Writing on the Web

JUNE 9, 2011

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: a business blog is the best way to get found online, the best way to connect with potential clients, and the pathway to turning readers into clients. So, what’s your favorite excuse for not blogging for your business? And they do go to Facebook , Twitter , and LinkedIn.

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Writing on the Web

JULY 12, 2011

Do you know how to write SEO-friendly content your readers will love? This week’s guest post by Christian Arno of Lingo24 shares 6 writing tips for writing online content that works for both readers and search engines. Do you litter your blog writing and web pages with keywords so the search engine spiders can find you?

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Any business that primarily relies on customers within it’s local geographic area—which includes not just restaurants and dentists but also some types of b2b vendors, such as IT services and of course marketing and PR firms—needs to understand the ins and outs of local search engine optimization (SEO).

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Writing on the Web

JULY 26, 2010

What’s your favorite excuse for not blogging for your business? Here are some that I hear: “I don’t have time to blog.&#. “My clients aren’t surfing the Web reading blogs.&#. Here’s a drawing I made that shows how readers find your blog and become clients. Blog this on Blogger.

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Webbiquity

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

By the same token, despite the many benefits of a business blog , not everyone should rush into it. Like owning a pet, writing a blog isn’t rocket science but does require a certain level of care and attention, lest the effort end up among the millions of abandoned, forgotten and neglected blogs littering the online landscape.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

So in case you missed any of these, here are almost 100 of the best blog posts and articles covering social media strategy and tactics, measurement, monitoring, research, pitfalls to avoid, policies, tools and more from 2009. ROI Is Dead by StraightUpSearch Blog. Top Ten blogs: Social Media Measurement by Seldom Seen Kid.

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KoMarketing Associates

JANUARY 22, 2015

If you are a regular reader of this blog, SEO performance is likely part of the reason content marketing has become a priority as well. While there are never guarantees with B2B content marketing and SEO, there are ways to orchestrate your program to help mitigate mistakes and overcome inevitable obstacles. But guess what?

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

WordPress is no longer just the leading blog platform , but is now the most popular open-source CMS (content management system) as well. Among the many reasons for the popularity of WordPress : it’s affordable, search engine-friendly, reasonably easy to use, and extensible through an incredible array of plugins.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 24, 2011

Search for a brand name or keyword across all of the most popular social networks at once? Don’t want to follow Twitterers who aren’t following you? A free tool for finding the relative influence of any Twitter user. A free service for setting up, promoting and hosting Twitter chats. Create video emails?

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 25, 2010

His formulas for these are: Helpful web content + blogging tools +SEO +social media = attraction. The cost of inbound marketing (PPC, SEO, email, blogs, social media) is significantly less than the cost of traditional outbound marketing. For social media marketing, your blog is “ground zero.&#

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Webbiquity

JULY 25, 2011

As online strategy increasingly is business strategy , web presence optimization (dominating the search results for your name and unique tagline) is now more important than ever. So I figured it was time to update my inaugural post on this blog, What is Webbiquity? Also, keep in mind that search is no longer just Google.

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Webbiquity

JULY 25, 2011

As online strategy increasingly is business strategy , web presence optimization (dominating the search results for your name and unique tagline) is now more important than ever. So I figured it was time to update my inaugural post on this blog, What is Webbiquity? Also, keep in mind that search is no longer just Google.

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LeadSquared

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Our last webinar on “How to get started with Website SEO” was a great success, thanks to the active participation of our attendees. Can Google’s Hummingbird detect natural patterns in search data and store them? Voice search is much more intuitive than keyboard search. Question 1. Question 2. Question 3.

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Webbiquity

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Since you don’t want to take the chance of buying a sleeper however, or a book that’s inappropriate for the recipient, here are nine ideas—books reviewed on the Webbiquity blog this year. Despite being a quick, almost breezy read (how often do you read that said about a book on SEO?), Happy shopping! Share this on Bebo.

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Webbiquity

JANUARY 12, 2011

Social media marketing, online PR and SEO are three tactics that are all powerful on their own, but have far more impact when used in a coordinated, synergistic manner. Optimize company news for SEO benefit? Twitter Pitching Etiquette: What works, what doesn’t… by COMMS Corner. Pitching on Twitter?

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Biznology

MAY 19, 2015

Search will never be the same as it was as recently as a few years ago. Google is severely penalizing sites that are buying links or are invested in private blog networks. In addition to editorial “blog” content, it’s always worth developing content on the maddafella.com domain in addition to producing content only for social media.

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Without a statistical measure of your blogging progress, adding content to your blog on a regular basis can be an incredibly lonely proposition. However, even within the business (non cat) blogging arena, there are a wide variety of potential measures to gauge your momentum. Is anyone out there? What’s the Point?

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Probably not yet, but other than search and email (and maybe banners) where CAN you do that? Social media is not about Facebook or MySpace or Flickr or Twitter or blogs or YouTube. This blog is great as encouragement and validation for my own endeavors in social media marketing. It’s about humanization.

