Search engine optimization (SEO) requires time and money. Are you putting your efforts into the right places? This column will examine tactics for improving the effectiveness of SEO initiatives, such as Web site structure, link building, and social media marketing, as well as business issues such as selection of an SEO provider, managing your reputation management, and the process that goes into a proper SEO initiative. This column will ultimately help you to determine where you may want to spend your time and/or money so that you are successful in gaining traction in this very dynamic medium.
Apr 3, 2013 - Your brand has the opportunity to broadcast to the 800 million monthly viewers, and a powerful video has an opportunity to get you ranked in universal search in the traditional engines. Comments
Mar 20, 2013 -
The SEO must start thinking like the people who need convincing - the discussions need to be less about the SEO value of a tactic and more about how those tactics support other marketing efforts.
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Mar 6, 2013 -
Here are four ways businesses can optimize their brand on Pinterest, using infographics, video, and fans.
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Feb 20, 2013 -
The goal: optimized content that attracts, engages, and converts. To get there? Lee Odden shares his formula for making a great content marketing strategy, including five creative content sourcing ideas.
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Feb 20, 2013 -
Get better informed about the validity of your data sources while also gaining additional insight into what's happening in your market.
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Feb 11, 2013 -
Google+ is establishing itself as the mainstream social network for brands with a 9,400 percent increase in users since last year, according to a report by BrightEdge.
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Feb 6, 2013 -
You must create an environment where SEO is a company-wide adoption where everyone understands its goals and how their individual roles directly influence organic search performance.
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Jan 29, 2013 -
Software tool provider, Rio SEO, has launched a suite of social media marketing products to complement their existing automation tools.
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Jan 23, 2013 -
In the SEO space, is it better to have a single site that serves both the national and local interests or separate sites for each level?
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Jan 9, 2013 -
The power of social networking is being able to bring brands closer to their customers and potential customers in a faster, easier way than ever before.
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Dec 12, 2012 -
If your brand has good video content but only a mediocre YouTube following, this can maximize your brand's social outreach across YouTube.
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Nov 14, 2012 -
Five sets of data for quick SEO wins for small, medium, and enterprise-sized sites alike.
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Oct 31, 2012 -
How to find the right balance of details that helps you justify your SEO plans.
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Oct 17, 2012 -
Being ranked number one in the SERPs is the ultimate influence among your audience and should consistently be the goal of all SEO campaigns.
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Oct 3, 2012 -
Start preparing your budget plan by looking at the latest trends in the data you have access to and adjusting your previous plan accordingly.
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Sep 24, 2012 -
The machining industry is going through a revolution, with people who vehemently oppose most of what is going on with online media and people who are doing advanced web marketing.
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Sep 19, 2012 - Offer a mobile site with the same or similar content as the desktop site to satisfy those who use mobile devices for some, most, or all of their web searches. Comments
Sep 13, 2012 -
Adobe SEO manager David Lloyd discussed how the company uses search data and content optimization to inform print collateral, advertising, social media and web design.
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Sep 6, 2012 - Loreal and Scripps, along with big banks and auto brands are working out how to use their generic top-level domains. Comments
Aug 23, 2012 -
Three initial strategies to consider when building links based on existing relationships you may not be exploiting, and developing new relationships at the enterprise level.
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Aug 8, 2012 - Find out what's worth your attention and what you should be ignoring in your SEO efforts. Comments
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