SEO Outreach: Gain a Competitive Edge by Running Display Ads – searchenginewatch.com/seo Certain companies can generate high-quality, extremely relevant prospecting lists with the click of a button. How? Most display networks provide transparency into ad placements that you can use as the backbone of outreach campaigns for SEO programs. Continue Reading On searchenginewatch.com/seo » Google’s April Fools’ Day 2013 Joke-A-Thon Begins With YouTube Shutdown, Treasure Hunt Maps – searchengineland.com April Fool’s Day is pretty much like a national … err, international holiday for everyone that works for Google. It seems that nobody else on the web takes the tradition of...
New Calculator Tracks Mobile Marketing ROI, and Other Marketing Stories of the Week – blog.hubspot.com This has been an amazing week for inbound marketers. Why? Well it seems this week, a number of companies have been working hard to bring us more tools and services to help track and calculate our marketing return-on-investment. And if there’s one thing inbound marketers love, it’s knowing how to calculate our ROI… Continue Reading On blog.hubspot.com » Desktop Wallpaper Calendar: April 2013 (Easter Edition) – smashingmagazine.com We always try our best to challenge your artistic abilities and produce some interesting, beautiful and creative...
10 Questions to Ask Before Quitting Your Job to Start a Business – youngentrepreneur.com Giving up the security of a full-time job to start your own business is a risky, often stressful move. "The biggest reason people don’t end up quitting is the fear of uncertainty. They don’t know what might happen and they don’t want … Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com »
David Tennant and Billie Piper to Return for 'Doctor Who' 50th Anniversary – mashable.com/social-media/ Whovians, rejoice: Doctor Who fan favorites David Tennant and Billie Piper are returning for the science-fiction show’s fiftieth anniversary special. The announcement came hours before part 2 of Doctor Who’s seventh season premiered on Saturday. Tennant played the Tenth Doctor — that is, the tenth incarnation of the alien protagonist on BBC’s popular series… Continue Reading On mashable.com/social-media/ » Twitter Careers: New Jobs Posted This Week – mediabistro.com/alltwitter/ This continues our series highlighting new positions posted at Twitter each week. Check out past listings here. This week, Twitter added 22 new...
The Hipster’s Dilemma – copyblogger.com/blog/ Dave — one of the finest hipsters that the city of Portland, Ore. had ever produced — had the crowd at the house party eating out of his hand. His frames were flawlessly authentic. His philosophizing on the unknown bands of the day, and the importance of taking long, literary afternoons in Prague was effortless… Continue Reading On copyblogger.com/blog/ » Backup Your Blog on World Backup Day! – bloggingtips.com World Backup Day is just around the corner – March 31st. On this special day, I was reminded of the Toy Story tragedy. Who can ever...
The Big List Of Google Easter Eggs – searchengineland.com Google is well-known for its lighter side, including things like whimsical logos, april fools’ gags and more. In the spirit of the Easter holiday, here’s a big list of “easter eggs” that Google engineers have hidden for enterprising searchers who take the time to hunt them… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article… Continue Reading On searchengineland.com »
How to Tell Google Not to Index a Page in Search Results [Quick Tip] – blog.hubspot.com Indexing as many pages on your website as possible is tempting for marketers who are trying to boost their search engine authority. While it’s true that publishing more pages that are relevant for a particular keyword (assuming they’re also high quality) will improve your ranking for that keyword, sometimes there’s just more value in keeping certain pages on your website out of a search engine’s index… Continue Reading On blog.hubspot.com » Weekend Favs March Thirty – ducttapemarketing.com/blog/ My weekend blog post routine includes posting...
How to Set Your Salary – entrepreneur.com Deciding how much to pay yourself can be tricky. Here’s how to determine what you’re worth. Continue Reading On entrepreneur.com » Seven Payroll Tips for Small Business Owners – foxsmallbusinesscenter.com Having a staff on payroll can seem very commonplace as well as essential to running a small business, but many owners get in trouble with Uncle Sam because they don’t understand the complexity of payroll tax law. Continue Reading On foxsmallbusinesscenter.com » The Pros and Cons of Launching Your Business From Home – youngentrepreneur.com You’ll save money, but will clients find you unprofessional?...
