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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Search Engine OptimizationWeb Design Is HTML and CSS Validation Important? If you were a search engine, you would probably want to show pages in your…Ryan KellyJuly 5, 2010