Dave Thompson, Author at Agency Platform

July 5, 2013 – Analysis of Domains Dominating First Page Google Results

Dave Thompson
July 11, 2013
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This post features the weekly analysis of domains (across 35 to 40 verticals) which appear in the top 10 Google results. We did an in-depth analysis of top 10 results for approximately 55,000 keywords across 2800 projects from our database. Below is the comparison of top 20 domains which appear in the first 10 results of Google. If you take a look, the top 20 domains in the last week accounted for 21.35% of the top 10 results whereas this week the percentage went up by 0.40% which totals to 21.75%

AgencyPlatform Now Detects Your Website Ranking in Google Local Carousel

Dave Thompson
July 10, 2013
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On June 18, Google officially announced a carousel based display which seems to be dominating a large number of queries via a desktop. The carousel strip appears to include a “condensed info card” for each business as shown below.

The Latest Monthly SEM News & Updates directly from the Experts

Dave Thompson
June 14, 2013
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6 WAYS TO OPTIMIZE YOUR CONTACT PAGE : THE NEXT BIG THING

Dave Thompson
September 18, 2012
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6 FACEBOOK MARKETING TIPS YOU PROBABLY MISSED!

Dave Thompson
August 24, 2012
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Social Media Marketing is in full buzz these days. Right from top brands to small businesses are using this “power-tool” in one way or another. Campaigns are not always a win-win situation. Some are easy to execute and can create an uproar by generating a massive return on investment (the #BeatCancer holds the Guinness World Record for the “Most Widespread Social Network Message with 209,771 unique mentions. ” The campaign earned over $70,000 for various charities). And campaigns if not designed and effectuated properly, can fail horribly (remember General Motor's SUV “create your own advert” Viral Marketing Campaign wherein the environmentalists created negative ads!)

FOUR THINGS YOU DID NOT KNOW GOOGLE ANALYTICS CAN DO FOR YOU

Dave Thompson
August 22, 2012
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What do you use your analytics profile for? To check traffic, query volume, referral sources, Adwords campaigns or to find top pages and content? Many SEO's primarily use analytics to track this information. But the deal here is, how many of us use this information, or let us say how many use analytics to amplify their SEO strategies?

PINTEREST FINALLY READY FOR PRIME-TIME: DROPS INVITE, NOW OPEN TO EVERYBODY

Dave Thompson
August 16, 2012
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Yes, that is right. Pinterest has finally dropped its “invite-only” system and opened itself to new users. Pinterest in their official blog post said:

GMAIL IN PERSONAL WEB SEARCH RESULTS-BOON OR BANE ?

Dave Thompson
August 11, 2012
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12 WAYS TO RANK HIGH IN YOUTUBE SEARCH RESULTS

Dave Thompson
August 8, 2012
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YouTube is the second largest search engine and is used to share tens of thousands of news stories and interviews daily. Have you ever thought how a video gets viewed on YouTube, or let us say how does it get 'ranked' on Youtube for the people to view it? So, if a video has over 40,000 views, but with no comments will be ranked high? Or, a video with only 10,000 likes but favorited many times will be ranked higher? Or how about a video that has over 200 inbound links? So on and so forth. What really counts (factors, per say) in determing the ranking of YouTube videos?