We all know that content is king, and its empire is growing by the minute. This is more true now more than ever since Google's Hummingbird algorithm update. One of the best ways to add content to your website is to create and maintain a blog focused around topics relevant to your company's industry. A … Continue reading How to Create Your Own WordPress Blog: A Video Tutorial
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Search Ranking Factors: Rank Correlation for 2013 Infographic
With regular algorithm updates, search engine optimization is a game with ever changing rules. What helped websites achieve top position in search rankings last year (sometimes even last quarter) is frequently no longer a high priority or even relevant to current SEO strategies. To help digital marketers better understand the factors that determine which websites … Continue reading Search Ranking Factors: Rank Correlation for 2013 Infographic
5 Tips For Creating Traffic Driving Blog Posts
There has been a lot of buzz in the marketing world the last couple of days about an update to the rankings section of Google's Webmasters Tools. The update reads: In general, webmasters can improve the rank of their sites by creating high-quality sites that users will want to use and share. Prior to this … Continue reading 5 Tips For Creating Traffic Driving Blog Posts
Best Times to Post on Social Media [Infographic]
Social media is 24/7. Someone is always tweeting, posting on Facebook, or uploading a new picture to instagram. However, for social media managers and businesses alike, this can be quite of a challenge. We obviously can't be online all day, even for those of us who are social media managers or strategist. But how do you know when … Continue reading Best Times to Post on Social Media [Infographic]
How to Rock Social Media in 30 Minutes a Day Infographic
With a defined social media strategy in place, marketers can rock social media in 30 minutes a day. Sound too good to be true? It is actually possible if your daily use of social media is built upon a well-developed social media strategy. But, a strong social media strategy does not mean that your brand … Continue reading How to Rock Social Media in 30 Minutes a Day Infographic
How to Use YouTube Annotations
In my first YouTube optimization article, 5 Steps for Optimizing YouTube Videos, I focused on: File name of your YouTube videos Search engine friendly video titles Keyword optimization and link building opportunities of video descriptions Best practices for adding tags and categories to videos Categorizing videos into playlists As promised, I want to discuss other … Continue reading How to Use YouTube Annotations
The Social Media Report Card: Infographic
2012 was a very eventful year for the social media world. (understatement, I know!) Between acquisitions, introductions of new platforms, and grand site design changes, social media was an ever changing environment. Each time things seemed to calmed down, and marketers could catch their breath for a moment, things got flipped upside-down again. But, even though social … Continue reading The Social Media Report Card: Infographic
The Pluses and Minuses of Google+
The following is my most recent blog on Mudbug Media's Blog au Roux about how to determine if Google+ could benefit your social media strategy. The buzz about Google+ has revved up again lately, possibly due to the negative press that has been recently circling around Facebook, like the sharks in shark week. The press … Continue reading The Pluses and Minuses of Google+
How Fortune 100 Companies Use Social Media
Each year Burson-Marsteller, a leading global public relations and communications firm, completes a social media check-up examining how Fortune 100 companies use popular social networking platforms including: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube. This year, the study also included a review of how the world's leading brands are using the newest game players, Google+ and Pinterest. The way … Continue reading How Fortune 100 Companies Use Social Media
Components of High Quality Content Marketing
As search engines continue to alter their algorithms , so they can provide users with the best and most relevant content on the internet, the importance of content marketing is being pushed to the forefront. However, content marketing can be quite overwhelming when first diving in, so it is important to understand the influence that … Continue reading Components of High Quality Content Marketing