When Bing first came out, we at Chicago Style SEO immediately went in to claim our local listings (as everyone concerned with their web site’s SEO should do for all search engines and directories). I was a bit displeased when I went in to find that Bing was going to mail me a postcard with [...]
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Jun
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Feb
7 Steps to Shopping Cart Checkout Optimization
If you get 1000 visitors a day to your site and 2% convert into customers, you will have 20 customers a day. At Chicago Style SEO, we are obviously proponents of always looking to increase your relevant traffic, but at a certain point, it becomes much more efficient to work on increasing your conversion rate. [...]
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Jan
Web Designers Suck at Semantic Markup!
Yeah, I’m talking about you. I have been looking at quite a lot of source code from websites lately, and I’m struck by just how rampant bad semantic markup is on the web. I’m not talking about whether sidebar headers should be H3 or H4; I’m seeing whole sites with the same title (or none [...]
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Oct
The Evolution of SEO: Growing Ever More Complex
In his book, A Brief History of Everything, Ken Wilber lays out a fascinating case of how the world is continually evolving and how with every step along the way, everything gets more and more complex. This is most certainly the case with SEO. In their posts Social Interaction & Advertising Are The Modern Day [...]
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Sep
Optimizing PDF Documents for Search Engines
From my experience, PDFs are one of the most widely used, yet under optimized elements of a huge portion of websites. All too often, I see websites using pdfs in situations that would be much better served taking the extra time to create a new website page. The situation is exacerbated by the fact that [...]
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25JunIs Bing Censoring Questions About Microsoft? So, I decided to do a little experimenting on my own. I opened up a ...
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20JanWeb Designers Suck at Semantic Markup! Yeah, I’m talking about you. I have been looking at quite a lot of source ...
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24JunBing Local Now Allows Local Listings Confirmation By Phone, But Not If You’ve Asked for a Postcard When Bing first came out, we at Chicago Style SEO immediately went in to claim ...
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28AprGoogle’s Need for Speed – Google Analytics Asynchronous Tracking Code This is the sixth post in a series that addresses several different ideas on how ...
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16MarGoogle’s Need for Speed – An Overview In August of 2009 Google began talking about releasing Caffeine on the world (or at ...
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03AprSEO Video Tips to Rank Higher On Google Videos are powerful SEO tools, given that they are much more likely to achieve top ...
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22Feb11-Item Checklist for AdWords Campaign Launches We’ve all done it—you’ve done the heavy lifting of the keyword research, sorting out logical ...
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22FebOpen Source Negative Keyword List We have compiled a list of negative keywords that have been shared with us over ...
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15FebWhat Is a Landing Page? Technical Definition of a Landing Page “Landing page” may sound straightforward, but it’s actually a ...
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09FebWelcome to Christine! We are thrilled to welcome Christine Kent to the Chicago Style SEO team. Christine showed ...
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Jonathan: Thanks Christine, just saved me hours trying to up...
- SEO Video Tips to Rank Higher On Google | Chicago Style SEO: [...] Videos are powerful SEO tools, given that th...
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- 11-Item Checklist for AdWords Campaign Launches | Chicago Style SEO: [...] place on the website and that AdWords and An...
- What Is a Landing Page? | Chicago Style SEO: [...] Landing pages for PPC campaigns serve one ma...