Organic Search Engine

When Adaptive Campus approaches a marketing project, we have a template that we start with. Every project is unique, and so we use this template and adapt it to the current situation. You may find the template useful if you are developing an internal marketing arm, but keep in mind that this is just the starting point of the planning process. The model needs to be flexible to be effective. Is this designed to market one specific program, multiple programs, or an entire education program? Whatever the answers you have to those questions make a significant difference in how this plan is adjusted.

We are partnering with Magna Publications to provide an online seminar about "Cost-Effective Best Practices for Marketing Online Programs" on February 24, 2009. We hope that some of you will join us for this informative and interactive event.

I've provided some information below, but you can find the rest of the information at their website:

Cost-Effective Best Practices for Marketing Online Programs - Online Seminar Information and Registration

Search engine optimization scams are common and all-too-often prey on the people that can least afford to be scammed. These seem like cheap alternatives to legitimate SEO activities, so budget friendly to those with small budgets, but here is an explanation of why you should try to avoid their traps. Most of us have seen them, they are the emails that say things like:

"Guaranteed top page placement in search engines!"
"Exchange links with my website to help your website place higher!"

These scams are predicated on sound search engine marketing principles, but they leave out some very important details that cause them to result in very little value for your organization.  I will explain my own personal theories on these scams, but first, a brief overview of the basics of what these scams are based on, search engine optimization:

As a non-profit, whether you are an institution or an education-related organization, you provide a socially oriented service to the community that gives you a stature and an awareness that many co

This message was recently posted in Google Analytics about a data error they experienced. It is not likely to affect most institution analytics accounts in the long-term, as most are not collecting e-commerce data, but there may be a short term delay in information reporting. Here is the message from Google: