Google announced in September that their most recent Penguin release will be their last. For the uninitiated, Penguin is a four-year-old initiative that Google introduced to directly reduce spammy websites…
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SEO is not about optimizing a single page
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been around a long time. And it has changed a lot over the years. But one thing that has been true for more than a decade…
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What is structured content?
Structured content is the most important trend in digital marketing that you’ve probably never heard of. Of all the stories and advice in our book Outside-In Marketing: Using Big Data…
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Have you read studies recommending your blog posts should be around 2,000 words and thought, “How can I write THAT MUCH BLOG CONTENT all the time?” I hear you. I’ve…
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Want your sentences to have a wham-bam impact? Think short. Very short. Here’s why. Your reader is overwhelmed She receives over 100 emails a day. She’s scanning websites, answering emails…
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Why content marketing complements (but doesn’t replace) link building
Content marketing has often been conflated with link building. In fact, numerous SEOs have declared content marketing to be the new link building. But there’s one problem: Content marketing doesn’t…
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Maybe it is just the constant shifting in tactics as a discipline becomes mature, but I’ve watched so many trends in search marketing over the years that it is easy…
Read MoreContent marketing and SEO, a relationship of evolution
Does your current content marketing strategy stand alone? Have you wondered why your best content isn’t bringing the organic traffic you expected? It’s not a chicken or the egg scenario….
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I recently had the privilege to sit in on FIR B2B episode 45: a podcast by Paul Gillin and David Strom. When my wife heard it, she said they sound…
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Surefire Social introduces SurePulse “webmaster tools”
Surefire Social is about to offer an all-in-one social media, search, reputation, review, analytics tool in the form of SurePulse, now in beta. I get to play with a lot of…
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