Thursday, February 5, 2015

Why You Shouldn't Rely Too Heavily on Newsjacking

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February 5, 2015

 

If you're not familiar with the term "newsjacking", here's a quick overview. The term became popular after the publication of David Meerman Scott's book, "Newsjacking: How to Inject your Ideas into a Breaking News Story and Generate Tons of Media Coverage". The title includes a brief explanation but what we're talking about here is newsjacking when it comes to content marketing.

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The nofollow attribute (rel="nofollow") tells the search engine spiders to not follow a link, or essentially to ignore it. The link is not included when the search engines determine how trusted a web page is. For SEO purposes, these types of links may at first seem worthless. But trust me, these links are anything but. They might not be passing that coveted "link juice", but here's what they are doing ...  

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When developing your blogging strategy, it's important to understand the purpose of your business blog. A business blog should be designed to lure target audience members to your content and as a result, to your business website. You may think of bait as what we put on the hook to attract and catch fish. We know it's something that they want so we dangle it right in front of them and wait for them to latch on. Business blogging should be viewed the same way. Blog content is the bait that we use to get target audience members to latch on to our brand.
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As an advertiser, you want to make the most of your PPC advertising budget. One way to do so is to write great ads. Great ads contribute to a higher Quality Score, are shown more often, and get more clicks.Here are 5 tips for writing effective PPC ad copy. 1) Include keywords - Seems obvious, but you'd be surprised how often this fundamental step is missed!  

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Small businesses often have limited marketing budgets in comparison to their large business counterparts. But that doesn't mean that small business owners should just sit back and think that they can't compete with the big guys. This is especially true when it comes to online content marketing which has "leveled the playing field" so to say. Anyone can publish content online in order to build an audience.

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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Brick Marketing SEO Newsletter for February 3

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February 3, 2015

 

The other week I came across this fantastic whiteboard Friday from Rand Fishkin at Moz, all about managing SEO expectations. Part of being an SEO agency means educating our clients and making sure that they understand the rules of SEO, see the big picture of what SEO actually entails AND ensure they understand that SEO is a long-term investment. He makes a great point about how SEO USED to be versus how it works NOW. For those who have not been paying attention, the game has changed dramatically in the last five years, but clients and their expectations are often still living in the old world.

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The other day my boss was reminiscing about how the world of SEO looked when he started in Internet Marketing over 13 years ago. One of the things he remembers the most is having a dedicated computer that sat in the corner of his office, running keyword ranking reports 24-7. They set up some kind of automated system that would ping Google 1000s of times a day, searching for the 100s of keywords they were tracking for their company. It basically was searching for every keyword every minute of every day and spitting out keyword ranking reports every couple of hours that combined all that data.  

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It blows my mind sometimes that I can not only turn out at least one blog post a day for the Brick Marketing blog, but I am easily writing 2, 3, if not 4 client blog posts a day on top of that (plus all my other SEO work). If me, all by myself, can write 3-5 pieces of content every day, how does a marketing team of 5 or 6 people struggle to get even one blog post out a week? What are they missing?
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LinkedIn may not have the same numbers as Facebook or Twitter, but that doesn't mean that it should be ignored, especially if you're in the B2B sector. LinkedIn has become the news source for professionals. It's the social media site that focuses on business only, without all of the other noise. If used properly, it can be a very powerful tool.  

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We find that website owners come up with all sorts of excuses as to why they don't have an active blog on their website. The two most common excuses are that they don't have time to blog and they don't know what to write about. To these website owners/businesses we say, stop overthinking it! Yes, a business blog should be professional and yes, it should be presented well. But businesses need to keep in mind that a business blog post isn't a white paper, press release, RFP, case study, etc. A blog post is a much less formal publication. It's a place to share a quick insight, opinion, or bit of information. When a blog post is viewed in this way, it makes it much less intimidating. 

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