Attempting a Guinness Book World Record for Social Media SEO Link Bait
Guest Post Written By Brian Hawkins If you’ve read enough posts here on Search Engine Optimization Journal. You’ll know that there is no silver bullet to high search engine rankings. So if any SEO agency could guarantee top 10 rankings, it’s simply not worth the risk. Which is why Brick Marketing is a huge advocate of quality original content with its SEO infused social media services http://www.brickmarketing.com/social-media-seo-service To prove my point why you should obey Google’s Rules: What would you do if you went to work and noticed that you were no where to be found in the search engines? Plus this was your peak Q4 season that counted for a majority of your ten million dollar plus e-commerce site. Would you start to freak out about how you were going to move a quarter of a million dollars worth of inventory? That had your own personal house assets as collateral. This is exactly the moment when Ryan Abood the CEO of GourmetGiftBaskets.com wished he would have NOT taken a search ranking short cut by buying a massive amount of text links. Which is a direct violation of Google’s algorithm. Ryan was left begging at the mercy for re CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
4 Signs You’re Killing Your Company Blog
Business blogging is one of the most valuable marketing tactics a company can employ online. And in light of Google’s recent “freshness update”, having a business blog to drive your SEO is more important than ever. However, running a successful business blog is not as simple as many site owners think. It is a huge time commitment (with no end date) and the potential for taking a wrong turn is very real. Here are 4 things that could end up killing your company blog You can’t get at least one post published each week. Blogs need fresh content in order to survive and help build your online brand. I’d rather one of my SEO clients not even bother with a blog if they can’t commit CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Is it Time to Ditch Your SEO Partner?
Choosing which SEO firm, consultant or expert to outsource your website’s SEO campaign to is a big decision. You might look at a dozen potential SEO partners before you decide which one is right for you. But working with an SEO company is not like getting married; you don’t have to tough it out for better or for worse. If six months into the relationship you notice that things aren’t progressing as smoothly as you had imagined, it might be time to ditch your SEO partner. Here are 3 signs that it’s time to look for greener pastures: You’re constantly chasing them down. I take pride in my customer service and do my best to get back to my SEO and consulting clients as quickly as possible. I CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Why Should You Conduct a Full Link Audit?
Once I year, I have to prepare myself for the arduous process of running a full link audit on my site. Is it fun? Not by any stretch of the imagination, but it is very important nonetheless and helps shape my link building campaign for the coming year. Conducting a full link audit on all of my sites (including my company site and external blogs) is a very time consuming process, but it’s imperative that it gets done. The same is true for you and your websites. Why should you bother with a full link audit? First off, conducting a full link audit means that not only do I gather the data on how many links my sites have, but I also visit each and every CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Optimizing Your Website for Local Search
Many businesses and websites aren’t looking to dominate the national search results; they just care about doing well in their own neighborhood. For instance, a plumbing company in Phoenix, Arizona doesn’t want to get visitors to their site from Normal, Illinois, so ranking well for national keywords isn’t the primary objective. Even though that visitor is looking for a plumber (which you might assume makes them part of the plumber’s target audience) that Illinois homeowner isn’t going to hire an Arizona based plumber. This is why it is so important for local businesses to incorporate local SEO best practice guidelines into their onsite optimization process. Here are 3 best tips for optimizing your website for local search: Localize your keywords. Localizing your keywords CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Organize Your Blog Commenting Activities – SEO Video Tip
It's incredibly important to organize your monthly blog commenting activities for multiple reasons. First and foremost, you don't want to have multiple people from your company commenting on the same posts each month, especially if they have differing opinions! Secondly, you want to create a schedule of quality, related blogs that you know are frequently updated so you don't have to waste time searching for a new blog to comment on. Watch this week's SEO video lesson here! For more link building video tips and lessons from Nick Stamoulis, check out the Brick Marketing link building video lesson archive . CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
Social Media and Inbound Marketing
Inbound marketing is comprised of three main online marketing tactics—SEO, content marketing and social media marketing. While each of these three campaigns can be very successful on its own, when the three are properly integrated the results for your website and brand can be remarkable. Internet marketing is not a one-or-the-other kind of battle. The most successful websites understand how to leverage all their online assets to their benefit, including social media marketing. By now, most businesses realize the importance of having some level of a social presence. Social media have even bled into traditional advertising, with television commercials ending by asking viewers to like them on Facebook or find them on Twitter. From Fortune 100 global brands to the mom-and-pop pizza joint around the corner, CLICK HERE TO READ MORE...
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