Behind all great content lies a great content marketer (and Adria’s handy tips)
With SearchLove San Diego just around the corner (hello, Paradise!), in the latest DistilledLive video we catch up with Head of Outreach, Adria Saracino ahead of her presentation at this week’s event. For those of you who feel as though Continue reading »
How Users Consume News Online: Insights from The Reuters Institute Digital News Report
My last blog post explored the future of news, using ideas and data from a lecture and the Reuters Institute’s Digital New Report 2013. This post examines the report data on a more granular level, and provides actionable insights for Continue reading »
Online Marketers: Make Sure You Surface The Right Content To Your Audience
When it comes to online marketing, the conventional wisdom has been that the overarching goal is to have content — any content, so long as it links back to my website — appear in front of the user. Put another way, the thinking for many has long been that the singularly-focused goal is…
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The Concept Of Sameness & Why It Should Matter
Long ago and far away, there was a world where there was no Web. Back in those early years (such as the 1960′s through the mid-1990s), there were certain basic concepts that guided the world of marketing. One of the facts of life during those times was that each market space tended to support…
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Creating Content on Industries you’re not an Expert in
Content marketing has been the entire buzz since Google started to sniff out all the nasty and manipulative links over the web. Don’t worry, I won’t start with why content is so important in this line of work (yes, yes, I know that you know that content is king).
I’ve been thinking of writing this post for quite some time now, and I’ve even wrote the draft for this post while I was away for a business trip late last week.
Mastering PPC: Landing Conversions with Landing Pages
As summer comes to an end my thoughts wander to autumn which then ultimately wanders to the Philadelphia Arctic Tundra that is winter. I’m a planner so I start shopping for my winter jacket in August so I can walk with comfort from my car to the office while my other unprepared co-workers talk about […]
How to Scale Content Marketing
Content marketing has grown its importance over the past couple of years in the online marketing realm. And one of the most evident factors of why brands and online marketers have started to embrace this marketing practice is the constant changes (algorithm updates) occurring in the search space.
This branch of marketing has proven its efficiency, especially in demonstrating thought-leadership and the approach’s ability to improve a business’ lead generation process.
The Curse of the Cliché
The wandering mind is, perhaps, one of the most powerful enemies of online copy. A reader runs his eyes across all sorts of pages, flitting between multiple screens before deciding what he actually wants is a coffee. In turn, written Continue reading »
The Future of News and how we can apply this to broader content strategy
After attending a lecture at General Assembly on the Future of News, I thought it would benefit SEO consultants, publishers and writers alike to look at some of the ideas and assess how they could be interpreted to benefit broader Continue reading »
22 Link Building Tips from @xightph
Links will always play an important role in the search, aside from the fact that it’s the core in which most search engines’ algorithms are based on – it’s still the best way to rank content.
Experts also believe that links are still very much important, though it’s known that Google will most probably just value those that are evidently natural and non-manipulative.
Advanced SEO in 2013 – SEMTrends 2013 Presentation
Here is my slide deck from SEMTrends 2013 that was held yesterday in Iloilo City, Philippines. The topics I covered on my presentation include some of the most important factors used in the realm of search today such as on-site technology, link develop…
Creating Great Experience for SEO
Improving a website’s usage data is very essential in SEO nowadays, as these signals highly reflect the quality of the site and the level of experience it can provide to its users.
Another reason why optimizing for experience is so important in this new age of search is because of the fact that Google Panda filters are now being integrated to Google’s search ranking algorithm.
How to develop ROI-driven Inbound Marketing Campaigns
Inbound marketing has proven itself to be very effective in terms of helping small to enterprise-level brands reach business-related goals.
This marketing practice involves a series of data-driven key initiatives. But the one key component that make…
Homepage Sliders: Bad For SEO, Bad For Usability
One of the most prevalent design flaws in B2B websites is the use of carousels (or sliders) on the homepage. Carousels are an ineffective way to target user personas, which ends up hurting the site’s SEO and usability. In fact, at the recent Conversion Conference in Chicago, about 25% of the…
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The Marketer’s Guide to Building a Holistic Brand Experience
The finest brands in the world are known for delivering a unique brand experience to their consumers. Those remarkable experiences enable brands to leverage a day-to-day engagement with their audience and consistently build themselves as an authority in their respective industries.
In simplest term, experience creates brand perception. It is how your customers think and feel about your product/service. The way you create perceived value to your audience allows you to get the benefits of a good brand experience
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The Power of Nostalgia
Looking back into the past can often be a great advertising technique. In this post Hannah looks at the Power of Nostalgia.
Post from Hannah Smith on State of Search
The Power of Nostalgia
How I get quick wins in SEO and Content Marketing
I’m not really used to writing shorter blog posts – and I’m also guessing that most of you already know that I always write long-form content and comprehensive tutorials related to online marketing.
So I’m going to try something new, well not that new, since I’ve written some posts in the past that are just 500+ words in length – although, there’s something that I would want to test on this one.
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Smartercontent.org Aims to Bring the Best Content Together
Linkdex launces smartcontent.org, a platform which needs to bring together the best content on the web.
Post from Bas van den Beld on State of Search
Smartercontent.org Aims to Bring the Best Content Together
The Content Marketing Show Round Up – May 2013
Friday saw more than 1000 marketers attending the Content Marketing Show in Logan Hall at the Institute of Education in London. This was my favourite slide of the day – it’s Paul May’s & the photo was taken by Stacey Cavanagh. The wifi password was ‘going underground’ Continue reading »
Dealing with content beyond the webpage, DistilledLive discussion
By now, most of us are aware of the idea of responsive design and the sorts of tools you can use to make your website’s layout more mobile friendly. But how do we deal with content in this multi-screen world? Continue reading »