Starting From Scratch: The Simple Guide To Social Media And SEO Success
Viral marketing and building a social media following are common initiatives among startups and established businesses alike. Every executive and entrepreneur thinks they need to create a viral piece of content and get extremely lucky to win viral publicity. But if that’s your strategy, you have little chance of success. Instead, ride an already existing […]
7 User Engagement Metrics That Influence SEO
Would you like more traffic to your website? Of course you do. I have yet to meet a business owner who doesn’t. And yet, most small business owners aren’t doing any search engine optimization for their websites. Only 28% of them – about one out of every four – do any search engine optimizationat all. Wasp […]
8 of the Worst SEO Mistakes Even the Experts Make
Digital marketing is like playing the drums; everyone thinks they can do it. Inevitably, the layman writes content stuffed to the brim with a target keyword and cannibalizes his/her own webpages by using the same five keywords across all of their webpages. As infallible as we sometimes think we are, even the best of our […]
3 Critical PPC Tasks You Should Do Every Day
Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising remains an effective way to grab the attention of your target audience and drive them back to your site so they can engage with your products and services. Obviously, the higher your ads appear to the top, the more likely that someone will click on that ad. That said, just getting the click […]
Why Google Shopping is dominating retail search marketingÂ
As Google has scaled up its Shopping products in recent years, there has been a growing consensus in the retail search marketing space that Shopping ads are one of the most effective ways to win valuable consumer clicks. This is especially true of the non-branded, broader search terms that are typical of the early stages […]
5 advanced Google AdWords features to enhance your PPCÂ
Google AdWords is a highly effective marketing channel for brands to engage with customers. The auction-based pay-per-click (PPC) model has revolutionized the advertising industry, but beneath the seductive simplicity of this input-output relationship lies a highly sophisticated technology. Within this article, we round up five advanced features that can help you gain that vital competitive advantage. […]
7 marketing and promotion tactics to get your content discoveredÂ
Contributor Kristopher Jones outlines seven tried-and-true content promotion strategies that will drive traffic to your content and website. It’s no secret a well-executed content marketing campaign can deliver a solid return on investment. According to Demand Metric, content marketing generates three times more leads than most outbound marketing strategies at 62 percent less cost. As […]
4 concrete ways to use images to build links – Search Engine Land
Every picture tells a story and also may help you build links. Contributor Pratik Dholakiya shares four solid ways to use images to attract links. “Create visual content and the links will follow†is a nice sentiment, but in reality, it’s a prerequisite, not a guarantee of the fulfillment of a promise. If you want […]