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How Marketers Can Survive the Caprices of Search and Social Media
Search and social algorithms go under such constant and unpredictable changes that long-term planning becomes a useless and wasteful process. Take Google as an example. When it decided to cache all email images on its servers, marketers running emails with dynamic content that “refreshes” found themselves out of luck.
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SEO Insights: Are You Smarter than a Search Engine?
There are seven major themes driving search today, according Rand Fishkin, the flamboyant founder of search engine strategy and tools vendor Moz. And to no one's surprise, many of them are frustrating marketers' efforts to attain good returns from their search engine optimization (SEO) efforts, he conceded.
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Don't Expect Much Value from 'Free' Outbound Links Anymore
Over the years, businesses that leverage social media to drive sales greatly benefited from outbound links in their social media posts.
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How Content Marketers Rank SEO
Marketers who tell you they’re not concerned about Panda, Penguin or Hummingbird — Google’s algorithm updates — may see their content marketing efforts fall short. When I first started in content marketing, I was one of those marketers.
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Brush Up on Your Online Learning
Maintaining a successful web presence is hard work. It helps if you're a juggler, because you need to work on multiple fronts concurrently.
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What to Trust for SEO in 2016
Trust Flow is not a new concept for SEOs. Technically, it is a term officially coined and trademarked by SEO software provider Majestic in 2012 and fosters a practice that builds off the generic SEO practice of link building and back-linking.
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Gaming Your Enterprise Search Results
By emulating common web SEO tactics, you can improve the quality of your enterprise search results. To start, you'll need to know the search terms your users enter on your site. Then you reverse engineer the intent behind that search to understand what the searcher was looking for.
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Remember Google Authorship? It Might Still Matter
For those of you who have seen my prior write-ups on Google Authorship, you may be surprised to see yet another post covering the topic. Well, it appears the story is far from over.
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Kickstart Your Enterprise Search Program
There's some confusion about what I mean when I say managing search is a contact sport. Basically, enterprise search, while a well-established technology, is not one you can install once and forget about if you still expect happy users.
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UX Anti-Patterns: Some Rules are Meant to be Broken
Anti-patterns can be hard to spot. Anti-patterns are the inevitable outcome when a rule set is applied so rigidly that it yields the opposite of the original desired outcome. User experience is no exception to anti-patterns.
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One-Off SEO Tools to the Rescue?
Just the other day, I read a tweet from a teenage entrepreneur decrying how SEO is a waste of time.
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The Future of SEO is Not SEO
Search engine optimization, as all traditional definitions describe it, is going to become obsolete. And the change has already begun. The Internet has always been a landgrab. It started with domain name poaching and infrastructure oligopolies. Then we moved onto gaming search engines.
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SEO is Killing Content Quality
Search engine optimization (SEO) tips include website design best practices for how to get Google to rank your content higher in search engine results placement or SERP. In fact, the preceding sentence is a great example of just how cumbersome this practice has made Web-based communications.
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How We Topped YouTube Search Results
The eight YouTube SEO tips that follow brought my company's videos to the top search position at YouTube for keywords such as “marketing automation,” “lead scoring” and “personalization.” 1. Metadata Name of the file -- While filling in metadata after you upload a video
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