Thursday, February 19, 2015

Panda and Penguin: It's Not so Black and White

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February 19, 2015

 

I recently read a great article by Dave Davies over on Search Engine Watch that had me thinking. Titled "Which Update?" Is The Wrong Question, he says:
"Most people don't fully understand how the algorithms themselves can impact your rankings and thus looking to a single algorithm tends to put the blinders on to other areas. Let's say for example that you noticed a drop in your organic traffic starting in late September. That would tie in pretty tightly to the Panda 4.1 update and so it would seem pretty logical to start vetting your content.

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Ever since Penguin hit the SEO scene, a lot of site owners have been running scared of link building. And having seen the devastating effects that a Penguin penalty can have on a site it's no small wonder why! I've seen sites get hit and take more than a year to recover, if they recover at all. And even though there are thousands of articles and videos out there about how you can avoid tripping up the Penguin filters, there are thousands more horror stories about site owners doing what they thought was right and still getting slapped by Google. So what is a site owner to do?  

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Back in the day, many websites were built in programs like Adobe Dreamweaver and then were published to a server to be hosted on the web. Any time adjustments needed to be made including adding or deleting content - you had to open Dreamweaver, make the changes, and then republish to the web. In the past decade or so, content management systems (CMS for short) have made producing and managing a website a much easier task to manage.
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If you've decided to make this the year that you really take action when it comes to content marketing and social media- congratulations! As you've probably noticed (and likely why you've waited this long to get going in the first place), it takes a lot of hard work and time to create high quality content on an ongoing basis. You may be lucky to publish one new blog post a week.
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If you are a one-man content creation show you probably don't need a written content marketing strategy because you are the writer, the publisher, the editor, and the promoter all rolled up into one! But the minute someone else comes into the picture you need that written content marketing strategy because it protects you, your content plan, and your brand. Here are 3 reasons why you need a content marketing strategy as soon as more than one person is involved. 

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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Brick Marketing SEO Newsletter for February 17

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February 17, 2015

 

Now that 2015 is well under way, it's time to look at year over year organic growth and evaluate how much of an impact your SEO program had in 2014. This is especially important if you have a year's worth of SEO work under your belt and can compare all of 2014 to all of 2013. Were there any surges of traffic? Any "big win" referral links that amounted to hundreds of visitors?

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In my experience, the site owners that "goes it alone" when it comes to SEO fall into three distinct categories. Category A - they take their time and move cautiously, make small changes here and there and just let what happens happen. Category B - they hire an SEO firm and let them handle most of the strategy and implementation. Category C - they do their best to learn everything they can about SEO and set out to really make headway in the SERPs, for better or worse. Category A sites don't usually see much movement very quickly, but given enough time those sites can and do well online.  

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While massive improvements have been made over the last 20 years in how webpages respond, the way computers communicate with different webpages hasn't changed much. To visit most websites, you most likely have to type in HTTP in the URL. What this code stands for is Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
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In a recent article on ClickZ titled "How to Launch Your B2B Social Media Presence: A 30-Day Plan", author Kristen Kovner had the following to say regarding where businesses should be posting:

There are myriad social channels, and experts will tell you it's not an "either-or" game but a "yes, and" game.
Basically what this means is that it's not a choice. You shouldn't be active on Facebook OR Twitter (B2Cs) or Twitter OR LinkedIn (B2Bs).

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Content marketing is where it's at. Slowly but surely, brands and businesses of all sizes and in all industries are realizing this and are throwing their hat in the ring. This means that the content marketing bar has been raised and it's becoming harder and harder to stand out among all of the content that's out there. Here are some tips to follow in today's competitive content marketplace. Focus on your niche and target audience - Remember, you aren't competing with everyone that's publishing content out there.   

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