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martyn — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:27:24 +0000

Having spoken at length to clients and generally to friends in the market I wonder whether we create false barriers between what are really iterations of the same routes to market? I have a suspicion that this is often done to perpetuate the (false?) belief that we can then keep the budgets separate, therefore enabling us (Agencies) to justify to those (clients) the often exhorbitant overheads associated with multiple, and often competing Agencies.
It is also seems to me that the larger the organsiation, the more they seem to kowtow to the beliefs that these are distinctly different streams, requiring entirely different skills. However just glancing at Googles Quality Score should tell us that Google is expecting convergence of these streams sooner rather than later.
I look forward to comments.

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martyn — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 22:37:42 +0000

I was asked to reply yesterday on Linkedin about how to get hard phrases high. I was just about to give loads of (mainly) useful advice when I started to think that this has always been one of those oddities. why do we care about broad generic phrases that are likely to drive loads of (largely) irrelevent traffic to a clients site, with the likelihood of conversion set into the .000000something% which then seems to sound accetoabel as the ‘norm’ for the industry.

Isn’t this just perpetuating the widely held view that SEO is largely irreverent and doesn’t want to particpate in the true game…..of adding value to your client by actually achieiving something of value-REVENUE, AND ENQUIRY OR BETTER STILL PROFIT. Is it me or is the emporer not wearing any clothes?

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martyn — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:01:09 +0000

I have often thought that this media in which all ‘new Media’ companies play is often misquoted and misunderstood. We are in quite possibly the easiest marketing environment to measure and yet, how do you measure the success of something like SEO?

Personally i believe this to a broken or at the very least an unfinished process, after all if your only measurement is that of counting the position on a search engine, whilst ignoring that all our customers are actually desparate for something more measureable and identified as something related to their bottom line, then it it must be mustn’t it?