Webbiquity

AUGUST 23, 2011

Looking at data from the Webbiquity blog, several trends are apparent. This B2B blog isn’t necessarily representative of all blogs of course, but the trends likely aren’t much different for many business blogs. Six conclusions that can be drawn from this graph: It takes time to build a blog audience.

Traffic 100

Traffic RSS Social Media Social Networks 100

Industrial Marketing Today

MAY 3, 2010

Home Marketing Matters About Contact B2B Marketing Store Company Website How to Make Your Business Blog Be All It Can Be by Achinta Mitra on May 3, 2010 in Industrial Marketing & Web 2.0 , Industrial Marketing Blog Remember the U.S. How about your business blog, is it all it can be for your industrial company?

Business Blogging 60

Business Blogging Web 2.0 Long Tail Marketing Business 60

Webbiquity

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Many of the same principles apply to optimizing a blog for search as for optimizing a business website : use keywords in the body copy, post titles, subheadings, permalink URL, image alt tags and meta tags. Social media. Add social media buttons to your blog to encourage readers to share your content. Clean code.

Optimization 100

Optimization Marketing Analytics Tools Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 100

Webbiquity

MAY 4, 2010

But even absent that advantage, traffic to a new blog can be ramped up quickly using the following 12 techniques. Build links to your blog from every possible source. Add your blog name and link to company email signatures and include it in your corporate newsletter or marketing emails as well. Use Twitter.

RSS 100

RSS Digg Tagging Blogger 100

Webbiquity

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Zeke Camusio shows that WordPress isn’t just for blogging; it can also be used to build an e-commerce site, social network site, image gallery, email auto-responder system or message board. Post on Google Buzz. 5 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do with WordPress by Let’s Do It! Share this on Bebo. Tweet This!

Auto Responder 100

Auto Responder Digg Best Practices RSS 100

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. David Brazeal´s last blog. Heck, even MS Word kept flagging curation as a misspelled word. Hmmm…not very satisfying.

Curation 60

Curation RSS Web 2.0 Content Marketing 60

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.

B2B 60

B2B Marketing Analytics Tools Web 2.0 Buying Cycle 60

Hubspot

JANUARY 13, 2014

Anyone who manages a business blog knows all too well that the darn things require quite a bit of commitment. 15 Blogging KPIs You Should Be Tracking. 1) Overall Blog Visits. Google Analytics is another option for non-HubSpot users. Where is the traffic to your blog coming from? Social media?

RSS 28

RSS Lead Gen Marketing Analytics Tools Correlation 28

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? Here less is better.

Optimization 60

Optimization SEO Buying Cycle Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

AUGUST 24, 2009

Google is not the only source of content ideas. Leave a Comment { 1 trackback } 7 | Industrial Marketing Today Previous post: Business Value of Social Networking Next post: 101 Tips from 50 Small Business Bloggers FREE Marketing Guides Engineers Can Sell™ White Paper: Most people are skeptical about associating engineers with sales.

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Copywriting Content Buying Cycle 60

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.

Relevance 60

Relevance B2B Marketing Web 2.0 Brand Identity 60

Hubspot

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Considering their utmost importance, you might also want to consider these other ways to generate more blog subscribers. 2) RSS Feed (Must-Have). And if you can implement a search bar that provides insight into what keywords visitors are searching for on your blog (e.g. 13) Social Plugins. Blogging'

RSS 28

RSS Work Management Marketing Management Paid Search Agency 28

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.

Rules 60

Rules Marketing Websites Marketing Automation Services Web 2.0 60

Industrial Marketing Today

JUNE 8, 2010

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. Sign up now » | Read current issue » Subscribe via RSS Be the first to know about a new post.

Buying Cycle 60

Buying Cycle Buy Work Management Marketing Management 60

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?

Web 2.0 60

Web 2.0 Planning Buying Cycle Lead Scoring 60

Online Marketing Institute

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

In the growing content marketing field, some companies choose a pure creation strategy (often using blogging platforms for publishing) and find it to be a challenge. You will find here lots of examples of business and corporate blogs, as well as resources to help you learn more about the topic. Consider Netconcepts. Other stuff?

Curation 40

Curation Enterprise Management B2B Marketing Work Management 40

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.

Marketing Websites 60

Marketing Websites Web 2.0 Work Management Buying Cycle 60

Hubspot

OCTOBER 19, 2012

In this post, we'll walk you through all the various lead gen opportunities you can take advantage of on your blog, and even give you some great tips for optimizing those opportunities to make sure you're squeezing every last lead out of your business blog. 8 Lead Gen Opportunities for Your Business Blog.

Lead Generation 28

Lead Generation Blogger Sales Qualified Leads Lead Gen 28

Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

I had a co-worker email me the other day asking for a blog post about the benefits of business blogging. I told her I'd shoot over one of our up-to-date blog posts about why businesses should blog and. The Benefits of Business Blogs for Marketing. It's for a friend," she said. Sure it was.

Business 28

Business Work Management Lead Scoring Lead Ranking 28

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Know-Who Canvassing & Connection: Use social network analysis (mapping or interviewing) to identify the de facto networks of expertise and trust in the organization. Use these to identify network coordinators, the people to go to first on key subject matter areas for your organization. · Blogging. ·

Enterprise Management 100

Enterprise Management Work Management Personalization Peer-to-peer 100

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Know-Who Canvassing & Connection: Use social network analysis (mapping or interviewing) to identify the de facto networks of expertise and trust in the organization. Use these to identify network coordinators, the people to go to first on key subject matter areas for your organization. · Blogging. ·

Peer-to-peer 100

Peer-to-peer Enterprise Management Lead Ranking Work Management 100

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 30, 2009

Subscribe to our RSS Feed Subscribe via Email Your email: Learn Inbound Marketing Inbound Marketing Software Learn how HubSpot can help turn your business into an inbound marketing machine. Submit guest post ideas to rburnes[at]hubspot[dot]com.

