Is It Fair For SEO To Be Tied Directly to Website Sales? Search Engine Optimization

Is It Fair For SEO To Be Tied Directly to Website Sales?

Every now and then we have customers who want to cancel their service because the…

Ryan KellyJanuary 23, 2012

A Message from Pear about SOPA and PIPA News

A Message from Pear about SOPA and PIPA

What are SOPA and PIPA? If you're online today, you've heard about SOPA and PIPA.…

Ryan KellyJanuary 18, 2012

2011 Wrapup: A Year in Numbers Other Cool Stuff

2011 Wrapup: A Year in Numbers

Wow, 2011 flew by, right?  We put together this quick chart to summarize how the…

Ryan KellyJanuary 4, 2012

Why You Should Avoid Local.com’s SEO Services Search Engine Optimization

Why You Should Avoid Local.com’s SEO Services

Many of the local directory websites are now selling "SEO" services to their customers, but…

Ryan KellyDecember 14, 2011

Why Small Businesses May Want to Avoid Google AdWords Express PPC Management

Why Small Businesses May Want to Avoid Google AdWords Express

Should you avoid Google AdWords Express? Google is getting real aggressive on their ploys to…

Ryan KellyNovember 16, 2011

Click Attribution Issues With SEO and PPC Campaigns PPC ManagementROI Tracking

Click Attribution Issues With SEO and PPC Campaigns

As marketers, we would love to know how all of our leads originated.  Far too…

Ryan KellyNovember 1, 2011

Data Visualization: How Do I Make an Infographic? Search Engine MarketingSearch Engine OptimizationSmall Business SEO

Data Visualization: How Do I Make an Infographic?

The adage "Content is King" is repeated over and over again in the SEO community,…

Ryan KellyOctober 12, 2011

SEO: Long-Term Lead Generation Search Engine MarketingSearch Engine Optimization

SEO: Long-Term Lead Generation

If you're serious about online marketing, SEO is one of the main areas you are…

Ryan KellySeptember 12, 2011

How to Properly Add an XML Sitemap Search Engine Optimization

How to Properly Add an XML Sitemap

Adding an XML sitemap to your site is not only a good way to ensure…

Ryan KellyJuly 26, 2011

How Accurate are Google AdWords Search Volume Reports? ROI TrackingSearch Engine Optimization

How Accurate are Google AdWords Search Volume Reports?

In one of our recent blog posts, we posted an ROI calculator that helps you…

Ryan KellyJuly 26, 2011

Chargify Tips & Tricks Other Cool Stuff

Chargify Tips & Tricks

After using Chargify, the best recurring billing system on the market, for the last year,…

Ryan KellyJuly 20, 2011

Marketers Shifting to Inbound Marketing Other Cool StuffSearch Engine Marketing

Marketers Shifting to Inbound Marketing

A new e-book full of fact published by Hubspot this morning shows the growing trend…

Ryan KellyMay 18, 2011

ROI Calculator for Search Engine Optimization Search Engine Optimization

ROI Calculator for Search Engine Optimization

One of the most challenging aspects of promoting SEO services to new businesses and contacts…

Ryan KellyApril 29, 2011

Can’t Find Your Website When You Search For Your Own Company Name? Search Engine Optimization

Can’t Find Your Website When You Search For Your Own Company Name?

We've been helping out our customer Zahn Development with their WordPress site recently.  They came…

Ryan KellyJanuary 20, 2011

Web Analytics Firm Pear Analytics Optimizes Its Own Mission News

Web Analytics Firm Pear Analytics Optimizes Its Own Mission

Article by Donna J. Tuttle, posted in the San Antonio Business Journal on December 31,…

Ryan KellyJanuary 1, 2011

The Future of SEO Software Search Engine Optimization

The Future of SEO Software

The future of SEO software looks bright, but are general consumers ready for it, and…

Ryan KellyDecember 30, 2010

The History of Google Updates Search Engine Optimization

The History of Google Updates

A look at some of the major Google updates over the last 7 years, which…

Ryan KellyDecember 20, 2010

KISS Insights Hack: How to Run Multiple Surveys on the Same Page Other Cool StuffStartups

KISS Insights Hack: How to Run Multiple Surveys on the Same Page

The following post outlines a very useful hack for KISS Insights that allows you to…

Ryan KellyNovember 2, 2010

How To Install GA (Google Analytics) Search Engine Optimization

How To Install GA (Google Analytics)

Learning how to install Google Analytics is easy for most site owners.  It will involve…

Ryan KellyOctober 23, 2010

How To Write a Title Tag for SEO Search Engine Optimization

How To Write a Title Tag for SEO

How you write your title tag is as much art as it is science.  You…

Ryan KellyOctober 23, 2010

How I Set Up and Sold Products Using Unbounce, Wufoo and Chargify Other Cool StuffStartups

