Archive for the ‘Search Engine Optimization – SEO’ Category

What is an SEO expert called?

In: Search Engine Optimization - SEO

3 Jan 2023

What are SEO Experts called? An SEO expert is often called an Internet Marketer, SEO specialist, Search Marketer, or very precisely, an SEO consultant.

How does one become an SEO Expert Witness?

In: Legal Expert Witness|Search Engine Optimization - SEO

20 Dec 2020

A Search Engine Optimization Expert Witness, or “SEO Expert Witness”, needs to have a number of characteristics in order to be considered qualified to work as a testifying expert in litigation. I have been asked a number of times about what it takes to be an SEO Expert Witness, so I thought it would be […]

What is an SEO Expert Witness?

In: Legal Expert Witness|Search Engine Optimization - SEO|Search Engines

8 May 2020

Q: What is an SEO Expert Witness? An SEO Expert Witness assists attorneys and their clients with cases involving where search engine optimization has been used, such as in trademark infringement and online defamation cases. SEO Expert Witnesses can explain how search engines function, how they index pages, and why they rank pages higher or […]

Local SEO Workshop Coming to SMX West 🧭

In: Industry News & Happenings|Local Search|Search Engine Optimization - SEO

20 Dec 2019

Are you looking to level-up on your Local Search Engine Optimization game? Do you feel like you may be missing some of the vital components necessary to get your business ranking higher in Google’s local search results and Google Maps’? If so, you will want to take advantage of this opportunity! Argent Media founder, Chris […]

Hear About Twitter Optimization at Content Marketing Conference

In: Industry News & Happenings|Search Engine Optimization - SEO|Social Media|Twitter

28 Mar 2019

Argent Media CEO, Chris Silver Smith, will be speaking at the upcoming Content Marketing Conference in Boston, April 16-19, 2019, on how Twitter can impact search engine optimization, and the overlaps between content marketing management and SEO. Twitter is one of the top social media platforms that provides significant benefits to companies and personal brands, including […]

Learn how to promote your website/blog at WordCamp DFW

In: Facebook|Industry News & Happenings|Search Engine Optimization - SEO|Social Media|Twitter

8 Nov 2017

This weekend in Fort Worth, I will be speaking at WordCamp DFW. WordCamp is a friendly, unstuffy conference that focuses on everything involving WordPress, which is free, open-source internet publishing software used by more than 75 million sites on the web.  Talks at these conferences range anywhere from how-tos on blogging, to customized software development […]

Speaking on Deriving SEO Benefits from Social Media at SMX

In: Industry News & Happenings|Search Engine Optimization - SEO|Social Media

24 Oct 2017

I’m speaking this week at the Search Marketing Expo (SMX) East conference in New York this week on how to derive Search Engine Optimization (“SEO”) benefits from social media. In the past, this topic has been a little bit controversial. On one hand, people in SEO sometimes tend to think that Social Media is worthless […]

Keyword Data – Chris Silver Smith Speaking @ SMX Advanced

In: Bing|Google|Industry News & Happenings|Search Engine Optimization - SEO

4 Jun 2014

Argent Media founder, Chris Silver Smith, will be speaking next week at the SMX Advanced Conference in Seattle on the panel, “Keywords on ‘Roids: Advanced Workarounds For Vanishing Keyword Data“, along with industry veterans Christine Churchill (KeyRelevance) and Rae Hoffman (PushFire). As all search engine marketers are aware, Google has steadily reduced the keyword referral […]

Local SEO 101: Why Links Are Important

In: Local SEO 101|Search Engine Optimization - SEO

9 Apr 2014

We wrote previously in “Local SEO 101: What Are Local Citations?” that Google’s earliest algorithm was based upon automatically evaluating the links pointing to a webpage in order to calculate a score, upon which rankings could be based. While we further explained in that post how Local Citations are essentially the “Link” where local search […]

Local SEO 101: Homepage Titles

In: Local SEO 101|Search Engine Optimization - SEO

5 Feb 2013

Since the earliest days of search engine optimization (“SEO”), the page Title <title></title> text has been one of the most influential on-page elements for keyword rankings in search results. For local business websites, the Title text on the homepage is particularly influential. In fact, it may be the most important factor on the most important […]

Local SEO 101: Local Breadcrumbs

In: Local Search|Local SEO 101|Search Engine Optimization - SEO

6 Dec 2012

In my Web Marketing Today article this week, “SEO: Breadcrumbs Are Bread-and-Butter“, I point out how making a simple coding change to your breadcrumbs can improve the visibility and total clickthroughs to your site in Google and Bing search results. The same tip applies for local business websites, which are frequently very bare-bones in terms […]

Costco.com SEO Lacking, But They’re One Of Many

In: Search Engine Optimization - SEO|Shopping Search

7 May 2012

Chris Silver Smith, president of Argent Media, was recently interviewed by a Seattle Times reporter, and she’d asked him to conjecture on some of the things Costco might choose to do in order to improve their site for search. (See the article at “Costco makes plans for boosting its online sales“) He pointed out a […]


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