September 26th, 2016
Our brave new digital world is rapidly growing in ever increasing strides, placing the vast library of human knowledge at our fingertips, or on voice command. When we want to know something, we simple Google it, ask Siri, or throw out a question to our social network on Facebook. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are now powering many of these digital interactions, from Google Search to the Facebook Newsfeed… and this is just the beginning.
Thought Leadership Forum I attended at Google Canada Headquarters in Toronto 2015
Machine Learning Which Seems Almost Human… Her
The 2013 drama/romance Her starring Joaquin Phoenix, as Theodore, a sensitive writer recovering from the heartbreak of divorce, introduces us to an advanced, highly intelligent operating system, “Samantha,” characterized […]
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April 4th, 2016
From my post here in our picturesque Canadian national capital, Ottawa, Ontario, which has an abundance of interesting perspectives, even in the late winter and early spring, SEO and SEM continue to be among the very best online channels for generating significant sums of revenue and increasing business from the web in 2016. Many of the components of search engine optimization, search engine marketing and various forms of PPC advertising seem to be changing at lightning speed as titans such as Google, Yahoo, Bing, Facebook and Twitter battle fiercely for online attention and ad revenues… and a stake in the enormous business of our new digital economy.
In 2015, Google (a.k.a Alphabet) was the market leader (Statista) bringing in more than […]
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February 13th, 2014
Samurai Marketing, in Ottawa, provides sustainable SEO & effective SEM synergies leveraging social media and emerging digital marketing channels! Have you’re search engine optimization and marketing efforts frozen over with inactivity in the dead of winter? Maybe it’s time to grab a warm mug of your favourite java and consider a different approach?
In our nation’s capital, we embrace the bitter cold by celebrating Winterlude. At Samurai Marketing, we embrace shifts in the evolving SEO (the process of acquiring organic web traffic in popular search engines) and SEM (purchasing search traffic through pay-per-click ad auctions like Google Adwords) search-scape by staying abreast of the important developments by Google and the other major players, to keep our clients informed and not left […]
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August 31st, 2013
In my Ottawa SEO & SEM company, providing services for clients and connecting with colleagues, I often hear some version of the following question: What are the best practices for effective Search Engine Optimization in today’s rapidly changing world of search that will help me grow my business online, and not be completely wiped out by the next Google algorithm update?
What are the Principles of Search for 2013 and Why are They Important?
As the special mix of elements for successful search engine optimization, or SEO, and search engine marketing, or SEM, continue to evolve in 2013, it can sometimes be difficult to know what techniques should be used for both short-term gain and long-term sustainability. It’s easy to get confused […]
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March 31st, 2013
Does your site have what it takes to shine in Cyberspace?
What is Search Engine Optimization?
Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is important whether you’re a small business owner in Ottawa, or in charge of a large corporate website in Toronto. SEO is the process of optimizing your webpages, and your website as whole, to be highly searchable by your target market in order to attract web traffic that is relevant to your offering, ultimately resulting in more customers for your business. SEO is what makes your site stand out in the ever-expanding universe of cyberspace.
If you have a solid SEO program in place for your site, potential customers will proactively find your webpages, using keywords of their choice, on the search […]
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December 21st, 2012
Google Carved Out the SEO & SEM Search-Scape with a Laser Focus on Quality
As 2012 winds down and the mercury drops in our nation’s capital, Ottawa, the world of SEO and internet marketing continues to evolve across the far reaches of cyberspace. This year, the major search engines continued to tighten up on quality control, and social media platforms figured out how to make money through online marketing and advertising.
We Canadians love our Tim Horton’s coffee, our NHL hockey, except when Gary Bettman locks out the best players on the planet and goes on vacation, and of course, our Internet; in fact, 88% of us here in Ottawa, 16 years or older use the Internet for personal use 2010 Internet […]
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October 18th, 2012
The Anatomy of a Search Engine Result (Web Search Index Card)
In my meetings around Ottawa this fall, providing SEO Services to various companies, many clients, prospects, and web colleagues all seem to be asking me the same questions:
What is the information that comes up in a Google search?
Where does Google get this stuff?
What does this mean for my site?
What is a Search Engine Result?
The Search Engine Result is like an index card for your webpage in the library of the world wide web. The key to improve Search Engine Rankings and Optimization on Google or Bing-Yahoo is having this index card filled out with the proper SEO Meta Tags, using good Keywords, for each page on your site. Quite simply, if […]
tags: Search Engine Results, SEO Tips author: James Taylor comments: 2 Comments
July 31st, 2012
When it comes to the web, you have likely heard the phrase, “Content is King.” More than ever these days, high quality web content is rewarded by search engines with high rankings in search results, and is more likely to be virally promoted in social media. This makes sense, as most of us don’t want to waste our time sifting through and reading reams of poor-quality or mediocre web pages to find the gems we’re looking for. So what exactly is great content for the web, and how do we create it?
Great Web Content is… well written, interesting information about a trending or popular subject that captures the attention of your target market (the folks you want your message to reach), […]
tags: Keyword List, SEO Tips author: James Taylor comments: 1 Comment
June 7th, 2012
In the past few weeks and months, Google has made fundamental changes to how its algorithms rank webpages for search, creating both hope and discord in the SEO industry. I hear tales of websites tanking on their rankings and dropping significant web traffic because they have an abundance of poor quality backlinks (links from other sites pointing to their site) which they may have paid for or exchanged for over time. Equally, I’m seeing sites rise up in the rankings, based on good content and well-chosen keywords (relevant search terms people are likely to use to find a site).
We are in the midst of change on the internet search frontier.
The Google Penguin Update, released on April 24, 2012, lowered the […]
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