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Google Hummingbird: The New Google Algorithm and What You Need To Know
For the past few weeks I'd seen a pattern repeating itself across the board with most of the clients that I do SEO and content marketing for, small drops in Page Authority and Domain Authority for every domain I was monitoring. I also observed some big leaps up the SERPs for content that was prev...
By Shell Robshaw-Bryan • Oct. 2, 2013 -
How to Create a Tailored Web Marketing Plan for Your Small Business
It is in the best interest of every business owner to have a good web marketing strategy. However, the truth is that even with the greatest efforts, many business owners do not achieve the result they want when it comes to their websites. In order for a website to appear high in search engine re...
By Jon Ferrara • Oct. 2, 2013 -
7 Big Facebook Changes You Should Know About for a Better Facebook Strategy
Facebook changes so fast, I often miss new features or updates to existing ones. Since there have been a few changes recently, I thought it would be helpful to do a bit of a wrap-up of what Facebook's been up to.1. Images are now bigger and wider - Here are the right sizes to useSome recent chang...
By Leo Widrich • Oct. 2, 2013 -
How to Optimize Your Facebook Fan Page to Get More Traffic
Social Media Platforms are the place to keep ongoing social communications as well as these are the potential sources of website and business branding. One of the biggest social media sensations is Facebook which has started his journey from February, 2004. Either you are an internet marketer or ...
By Abrar Mohi Shafee • Oct. 2, 2013 -
Google Changes Mean Even More Keyword Headaches For SEOs
It's safe to say that 2013 has been a challenging year for a lot of SEOs. From the Penguin 2.0 update in May to the as yet unconfirmed updates of August and September, Google has been busier than ever and the SERPs have been all over the place for the last nine months or so which means many SEOs ...
By Amy Edwards • Oct. 2, 2013 -
Why "Most Linked Content" May Be More Important Than "Click Through Rate"
Things to Check and Learn From Your Webmaster ToolsAs a follow up to my article on Webmaster tools, there's one aspect to linking that most people take for granted which can give tremendous insight into:Improving your user experienceIdentifying potential new marketsIdentifying supportersIdentifyi...
By Mila Araujo • Oct. 2, 2013 -
18 Ways to Generate Traffic to Your Blog Post [INFOGRAPHIC]
Have you ever spent a few hours writing a blog post that you are really proud of only to log into your analytics and see that you had only a handful of visitors? Few things are as disappointing. The content you wrote may in fact be brilliant, but publishing your article is just the first part. After that you need to go on a promotion spree to get the word out. For every hour you spend writing a blog post, you should spend two hours promoting it.The infographic below has 18 tips that you can use to start generating serious traffic to your blog posts:
By Johann Beishline • Oct. 2, 2013 -
Even the "Big Boys" Need Content Writing Help!
Think the world's biggest companies are much luckier than you are when it comes to writing great web content? After all, they probably have a team of in-house writers that spend 40+ hours each week making the company look great out on the web. If you're trying to balance your content writing du...
By Nicole Beckett • Oct. 1, 2013 -
Hashtag Best Practices: What Your Brand Needs to Know
Part punchline and part conversation starter, social media hashtags give people an instant way to search, track and weigh in on topics they care about, including chatter initiated by brands.That is, if the brand knows how to use a hashtag. We're all learning from our consumers, our competitors an...
By Tim McMullen • Oct. 1, 2013 -
What Is Quality Content?
Quality content starts with creating content your audience finds helpful or solves a problem for them.Content marketing is quickly becoming the buzz word of the year and for good reason. It allows for brands to establish themselves as experts in their fields and coupled with the power of social m...
By Chad Egeland • Oct. 1, 2013 -
Go Ahead, Ignore Mobile Users for Email Marketing, We Dare You [INFOGRAPHIC]
Mobile is everywhere. We've written about mobile extensively. We even built a product in response to the need for easy mobile marketing solutions. Yet, so many businesses and organizations continue to ignore mobile.Take a look at your email inbox. It's the cornerstone of business communication. E...
By Jon-Mikel Bailey • Oct. 1, 2013 -
Media Relations in the Digital Age
I still look in the mirror and see my 27-year-old self. It certainly doesn't feel like I've been practicing communications for more than 15 years. But when I think back to how things were done at the beginning of my career versus today, it's easy to see how that many years have flown by.We used t...
