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Case Study: With Raven, FoxTranslate sees 30% increase in revenue

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Case study: How Raven helped a tourism site focus its marketing on the cheap

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Sales Prospecting Using Backlink Data

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SES NYC 2011: ‘SEO is Dead. Long live SEO!’

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SES NYC 2011: ‘Panda: The Aftermath’

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Why some sites link, and others don’t

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Pushing PPC Ads to the Next Level

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How Raven helps small businesses

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Google Instant Is Not The Terminator

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Posts written by Arienne Holland

Case Study: With Raven, FoxTranslate sees 30% increase in revenue
By Arienne Holland

October, 2011

Case Study: With Raven, FoxTranslate sees 30% increase in revenue

FoxTranslate provides certified translation services for immigration, legal and business documents in more than 30 different languages. In January 2011, the in-house marketing team started using Raven’s SEO and social media tools. The result? In less than a year, FoxTranslate has seen a 30% increase in revenue—and that’s not all. Here’s how they did it, […]


Case study: How Raven helped a tourism site focus its marketing on the cheap
By Arienne Holland

July, 2011

Case study: How Raven helped a tourism site focus its marketing on the cheap

Gem Webb Gem Webb is the content creator for Bruce County Tourism’s highly successful Ontario vacation website,”ExploretheBruce.” Gem also is a big, big, big Raven fan. We love our big fans as much as they love us, so I asked Gem to talk about how he uses Raven as a content creator for a tourism […]


Sales Prospecting Using Backlink Data
By Arienne Holland

July, 2011

Sales Prospecting Using Backlink Data

If you’re an in-house SEO Manager, your big words around the office are hopefully customer-centric ones like conversion and retention. But if you’re an SEO Manager at an agency, your customers are other businesses, and the more common big words are justification and acquisition. We must make certain our current clients see the value of […]


SES NYC 2011: ‘SEO is Dead. Long live SEO!’
By Arienne Holland

March, 2011

SES NYC 2011: ‘SEO is Dead. Long live SEO!’

SEO is Dead. Long live SEO! Session description: SEO is dead… No it’s not… Yes it is! It’s been an ongoing debate for quite some time now. So what’s the truth? Does SEO still give you the necessary oomph to rocket you up the search engine charts like it used to? Or is SEO a […]


SES NYC 2011: ‘Panda: The Aftermath’
By Arienne Holland

SES NYC 2011: ‘Panda: The Aftermath’

Panda: The Aftermath A Search Engine Watch Round Table Special Session description: Not since Google update Florida has there been such a huge furor around a Google algorithm change. Nobody is crying over the loss of some crappy content in Google’s index. But many are annoyed that they were playing by the rules and still […]


Why some sites link, and others don’t
By Arienne Holland

March, 2011

Why some sites link, and others don’t

Yesterday on this blog, I discussed eight questions to ask for better link building. These are questions you should try to answer about the sites you have targeted for links to your content. The ninth question — WHY did they link — is not as easy to answer as the others. One thing, among many, […]


Pushing PPC Ads to the Next Level
By Arienne Holland

January, 2011

Pushing PPC Ads to the Next Level

Increasing competition in the search ad space requires that SEMs get more creative in 2011. It goes without saying that your PPC ads should be of the highest possible quality for all basic elements—the headline, call to action and unique selling proposition. It’s when you move beyond the basics that you find a competitive advantage. […]


How Raven helps small businesses
By Arienne Holland

December, 2010

How Raven helps small businesses

When Google’s Small Business Marketing Team asked the small business community what was on their wish list for the new year, the responses gave us all something to think about. Through the responses, managers and business owners can learn about the top-of-mind strategies of their colleagues and competitors. And Internet marketers can use Raven Internet Marketing Tools to address the explicitly requested needs of small business.


Google Instant Is Not The Terminator
By Arienne Holland

September, 2010

Google Instant Is Not The Terminator

Google made a change. People are outraged. They have too much data already, your information will never be private again, they’re a monopoly, they’re closer to being self-aware! You know, just like every other time Google makes a change. Or every time Facebook makes a change. Or any time Windows gets updated. The potential for […]