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Your online reputation abhors a vacuum in Google search

Biznology

Before you embark on a costly campaign to repair your first two pages of Google search results after you, your company, your brand, or your product have been slandered or besmirched online, understand that it’s a life sentence. Cygnus X-1. This results in not just a vacuum—which Google abhors—but in a black hole.

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Even More Requirements for Facebook Advertisers

Hubspot

Within the past several months, before news first broke of voter profiling firm Cambridge Analytica improperly obtaining and using personal user data, Facebook said it would be making a large degree of changes as to how it handles advertisements. In January, that was a shift in the algorithm to focus more on content from friends and family.

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What It Means to Get Branded Content Right

Content Marketing Institute

Whenever someone mentions the term “branded content,” my mind still drifts back to the original inspiration for my love of the technique: BMW’s The Hire. Branded content is the best vehicle for marketers to bridge the gap b/n awareness and affinity, says @joderama. Click To Tweet. In the name of brand love.

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10 Valuable SEO Resources: Keyword Research, Tools, and Local SEO

Webbiquity

As noted here last week , ranking highly in search requires writing great content, making smart use of Google Webmaster Tools, and building or earning high-authority backlinks. But there’s more involved in generating high, and highly relevant, organic search traffic. Fast SEO Competitive Analysis by Search Engine Watch.

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2 Huge Search Marketing Risks in 2012—And What To Do About Them

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. If you’re like most businesses, your 2012 marketing plan relies heavily on search engine marketing. Both paid and natural search continue to offer businesses excellent growth opportunities for the foreseeable future. Social and Mobile Powers Search Alternatives.

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Your website is wearing mom jeans and shoulder pads

Biznology

Pearson Education reached out to me to read and make make notes on Mike Moran’s and James Mathewson’s upcoming book, Outside-In Marketing. Just a cursory search of Google’s Adwords Keyword Planner shows me that my own site, Gerr.is , shows how out of touch I am. Content Marketing is the New Website Content.

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How much do you “charge” for your content?

Chris Koch

Image via Wikipedia. Okay, so it’s difficult to actually pull money out of buyers for your marketing content (though there are rare exceptions: McKinsey has been doing it for years with the McKinsey Quarterly). Yet while generally we can’t put a price tag on our content, we do charge for it. That has to change.