Using Your Competition to Find Topic Ideas
It’s probably the single most common problem with content marketing; site owners don’t know what to write about. Every blogger, site owner and marketers is going to have writer’s block sooner or later, but don’t let that stop you for long! A successful content marketing campaign relies on the consistent creation and promotion of useful content. A small snag can easily derail your editorial calendar. If you find yourself scrambling to come up with new topics for your next blog post or article, why not take a look at the competition? Why would you want to use the competition as a source of inspiration? First off, your competition has the same online audience as you. If they are doing their content marketing right, they should CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
4 Reasons Blog Comments Are Great for Link Building
Blog commenting is one of the best components of a link building campaign for numerous reasons. Aside from the obvious value of the link, there is a lot of long term value associated with developing a strong blog commenting campaign that can impact the overall success of your SEO and website. Here are 4 reasons why you should amp up your blog commenting 1. Helps develop a relationship with the blogger A blogger outreach program isn’t something that new sites should be worrying about, but for established sites that have a little SEO under their belt, it’s the next step in link building. By routinely leaving well-written and valuable comments on a blog, you are actively contributing to the overall success of that blog. If CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Blog Posts to Read for October 6, 2011
Below you will find our favorite blog posts that are related to SEO, search engine marketing and social media marketing from this past week. Please feel free to visit each, we hope you find them as helpful as we do! Custom vs. Free Website Design – Which is Best? There are thousands of free website templates available but if you have the money to spend on a custom template, it might be worth your while. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE Mr. Spock’s guide to out-of-this-world SEO copywriting This post includes Mr. Spock quotes and how they relate to SEO. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE The End of Privacy: Facebook Tracks Your Moves Even If You Log Out This post discusses how Facebook has devised a way to continue to track CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Link-Assistant.Com SEO PowerSuite SEO Report Review
***This is a paid product review of the SEO PowerSuite Software. The Link-Assistant.Com SEO PowerSuite toolkit is an all-in-one SEO solution to automate, speed up and smarten-up the most time-consuming SEO tasks. It consists of 4 individual SEO tools. Each tool produces several SEO reports that give data graphical representation and provide step-by-step optimization instructions. Recently, each SEO tool has received brand-new SEO reports that were made cleaner, more eye-pleasing and more social-media focused than the older versions. 1. Rank Tracker Rank Tracker is a powerful keyword research tool and an effective rank checker. While rank is by no means the end-all-be-all measurement of SEO success, it can still be a valuable benchmark to determine ROI. Keyword research is arguably the cornerstone CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
How Social Share Buttons Impact Your SEO
If you look right above this post next to the author byline you’ll see a row of widgets (Twitter, Facebook, Google+, email and ShareThis). These little social share buttons are actually a critical component of my content promotion campaign, and they should be part of yours! Social share buttons allow your readers to submit your content to their favorite social networking or social bookmarking site without ever having to leave your blog. Essentially, social share buttons allow your readers to promote your content for you. However, a recent BrightEdge report shows that about half of the largest 10,000 sites don’t display any kind of social sharing link or buttons at all. If you are one of those sites without social CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
4 Types of Content – SEO Video Lesson
Once you decide to invest the time and energy in a content marketing campaign, you have to determine what kind of content you will focus on creating. It could be educational, informational, promotional or newsworthy or a combination of all four. Just make sure that the content you are creating is inline with your online business goals and is the kind of content your target audience is looking for. Watch this week's SEO video lesson here! For more SEO video tips and lessons from Nick Stamoulis, check out the Brick Marketing SEO video lesson archive . CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
What You Deserve as an SEO Client
Above all, SEO clients deserve to work with an SEO firm that treats them with respect. I believe that having good customer service is fundamental to running a business, and many companies (not just SEO firms) are lacking in that department. No one wants to work with a company that doesn’t value their business, and you shouldn’t accept the actions of an SEO firm that doesn’t value you! Here are some other things you should expect as an SEO client: Deadlines Should Be Met Sometimes the unexpected happens and a report arrives a day late or a phone call has to get pushed back to next week, but things like that shouldn’t happen frequently. Your SEO firm shouldn’t be making excuses as to why they are falling CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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