Facebook announced hashtags last week, giving validation to everyone who used the original Twitter function to drive home their point in a Facebook status update. And this year's Oscars buzz reached an all-time high on Facebook with over 66.5...
They barely have time to keep their businesses running, let alone learn SEO. Contradictory statements like these drive small business owners crazy. Furthermore, any time money changes hands, there can’t be a backlink involved.
Stories from Psychology, a study asked people if they would they put a 20x30 billboard in their front yard that said “Drive Carefully”. They analyzed various ad copy in several different industries to determine what words in ad copy drive better...
For this post, I’ll be covering how to build great links from local authorities – which time and time again has proven to require human creativity and leveraging relationships. I’ve had great experiences involving local link building throughout...
When you put those segments together, you can begin to see who are your most valuable people, who are your at risk people and how are they trending over time, etc. Know me: How do you align your expectations with consumers if they're spending time...
Best-selling author and marketer Jeffrey Hayzlett, former CMO of Kodak, kicked off SES Toronto today with a conversation about making business better and how marketers can drive change and growth. He likes the “118 seconds” rule for how much time...
While it would be ideal to sit on it all day, most business owners and marketers can't justify the investment in time. Her company's testing has shown that the auto-bid management system in Facebook tends to be a fairly reasonable way to manage...
I'm a big fan of creating a Google Drive account dedicated to the link cleanup campaign. Include the Google Drive credentials in your reconsideration request. Step 5: Now It's Time to Use the Disavow Tool
Where else but in social media can original content be shared to drive interest around your company brand? By the way, there's still time to register for SES Toronto. Social media marketing affects and supports all critical areas of the...
The readers of the publication will begin to trust your writing more, learn more about you and your product, and eventually the writing will drive traffic and sales. At the same time that authorship has become a focus, Penguin has hit and...
Over time those gains may become more incremental but what will start to emerge are critical insights that can drive messaging strategies, not just in search, but across the entire marketing landscape.
It's the beginning of the month and it's again time to report to your clients or your boss on the SEO progress made last month. It's time to justify your SEO strategy, your efforts and yourself. Time on Page: If the time the visitor stays on the...
Search is always going to drive a high volume of traffic because it is driven by the user's intent," Lyon said. It really is all about the right content to the right customer at the right time. We need to continue to focus on delivering relevant...
Drive more organic traffic. By the time you've gone five clicks deep into your archive, those pages and posts are starved for link equity. Categories are often misused or abused with contributors creating a new category every time they write a new...
This means SEO is now ongoing, integrated, and strategic – whereas it used to be one-time, isolated, and technical. Find traditional marketing tactics, such as press releases, to drive branding while announcing news-worthy events.
According to comScore's Mobile Future in Focus report, 37 percent of all time spent in digital media is done via mobile device, while PC retains 67 percent. Ad creative would then focus on an offline call to action relevant to the various brick and...
For example, a series of contacts that had an original lead source from a keyword like "software solutions" can drive a great deal of SEO and PPC leads, but have an 8 month sales cycle and close at 10 percent.
When it comes to digital advertising, we often spend our time pouring over data in order to create planning, modeling, targeting and buying efficiencies. Digital ad campaigns drive both brand and sales lift.
They have also added real-time ad previews, so advertisers can see how their ad will appear right as they create it. AdWords Express is a great way for advertisers to get their toes wet in the world of online advertising, and it is great to see...
Saving time and money Send relevant, time-released (drip-campaign) emails to segmented audiences The software also helps ensure the right tasks are executed, optimized, and measured over time. Lead Generation – associated advertising, social media...