Blogger 40

Blogger RSS Inbound Marketing Internet Marketing 40

Convince & Convert

MARCH 23, 2010

If your blog is consistent enough that you believe RSS subscription is realistic, make sure visitors can easily subscribe to your RSS feed. (As As mentioned in my post about blog success metrics , if you cover a very wide topical area, subscriptions are less likely). Consequently, I have two recommendations.

Social Media 120

Social Media Media Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy 120

Hubspot

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Also think of your blog title as a subject line; people will see your blog title in their email (if they’re email RSS subscribers), on Twitter, on Facebook, and in the search engines. Your blog title has to be engaging enough to break through the clutter on all of these channels. Include Social Sharing Buttons.

RSS 28

RSS Keywords Tagging Webinar Metrics 28

Webbiquity

JANUARY 16, 2012

Despite any recent recent rants you may have seen about how blogging is dead or blogs are passé , the fact of the matter is that business blogging is now more important than ever. 12 things every business blogger should know how to do by Ragan’s PR Daily. Business Blogging Tips, Tactics and Best Practices.

Business Blogging 100

Business Blogging Tips Tools Blogger 100

Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Yet, in much of my social media consulting work corporate blog owners are invariably most interested in total visits and RSS subscribers. This is especially misplaced with group written blogs, where the broad content focus and inconsistent tonality makes RSS subscription less likely. Mark, you're spot on!

Webinar Metrics 132

Webinar Metrics Marketing & Strategy Paid Search Agency Blogger 132

Hubspot

JANUARY 18, 2012

Well luckily, every business blogging challenge we've heard has a solution that you can implement immediately if you truly want to keep that New Year's blogging resolution. Set and enforce reasonable deadlines for blog submissions so both you and your employees stay accountable. I don't know how to prove my blog's ROI.".

Long Tail Marketing 28

Long Tail Marketing Work Management Cost per Lead RSS 28

Hubspot

APRIL 3, 2013

And while placing pay-per-click (PPC) ads like AdWords in search engines can certainly contribute toward the growth of your brand, creating blog content that organically gets found in search is much longer lasting and far more cost effective than a expiring ad unit -- especially if your marketing budget is small. Of course not.

Paid Content 28

Paid Content Paid Search Agency Ads Banner Ads 28

Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 24, 2011

Mashable | The Social Media Guide Viral Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video About Mashable Company About Us Advertise Submit News Contact Us Announcements Resources Guidebooks Lists How To Trending Mashable Awards Subscriptions Partners W3 EDGE Rackspace Concentric Sky Dynect DNS Intridea Welcome to Mashable!

Business Blogging 40

Business Blogging Tips Business Classified Ads 40

Hubspot

APRIL 26, 2013

When it comes to the role of business blogging in inbound marketing, there''s no question that it fits quite nicely into the ''Attract'' stage of the methodology. Not only can your blog help you bring in qualified visitors that you can convert into leads; it can also be a powerful lead nurturing tool. 1) Implement Smart CTAs.

Top of Funnel 28

Top of Funnel Business Blogging Marketing Automation Services Sales Qualified Leads 28

Online Marketing Institute

JUNE 15, 2009

I receive dozens of scripted link requests daily all promising the tremendous benefits achieved from reciprocal linking despite the abundance of information available today touting the dangers of excessive linking from Google’s point of view. Sometimes other blogs will mention the blog owner’s name.

Online Marketing 40

Online Marketing Blogger PR Digital Asset Management 40

Online Marketing Institute

MARCH 24, 2011

Mashable | The Social Media Guide Viral Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video About Mashable Company About Us Advertise Submit News Contact Us Announcements Resources Guidebooks Lists How To Trending Mashable Awards Subscriptions Partners W3 EDGE Rackspace Concentric Sky Dynect DNS Intridea Welcome to Mashable!

Paid Search Agency 40

Paid Search Agency Companies Mobile Advertising Advertising Agencies 40

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?

Traffic 60

Traffic Lead Scoring Lead Ranking Top of Funnel 60

Online Marketing Institute

JANUARY 4, 2011

Carissa Newton, Director, Marketing, Delivra, shared these stats: - They now see 4x more blog traffic than website traffic. Visitors are now staying 3x-4x longer to read blog content and website links included in that blog. “With social media and blogging, it’s kind of changing that dynamic.&#

B to B 40

B to B Blogger B2B Thought Leadership RSS 40

Hubspot

JUNE 7, 2010

Ever hear people throw around terms like RSS or.XML and you wrinkle your forehead in confusion but nod your head because you don't want to admit that you haven't a clue? This blog post will lift some of that mystery by covering the ABCs of blogging's most important terms. 39 Commonly Used Blogging Terms you Must Know!

RSS 28

RSS Blogspot Blogger Tagging 28

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Deploy Google Desktop or some other fast, simple, powerful desktop search tool. Use RSS feeds to simplify publishing and subscribing to others content, and show employees how to use them and how to integrate this content into their personal taxonomy. · Blogging. · · Social Networking. ·

Organization 100

Organization Peer-to-peer Lead Ranking Budget Programs 100

PureB2B

MAY 29, 2016

The Internet is chock-full of B2B lead generation resources crafted by marketing experts, business owners, and other specialists. A quick Google search can bring you to several tips, infographics, case studies and presentations that can help you improve your current B2B lead generation campaigns. Demand Wave. Inspired Marketing.

Lead Generation 62

Lead Generation Resources Sales Qualified Leads Generation 62