Tim Hampton

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As Director of Search Engine Marketing at Blue Tent, Tim Hampton lives and breathes all things search. His passion and expertise in search engine optimization has helped many of the most reputable and successful vacation rental companies to attain top positions in Google and Bing. His mission is to educate and inform his clients with the aim of helping them to manage and grow their search marketing programs for long-term success. An entrepreneur at heart, Tim brings innovation, passion, and good old-fashioned hard work to each and every endeavor.

Blog posts

Making Sense of Google's New Update to Secure Search

November 9th, 2011 by Tim Hampton

On October 18th, 2011, Google made an announcement that they would be “making search more secure.” To give a brief recap of the announcement, Google said that they would be excluding organic search data from all “signed-in users,” in an effort to implement stronger security standards. Essentially, if you are a Google user and perform Google searches while signed-in, then the referral keyword data would be excluded from the analytics data of the sites you are visiting.

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Top of the Google to ya!

December 15th, 2010 by Tim Hampton

Each month we analyze ranking reports and Google Analytics as part of our search engine marketing efforts. The analysis is compiled into a report which is then reviewed with our clients. We're accustomed to seeing a steady climb in the rankings which correlates to an increase in search engine traffic to the website and thus new sales. Every now and again we come across some fantastic news! We have lift off!

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Take Ownership of Your Local Business Listing

June 2nd, 2010 by Tim Hampton

How often do you whip out your phone book? I'm talking about the paperback issue with the white and yellow pages. I'm guessing that phone book is sitting on the shelf under your land line collecting dust or its been tossed into the recycling bin. The fact of the matter is in this digital age there is a far easier way to find the phone number or address your looking for. Doing a simple search on your computer or smartphone will deliver results faster than turning the pages of the phone book.

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