Recent content by johncrenshaw

The case study was mine. You can find it here: [Experiment] Changed Post Dates, Blog Traffic Up 45% I would have posted a link there but those moderators on the Stack network make it impossible unless you've posted a bunch so I ended up copying the entire case study there.

Yeah, or they figure out a way to ignore or penalize the stuff that looks manipulative and count the rest. They already did this with backlinks. ---------- Post Merged at 09:45 PM ---------- Previous Post was at 09:39 PM ---------- You aren't a directory. So no, that wouldn't be expected...

Coming back to this thread because I completely forgot to mention the tied for #1 thing I've learned (aside from find higher paying clients). We are in the service business first. We do SEO/PPC/design/whatever second. If you've ever seen Hotel Impossible where he visits really high rated...

I've learned a few major things: 1. Don't go after really low budget clients ($1500/mo or less). They very rarely become high budget clients and there are more than enough high budget clients out there if you know how to market to, sell to, and service them. If you need examples to sell higher...

First of all, this isn't really directed at you. I respect your point of view. I just have a strange compulsion to temper the absolute rabid social media hype that exists out there. This is more toward that hype in general. I've worked on a lot of projects. I'm pretty skilled with lots of...

He almost lost me at "the shift from search to social is here." Anybody who believes that is clueless. Then he said no, he doesn't think that's the case. Ok, so it's an article about how many people use social media. Awesome. Social media will not drive conversions at near the rate of many...

Rich is right on. There are no other issues that I can think of. Just make sure they are using 301s and not domain masking as is often the case.

Depends on your client needs, reporting, etc, obviously. But for our needs, Moz used to be the least useful for us of the 3. We never used it in the past because we do a good mix of local / non-local / consulting and we tend to build custom reports for each project as needed. Now that they...

This is interesting. Have you seen a trend on type of business this applies to or is it across the board? Also, I have to think interaction, while it may be weighted slightly differently in each case, is all that matters - whether that's smart phone, desktop, tablet, whatever. Have you seen...

That's a case study I would love to see ;-)

"Click monkeys" may be cheap, but I'd be real surprised if this was being done successfully, consistently, and at a cost less than just taking the "white hat" approach - baring the use of some sort of local botnet.

Talk to their front-line staff (support & sales) and talk to their customers.

Great info and cool to see you take this idea a step further with some great tests Darren! I agree with Howell that user behavior has been in use for a while - at least since 2013, which is when we first noticed it running our birthday parties page test in November 2013 (which I shared the...

@Margaret, we had a huge issue with this about a year ago so I know that wording has been there at least that long. Like Phil said, I think the purpose of that phrasing is to say you can't create listings for every area you service if you don't actually have a physical office there. We had a...

Yes, I believe it has. I'm going to move that page to a more prominent location at some point soon.