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4 New Marketing Fundamentals Impacting the B2B SEO Professional

KoMarketing Associates

In Forrester Senior Analyst Anthony Mullen’s new report, “ Emerging Touchpoints Require A Marketing Mind Shift “, he identifies four fundamentals marketers must realize, in order to succeed in today’s technology and information-rich environment. Design is the New Marketing. Value is the Currency.

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SEO is the Top Skill for Digital Marketers

Biznology

In case you didn’t know, I am IBM’s representative to the Google Tech Council, a consortium of B2B tech search engine marketing (SEM) leaders. They all spend the majority of their time training and otherwise educating people from the greenest copy writer to the highest executive in SEO and SEM.

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The LinkedIn Publishing Platform Puts Power in the Hands of the B2B Buyer

KoMarketing Associates

As detailed in Forrester’s 2012 post on B2B buyer behavior , B2B buyers are anywhere between two-thirds to 90% of the way through their journey BEFORE they reach out to the vendor. Check out our post a few months ago on LinkedIn for B2B SEO as well as LinkedIn’s own resources for company page development.

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Search: Moving Beyond Your Website in 2013

KoMarketing Associates

When we think of SEO, we think about the big three search engines (Google, Yahoo, and Bing) and how well our website(s) perform in the results of these search engines. After all, the goal of any good SEO program is to drive qualified traffic from search engines, to your site in order to generate leads and sales.

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The Reality of the Search Engine in 2020 – The Impact on Your Website’s Ability to Rank

Directive Agency

Forrester highlights this in a study where it was concluded that more than half (59%) of buyers prefer not to interact with sales representatives as their primary source of research. The new reality of the search engine results page creates a critical need to invest in directories and review websites to increase your website ranking.

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B2B Social Media Strategy and Executive Buy-in

Marketing Insider Group

I link to some of the latest research from firms like emarketer, Forrester, Morgan Stanley and the Altimeter Group and cite popular social media experts like Charlene Li, Shannon Paul, Jay Baer and Jason Falls. I explain the 5 steps required to gaining executive buy-in.

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Why Is Search…So…Darn…Hard!

Marketing Insider Group

The answers are more relevant to paid search (Pay-Per-Click or PPC) but the keyword points can apply to organic (Search Engine Optimization or SEO) search as well. The following is written in the form of a response to an email that asks “where’s our search ads?&# I hope you find it helpful!