Is HTML and CSS Validation Important? 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

The Importance of Domain Age in SEO Search Engine Optimization

The Importance of Domain Age in SEO

The age of a domain name can add significant SEO value to your website. The…

Ryan KellyJuly 4, 2010

Why Does Google Cares About Duplicate Content? Search Engine OptimizationQuick SEO Tips

Why Does Google Cares About Duplicate Content?

Duplicate content is one of the most common issues that can plague websites from not…

Ryan KellyJune 29, 2010

Are Reciprocal Links Bad? Search Engine OptimizationQuick SEO Tips

Are Reciprocal Links Bad?

Reciprocal links used to be a good way to build links to your site. You…

Ryan KellyJune 22, 2010

Thinking About SEO While You Build a New Website Search Engine Optimization

Thinking About SEO While You Build a New Website

Updated 3/1/2011: There are tons of people re-designing, re-tooling or completely re-vamping their websites right…

Ryan KellyJune 16, 2010

How To Remove Pages From Google’s Index Search Engine OptimizationQuick SEO Tips

How To Remove Pages From Google’s Index

Google de-indexing can be a necessity for SEO in 2022.  If you have uncovered pages…

Ryan KellyJune 15, 2010

How Anchor Text on Inbound Links Can Improve Organic Rankings Search Engine OptimizationQuick SEO Tips

How Anchor Text on Inbound Links Can Improve Organic Rankings

Anchor text refers to the text that is highlighted and underlined on a website that…

Ryan KellyJune 8, 2010

What Do Steve Blank, 37 Signals and Mark Cuban Have in Common? Other Cool StuffStartups

What Do Steve Blank, 37 Signals and Mark Cuban Have in Common?

You might not expect it, but these entrepreneurs each have something to say about customers…

Ryan KellyMay 23, 2010

How to do a 301 Redirect Properly on Apache or Windows Servers Search Engine Optimization

How to do a 301 Redirect Properly on Apache or Windows Servers

In today's blog post we will discuss how to implement a proper 301 redirect on…

Ryan KellyMay 7, 2010

The Dirty Little Secret About Paid Search PPC ManagementROI Tracking

The Dirty Little Secret About Paid Search

Before you embark on a potentially expensive paid search campaign, consider this one insight that…

Ryan KellyMay 6, 2010

Tour of Google Other Cool Stuff

Tour of Google

Last week while I attended AdTech in San Francisco, I had a few hours to…

Ryan KellyApril 24, 2010

3 Questions with 37 Signals’ David Heinemeier Hansson Expert Blogger SeriesSearch Engine Optimization

3 Questions with 37 Signals’ David Heinemeier Hansson

Here's the next post in the 'Small Business Series', on how a small business can…

Ryan KellyApril 21, 2010

The Magic of Local Search Expert Blogger SeriesSearch Engine Optimization

The Magic of Local Search

This is our fifth post in the 'Small Business Series' which features where we feature…

Ryan KellyApril 6, 2010

Understanding Metrics that Matter – Interview with Hiten Shah Expert Blogger SeriesSearch Engine OptimizationWeb Analytics

Understanding Metrics that Matter – Interview with Hiten Shah

This is our fourth post in the 'Small Business Series' which features where we feature…

Ryan KellyMarch 30, 2010

Interview with SEOmoz CEO, Rand Fishkin Expert Blogger SeriesSearch Engine Optimization

Interview with SEOmoz CEO, Rand Fishkin

Rand Fishkin is the CEO of SEOmoz, and is certainly one of the most respected…

Ryan KellyMarch 23, 2010

The Art of Creating Super Awesome Surveys Expert Blogger SeriesSearch Engine OptimizationWeb Analytics

The Art of Creating Super Awesome Surveys

This is the second post in our “Small Business Series” where we are interviewing a…

Ryan KellyMarch 22, 2010

Search Engine Optimization with Seth Godin Expert Blogger SeriesSearch Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization with Seth Godin

  We are kicking off a series about how small businesses can better leverage their…

Ryan KellyMarch 18, 2010

Is Flash Good for Search Engine Optimization? Search Engine Optimization

Is Flash Good for Search Engine Optimization?

As of right now, it's still not a great idea to mix Flash and SEO…

Ryan KellyMarch 9, 2010

Princeton University Grad Writes Thesis About Pear Analytics Other Cool Stuff

Princeton University Grad Writes Thesis About Pear Analytics

The following editorial is actually a thesis written by Josh Lavine, a student at Princeton…

Ryan KellyJanuary 24, 2010

Social Media: What Works, and What Doesn’t Social Media

Social Media: What Works, and What Doesn’t

Thanks to my friend Steve Patti (@polarityinc) who sent this excellent whitepaper from Marketing Profs…

Ryan KellyJanuary 14, 2010

Twitter Growing at 1 Million New Accounts a Week? Social Media

Twitter Growing at 1 Million New Accounts a Week?

