Biznology

JUNE 27, 2017

Fully, generously, and even a little verbosely populating your website, your blog, your social media profiles, and your social media content is 100x more important to your success than “optimizing for search.” While they launched their new website , they didn’t spend any time optimizing for search.

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Biznology

AUGUST 23, 2018

Most of my clients want their website search to work–they really do. There is a simple organizational method to improvement–one that you’ve probably applied other places–that you can use to get an organization to work together to make website search work. You get what you measure. Like this post?

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Biznology

JANUARY 2, 2018

If Chauncey Gardiner — Chance the gardener –did search, he would use the gardening analogy as well. I have been using my modest little RNNR US blog as a laboratory for what does and doesn’t work circa 2018 for Google search. This is good for search. This is good for the site. This is good for you, too.

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Biznology

MARCH 12, 2020

Ask any experienced marketer and they will tell you that the key to selling anything is knowing what your customer is hoping to achieve. 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. Image source.

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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. The post You can’t ignore the power that search holds for your business appeared first on Biznology. So, please beware. Yes, I know: you’re too busy for all of this rubbish. Like this post?

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Biznology

APRIL 4, 2019

Since January I’ve had dozens of discussions with marketing professionals as part of a product roadmap listening tour. My goal is to hear what’s top of mind for thought leaders, understand the pain points, and figure out how to align our product and our marketing messages with what I’m hearing. Site Search. So many stories.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

What’s more, we’re in marketing and advertising. 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. The first wave recedes over seventy-two hours. Don’t sweat it.

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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.

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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.

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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

JULY 13, 2015

Helping website users find what they’re looking for is a big part of making our websites usable for our target audience and productive marketing tools for our companies. 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.

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Biznology

JULY 20, 2018

Most of you know that I work with large companies on improving their site search. Disclaimer: I am a Senior Strategist for SoloSegment, which sells site search improvement technology.] You’ve probably seen these auto-suggest capabilities when you use Google or other search engines. Such is the power of suggestion.

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Biznology

APRIL 4, 2012

Yesterday’s monthly Biznology® Webinar was called “Global Search Marketing.” Lots of companies have products that can be sold outside their home country, but search marketing makes it easier than ever. Global Search Marketing from Mike Moran on Vimeo. Thanks to all our sponsors:

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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. If you’re writing, posting, journaling, reporting, marketing, or blogging on a WordPress install and you have either admin access to access to a site administrator, life is easy. It’s very groovy!

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Biznology

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Is paid search part of marketing? Vic Drabicky clearly feels it’s the latter, boldly proclaiming on Marketing Land , “Today, the marketing aspects are all but gone from paid search.” Is paid search part of marketing? Does paid search allow for creativity and passion and art?

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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. Social Media Marketing.

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Biznology

MARCH 4, 2013

Photo credit: Search Engine People Blog. I had signed to do a corporate training session on search marketing. They insisted that they didn’t measure any of their marketing and that it wasn’t their responsibility. Search marketing, of course. I definitely had a problem. I could have let this go.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Millionaires, billionaires, and professional class do show up on Google search, but most of these results are from the news, third-party mention, Wikipedia, and generally anything and everything that Google can find. The post Search + Social = Online Reputation Management appeared first on Biznology. Actually control. Like this post?

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Biznology

MAY 5, 2014

So, which of these three categories contains search? Most casual observers would place paid search in paid media, SEO in earned (link building and PageRank, for instance), and social in either owned — or if you were using such things as Facebook’s Promoted Posts or Twitter’s Promoted Tweets features — paid. And with Panda.

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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

JUNE 27, 2012

Yesterday, I gave a Biznology Webinar called, “Search Marketing on the Cheap,” that covered the free tools and techniques available for search marketing. If you think that successful search marketing forces you to pay Google and the other search engines to send visitors to your site, think again.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Yes, I am a longtime IT person, but even I will tell you that marketing needs to run your website search, just as marketing probably runs the rest of your website. That’s marketing. Well, then why do you let IT decide which messages show up on the search result page? Marketers must own website search results.

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Google is finally “not providing” search referrals for all organic searches. How does a searcher’s privacy affect search marketers? And what do search marketers do about it? When Google sneezes, search marketers catch pneumonia, so what’s the treatment?

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

I presented our latest webinar about website search. 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? And when your customers type some words into your website’s search box, why can’t they find what they are looking for?

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Biznology

JUNE 5, 2015

. “Raising brand awareness” is the last refuge of the marketing hack. But more and more, studies are showing that search marketing does aid branding. Understanding the decision points of your prospective customer helps you create a search marketing campaign that targets the widest necessary set of keywords.

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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?

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

A common theme with marketers is to acquire as much intelligence, data, and insight as possible in order to “place your bets”: meaning, you want to make sure that the money you are spending on marketing will ensure the people you want to reach actually consume your messaging and then act accordingly. Search is a critical piece.

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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.” Then I ask if the IT team decides what the messages are for their email marketing, “What? ” But they are nonplussed at the prospect of the IT managing their website search. ” Oh.

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Biznology

MAY 18, 2011

Perhaps you are new to digital marketing, or maybe you find yourself in a position where you need to explain digital marketing to others. If you think this is interesting, then check out my latest post on Search Engine Guide, " Search keywords are market segments.".

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Biznology

MAY 21, 2014

Yesterday, Lori Weiman of The Search Monitor presented our latest webinar with 10 tips to improve your pay per click (PPC) results. Spend: Adjust cost per click (CPC) and monthly spend to get your desired market share without overspending. Search Engines: See how to monitor mobile, international, and foreign language engines.

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Biznology

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

From a marketing perspective, it’s a great time to use search marketing to tell Winter Olympic fans how they can get the clothing worn by their favorite athletes. The Search Monitor was curious how apparel advertisers were adjusting their search engine ads for the Olympics. Or a super-savvy e-tailer?

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Biznology

AUGUST 20, 2014

With B2B and B2C customers increasingly using their smartphones to browse for, shop for, and buy the products and services they need , marketers have increasingly turned to mobile search as a major component of their pay-per-click ad campaigns. Which begs the question: does mobile search work? The answer unequivocally is yes.

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Biznology

MARCH 14, 2013

Yesterday, Rob Petersen, Tim Peter and I gave a Webinar on using analytics to make search marketing decisions. How is your search marketing working? Your analytics are essential to your initial search marketing plan and improvement plans. How leading organizations assess their search marketing.

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Biznology

AUGUST 18, 2014

I regularly do training sessions on search marketing. Sometimes I pose a question to the audience, “How many of you never click on paid search ads?” Because various estimates say that between 20 percent and 30 percent of all search clicks are on those very ads. The post Who is clicking on paid search ads?

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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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