The “Big” Content Promotion Tip That’ll Save You a Lot of Pain: Never Fail.

A good marketer knows when his idea sucks. Yet many marketers I come across relentlessly push their content without thought for one fundamental influencing factor of its likely success: appeal. You have all been involved, at some stage in your careers in a flawed attempt to be creative. You’ve had a “great” idea, everyone in […]

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FAQ: All About The Banner Ad Test In Google’s Search Results

Yesterday, Search Engine Land broke the news that Google is running a test to show banner ads on branded search results. While the search giant has introduced images to its ad formats, including product listing ads and image extensions, the introductio…

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Social media marketing is evolving at an incredibly rapid pace. With major developments coming daily, it’s difficult to sort through the opportunities. At SMX Social Media Marketing, we won’t just tell you what’s new. We’ll give you the tactics and strategies to benefit most from paid, earned and…

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34% Of Local SEOs Make Less Than $30,000/Year. Why?

As the local search industry evolves and becomes more complex, the role of local search consultants and agencies becomes more critical. Complexity is increasing across most areas of our fast-growing industry, which makes “local search” all the more confusing for local business owners….

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The New SEO — It’s About People, Intent, & Meaning

There are two ways to try and understand the future. One is to gaze into the misty depths of a magic crystal ball and guess what might happen. The other is to view facts from a coldly logical standpoint and draw verifiable conclusions from them. To mak…

4 Paid Search Strategies For Converting On-The-Go Customers

Consumers are increasingly engaging with businesses while they’re on the go. In fact, of the 94 percent of smartphone owners searching for local information, 84 percent of them take action based on their search results. This shift in consumer behavior is redefining the approach advertisers…

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How to Promote Your Website for Free

The tools for free Website promotion have not really changed much over the past fifteen years. The rules imposed by search engines have changed and their abilities to enforce those rules have improved. So we need to look carefully at what can be done versus what should still be safe to do when devising campaigns to promote Websites for free. Of course, there is no such thing as “free Website promotion”. We have to invest time if not money in Website promotion so it’s still not useful to think in terms of how to promote Websites for free. Let’s instead think in terms of “how to promote Websites without spending money.” Here are the basic methods: Publish content for discovery on your site Publish content for discovery on other other Websites Ask other Websites to link to your site Wait for other Websites to link to your site Let’s assume for the sake of discussion that these links only send visitors to the site being promoted. When you publish content it may be discovered either via self-promotional links you share (such as by emailing friends or through unlinked advertising) or by random search engine placement. Publishing content for discovery on […]