How I Set Up and Sold Products Using Unbounce, Wufoo and Chargify

I'm going to show you how I concepted and built not one, but two recurring…

Ryan KellySeptember 21, 2010

Startups: 4 Ways To Increase Conversions in AdWords Search Engine MarketingStartups

Startups: 4 Ways To Increase Conversions in AdWords

There are two main problems being a startup: 1) we have limited capital which means…

Ryan KellySeptember 10, 2010

Case of Bad Pie Charts: Salesforce.com Events

Case of Bad Pie Charts: Salesforce.com

So this really surprises and frustrates me. Surprises me because it's Salesforce (aren't they the…

Ryan KellySeptember 10, 2010

Free Marketing Tools for Startups Companies Startups

Free Marketing Tools for Startups Companies

Last week, I wrote about how startups should gather all the analytics they can.  This…

Ryan KellySeptember 1, 2010

WordPress SEO: 2 Settings to Improve Performance Search Engine Optimization

WordPress SEO: 2 Settings to Improve Performance

WordPress, out of the box, unfortunately is not that SEO friendly.  With the help of…

Ryan KellyAugust 26, 2010

Startups: The Minimum Viable Product Lifecycle Startups

Startups: The Minimum Viable Product Lifecycle

We've been paying a LOT of attention to the folks who use our product as…

Ryan KellyAugust 25, 2010

Four Signs Your Website Needs to be Fixed Search Engine OptimizationQuick SEO Tips

Four Signs Your Website Needs to be Fixed

This is a lengthy, instructional post outlining typical SEO problems and solutions with sites that…

Ryan KellyAugust 24, 2010

Startups: Get All The Analytics You Can StartupsWeb Analytics

Startups: Get All The Analytics You Can

You're a startup and it's you (the CEO), your CTO and your marketing guy in…

Ryan KellyAugust 18, 2010

SEO Showdown: Audi vs. BMW Search Engine OptimizationQuick SEO Tips

SEO Showdown: Audi vs. BMW

I thought we would do something different for this week's SEO Tip Tuesday. As an…

Ryan KellyAugust 17, 2010

Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics Insights Web Analytics

Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics Insights

This is an instructional post for advanced use of Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics…

Ryan KellyAugust 13, 2010

Link Building: Just Another Popularity Game Search Engine Optimization

Link Building: Just Another Popularity Game

What a great infographic provided by linkbuilding.nl!  (Sometimes I wish we thought of this stuff). …

Ryan KellyAugust 4, 2010

A Close Look at 404 Errors in SEO Search Engine OptimizationQuick SEO Tips

A Close Look at 404 Errors in SEO

Ever click on a page in a search result listing and get a “404 –…

Ryan KellyAugust 3, 2010

Why You Should Use the Annotation Feature in GA Web Analytics

Why You Should Use the Annotation Feature in GA

We've been using the heck out of the annotation feature in Google Analytics, and here's…

Ryan KellyJuly 29, 2010

How Google Determines Duplicate Content Search Engine OptimizationQuick SEO Tips

How Google Determines Duplicate Content

I was browsing through the SEO Expert group on LinkedIn yesterday, and came across this…

Ryan KellyJuly 27, 2010

Fun Infographic on Link Building Search Engine Optimization

Fun Infographic on Link Building

Here is a fun link building graph. The main takeaway from this graph is that…

Ryan KellyJuly 22, 2010

Why Keyword Relevancy is So Important Search Engine OptimizationQuick SEO Tips

Why Keyword Relevancy is So Important

Keyword relevancy refers to how relevant, or important, certain keywords or phrases are to each…

Ryan KellyJuly 20, 2010

How Many Pages You Have Indexed in Google? Search Engine OptimizationQuick SEO Tips

How Many Pages You Have Indexed in Google?

It's easy to find the pages indexed in Google for your website.  Simply go to…

Ryan KellyJuly 13, 2010

Why Use Page Analysis? Search Engine Optimization

Why Use Page Analysis?

You can find SEO tools that show you keyword rankings. Others dial in on social…

Ryan KellyJuly 12, 2010

4 Types of Inbound Links And Which Are Best Search Engine OptimizationQuick SEO Tips

4 Types of Inbound Links And Which Are Best

There are several types of inbound links a website can get, each with a different…

Ryan KellyJuly 6, 2010

How to Write a Great Meta Description Search Engine Optimization

How to Write a Great Meta Description

Writing a good meta description involves a bit of skill.  This is where the “art”…

Ryan KellyJuly 5, 2010