Biznology

JANUARY 29, 2018

Some of you might believe that site search is important to raise your conversion rates and what to make search work. Others might be more resigned to the fact that site search is hard and that you don’t really know what to do to make it better. Search is actually a very tricky brand promise. Like this post?

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Biznology

JANUARY 2, 2018

The only content links you can control are your own. ” These hyperlinks were textual and were used as ready references to content relevant to what you were reading. ” These hyperlinks were textual and were used as ready references to content relevant to what you were reading. Ted “Hypertext” Nelson.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

That headline isn’t fair to everyone, because some marketers are really working to make site search better. Here are the reasons I have been told that you are ignoring fixing your site search: No one uses it. Bad site search annoys your best customers. But I am pointing my finger at the rest of you. But guess what?

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Biznology

APRIL 3, 2018

But the truth is, you cannot afford to let another day pass without sending in your social media and search insurance premium. There is no armor available to protect you besides the active armor that is your own version of yourself online in the form of your biography, personal history and content, content and more content.

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Biznology

JULY 17, 2015

Most of my clients want their website search to work–they really do. But they aren’t sure how to get all the folks who create the content all over their organization to do it right. You’ve probably heard that quote before, but how does it apply to website search? You get what you measure. Like this post?

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Biznology

MARCH 12, 2020

This also means that you need to optimize your content and your online presence as a whole in order to boost SEO and position your brand higher in all the relevant search results. Optimizing your content for informational intent. But why should you care, exactly? Image source. Incentivize and empower with navigational intent.

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Biznology

JULY 13, 2015

Search methods can vary and, depending on your site content and the makeup of your audience, the underlying technology can be a challenge to pull off well. Beyond the technology, there are considerations about how search functionality serves your marketing goals. It will help you learn more about your audience’s search habits.).

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Write all your site content quick and dirty then publish it immediately. Get your words–who you are, what you think, what you do, and what your company does, your products and services–out there right now if only to let Google Search and Bing Search know. Bring all that content into a symphony, a novel, an album.

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Biznology

AUGUST 15, 2017

Because so many people presumably make so much money “doing SEO,” there’s a lot of confusion as to what Search Engine Optimization is and all the little things that you can do right now, today, to improve your the results on your SERP — search engine results page. See, I also linked Biznology above.

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Biznology

APRIL 4, 2019

While most of the conversation focused around our new product thesis: effective visitor journeys and customer experience powered by behavior-based personalized content recommendation, people couldn’t help but talk about search failure. Site Search. So we don’t always talk about the positive effect our product has on search.

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Biznology

MAY 25, 2016

I had the good fortune to deliver a keynote address at the Search Insider Summit (SIS) in Key Largo, Florida on May 6th. The venues can’t be beat and your access to experts is unmatched in the world of search marketing conferences. This leads to impoverished investment in content marketing, and other problems. Voice search.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It may sound counterintuitive at first, but less content can actually improve your website’s content marketing effectiveness. That’s true for content marketing, as well. Why Content Audits are Critical. Google and the other search engines seek to give their users relevant, up-to-date content.

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Biznology

MAY 31, 2016

Content marketing is indeed a silver bullet — why do you think I’m writing this — but there are ways of wooing search engines beyond starting a blog. And, if you do it right, your search results will be at least as pretty as these: I’m swinging a kettlebell for 90-seconds every 60-minutes. Chile Relleno Recipe.

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Biznology

AUGUST 8, 2017

If you’ve ever wondered how some search engine results come up with gold stars, those are called Google Reviews. Aside from being cool, it’s always a good thing to intentionally structure as much of your content as possible in ways that are native to Google, structured in ways that Google intuitively understands: structured data.

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Biznology

MAY 19, 2015

Search will never be the same as it was as recently as a few years ago. Sites that have dominated search in the recent past are being penalized or de-indexed, going from the first page to page twenty or being removed completely, stripping many eCommerce sites of millions of dollars in revenue. Influencer Outreach.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

There’s one thing that everyone who comes to my door has in common, whether it was for NMS, Abraham Harrison, Reputation, Gerris , or now for Status Labs : too little content online! Actually control. There’s the rub. Google abhors a vacuum. What you need to do is armor-up, soldier! It’s simple.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Mike invited me because of all the experience in B2B digital marketing I have accumulated at IBM , much of which we distilled into our book Outside-In Marketing: Using Big Data to Guide Your Content Marketi ng. The lively discussion covered a lot of ground, reflecting the needs of marketing executives striving to do digital well.

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Biznology

MAY 14, 2018

As you’ve no doubt guessed, I’m a huge fan of content marketing. But unless you’re a content marketing “fanboy” who’s blind to reality, you have to recognize the practice’s limitations. Those limitations were real even before content marketing’s ubiquity created a whole new set of problems. Content Overload.

