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SearchMetrics Google Ranking Factors 2013

Research: Google Ranking Factors for SEO Targeting

SearchMetrics, a leading provider of enterprise caliber SEO Campaign Management software, fields an annual study that analyzes what “factors” most heavily influence organic ranking. In this study, they identify Google ranking factors by drawing a correlation between success on the SERPs and the types of internet marketing tactics each website has undertaken as promotional activities. […]

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Market to Customers Online on Their Terms, Tommy Landry, Return On Now presentation to SCORE Austin

How to Market to Your Customers Online … On THEIR Terms

Do you market to your customers online as a primary source of demand and lead generation? All businesses are different. There are entire industries that can exist without a website or extended web presence. But for most of us, we HAVE to market to our customers online. That’s where they are, and where they want

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Organic SEO and the Knowledge Graph

Much has been written about the Knowledge Graph, and how Semantic SEO is important to the long term success of websites and web presences. On the other hand, we have existing best practices for organic SEO targeting. Google has repeatedly gone on record saying that they want to evolve from a search engine to a

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Social Media Agencies: What to Look For

Over the past 5-6 years, social media has really come into its own as a business discipline. Most companies now understand that they need to, at a minimum, have some sort of presence on the social networks and other social media. But not everyone can afford to hire full time support, so we find ourselves

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Remarketing vs. Search Retargeting: What’s the Difference?

One of the main service offerings we provide is Search Engine Marketing (SEM), a.k.a. Pay Per Click (PPC) Advertising. We typically opt to describe it as SEM rather than merely PPC, because it casts a much wider net. There are several different ways to manage SEM, PPC, and online advertising as a whole. One of the

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How to Prepare For Google’s Summer Algorithm Plans

Earlier this month, we posted a video from Matt Cutts with our analysis of the contents. If you missed that post, you can review it at the following link: 2013 Google Penalty Plans After a relatively quiet first few months of the year with respect to major penalties and algorithm updates, Google is on the cusp of

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Content Strategy: The Role Of Evergreen Content Generation

Content comes in a variety of shapes and forms. It can be short blog posts, long white papers, videos, podcasts, pretty much anything that educates, entertains, or engages. If you build a matrix with one axis the medium, as described above, that’s only half of the equation. The other axis on the matrix addresses subject

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Guest Blogging: Finding a Taker for Your Guest Post

With all the talk about content marketing these days, guest blogging has become a key driver for link building. If you are new to guest blogging, you are likely struggling to find recipients for your guest posts. We use a very specific process for engaging with potential takers on our guest post requests. Although no

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Check Out The New Interface for Google Plus

Google+ has come a very long way since its inception. Overall, they simply added features and functionality to Google Plus during the earlier months of its existence. However, today they converted me over to their new interface. I must say, I like the changes! The entire User Experience has taken a major leap forward. It

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2013 Google Penalty Plans [Matt Cutts Video]

Today, Matt Cutts, the head of Web Spam for Google, released a new video to the company’s GoogleWebmasterHelp stream on YouTube. In it, he talks about upcoming plans for algorithm updates and penalties. Below is our summary of the video contents. Give it a read and then watch the original Google Penalty video for yourself

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