Biznology

MAY 31, 2016

It’s really hard to get Google’s attention. 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. Google loves structured data. The one that appears to have an explicit Google endorsement, right?

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Just about every content/data management tool you might use provides some measure of granular control for access, sharing, and editing and other tasks based on role or department or other user criteria. This includes even the most basic free versions of tools like Google Docs, Box, and Dropbox.

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Biznology

APRIL 21, 2017

I had the great fortune to speak twice at the Intelligent Content Conference in Las Vegas on March 30. Other common words included “outside-in” “big data” and “content marketing.” Data-driven content marketing is the future. Data-driven content marketing is the future.

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Biznology

JANUARY 28, 2014

Google has a goal in mind and it has more to do with visitor identification as it relates to targeted advertising than it has to do with improving the quality, speed, or usefulness of searching or finding. Google wants to triangulate real name with as much online behavior as possible. Google’s conflicted.

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Biznology

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

In this case, Restoration Hardware was throwing buckets of cash at Google AdWords by bidding on 3,200 keywords , none of which were converting save those 22 misspellings. As a direct result of the waste, Restoration Hardware’s CEO, Gary Friedman , dumped his entire Google AdWords campaign. Like this post?

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Biznology

APRIL 14, 2015

This news directly from Google is old news for those of us in the SEO game. It seems to me that Google’s tired of our draft work. Google seems to want us to revise our first drafts of the web. Be sure to remember that Google trades in pages. What counts as a high-quality site according to Google?

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Biznology

JUNE 23, 2015

Twitter and Google have made amends. Before then, Google built its real-time-web on the immediacy of Twitter, drinking deeply from the nowness of its river of news. Then Twitter cut Google completely off, blocking direct access to the pulse of the Internet. In the past, this was not the case. And not only Twitter, either.

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Biznology

JULY 22, 2014

For most, Google+ is an antisocial network. Over the last few weeks I have been writing almost exclusively about Google+: Google+ on its third birthday and How to be a Google+ success. The first article was a hopeful but disappointed look into the ghost town known as Google+. Google+ did no such thing.

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Google announced in September that their most recent Penguin release will be their last. For the uninitiated, Penguin is a four-year-old initiative that Google introduced to directly reduce spammy websites in the search results. So, does this final release mean that there is no more for Google to do to curb spamming?

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Biznology

JULY 8, 2014

It just occurred to me, after spending a week deep-diving into Google+ , that Plus is not a social network — or even a social layer — it’s a global reboot of the message board. There are cooler, smarter, funnier people on Google+ than we have in our own lives now. Google Plus is a Forum and Not a Social Network.

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Biznology

APRIL 21, 2015

You’re in luck if you’re on the East Coast: Google’s on PST. Rarely does Google actually warn up of an upcoming apocalypse — but they did this time : Starting April 21, we will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. Google is releasing the mobile friendly update on April 21st.

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Biznology

JANUARY 30, 2012

Everyone knows that you must place the most important content at the top of the page, right? My friend Robin DeCato-McCarthy from Converseon alerted me to a new tool from Google that brings this home with shocking immediacy. If you haven’t seen it, check out the Google browser size tool. Image via Wikipedia.

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Biznology

MARCH 31, 2015

Last week I shared a couple Google Webmaster Tools tips and tricks with you. If you have been obsessing on your Google Analytics numbers, cruising the SEO boards, and picking through MOZ and Woorank , wondering what Google wants and needs from you while scratching your head, then let me enlighten you!

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Biznology

APRIL 5, 2012

I answer that Google wrecked SEO, so all that’s left is paid.” The context: we were talking about all the changes Google has made recently to make SEO more difficult–some might say impossible. How is Google killing SEO? Google made a decision in December to stop releasing data on its signed-in users.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 27, 2013

And, while looking through some year-end reports, I had a chilling thought: What if Google really sticks it to us next year? Now, before we go too far down this path, let’s be clear: I’m not asking whether Google is evil. Growth of Google Now and Conversational Search may further reduce your opportunity to be seen.

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Biznology

MARCH 24, 2015

Too few webmasters move beyond Google Analytics , which is a pity. Google Webmaster Tools is all you really need to become a Google-whisperer. Do it for Google. There’s two ways to signify your language and location to Google and they are through the use of Hreflang Tags and through Country Targeting.

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Biznology

APRIL 7, 2015

As part of that trip, I brought my unlocked Google Nexus 5 phone, my Apple iPad Air, and my x220 Lenovo ThinkPad in order to (try to, attempt to) keep up with email, business, and this blog. Google, too, doesn’t spend as much time innovating in France, from my limited, 10-day experience.

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Biznology

JULY 29, 2014

Google+ Is Potentially Everyone. Maybe the promise of Google+ is not reconnecting with everyone you have or will have ever know – Facebook is amazing at that – maybe Google+ is designed to be the most effecting olly olly oxen free ever to exist, potentially. Does Google Know how Money Plus Is? That’s powerful.