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Biznology

JUNE 8, 2017

Those who have read our book Outside-In Marketing: Using Big Data to Guide Your Content Marketing know we approach the problem of content marketing head on. Here is my definition of the problem of content marketing: Systematically overwhelming your audience by pushing brand messages on them faster than they are willing to keep up.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

I presented our latest webinar about website search. You all spend time and money ensuring your content is optimized for Google to find you to send qualified visitors to your website. Many of you also pay Google for paid search ads to do the same thing. So, why is it that your website search facility is run by your IT group?

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Biznology

MAY 31, 2018

Those are all good reasons to have content targeted at specific industries. As long as the people that need it can find that page, either in search or through navigation, maybe having no tagging is fine. Yeah, site search. If you do, maybe you might want to allow people to drill down in search results by their industry.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Here’s some of my best content on paid search: Why paid search is still frustrating for searchers. Are you frustrating buyers with your paid search ads? Global search marketing. The post Everything You Need to Know About Paid Search appeared first on Biznology. Like this post? Like this post?

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Biznology

AUGUST 1, 2016

Maybe it is just the constant shifting in tactics as a discipline becomes mature, but I’ve watched so many trends in search marketing over the years that it is easy to become jaded–to think that search marketing is dead, or that all of this stuff is “inside baseball” and nothing really matters. Absolutely.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Content is obviously going to be a key piece to supporting that digital strategy. Search is a critical piece. Whenever we start to review Google keyword data, one of the most common questions I get is: “How do you know our target audience is actually searching for that keyword?”. There’s a bunch of nuggets and clues in there.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

I can’t tell you how often I hear the same thing: “Our website search facility is managed by the IT team.” “Well, yeah, the technology part, but we do the content.” ” But they are nonplussed at the prospect of the IT managing their website search. You need this little detail called content.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 4, 2015

How well does Search serve us? Something I believe we all take for granted, or overlook entirely, is the nature of search. When we think of searching for something, most of us invariably look to Google. If we “Googled” Search Engines, we’d discover there are indeed alternatives, but with some limitations as well.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Search has been around a long time–since 1995–and even Google has been around since 1998. You would think that by now that we would all be doing every kind of search marketing there is. I am sure that you are working on organic search, which most folks like to call Search Engine Optimization, or SEO.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

I just discovered that Search Engine Marketing (SEM) isn’t just a rebrand of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), a marketing discipline that is almost universally damned as being shifty, black-hat, and more than just a little shady. How do I suddenly know all of this?

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Biznology

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Whether you call it SEO or organic search, I’ve sure published a lot of articles on the subject here at Biznology. Below you can find a few of my favorite articles on organic search that still hold up today: Are you using social media for search keyword research? Do you use your website search to help your SEO?

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Biznology

JANUARY 4, 2019

Content strategy is an important factor in any company’s marketing initiatives today. Content isn’t an optional part of marketing strategy; it is integral and should be a central focus. Your company’s content should blend into several different areas of your marketing, which is one of the reasons it is so important.

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Biznology

APRIL 18, 2016

Well, the name of that survey mechanism is your website search. Most companies I work with don’t use any analytics from website search. Some clients are more enlightened, and they at least check out the list of most popular search keywords and try to make sure that the right answers are coming up for those. Like this post?

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Biznology

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Not so typically, I also do a lot of website search projects. One reason is that IT people typically run website search while marketers typically manage SEO. But the few clients I work with that do SEO and website search together have discovered the secret I am about to share with you. Like this post?

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Biznology

MARCH 11, 2016

Google has a new head of its search division–who used to run its artificial intelligence group! So, obviously that means that Google is going to radically change direction to inject way more AI into search right? The head of Google search is moving over from its AI unit, but the AI unit is not moving. Um, maybe not.

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Biznology

JUNE 19, 2013

Our monthly webinar yesterday was about how to improve your website search in order to make more money. Did a frustrated searcher just ask again why your site search engine stinks? Site search foments frustration because you can’t deliver on the implied promise: “Type in anything and we’ll find it.”

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Biznology

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Managers of large sites must balance search AI with navigation IA. My job involves building content systems and platforms for the world’s largest private digital publisher— IBM. But as a site scales up, the level of difficulty in marking up and otherwise tagging content for findability increases exponentially.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

However, the most effective content marketers understand how to link their various efforts to form one, cohesive strategy. Indeed, the more focused your content is –– across channels –– the better chance you have of garnering leads and increasing your digital footprint. Strengthen Brand Identity. Improved SEO. Better Timing.

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Biznology

APRIL 12, 2017

It’s not often that you’ll hear a content marketing guy tell you that a big investment in SEO isn’t for everyone. But if your marketing focus doesn’t include creating a steady stream of content for your website, for example, it may not make sense to commit resources to an on-going SEO campaign. As are the search engines.).

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