Editor’s note: You may have missed this article when CMI published it last year. We’re sharing it now because improving your keyword efforts is always top of mind for content marketers. SEO does not always work the way we want. It is common for Google to rank a page for keywords other than the ones for […]
When it comes to PPC search advertising, Bing probably isn’t the first channel to come to mind. But if you’re already running AdWords and Facebook Ads, you really need to check out Bing Ads too. Bing represents 20% of U.S. search volume. They also partner with Yahoo! to display ads, which pushes them over 30% market
We’ve often talked about how marketers get stuck in the business and assume that everyone else knows the language. I mean, who doesn’t know what LSI (latent semantic indexing) is? Who hasn’t heard of the SERPs (search engine results pages), or understand why it’s important to be in them? Internet marketing and SEO has been
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Irrespective of your industry, you rely on your website to build trust, build relationships, provide services, and sell products. Proper SEO will draw customers to your website, thereby improving your search rankings while UX helps a visitor to locate the needed information on your website and helps in starting a relationship with your prospective customer.
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NOW UPDATED! This post was expanded for 2017 with new tactics for growing your business with influencer marketing! Are you tired of getting the same old lackluster results for your marketing strategy? Marketing can drive even the most hardened entrepreneur up the wall. Branding, speaking your audience’s language, platforms etc and figuring out which marketing strategies are most
UPDATED! This post was expanded for 2017 to include more ways to acquire your first 100 customers. Enjoy! Acquiring your first customers is more art than science. You don’t have spreadsheets full of data to pull from, you don’t have existing segments, and you’re not even sure who specifically will buy your product. You’re just testing out
People and companies go to great lengths to be valued by Google. Can you blame them, though? Studies show that ranking first in Google will net you 33 percent of the traffic for a given keyword. After that, it drops to 18 percent for the second ranking. But if you’re thinking about finding ways to work
In boosting your search engine ranking, it’s almost criminal to exclude social media marketing, especially given its pervasive presence online. Last year, nearly 70% of people worldwide used social media in one form or another. Also in 2016, 2.34 billion people had a social media presence, and stats predict that this will increase to 2.67
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What would you give to read your customers’ minds? In his talk at the Intelligent Content Conference, self-proclaimed “search guy” Wil Reynolds shared some tips for getting as close as possible to mind-reading by using resources – some timeless, some modern – that are hiding in plain sight. “If you look just at the keywords
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If we can agree that the ultimate purpose of marketing is to attract attention and generate interest, then combining SEO and content marketing is a no-brainer for smart brands and marketers. SEO is all about creating brand visibility – it ensures that customers can find your website. Engaging content is what will make them click
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