Social media continues to grow in use and acceptance. Meanwhile, it is becoming more complicated. Let’s look at the rationale for rolling out a social media policy within your company. Social Media Complication Brands are especially impacted by growth. Once companies expand beyond 50 or 100 employees, new problems enter the picture. For example: Social Media for […]
Content marketing has become every marketer’s favorite topic in the past year. And for good reason. The benefits to your site SEO and overall traffic volume, as well as the fodder for social media sharing and conversations are well documented. It is also rather well known that more frequent generation of content is better. This
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Since last April, when Google rolled out the Penguin update to penalize link manipulation tactics, interest in link audits has been at an all time high. The days where any link added authority value to your site are over. Now, you need links from the right sites with the right anchor text. Link Profiles: The
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Today, I presented to the Austin SEO Meetup about the Google Penguin Update. It was a lively session with a lot of questions and feedback afterward. For those of you who missed it, here is the overall agenda we covered: What is Google Penguin? What Websites Did Penguin Impact, and Why? How to Google Proof
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As we get a couple of weeks or so into 2013, most of the “predictions” columns, articles, and blog posts have made their way out onto the web. This annual tradition is one that most of us either love or hate. I tend to take a non-biased view to start, but there does come a
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Enjoy today’s guest post by freelance writer Becky Wilcox. Over the last 10 years, social media sites have been growing rapidly. They have become a main way to connect and communicate for individuals, and the youth of today, having grown up with this as their “normal”, are always connected. But there are dangers and concerns
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Welcome to the first edition of Return On News for 2013. Over the past couple of weeks, the content has kept coming in and I’ve been able to read up on many topics that I had put aside to come back to. So this is a pretty insightful set of content to share today. I
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Coming out of the holiday season, it is a great time to reflect over how the past year went, what plans and aspirations are in process, and what the coming year has in store for us. Many of us encapsulate this as New Year’s resolutions. It is very refreshing to look at the next year
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Welcome to Return On News. Periodically, I like to take a moment to review the content that has inspired me enough to share on Twitter. Among that content, there are typically a handful of posts that stand out and deserve special mention. On that premise, I created Return On News. From time-to-time, when I find
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I remember the days when you could launch a website and get back to business as usual, knowing that it was likely to provide some value just by existing. These days, websites remain the key to successful marketing strategies However, online marketing includes much more. This post outlines a framework for mapping marketing objectives to a
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