Reach and Frequency: SEO Secret to Brand Building on Google? - Search Engine Watch (#SEW)

By Mark Jackson, January 29, 2012

For those of us who have been in search engine optimization (SEO) for a number of years, we can recall the days when SEO efforts were measured by a ranking report, alone. That is to say, you might pick your top 50 keywords, dump these into a rank checker, run a report monthly, and determine whether these 50 keywords moved up successfully or fell in the search rankings.

SEO Evolution

We evolved. We:

• Incorporated reports on link building efforts.
• Started to incorporate increases in natural/organic search traffic from our web analytics reports.
• Started breaking out branded versus non-branded keyword traffic.
• Started looking at conversion rates (what percentage of our organic search visitors were completing lead forms and/or buying products from our site).
• Incorporated call-tracking and looked at conversion path, to include multi-channel conversion tracking.

What’s Next?

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