Scared off by that blank white page you’re supposed to fill with content again and again and again? Don’t be. Generating content ideas is easier than you think if you…
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Inside the Google Panda update
Our monthly Biznology Webinar yesterday was “Inside the Google Panda Update.” Have your search rankings gone down dramatically with no obvious cause? Whether you have heard about Google Panda or…
Read MoreThe seven C’s of content quality
Last month I talked about optimizing your site architecture for Panda. This is of course important, but it is only one component in optimizing for Panda. As everyone who read…
Read MoreSearch marketing on the cheap
Yesterday, I gave a Biznology Webinar called, “Search Marketing on the Cheap,” that covered the free tools and techniques available for search marketing. If you think that successful search marketing…
Read MoreAdventures in frictionless sharing
I have been exploring frictionless sharing for years in the form of auto-tweets, retweets, automatic cross-posting, and attention data. What is it, you ask? Well, according to Wikipedia, frictionless sharing describes…
Read MoreOptimizing your site information architecture (IA) for Panda
Last time I wrote about cleaning house and freeing up Google’s index for your best content. That’s a great antidote to Panda’s negative ranking factors that punish cluttered websites. But…
Read MoreAgile marketing blocked: “Taking a guess can get me fired!”
I teach a lot of online classes at various universities, constantly explaining the Do It Wrong Quickly (now being called agile marketing) approach to the digital marketing world. In one of…
Read MoreBaffled by content marketing? Start with the basics!
The concern we hear most frequently from clients just getting started with content marketing is some variation on “What the heck am I going to write about?” So let’s start…
Read MoreHow to clean up a cluttered website? Content analytics is the answer
Post Panda (Google’s one-year-old revolutionary search ranking algorithm that has upended old-style SEO), optimizing individual pages is more difficult and less effective than it was before Panda. Google now pays…
Read MoreBing’s redesign feels desperate
This week Bing redesigned its presentation of its search results. Most news from Bing is usually around how it’s market share is still around the same number it has been…
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