Category Archives: Blogs

Point of View: FDA Search Guidelines

Catalyst Point of View (POV)
Aligning to the FDA’s Policy
Pertaining to Search Advertising

By: Timothy Breen, Lee Tuttle
Vice Presidents, Catalyst online

If you (or your regulatory team) have any questions regarding this POV, please contact Tim Breen at Catalyst online at tbreen@CatalystSearchMarketing.com, or at 617.244.6679.

Effective B2B Search Marketing

We’ve discussed B2C search often in this blog and in our newsletter. It is only logical that in order to increase your visibility, you need to be available everywhere your customers interact if you offer a solution or product. However, B2B search has become an increasingly important aspect of the marketing budget and businesses need to [...]

Using Social Media Search

This month, Josh Walsh reviews the importance Social Media has taken in the communication universe and details the relevance this impact has on Search Campaigns.
Q: Has the definition of Social Media changed in 2009?
Josh: Social Media, much like the internet platform where it resides, is a constantly evolving network of ideas and in the race to be [...]

Search for Integration

In this post, Account Director Lesley Ross explains the importance of integrating online and offline campaigns to maximize budgets in an uneasy economy.
Q: Online advertising spending is projected to increase by 8.9% this year, how do you suggest this spending be used most effectively by Marketers?
Lesley: The necessity for a “holistic” approach to marketing has become over-stated, [...]

Top 8 Wordpress Plugins

If you’ve come in through search, or feed and you haven’t read the 6 Tips to Boost your Blog then you should start there. Or if you’re just interested in these awesome plugins, then read on.
This is a evolving, regularly updated list of essential Wordpress Plugins, many of which aid in boosting your blog’s SEO [...]

6 SEO Tips to boost your blog

Ok. I know. Everyone has one of these Top [insert number here] lists for optimizing your blog for search engines, and this is by no means reinventing the wheel, but we here at Search Matters thought that we would add our list to the fray in case you missed something.

Search Matters Weekly Link Love

Hey man. It’s time to let our link love shine. So put on those bell bottoms and the Skynyrd t-shirt and lets groove on down to Linktown in my yellow van. It’s where everybody loves you, mama. Watch out for the man, if you smell like patchouli they get all up in your business. Far [...]

Search Matters Weekly Search Links

NuqneH. Greetings. Here are the weekly search links, traveler. Qapla’ in all your efforts.

New data suggests that 28% of people click through on 2nd and 3rd page results in search engines. Idiots. (SEOmoz)
Create media buzz via video. Bow chicka bow chicka. Wait. Maybe not that kind of video. (SMO)
SPOCK, the people search engine is alive! [...]

Search Matters Weekly Links

Weekly search links.

Answer these 10 questions before you charge for SEO. (SEOmoz)
Single Point of Failure. (SEO-Blackhat)
What else can you do to get indexed? (SE Watch)
Two airlines moving ahead with in-flight internet. (Techdirt)
Ask.com August 2007 update? (SE Roundtable)
Harry Potter Font looks like Yahoo Font. Hermione dies. (Matt Cutts)
Local Search driving offline transactions. (SE Land)

Huzzah.

Search Matters Weekly Pravda

Здравствулте! Камрады! Добро пожаловать к правде людей!
Search links for you to enable your fight against capitalist aggression and banishment to the search engine gulag (supplemental results).
За успеха нашево безнадёжнова дела!

Comrade Jane explains the downside of democratic link baiting. (SEO moz)
Titleist fails to make social media campaign fly. Power to the people. (SMO)
Yahoo Assist helps aid [...]