For those of  you who are wondering how many people are using Twitter, or even…

Ryan KellyDecember 22, 2009

Why Apple Doesn’t Do Discounts Other Cool Stuff

Why Apple Doesn’t Do Discounts

Despite a tanking economy, Apple has record sales and profits and doesn't need a fire…

Ryan KellyNovember 25, 2009

How Webpage Load Times Affect Google Rankings Search Engine Optimization

How Webpage Load Times Affect Google Rankings

New data is out to show that visitors want webpage load times in 2 seconds…

Ryan KellyNovember 13, 2009

How I Use Keynote for Web Interface Design Other Cool Stuff

How I Use Keynote for Web Interface Design

You heard it right...I use Keynote to develop iterations on user interface design for our…

Ryan KellyNovember 4, 2009

Rackspace CEO Gives Tips for Entrepreneurs Other Cool Stuff

Rackspace CEO Gives Tips for Entrepreneurs

This morning I attended the SATAI (San Antonio Technology Accelerator Initiative) STARs 2009 Technology Innovation…

Ryan KellyOctober 27, 2009

Hubspot: High Stakes or High Profit? Events

Hubspot: High Stakes or High Profit?

Hubspot successfully analyzed over 1 million websites, 1 million Twitter accounts, raised another $16 million,…

Ryan KellyOctober 20, 2009

Twitter Study Part 2 – Continuing the Conversation Social Media

Twitter Study Part 2 – Continuing the Conversation

It's been a little over one week since the Pear Analytics Twitter study we posted…

Ryan KellyAugust 24, 2009

Twitter Study: Usage- 40% is Pointless Babble Social Media

Twitter Study: Usage- 40% is Pointless Babble

A while back we embarked on a study that evolved after a having a debate…

Ryan KellyAugust 12, 2009

The Power of Anchor Text Search Engine Optimization

The Power of Anchor Text

What exactly is anchor text? Well, anchor text is a common term we use in…

Ryan KellyAugust 11, 2009

How Webpage Load Times Relate to Visitor Loss Search Engine Optimization

How Webpage Load Times Relate to Visitor Loss

Have you ever been to a website that takes forever to load?  What do you…

Ryan KellyAugust 7, 2009

Guest blog: Twitter Blows Out Direct Mail Social Media

Guest blog: Twitter Blows Out Direct Mail

The following is a blog post by Nan Palmero, Chief Inspriation Officer at Sales By…

Ryan KellyMay 14, 2009

You Can’t Measure Everything Online Web Analytics

You Can’t Measure Everything Online

That's right - you can't measure everything online that you might think.  Analyzing click traffic…

Ryan KellyMay 8, 2009

Pear Analytics: Finalist in Capital Factory Tech Incubator Program News

Pear Analytics: Finalist in Capital Factory Tech Incubator Program

(As it appears on the Capital Factory website) Austin, TX (PRWEB) April 22, 2009 --…

Ryan KellyApril 22, 2009

Test: Measuring the Performance of Print Advertising Events

Test: Measuring the Performance of Print Advertising

As I was flying back from the east coast on Southwest Airlines, as usual I…

Ryan KellyApril 21, 2009

5 Ways Small Business Can Improve Their Marketing Performance Events

5 Ways Small Business Can Improve Their Marketing Performance

I'm real big on measurement. And I mean BIG. Without data, you can't measure, and…

Ryan KellyApril 13, 2009

Using Analytics to Track TV Ads – Which Way Is Best? Web Analytics

Using Analytics to Track TV Ads – Which Way Is Best?

I've been paying attention to television advertising spots lately to see what the tracking mechanisms…

Ryan KellyMarch 21, 2009

Pear Analytics scores first prize at Innotech Beta Summit NewsSearch Engine Optimization

Pear Analytics scores first prize at Innotech Beta Summit

Monday, March 9, 2009, 10:27am - Posted in the San Antonio Business Journal Online edition…

Ryan KellyMarch 9, 2009

Adaptive Multivariate Testing – Does It Work? ROI TrackingWeb Analytics

Adaptive Multivariate Testing – Does It Work?

If you like tinkering with your website, then you have probably heard of A/B or…

Ryan KellyFebruary 6, 2009

Marketing in a Down Economy ROI Tracking

Marketing in a Down Economy

Amidst the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, companies are slashing jobs, slowing growth…

Ryan KellyFebruary 4, 2009

The Importance of Lifetime Value Search Engine Marketing

The Importance of Lifetime Value

Many marketers are quick to prescribe to their clients a laundry list of tactics that…

Ryan KellyJanuary 31, 2009