Search Engine Optimization
Articles Tagged search engine optimization:
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Beware of Guest Posts? A Publisher’s Perspective on SEO Abuse and Editorial Integrity
Let’s explore what’s gone wrong with guest blogging in the SEO world, how it can damage your site, and what you can do to protect your brand and your audience—drawing from my personal experience managing Martech Zone, where we receive daily guest post requests but reject the vast majority. Guest Blogging and Its SEO Roots Okay, I’m calling it: if…
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Here’s How You Generate More Leads with Social Media
I was just meeting with a business owner and describing the amazing way that social media has not only driven business to my company, but to our clients as well. There seems to be an ongoing pessimism as it stands with social media and it’s impact on lead generation and I believe it needs to be corrected. Most of the…
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57% of People Are Not Recommending You Because…
57% of people are not recommending your company because you have a poorly optimized mobile website. That hurts… and we know Martech Zone is one of them! While we have a fantastic mobile application, we know the Jetpack standard mobile theme is a pain to view our site on. As we continue to work with our clients and review their…
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How Are You Doing Compared to 400 Other Marketers?
We’ve been having some incredible meetings with an enterprise company recently. They have all the challenges you can think of – a small team, enterprise structure, franchises, ecommerce… the works. Over time, they’ve evolved with their small team to a hodge-podge of technology that’s becoming more and more difficult to manage. Our job is to map out their strategy and…
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The Playbook for B2B Online Marketing
This is a fantastic infographic on the strategies of every successful business-to-business (B2B) online system. As we work with our customers, this is relatively close to our engagements’ overall look and feel. Simply doing B2B online marketing is not going to maximize success and your website isn’t going to just magically generate new business because it’s there and it looks…
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Smart Ways to Combine Content Marketing with SEO
The folks at Blogmost.com developed this infographic and named it Little Known Ways to Build High Quality Backlinks in 2014. I’m not sure I like that title… I don’t think companies should focus on building links anymore. Our local search experts at Site Strategics like to say that new strategies require earning links rather than actively building them. More importantly,…
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What, Exactly, Is Good SEO?
Last week, I had the opportunity to meet Anthony Duignan-Cabrera, a seasoned journalist, digital marketer, and content strategist who helped drive explosive growth at Patch. When I was introduced to him as an SEO consultant, I couldn’t help but cringe a little. Even though this particular engagement focuses on search strategy, that label carries some baggage. It often implies that…
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What is Organic SEO?
If you want to understand search engine optimization, you really have to stop listening to those in the industry looking to profit from it and simply boil it down to Google’s advice. Here’s a great paragraph from their Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide: Even though this guide’s title contains the words “search engine”, we’d like to say that you should…
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SEO versus New SEO
SEO is Dead. I said that well over a year ago and I still have some angry SEO folks commenting on the post every week. Google continued to squeeze our the SEO games that folks were playing to game their clients’ ranking – and many of them are still suffering the consequences today. Those of us that pulled our clients…
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How to Grow Your Business Using Content Marketing
This is a fantastic analogy that Dendrite Park has provided that I couldn’t agree with more. They present a multi-faceted approach to your content marketing strategy that requires a great base and grows from there! This is a wisdom tree of content marketing for your business. The solid roots (IT infrastructure, SEO and analytics) are necessary to sustain the trunk…
