Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 3, 2010

You can read his entire blog post here. The good news is that you can use a free tool like Google Analytics to get a very good handle on your customer engagement. Let’s see how Google Analytics can help you do just that. These statistics are easily and readily available from your dashboard in Google Analytics.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MARCH 23, 2011

Last month, Google announced a change to its search algorithm, called the “Panda” update. This change is primarily designed to cleanse Google’s search results of low-quality content. Most SEO experts expect article directories or “content farms” to be heavily penalized by Google’s algorithm change.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 10, 2012

They are not only great for increasing the number of pages indexed by Google but also help you target a larger number of keywords, especially long tail keywords. The number of site pages indexed by Google has a direct impact on your online lead generation. Read my earlier post, B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog ).

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 21, 2011

What can do you do if you are tasked with maintaining an active industrial blog that needs fresh content regularly? If I probe some more, I usually unearth issues and pain points that can easily fill up 3 to 5 juicy blog posts. My company offers a blog content creation service that is perfect for busy industrial marketers.

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 31, 2010

I have listed some easy, do-it-yourself (DiY) SEO tactics to optimize your WordPress blogs for search engines. Just building a business blog is not going to help you drive traffic or generate leads. On-site SEO refers to changes that you can make within the code of your blog. What is On Site SEO?

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Industrial Marketing Today

JANUARY 18, 2012

The two main reasons are 1) Not showing up in Google search results ( SEO – Organic Search Engine Optimization ) and/or 2) Not getting enough qualified leads from the website (Traffic and Conversion). Don’t expect to show up on the first page of Google just because your website has just undergone a redesign.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 14, 2010

Google News, aggregating content via RSS feeds and social bookmarking sites have been around for a while. So I Googled “content curation&# and lo and behold, it returned 77,600 results. Next, I came across a blog post written back in September of 2009 by Rohit Bhargava of Influential Marketing Blog.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 1, 2011

You can use application notes to create email content in one of two ways as follows: Write them as blog posts and send out a monthly e-mail newsletter summarizing new articles for that month. Send out the application notes first to your e-mail subscribers to create exclusivity and then repurpose them as blog posts for everyone else.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

Pay attention to the terminology and words your target audience uses when they discuss their problems on social media, forums and blogs. My take: Use a keyword research tool like the free Google Keywords Research Tool to come up with a list of keywords and phrases based around the problems and solutions you discovered in step #1.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JULY 23, 2010

That depends, see my earlier post, Do-it-Yourself Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Your WordPress Blog. It takes extensive knowledge, expertise, experience and a lot of detailed work in order for your website to be ranked high for specific keywords and phrases in Google and other major search engines. And yes, it does cost money.

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Google “lead nurturing” and you’ll get back 81,900 results. and the author of eMarketing Strategies for the Complex Sale , in one of her blog posts wrote, “Sending an Email Is NOT Nurturing.” It would be impossible to cover everything about it in one short blog post. What is lead nurturing?

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 14, 2012

I launched this blog in 2008 and have written more than 160 posts about industrial and manufacturing marketing. This content marketing strategy has helped us achieve several top 10 rankings in Google for competitive keywords and phrases.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 26, 2011

Credibility is built over many years of performance in the field and not by the frequency of blog posts, number of Twitter followers or Facebook likes. Yes, a company blog does enhance their reputation and social media does increase their reach. These buyers are not looking to engage, they want complete product specifications.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 29, 2010

In the Needs Awareness and Research stages (the first two stages of the industrial buying cycle ), buyers use a broad array of sources, including social media, webinars, e-newsletters, Google, Bing, Yahoo and vertical search engines like thomasnet.com and globalsepc.com.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website Content Creation Made Easy by Achinta Mitra on August 24, 2009 in Content Marketing , Industrial Marketing Blog Are you struggling with creating content? Google is not the only source of content ideas. For example, “content creation.”

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 20, 2010

You need to move beyond the free Google Custom Search tool for websites. B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

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Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 6, 2011

Google was the number one non-vendor site used to do product research and the reason cited most often was that industrial marketers have improved their search strategies and are now more capable of returning relevant results.

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Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 3, 2010

Situation turns dire until someone within the company gets an epiphany, “Our site is not optimized” > Quick, call in that SEO expert who guarantees first page ranking in Google > Before you know it, you are locked in a 6-month search engine optimization contract.

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Industrial Marketing Today

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

A business blog is an important and integral component of inbound marketing. While there are plenty of business blogs from B2B marketing consultants (including this one), industry portals and vertical search engines, there aren’t too many from manufacturers and industrial companies. Exhibit #2: Indium Corporation Blogs.

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Industrial Marketing Today

APRIL 9, 2012

Even though the companies that operate in this sector are well-known global brands, they are not exactly forward thinking online marketers who use business blogs and social media regularly. Google the search phrase hydraulic fracturing blogs and it will return 2 million results!

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 10, 2011

I can’t think of a single conversation about website redesign that I’ve had with industrial companies that didn’t start with or include the following, “We want our website to be on the first page of Google for … (fill in your own keywords and phrases).”. I have said it many times before here on this blog but it is worth repeating.

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Industrial Marketing Today

OCTOBER 26, 2009

For example, the search term “industrial valves” yields 238,000 pages in Google. B2B Lead Generation Using a Business Blog Variety of Content is the Key in the Early Stages of the Industrial Buy Cycle Content Auditing and Mapping it to the Industrial Buy Cycle Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card?

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Industrial Marketing Today

DECEMBER 17, 2010

I’ve also provided links to my other articles from this blog that talk about the key elements of a successful website redesign. At the very minimum, the free Google Analytics code should be installed on your web pages. Don’t be fooled into thinking that Google Analytics is not very capable just because it is free.

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Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2010

Install site analytics, the free Google Analytics is a good start. Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } wp-popular.com » Blog Archive » Is Your Industrial Website Still Just a Business Card? If necessary, rewrite or edit the text to address critical pain points of your prospects and customers.

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