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Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Jeffbullas's Blog Internet Marketing Home Bio Speaking Grade your Site Marketing Resources Twitter Jeff’s YouTube Contact Congratulations: You have successfully subscribed! I then added to that post with some ideas from readers and more of my own with a post titled “ 50 Ways To Optimize Your Blog “.

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LeadSquared

MAY 9, 2013

SEO Plugin WP SEO by Yoast 2. i) An SEO Plugin. 1) Helps in Better Online Presence: The primary motive of setting up a blog is to have a better online presence. A good SEO plugin would help you adopt better SEO practices in the whole blog setup, and thus, rank better in Google and other search engines.

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Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Blogs represent 50%, Facebook 47% and…Twitter scores 41%.”. Stephanie Frasco recommends having an SEO keyword-heavy profile, blogging, using applications and engaging in conversation among other practices for maximizing your impact through LinkedIn. How To Use Linkedin To Generate Business by Search Engine Land.

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Hubspot

AUGUST 25, 2010

Rawlins is a Digital Marketing Specialist for ymarketing , who manages SEO and Inbound Marketing campaigns for ecommerce and lead generation clients, and a provider on the HubSpot Service Marketplace for On-Page SEO and Off-Page SEO services. You can follow her on Twitter at @googlegirl or read her blog.

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Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – this is the ultimate no-brainer. Based on my own anecdotal research, natural search typically drives at least 40% and average more than half of all unpaid traffic to b2b websites. There are lots of excellent articles on SEO that provide guidance and tips.

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MLT Creative

MARCH 16, 2011

Inbound links are defined as links from pages on external sites linking back to another site and are key factors in off-page SEO. Search engines place emphasis on the authority of a web page to determine search rankings. Good ways to do this include blog posts, white papers, eBooks and profiles.

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Webbiquity

APRIL 10, 2017

The explosion of blogging, social media, and online review sites has provided brands with unprecedented opportunity for exposure through authentic customer advocacy. Tools to help businesses and individuals track and managage their online presence; get more control over search hits and supress negative results.

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Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

JULY 15, 2010

2. Blog – This plays a key role in lead nurturing and educating prospects. 3. Twitter 101. It also offers the chance to improve SEO, creating a greater likelihood your company will appear in search engines. This increases the propensity that visitors re-share this information on their own blogs.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 30, 2011

I hope that you will pass this blog post along to others in your organization and maybe even print it out to have on hand when others have questions related to social media marketing. An example of this is the Twitter API. Previously, the service started as a blog comment search engine. Blip.TV - Blip.TV

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

For example, if you go create an external facing idea portal but don’t do the hard work to drive process change internally with the functions that own the changes your users want - your idea engine could do you more harm than good. 4) None of the following are community platforms: Wikis, Blogs or Forums. people search by.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Where should your blog live? Marketers often wonder whether their blog should be part of their site, hosted on a separate subdomain or living on an external blogging platform like Wordpress. If blogs get people to your site, what gets people to your blog? Make sure you take advantage of this opportunity.

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WebMarketCentral

APRIL 6, 2009

Everybody uses Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, but which niche social media sites are worth investigating? How can you maximize your results through social bookmarking sites like Digg? How does social media relate to SEO? Why is online reputation management so important?

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Hubspot

JANUARY 2, 2013

1) Organic Search. Organic search traffic used to just mean the amount of traffic that came to your site via someone who found your site using a search engine. Then, you could drill down into more detail to see which keyword they searched to get to your website. 5) Paid Search. 2) Referrals.

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Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Blog HubSpot TV Contributors Marketing Kit Internet Marketing Blog The HubSpot Inbound Internet Marketing blog covers all of inbound marketing - SEO, Blogging, Social Media, Landing Pages, Lead Generation and Analytics. Submit guest post ideas to rburnes[at]hubspot[dot]com.

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WebMarketCentral

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

How can you maximize the business value of tools like LinkedIn and Twitter? Find the answers to these questions and others here in more of the best articles and blog posts on social media marketing from this year so far. practices, blogs and more. What's the best tool for social media research and learning?

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WebMarketCentral

JANUARY 5, 2009

And search engines love social media, which helps expose that rant to anyone searching for the company's name. If you can make the time commitment, start your own blog. At the very least, look for opportunities to write guest-posts and/or get interviewed for blogs related to your industry. Start Twittering.

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WebMarketCentral

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

email signatures: Twitter page, LinkedIn profile and blog link: these are the most popular social networking elements, used in about half of Web 2.0 email signatures include buttons for StumbleUpon or "add this blog to my favorites" on Technorati, links to a company's online videos, and/or the sender's Second Life name.

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WebMarketCentral

MAY 18, 2009

Google Social Bookmarking and Blog Recommendation Engine by Key Web Data The inimitable Chris Lang explains social features added to Google Reader (such as bookmarking capability and a friends list), why they were added, and how Google will likely use this information (to create a Digg-like system that can't be gamed).

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Webbiquity

OCTOBER 5, 2010

While a dwindling number of business executives still dismiss Twitter as a waste of time, recent research suggests it is one of the most valuable social networks for business. Awareness of Twitter has exploded; 87% of Americans said they were “familiar with” Twitter in a poll taken earlier this year, versus just 5% in 2008 and 26% in 2009.

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