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This post will look at Facebook ad images and understanding why particular ones stand out so that you can apply the lessons to your own Facebook campaigns. At Trialreach I do a lot of multivariate analysis of Facebook ads and it is important to learn from what is working on other ads to feed my multivariation beast.
With “content marketing” being the indisputable SEO buzzword of 2012, we can expect 2013 to see an onslaught of marketers trying to build links with guest posts. The growth in this market will cause some sites to lower their guest posting standards, others to raise them, and still more to stop accepting them altogether. We're going to help you combat this by sharing how we got posts up on ProBlogger and Search Engine Journal, and by introducing you to our strategy for success with our clients.
Last week, we held our 1st Moz Chili Cook-off and, much to our delicious delight, had such a blast that we decided to make it an annual event! Check out the highlights and results of this fierce competition, along with recipes for the winning chilis.
When the Disavow tool was announced by Matt Cutts at Pubcon, this year, there was an uproar of mixed reactions for SEOs across the digital world. Some had a good feeling about and others had their doubts about the real reason behind the introduction, even though Bing has had a similar tool in existence for a while.
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Using the Golden Rule in your outreach process helps ensure that quality content gets placed on quality sites, increases brand strength in communities, and betters business for your clients. See how to apply this rule to your outreach process and how it can improve your results.
If you are in business, whether it is freelance or full-time, you most likely have a story to tell. When it comes to marketing, storytelling can be an extremely effective technique. One of the kings of storytelling for marketing purposes is Seth Godin. In fact, he wrote a book about it. In this article, I am going to share some of the ways you can use stories to generate more business.
You've worked hard on a new piece of content, and now you're ready to drive traffic to it. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand shares his favorite tip to get links and social shares, while simultaneously seeding future plans to get links automatically built for you.
As an SEOmoz PRO customer since the service launched in February 2007, I thought I’d give a quick little tour of how I’ve used SEOmoz’s existing tools for Local optimization in my consulting role at David Mihm, Inc. the past six years. I can’t wait to write Version Two of this post once we’ve got more specific Local functionality built!
In order for agencies and outside SEO consultants to excel under the current conditions we need to become more like employees and less like vendors. But how?
It's no secret that Google's Panda and Penguin updates caused a lot of panic. Although I'm pretty turned off to information about these updates, I've been really interested in the anchor text issues surrounding the Penguin update. If sites that have over-optimized anchors lost traffic due to the update, it seems to make sense that sites can move up with relatively few (or without any) anchored links. I wanted to test that idea and decided that it was time for a good, old fashioned case study.
BlitzLocal CEO Dennis Yu, genius marketer Ian Lurie, EdgeRank expert Chad Wittman, Social Nerdia founder & Sprinklr director and strategist Esteban Contreras, and awesome marketing podcast host and consultant Bob Knorpp were kind enough to help me look at measuring and valuing social media based on their experience and knowledge.
At the heart of community building strategy, there is a need to share and provide something of value to others. Check out these tips to ensure you're spending time and resources on types of content that are valuable to potential community members you're hoping to attract.
Google Analytics provides a lot of information about your website; but there is always room for more. The traffic for a website vary by day of week, and of course, throughout the day, and it is very useful to know when a website expects the most (or least) visitors. The goal of this post is to show the advantages of using more detailed data to help you make decisions such as when to launch a specific post or take down your website for maintenance.
Not all great content goes viral, but content that does go viral is great. Although we can't guarantee that any piece of content will take the web by storm, we can make sure that a piece of content has what it takes.