a Yahoo directory listing won’t get […]

SEER’s blog is loaded with tutorials, tips, and hints to help fuel a SEO campaign, power PPC efforts, and build metrics using Data Analytics. Although SEER’s team has a plethora of online marketing knowledge – SEER also has another amazing asset: a company dynamic bursting with creative and multi-faceted individuals. To share the behind the […]