By Gini Dietrich • Oct. 1, 2013 -
Why You Can't "Go Viral" (And What to Do Instead)
On October 1th, 2002, Felix Baumgartner jumped from a plane 24-miles above our planet.About 8 million people watched live as Felix flew towards the ground. Over 52 million people have relived it on YouTube.And all of them sat and watched as the Red Bull logo was splashed across their screens agai...
By Brad Smith • Oct. 1, 2013 -
The Ping Pong Effect in Social Media Communities: #DIESELREBOOT Case Study
There's something tremendously powerful in the relationship between Social Media communities and brands: as more and more networks tend to generate some sorts of filter bubble, it now becomes very powerful when a brand manages to present a new sort of niche groups to established communities.Concr...
By Laurent Francois • Oct. 1, 2013 -
How To Boost Engagement on Your Facebook Page
One of the advantages of participating in social media with your brand is the opportunity to interact with your customer base and prospective customers. It's a chance to build relationships, and further your brand. But how do you do this if no one is interacting with anything that you're posting?...
By Danielle Leitch • Oct. 1, 2013 -
Marketing at the Speed of Social
Atari revolutionized games. Pacman, Space Invaders, and Centipede (to name a few). The most incredible innovation was made by connecting a computer (gaming console) to a television and turning digital gameplay into something available to everyone. Their speed to market was created by this simple ...
By Bryan Kramer • Oct. 1, 2013 -
Corporate Videos That Will Make You Cry
On September 11th 2013, Thai mobile company True Move H posted a video to YouTube, which has subsequently gone viral with over 11 million hits. This three-minute film has been described as the biggest tearjerker of all time.The emotional advert centres on a noodle vendor and a young boy who has b...
By Neil Davidson • Sept. 30, 2013 -
How to Develop Meaningful Goals for Your Content Marketing Efforts
One of the biggest challenges that have faced marketers for the last few years is the idea of measuring digital results. Marketers around the globe have thrown up the white flag claiming that you cannot measure the ROI of social media, but I'm here to call those marketers' bluff.In the last few y...
By Ross Simmonds • Sept. 30, 2013 -
Facebook Contest Guide: How to Choose Between Timeline and Tab Contests
There are now more Facebook Contest options since Facebook loosened up the promotion policy and allows contests on both the Timeline via a post, and via apps on tabs.So how can you decide which to use?Let me help! The Quick Overview.....The key is understanding how the contest fits into your larg...
By Pam Moore • Sept. 30, 2013 -
How to Score a Job in Advertising
So, you really love plaid, you can drink a craft beer with the perfect balance of ironic coolness, and you've got a notepad that you take everywhere filled with ideas on ideas on ideas. Let me guess - you want to get into advertising, yeah? That's super rad, but first you need to hear this, young...
By Alyssa Adkins • Sept. 30, 2013 -
Top 3 Challenges B2B Leaders Face Today [INFOGRAPHIC]
Although branding plays an integral part in every business, B2B leaders continue to face numerous challenges. The following are statistics you need to know to understand the obstacles of B2B leaders. This, in turn, will help you reflect on what you need to improve:Obstacle #1: ROIIn a recent surv...
By Louis Foong • Sept. 30, 2013 -
Forget Boomers vs. Millennials: Get Ready for the Global Digital Culture
The Huffington Post blog recently published an article entitled, "Why Generation Y Yuppies Are So Unhappy," an entertaining and provocative, if not wholly accurate, piece essentially outlining why Millennials are delusional and entitled. Articles like this one, along with countless others croppin...
By Chris Horton • Sept. 30, 2013 -
Groupon Lays Groundwork for Local Commerce Goals
With its recent launch of the Groupon Partner Network, a new affiliate marketing platform, Groupon has begun its journey to become the most widely used network for local e-commerce. The popular deals site is attempting an expansion of Yahoo and Google proportions, adding significantly to its affi...
By Elizabeth Kent • Sept. 30, 2013 -
If CEOs Tweet, Followers Come
So Tim Cook, the famously private person who has the thankless (but well-paying) job of trying to replace the most famous and iconic company leader of all time, has taken to Twitter. The "tweet heard round the world" happened, gentle readers, at 3:02 PM on September 20, 2013.To date, he has 244,...
By Lois Paul • Sept. 30, 2013 -
Using Hashtags in Social Media: A How-To Guide
Hashtags are used on all social networks now, becoming a critical way to communicate and link information everywhere from Pinterest to Facebook and Twitter. Hashtags are the key to discovering, communicating and sharing.Let's have a conversation about hashtags and demystify what they're all about...
By Mila Araujo • Sept. 30, 2013