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30 Entrepreneurs Explain the Future Trends They See in Their Industry

Hearpreneur

Rather than depending just on SEO, marketers will need to optimize picture sitemaps and employ descriptive filenames for photos that are identified by search engines. Photo Crediy: James Green. Thanks to James Green, Build A Head ! #16- However, there has been a noticeable shift to Facebook ads and Google Pay Per Click (PPC).

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A Guide to Reputation Management: Build an Audience of Superfans

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Salesforce holds as its guiding value “to make sure Salesforce is a platform for change,” delivering on initiatives such as renewable energy, carbon-neutral cloud computing, and green building certification. Take Semrush, a platform for SEO, PPC, and content-related research. Image source. Building a community. Image source.

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Google Analytics Custom Reports: Paid Search Campaigns Analysis

Occam's Razor

In this post I want to share with you three insightful custom reports for effective paid search (PPC) analysis. One of the biggest mistakes perpetuated by siloed execution of SEO and PPC strategies is that the groups that own each piece rarely learn from the other party's work. Criminal behavior. You decide what the keyword is.

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Excellent Analytics Tip #18: Make Love To Your Direct Traffic

Occam's Razor

The reason Direct traffic is a beloved of mine is that it represents (checkout the sweet contextual – red and green – numbers above): 1. If they are like every other company that obsesses with PPC and Yahoo!

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Two Amazing Bar Charts: % Content Consumption, % Share of Search

Occam's Razor

But fresh relevant content is also of value in our search engine optimization efforts, keeps a pipeline of socially shareable assets going. An obsession with SEO and PPC is pretty much warranted in most companies, across platforms (desktop, mobile – it is particularly heartbreaking how poor most companies do on mobile platforms).

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Excellent Analytics Tips #20: Measuring Digital "Brand Strength"

Occam's Razor

No eBay PPC ad or SEO listing showed up. You can see that eBay (green) rose for a while but has been essentially flat. eBay's green line is very close the performance of the category (and you'll see that often at peaks in the shopping category queries, eBay actually does worse starting holiday season 2009).

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See-Think-Do: A Content, Marketing, Measurement Business Framework

Occam's Razor

Then there is Agile for engineering. If you are in the See or Think consideration stages, there are plenty of engagement points for you (marked in green and orange respectively). Ditto for PPC, your affiliate links (all likely in the Do stage), and your email marketing programs. PPC works for Think and See stages.

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