Archive for the ‘Local Online Marketing’ category

Return on Investment (ROI) Reporting Made Accessible

February 15th, 2010

“Show me The Money!”

SEO is tricky business. You may be operating a firm and have a staff of highly qualified analysts working earnestly to service your customers’ needs. Internally, you’re able to monitor work-load activities, cross off action items, set goals, and track domain progress.

With all you are doing to operate a high-functioning SEO agency, how is the reporting you offer your customers? Are you able to provide transparent reporting activities and dashboards that display a range of detail ensuring them they are getting what they pay for? Can the customer access these reports through an on-line account? If not, can they contact their account representative and quickly be provided this information?

Many SEO agencies do not offer effective ROI reporting. This is common in the industry and there are no standards that customers can expect. This may lead to their frustration. Even the best SEO agencies suffer from troubling retention rates as customers become agitated spending hundreds, if not thousands of dollars per month and not being sure they are making any headway in their on-line marketing campaign. They want assurances that the money they pay you is delivering them tangible results.  

Boostability was formed to solve the reporting pains your agency may be faced with. Put simply, we spent all our energies and efforts building an SEO enterprise solution that can assist your agency in delivering what your customers are looking for, namely a full suite of centralized reporting dashboards that clearly show the progress your efforts are making for them.

Our programmers have tapped all the analytical assists we could gather, including Google Analytics and Alexa Rank, and have thrown in our own mixture of diagnostic dashboards to provide breakthrough reporting solutions that will wow your customers. 

Some of our reporting includes:

  • Competition - A report that compares the customer’s  site to their competition. This information is drawn from the Alexa Rank, Google Page Rank, inbound links, and pages indexed to calculate the customer’s competitors’ scores in relation to them.
  • Page Index - A report that shows the number of web pages from the customer’s website that the various search engines have indexed, or added to their results pages.
  • Google Page Rank -  A link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to the customer’s site on a scale of 0 to 10 (10 being the highest). The purpose of this number reveals to your customer the relevance of their website on the Web.
  • Keyword Ranking - A report that allows the customer to see the current search engine rank for each keyword they are focusing on, and also shows a history of how those rankings have evolved over time.
  • Actions and Traffic: Boostability’s  SEO enterprise solution provides action items for your analysts to accomplish on your customer’s behalf. Such actions are in line with your current activities, including back-linking and registry updates. This report provides graphical analysis that reveals if these actions are having an impact on the customer’s website over time.
  • Overall Web-page Scoring – A collection of analyzed data to deliver an overall score based on every section reported on.

Our intentions are to assist an SEO agency’s goal of delivering superior customer service. The results of this translate to a satisfied customer that sticks with you for a long time.

Boostability also offers these reporting tools to small businesses with limited on-line marketing budgets that want to manage their own SEO.

For more information please call us at 1-800-261-1537 or email us at sales@boostability.com.

Local Internet Marketing Resource – Google Webmaster Tools.

October 28th, 2009

I can’t say enough about how useful Google Webmaster tools has been for us.  Thanks to Matt Cutts(a Google developer) for promoting this resource on his blog.  However I don’t think most small and local businesses have a clue who he is or read his blog.

Dear local Business owner who designed and hosted his own site.  Let me introduce you to Google’s Webmaster tools.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools

One problem I have with the site is there isn’t enough help to utilize all the information they have available.  I just want to point out and explain a few of the reports/tools.

Dashboard:

This will give you a high level overview of your site.  Including if Google detected any errors while indexing your site.  You can also see who they report linked to your site.  Also what are people search for when finding your site.

Site Configuration:   Sitemaps:

The quickest way to get your site indexed is to link from another domain such as Yelp.   However you want to make sure all your pages get indexed by submitting a sitemap.  A sitemap is generally and xml document laying out your website structure.  If you need help creating one, Boostability does it automatically for you.  No xml knowledge required.

Labs: Fetch as Googlebot:

The Labs section is for the new cool stuff Google is working on.  This great tool shows you how your site will appear to Google.  This will be the quickest way to identify problems with your site.

These are just a few highlights of the great information you can see on Google’s Webmaster Tools.  Boostability software will help small and local businesses use and understand this useful resource.

Want to find out how your site’s SEO value stacks up against the competition?  Get a Automated Free Website Analysis.  Then let us be part of your team and help Market your site on the web.  Boostability, we can help.

www.Boostability.com

5 Search Engine Optimization Actions every Small and Local Business should do.

August 19th, 2009

5 Search Engine Optimization Actions every Small and Local Business should do.

Typically most small and local businesses don’t have a big budget to advertise on the internet.  So the biggest question they have is “How do I get traffic?”  To start getting traffic immediately they will turn to PPC or pay-per-click.  You only pay for the visitors sent to your site.   This is an expensive option.

Your best ROI(return on investment) is through natural search.  Here are 5 steps that any small and local business should do first to optimize for search engines.

1. Analytics.  You need to start tracking where your customers are coming from and what search terms or sites are driving traffic to you.  If you don’t know what works and what doesn’t you are throwing your money away.

2. Keyword Selection.  Picking the right keywords requires a little research.  You need a tool that will tell you traffic estimates and how competitive is that keyword organically.  Currently Googles tool only tells you ppc competitiveness, but does give you good traffic estimates.  If you don’t choose the right keywords you may be wasting your time.

3. Meta Tags.   After step 2 the easiest meta tag you can set is the keyword meta tag.  Some search engines will use this data and others will not.

4. Directory submission.  There are thousands of directories, some are good and a lot are bad.  You need to make sure you stay with the highest valued ones like DMOZ.org.

5. Profile submissions.  Profiles are similar to directories, there are some bad ones out they you need to avoid.  Start with Google local.  Even if you are not a local customer it will add value.

Boostability walks businesses through these steps for free, giving them a head start to acquiring customers.  Search Engine Optimization is a long term investment and just requires someone doing something.  They give you the tools and easy instruction so that any business can do this.