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. And that’s not because it works so well. Bad site search annoys your best customers.

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Biznology

JANUARY 25, 2018

For some, search engine optimization (SEO) is a second language, an essential tool in their marketing arsenal. It’ll help them improve their work in the future. While they may often work independently, copywriters are nevertheless part of a team. Plain and simple, SEO is a money maker. Coordination is key.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Site search matters. Usually the IT team, rather than the marketers, run the search engine, and the search engine, er, runs. I have worked with clients that do not even provide a phone number on their website because “that would get customers to call us.” That’s it. ” Yes, it would.

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Biznology

APRIL 27, 2018

It’s shocking, but 46 percent of small business owners don’t know whether or not their digital marketing strategies are working. Essentially, half of small businesses are investing in marketing strategies that might not be working. Those who get online to search for your business, or one like it, want to solve their problems.

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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. Like this post?

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Biznology

AUGUST 24, 2018

The truth is, search-engine optimization (SEO) requires time to take effect. Google and other search engines don’t work that way. Don’t be stubborn on this front; the purpose of running surveys and monitoring click-through rates is to let you know when something isn’t working. The Bottom Line.

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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. Like this post?

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Biznology

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has been around a long time. SEO is a transaction between content owners, searchers, and the search engine. Unless the transaction works for all parties, it is probably a technique that won’t work, or won’t work for very long.

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Biznology

JANUARY 4, 2019

It becomes the backbone for almost all other initiatives in marketing, including search optimization, public relations and press releases, email, social media, and paid listings. It helps with sales and search placement, and is the basis for social and lays the foundation for how you communicate with your customers or clients.

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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. All of this is worth looking into.

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Biznology

JULY 3, 2018

According to Search Engine Land , if you haven’t already transitioned your website to being HTTPS-compliant by July 1, 2018— last Sunday! While it’s probably a good idea to work towards being 100% natively HTTPS-compliant, CloudFlare will get you through the Google Chrome Summer Bloodbath of 2018.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Even if you manage to recruit and train subject matter experts (SMEs) to write regularly, how do you manage their work? Fortunately, I had one ready answer in my work at IBM. So we built a system to surface their content to the masses, strung the content together into typical user journeys, and optimized it for search engines.

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Biznology

JANUARY 21, 2021

Knowlede on global talent expectations and how to have a flexible work-from-home policies and robust capabilities, post-COVID. Has an understanding of employee burnout and how organizations will be forced to addressed burn-out solutions for employees working longer hours and juggling increasing family obligations that accompany the pandemic.

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Biznology

JUNE 22, 2017

LinkedIn has become one of the most prized search engines and it plays nicely with Google ’s search algorithms. When you Google search a topic, you will notice that content from LinkedIn will appear near the top of your search results. How do hashtags work on LinkedIn? What exactly are hashtags?

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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

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

A keyword ontology is a knowledge graph describing relationships between the keywords your target audiences frequently use in search queries and the products and services you sell. Not that your audience always comes to the content that sells your products through search. ” Why? They all have their strengths and weaknesses.

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Biznology

AUGUST 29, 2017

My two-year-old WordPress blog, rnnr.us , has become my personal laboratory wherein I can do live tests on the something I have always loved doing: dancing with Google by way of search engine optimization (SEO). be my own personal Frankenstein’s monster. So interesting. I recommend you do the same thing.

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Biznology

MAY 16, 2016

As a content marketer, you easily find that search engine optimization (SEO) can kill your online sales and prospects if not executed properly. Most people assess the number of searches a keyword brings in, but they don’t often consider the number of other websites out there competing to rank for that same keyword or phrase.

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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. I use WP Review by MyThemeShop and it works for me. Good luck and I hope it works out for you. The post Use reviews on your blog to gussy up your Google search results appeared first on Biznology.

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Biznology

JULY 18, 2019

I haven’t heard Google referred to as “artificial search” to contrast it with the good old-fashioned searching that human beings do when poring over books in the library.) . A machine might require less-frequent maintenance than anticipated, or a program might continue to work even as conditions change. Is it artificial?

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Biznology

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Managers of large sites must balance search AI with navigation IA. At a certain point, tagging alone can make findability worse than semantic search without tagging at all. Cognitive search: The antidote to poor tagging. Our data showed that users preferred search to navigating through our megamenu of options.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Tech enables scalability and adaptability : Developments such as remote work and the virtual office have allowed business owners to replace expensive office spaces with affordable alternatives.

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Biznology

MAY 14, 2018

So it’s worthwhile to acknowledge the ways in which content marketing can come up short and talk about ways to work around those issues. Most critically, you have to seek outside endorsement of your work. Begin by following the outside expert you want to work with. More on those in a moment.) That means reviews and testimonials.

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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.” ” But they are nonplussed at the prospect of the IT managing their website search. Sure, website search has a technology component, but so does your website and so does your email marketing.

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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

APRIL 25, 2017

Info from the TTN #261 Chris Abraham // Owner // Gerris Corp show notes: Chris Abraham of Gerris digital is a recognized leader in digital marketing, and he joins us on Through the Noise for the second time to talk strategies nonprofits can employ to get their work out and get the word out too.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

54% of consumers find a website through natural search (source: Forrester ). 31% click through to the websites in the first position of natural search (source: MOZ ). 95% of clicks to a website occur on the first page of nature search (source: MOZ). Find the right one and and you’ve found an invaluable asset. How do you know?

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Biznology

JANUARY 31, 2019

The key learning point here is not to succumb to sales pitches for products that work on problems that you don’t fully understand. Early signal from the data should allow us to start some beta work with customers in 2Q/3Q to figure out if this mid-funnel problem is fixable. Content recommendation engines can help here.

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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

MAY 18, 2015

What pundits refer to as Mobilegeddon was the big change in Google’s search algorithm. The biggest lesson is this: the more you think of search as being a silo that is not affected by any other digital marketing trends, the less successful you will be at search. 2007: Social media is an important kind of content.

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Biznology

JULY 10, 2017

Both your users and your friendly search bots know where everything is. They want flashy carousels and hamburger menus that hide much of the content from both search engines and users. I come in and show case after case of what worked in the past: More content above the fold. You get credit for that. Words are scarce.

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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

APRIL 18, 2018

Whether you actually deliver on the promise of personalization at the end of the day, you at least know to some degree what is working and what is not, and you can adjust accordingly. To the extent that the theory does not meet practice, we have work to do. Personalization doesn’t always work. Risks of personalization.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Google, the search engine for most of the world provides absolutely zero organic listings to users on the first page. As Mike Blumenthals recently, and accurately, stated “Perhaps it is time that we begin to think of Google as an ad engine that also returns some search results.”. That’s right. So, there’s that.

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Biznology

MARCH 2, 2018

If people feel safe in an office, they have one good reason to work there. If you want to reach more people and attract the best applicants, you should utilize online channels, such as job search engines. Besides, your current workers are already aware of how the organization works. Create a safe workplace.

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Biznology

AUGUST 16, 2013

Many of you buy paid search ads–they work and you’re smart to use anything that works. When companies have tens or even hundreds of thousands of keywords, they are always looking to add to the scale while reducing their own work. The problem with this technique? What do you think?

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