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Newsjacking, a type of content marketing, places the emphasis on breaking news events rather than how-tos or technical information and rides the wave of existing demand to get well-earned backlinks and branded mentions. Use it to your advantage.
It's easy to confuse the motives for engaging in content marketing (which are often commercial) with the act of inappropriately pushing a commercial message within content. This difference is paramount, and is at the heart of the advertorial debate.
There has always been evidence that words on pages linking to a website (contextual phrases) are influential, but many SEOs see the importance of co-occurrence, or semantic similarity, increasing in Google's algorithm. Learn the basic concepts here.
Many small business websites do on-site SEO poorly or not at all, which means less rankings, search traffics, potential customers, and business. These steps will start you on a path toward regular, high-quality, content creation and promotion.
Google’s updates are frequent and the rules of the game do shift, but the major elements of onsite SEO and backlinks have been the fuel for better rankings for years. Follow these tips to earn better rankings and build a community around your brand.
With the costs of pay-per-click advertising and search engine optimization efforts rising, the emphasis of a small business online marketing campaign will increasingly turn to conversion. Email is the most effective nurturing mechanism by far.
Email is an essential element in any modern small business marketing strategy. Once operationalized, small business owners will find that launching social, local, SEO and other campaigns will also get a boost by “blasting it out to the list.”
Buying search engine marketing services can be tricky in the best of circumstances given how new and complicated the industry is. Here’s how a small business owner can figure out the difference between a good SEM proposal and a crappy one.
Many small business owners are still quite intimidated by online marketing. The rules change quickly and the barriers to entry can appear high. Local SEO is an obvious choice for any small business who wants an easy path online.
If your current SEM team exhibits these six traits - even when frustrations are high and the value proposition is in question - you may not know how good you already have it and it's merely time for a heart-to-heart discussion with your team.
With an intense focus on the mechanics of SEO, small businesses often lack discipline when evaluating the success of an SEO program. Make sure you have proper ROI parameters are in place and don’t overlook these key marketing components.
A search marketing realignment, reorientation, and for some, total reinvention is in order following Google’s multiple updates in 2012. Here are a few tips for small businesses on how to adapt and launch diverse and creative marketing strategies.
For small business owners, a spate of changes from Google has brought anything but stability. In addition to diversifying your marketing tactics, you’ll also want to embrace social media and focus on the user experience. Here’s how to do it.
While you’d expect great enthusiasm for the new online economy, you often hear frustration and bitterness. Why is small business so mistrustful of online marketing? And what is so special about SEO that has them particularly distrustful?
