To be fair, I can only be 99 percent sure that content, thanks to a Google engineer at a party at an SES Conference who confirmed it was "most likely the reason". "What Should Lead Your Online Marketing Strategy: SEO or Content".
And although many of us have done a fair job of positioning ourselves as marketing integrators, our “integration” has often been a labor-intensive cobbling together of tactics under disparate processes, tools and strategies.
This will help keep things fair and unbiased, and you will be surprised at just how many people want to review your company on their own. Although the restaurant industry is no doubt the most present on the site, other businesses are beginning to...
It was surprising to see outbound calls at 18 percent, while the usual suspects such as LinkedIn, meetups and local business groups contributed another fair amount. SEO isn't the big money maker many people believe, with many SEOs serving a small...
The frequency of news in the search results has fair coverage as well. Since launching universal search results in 2007, Google has been integrating many more non-traditional search results, adding videos, news stories, sports scores, products...
It is also fair to provide a definition of the word "social" here. Yet, many people are still trying to figure out exactly how social plays into their search strategy. Where are things headed? What rightful place does social has in the search...
Just as Google and major search engines frown on keyword stuffing on websites, stuffing the keyword field with unrelated keywords can get an app rejected from app stores, so play fair – stick with descriptive keywords that are relevant to the...
So Bing has suffered terribly and hasn't received their fair share of the ad pie. The day they decided that Bing Ads (formerly known as Microsoft adCenter) had to be different from AdWords. We all know the outcome, using a mixture of familiar terms...
Instead, there is a toothless guideline entitled the Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs), which only applies to government agencies. I was certain it ran a lot deeper than that. When authorship launched, it seemed to support my theory that...
To be fair… I justsaw a new Facebook ad for BlackPeopleMeet! The great news is, many small to midsized business marketers can still eat big brands' lunch in many ways ifthey are über nimble, fast to adapt, and understand what makes the most impact...
It's a natural inclination to want to tap into hot topics and cultural trends, and this event drew its fair share of attention from brands. A nexialist was able to see the connections between different disciplines that others could not see, was...
The world (to be fair, the universe) of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is complex, chaotic, and often contradictory, with multiple timelines and probability axes colliding in assuredly comic ways," wrote Doodler Sophia Foster-Dimino.
I worked with a woman named Jennifer Lefor that taught me what it was to be a strong, fair, and confident woman in the workplace,” Zeckman said. Many women are helping to shape the marketing world by sharing their insights and expertise on sites...
Keep in mind that the value of another tactic should then also incorporate opportunity costs to be fair. Check out these handy formulas for calculating tangible social media benefits – advertising, content, leads,research, support, sales, and more!
For example, is it fair that client A and client B have the same needs, but Client A's consultant devises the perfect campaign because he has knowledge in the appropriate subject and Client B doesn't receive the same treatment because its...
Honestly evaluate the additional skills you have learned since your last pay increase, and think about the benefits you receive – if you’re still unhappy give your employer fair warning; your pay package isn't a priority to them in the same way it...
It’s fair to say that crowdfunding campaigns operate in real-time with tweaking throughout the campaign based on feedback from the community, lack of action or results, and some experimentation. On the surface, his new Indiegogo crowdfunding...
All of the big retail days saw a fair amount of growth. This won’t change, especially as analysts question the impact of Facebook’s Graph Search and other market led changes. However, the fourth quarter was extremely strong from various quarterly...
It was bad timing in the midst of efforts to raise their profile and the company came under a fair amount of fire from the industry - and Google's penalty was harsh - the company domain was de-indexed from the search results.
Since this was the first time any of my musings had made such a list, I spent a fair amount of time going over each of the well-deserving articles. SEW recently revealed the Most Engaging Posts of 2012.