The primary Google Penguin update and all of the subsequent Penguin updates have targeted sites that were guilty of “over-optimization.” These sites were taking SEO to the extreme and participating…
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Content marketing and your buying cycle
Content marketing can only be effective if the content you’re producing is relevant and informative enough to attract your target audience and hold their attention. Relevance will most certainly depend on…
Read MoreAre you a good online spokesperson for your company?
One of the more astonishing things about the social media revolution is that companies have had to dramatically loosen the reins on employees speaking publicly about their workplace over just…
Read MoreIn digital marketing, you must get over your fear of being annoying
According to Jonathan Alter‘s new book, The Center Holds, it was Barack Obama’s young geek volunteers who crushed Mitt Romney‘s “Mad Men” campaign out of the 1960s in the 2012 election. And…
Read More6 things digital marketers can learn from internet stars
There is an Internet star or celebrity for just about any topic of interest, and digital media marketing has been the secret to their success. In the early days of…
Read MoreDoes asking for too much data alienate customers?
In case you haven’t noticed, it appears that the Internet is not the only place where privacy is a great idea but an apparently unobtainable reality. In the latest installment…
Read MoreEnterprise social networking: Survival of the fittest or of the nicest?
In many discussions about driving adoption for social business platforms, the acronym WIIFM (“What’s in it for me”) became a well known jargon to say: unless users take personal advantage…
Read MoreHow to measure digital marketing with observer effects
Last month, I argued that your marketing investments should not be influenced by measurement limitations. The higher you get in the marketing funnel, the harder it is to demonstrate the…
Read MoreTweet like Guy Kawasaki for Twitter success
People love and hate my friend Guy Kawasaki. Here are some of the least flattering blog posts, including Dear Guy Kawasaki, You Tweet Too Much, Guy Kawasaki is too ‘popular’…
Read MoreIs your website search engine a random web page generator?
Harsh question, I know, but the search results for many website search engines appear almost random. The reason I am familiar with this situation is because clients often ask…
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