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If you haven't already, you should start thinking about how to generate business even if you have no search engine presence. This post has tips to prevent penalties and algorithmic demotions as well as a strategic plan to have in case you lose the organic presence of your website.
Over the last few years, there have been increasing complaints from agency bosses that marketers are difficult and expensive to hire and hard to keep once hired. As a marketer who has run operation for agencies and worked extensively for startups, I see very clear structural business reasons for this.
A short time ago, Moz released the 2014 Industry Survey results. We collected data from over 3700 marketers spanning over 80 countries around the globe. We were able to slice the data many different ways to gain insight into the demographics, tools and tactics of online marketers living everywhere. One popular data point we wanted to examine is the changing salaries of online marketers. Here, we present the results.
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Never fear the nofollow. Here's a breakdown on why this once-cursed link type should now be a part of your overall online marketing strategy.
Last summer, our digital agency underwent a full rebrand. From our name and visual language to an office move and a change in staff; we had a pretty big shake up.
We all look at keyword rankings, but is it still a useful metric to report? In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Cyrus Shepard discusses how changes in search have made individual keyword rankings a shaky metric at best, and he presents 10 needle-moving numbers to measure and report instead.
Suffering from blank page anxiety? Before you go on the hunt for inspiration all over the Internet and elsewhere, turn to the resources around you. Realize that you can create exceptional content with what you already have at hand.
Creating and marketing big content takes a lot of work but for SuperOffice it led to record organic visits, social traffic, website leads and conversion rates. This 2,800 word case study explains the entire process in full.
As someone who has overseen link removal campaigns, I am not down on link removals. They have a place, and I've seen positive effects from cutting out large chunks of really bad links (porn, pills, poker, you name it). But, I also believe there are good and bad ways to remove links, and I want to make an example here.
It took me a month and hours of experimentation and updating things and coding - but I can proudly now say - I am an entity too.
The best ideas for "building links" seldom arrive whilst you sit there thinking of ways you can build links. This post shows you how to develop content assets that'll keep them rolling in.
I stumbled into the world of SEO and analytics as a natural progression of my job: working in an outdoor store while waiting for another position to open, and bored to tears with work on the retail floor, I started taking over the social media and the at the time, not-yet-developed website, just as something to liven up the day.
One of the most commonly repeated messages in today's online marketing is that it's all about the users. In that respect, we have quite a bit to learn from the service industry, and this post offers six principles as your introduction to that lesson.