Tag Archives: Search Engine Optimization

Portent Team // 4 Nov, 2013
SEO Makeover for 2014: A Practical Guide for Businesses
SEO is about attracting non-paid search traffic to your website. The idea is that a person searches the Web using Bing or Google, etc. and your site comes up in the non-paid search results. To that end, it’s important to make sure your website is easily understood by both people and machines. People = your… Read More
Portent Staff // 4 Apr, 2013
Get Found, Make Money: Optimizing Apps for Search
State of App Search: Needle in a Haystack Have you ever tried to meet someone at Grand Central Station or some other incredibly crowded venue? It sounds so doable and yet it is so not. There are too many people, too many distractions and too much stuff in the way. App (tablet and phone… Read More
Portent Team // 2 Apr, 2013
5 Ways SEO is Like the Rolling Stones
In the summer of 2012, the Rolling Stones celebrated the 50th anniversary of their first gig at the Marquee Club in London. Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the original bad boys of rock and roll have endured for a half century despite drug and alcohol problems, several changes to the band’s line-up, and occasional rumors… Read More
Marianne Sweeny // 21 Mar, 2013
The Evolution of Advanced Keyword Research
Keyword research used to be so easy. You picked terms that the client wanted to rank high for, stuffed them onto the page, shake, bake and voila, the site is ranking in the top 3 search results for query. Bad SEOs stuffed keywords in all of the wrong places, all over the page, and… Read More