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Biznology

MAY 13, 2014

Yes, Vic Gundotra is leaving Google+ and 1,200 Google+ employees are being moved to other parts of the Google , but Google+ isn’t dead. In fact, it’s becoming more and more embedded into everything that is Google. Google+ as Social Layer. Isn’t that interesting?

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Biznology

JUNE 7, 2017

When creating content for your blog, social media profiles, email subscribers, and other purposes, you don’t want to irritate your readers. Unfortunately, some types of content can send readers running in the other direction, especially if you haven’t yet earned their loyalty. Insensitive Content.

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Biznology

MAY 29, 2017

I’m sure any of you who have spent time on this site appreciate the vital role content plays in building digital relationships. But what about content with the product brand directly? Does the content our brand shares actually foster familiarity with an individual beyond purchase based on common interest? Like this post?

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Biznology

JULY 11, 2012

Our monthly Biznology Webinar yesterday was “Inside the Google Panda Update.” Whether you have heard about Google Panda or you haven’t, Panda is looking for you. Panda is a dramatically new approach Google is using to decide whether your content is high quality or not. What does Panda mean to search marketers?

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Biznology

MAY 12, 2015

Google Prefers Sites with Esprit de Corps. Google wants to see websites that don’t have burnt out bulbs, dirty toilets, un-bussed tables, overflowing garbage bins, or blacked out, burnt out, letters on your company signage. For Google, this means broken links, broken pages, ten-year-old templates.

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Biznology

JULY 16, 2015

In my last Biznology post, I’d talked about what Google really doesn’t want you to know about search. In short, how can you grow your traffic and business without Google? In many ways, Google’s loss I described last time is social media’s gain. What other options exist to help you grow in the marketplace?

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Adam’s an affiliate and an AdWords guru, par excellence, by profession; however, he also stays on top of organic search religiously just as part of creating content sublime enough to compel all the folks who click through from sponsored search, contextual ads, and display ads. ” Give Value to Google.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 21, 2020

No matter the industry and niche you operate in, ranking high on Google is not only important but necessary if you are to grow your company online and offline. The online world is becoming a more nefarious place by the day, and Google is doing everything it can to protect the digital audience. Here’s what you should know.

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Biznology

MAY 6, 2019

You get many likes, and people respond well to your content. Quality content – from views to sales. Let’s not forget – CONTENT IS KING. But, at the end of the day, if your content is rubbish – you won’t get anywhere. Meanwhile, with high-quality content, you can gain loyalty. Sure, they like you.

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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. The importance of keywords.

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Biznology

JUNE 9, 2015

It’s a little known fact, but something I try to remind everyone all the time, that Google Search has a lot of common with Dustin Hoffman ‘s character in Rain Man, Raymond Babbitt. Google Search has a lot of eccentricities. You make all of this explicit on Google Webmaster Tools. So, I chose www.gerr.is.

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Biznology

DECEMBER 15, 2016

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. Incorrectly tagged content surfaces irrelevant experiences to users.

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Biznology

APRIL 30, 2018

Step 2: a second email explaining how to share that good experience on Google, Yelp, Facebook or dozens of other sites. The process is called ‘review gating’ and, on April 12, Google updated its terms of service for reviews warning companies to specifically stop the practice. Here are five quick tips: 1. Embrace the danger.

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Biznology

JULY 22, 2013

You probably also like to keep up on the most recent SEO and link building news; and by keeping up on the latest SEO news I imagine that you have come across an article or two about Google+ and Google Authorship. Possibility of Google Authorship as a Spam-Detection Tool. Skepticism and Hesitation Regarding Authorship.

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Biznology

APRIL 14, 2017

So now that you are on board with the benefits of online B2B marketing videos, what does video content marketing really mean? Video content marketing means creating engaging video content that is thoughtful, planned and integrated into the different parts of your marketing process and sales process. Like this post?

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Biznology

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Encourage your entire staff to link their Google+ profiles to your business site. All they need is access to an email address (such as chris@gerr.is ) on the same domain as your content — any content. Make sure they have a real profile photo with a recognizable headshot uploaded to Google+.

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Biznology

OCTOBER 29, 2013

It’s a great time to be passionate about social media, the Internet , online community, and the Google suite of products and services: Google’s about to reward you big-time just as Google pulls the rug out from under the feet of traditional SEO link strategies. What is Google Authorship?

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Biznology

MAY 27, 2013

Many of you have wondered whether Google+ makes sense for your marketing, but some of you have taken the plunge, whether it is because you believe that Google+ users are a valuable part of your audience, or because you think that its effect on search rankings is a game-changer. image credit: Google. Photo credit: Wikipedia.

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