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Performing a content audit to determine which pages should be improved and which should be removed/pruned from Google’s index is an effective and scalable SEO tactic that Inflow has written extensively about in publications like Moz, the Oracle blog, and blogs by Kevy, Kapost, Shopify, Lemonstand, BigCommerce, and more. Part of our eCommerce Marketing Playbook, Read More
Nothing is more important for an eCommerce PPC campaign than tracking all of your sales and revenue. While you might think you’re capturing all the revenue from your eCommerce reports in Google Analytics (or other tracking tool), we’ve found that a good amount of revenue might actually be missing because it comes from orders placed Read More
Did you know Google will soon be giving more weight to what their mobile bot finds on your website than what’s found by the desktop-oriented Googlebot they’ve used to crawl the web for the last decade? Learn more here. About the Play The Stalker is from page six of our eCommerce Marketing Playbook, which outlines Read More
Typically you see posts about setting business goals towards the end of the year or the start of a new year, so apologies if this post seems out of place. The truth is, if you don’t have specific goals set for your business, NOW is the best time to set them. Unfortunately most of the Read More
Building links into product category pages and acquiring email addresses prior to purchase are two of the most common roadblocks for eCommerce marketers tasked with increasing traffic and sales. Another is balancing the need for “SEO content” with high conversions. We’re going to help you solve all three of these problems with the same tactic. Problem Read More
Site Search Vendors: Which is Best for SEO and Conversion Optimization? Google says by the end of 2017 they will be sunsetting Google Site Search. Many eCommerce businesses are already looking for the best replacement. We’re preparing to help our clients make that choice, and thought it would be fun to try a new content format Read More
What Google says about indexable site search results: Matt Cutts covered this exact topic in 2007 when he referenced the following from Google’s Quality Guidelines page: “Use robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don’t add much value for users coming from search engines.” A lot can change in ten Read More
The Strongest Global Elements From Our Best in Class eCommerce Websites As part of our continuing work compiling data on the Best in Class eCommerce sites on the web, we’ll be breaking down some of the common features for each section of an eCommerce site. Starting at the top, this post focuses on global site Read More
We used to perform one audit per year circa 2008. It was called an “SEO Audit” and included a fresh crawl, new keyword research, and new SEO recommendations. We basically put the entire kitchen sink into this report and spent the rest of the year trying to get it all implemented. These days we tend Read More
I had the opportunity to take a new crawler out on a test run. It’s called Sitebulb, and was developed by the URL Profiler team, which is another SEO tool that we use often for Content Audits and Technical SEO Audits. Here’s a quick video showing key features of the new tool: We’ll continue to Read More
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