The importance of the PR agency in online marketing

PR for Online MarketingRecently I met with some of the team at Red PR and we got talking as to the importance of Public Relations in the field of Online Marketing.  ’Joining the dots’ between the online marketing space and the real world is something they are embracing in creating solutions for each of their clients. 

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Social Video – Top Micro Video Apps & Cinemagraphs

headerMicro vlogging is a hot topic. What are the best tools & apps for making short snappy videos? Jackie Hole explores.

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Social Video – Top Micro Video Apps & Cinemagraphs

The Marketer’s Guide to Building a Holistic Brand Experience

venchitoThe 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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Klout Integration Pushes Human Powered ‘Expert’ Answers Atop Bing’s Search Results

From Yahoo! to Facebook to Quora, social sites have long been struggling to leverage the Q&A format successfully. Today Klout officially enters the ‘social answers’ space with a unique proposition, integration with Bing search — outside of the social search bar and into a big…

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Optimizing For Facebook Graph Search: SEO Meets Social

As Facebook Graph Search evolves and marketers begin to come to grips with the opportunities provided from the social graph, it becomes clear that a combination of both search and social media tactics are required if brands aim to improve visibility in…

Google Rewards App Developers Using Google+ Sign-In With Better Visibility On Google Search

What are the most popular activities done or content consumed by apps? Google’s now bringing that information to its search results, assuming the app developer makes use Google+ Sign-In, that is. Google+ Sign-in was launched in February as an easy way to let anyone sign into a site or app…

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Building better Brand Signals to Improve Search Visibility

brand-vs-generic-signalsOnline branding has become a very important component of SEO over the years. Given that brand signals, as a search ranking factor, made it easier for search engines to determine a website’s authenticity and authority.

A study from SearchMetrics a year ago also somehow proves how top brands appear to have a ranking advantage, making it more obvious that search engines do favor strong brands on their search results.

Digital Marketing Tips from 12 Marketing Professors

Glen GilmoreThe drive to constantly learn new things is a very important attribute for marketers, considering that digital marketing is one of the toughest industries out there and with its nature as an ever-evolving field. Constant reading, practice and analysis are a must, in order to be better at it.

Online marketing is definitely full of challenges, for both starters and seasoned practitioners. But the thing that’s really great about our industry is that there are so many useful resources available over the web, which can help us improve in our own ways and overcome those challenges.

How to Consistently Build 40+ Contextual Links Every Month

ahrefA contextual link is a type of link that’s usually found within the body of content and is in context with the idea surrounding the link. It can be both natural (voluntary links from other websites – ex: link bait) and artificial (manually built – ex: one of your guest posts that links back to your blog/content).

Acquiring links is a vital process in online marketing, as the practice benefits a site in so many ways, such as in building online brand presence, driving targeted traffic/leads and in getting better search ranking positions.