3 Productivity WordPress Plugins To Easily Improve Your Blog Content – spiceupyourblog.com Guest Post – Our host is Annie Wallace, in this post Annie lists and reviews three plugins for WordPress that can help your blogging productivity.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog. Wouldn't it be nice if running a blog was easy? You could just hop on and feel inspired immediately, knocking out posts and having everything work out smoothly with limited stress and effort… Continue Reading On spiceupyourblog.com » Ask the Content Marketing Know-It-All – copyblogger.com/blog/ If you have a blog, you’ll know...
SEO from a Newb's Perspective – seomoz.org/ugc Posted by HappyBrooke Author’s note: I’m new to the SEOmoz community and super excited to be contributing – but frankly, I’m a little intimidated by all the expertise on this blog. Gulp. Read and critique with love and understanding for my beginner status, please. Here we go! For all of you search engine optimization gurus out there, I hope my perspective is a fresh one for you… Continue Reading On seomoz.org/ugc » SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 29, 2013 – searchengineland.com Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search...
How To Remove Ugly URL Parameters from Google Analytics Reports – blog.crazyegg.com Is Google Analytics cluttering up your reports with 100′s or thousands of unique pages that don’t really exist? The problem is created by ugly URL’s. You know what I mean when I say ugly URL’s? Here’s an ugly one: http://www.crazyegg.com/welcome?txn=222050&tl=30 What makes it ugly is the ?txn=222050&tl=30 These are parameters that are appended to the URL of a very important page on the Crazy Egg website — the Welcome Page… Continue Reading On blog.crazyegg.com » Marketing Day: March 29, 2013 – marketingland.com Here’s our daily recap of what happened...
Four Ways to Keep your Small Business Growing – businessknowhow.com Like it or not, your business’s expenses go up a bit each year. To stay profitable, your business needs to grow so it can absorb those increases. Here are four things you can do to keep your small business growing. Continue Reading On businessknowhow.com » Make It Your Business to Stop Costly Leaks – .businessownersideacafe.com/ Water leaks can waste tens of thousands of gallons of water a year and raise your company’s utility bills. If the leak has progressed and started to damage the surrounding wall, floor, or ceiling, there...
Vichy, Oral-B, Excedrin and others among this week’s top PTAT gainers for health and beauty pages – insidefacebook.com Vichy is this week’s top gaining health and beauty page for the People Talking About This metric. The page has adopted global pages which explains its rapid growth over the past week with 1.89 million new engagements. Vichy has over 60 different region pages incorporated into its global page. While it is the Most Talked About page for health and beauty pages this week, it is also the fifth fastest growing talked about page overall this week… Continue Reading On insidefacebook.com » Facebook rolling...
The Blogging Platform with 100% Commissions – bloggingtips.com When you want to get your start with Internet marketing and having your own blog, there are a lot of pieces that need to be in place. You have to deal with registering a domain name, buying web hosting, setting up a blog, configuring plugins and all the rest. This can be incredibly time-consuming. Meanwhile, you could be spending that time actually making money instead… Continue Reading On bloggingtips.com » Give Your Tech Business A Boost With The Right Speaker – blogherald.com In today’s highly competitive tech market, it’s important that all...
The Accuracy of Visitor Data Revisited – seomoz.org/ugc Posted by Mark Collier Over a year ago Rand published his revealing piece into the accuracy of traffic estimation tools such as Alexa, Compete and Google Trends and I was fascinated by the apparent abject failure of these services. Further studies only heightened my interest in the topic. It was clear, based on observation and some data, that these tools were not doing a great job… Continue Reading On seomoz.org/ugc » How to Live Tweet Like a Pro – seomoz.org/blog Posted by RuthBurr Those of you who follow me on Twitter have...
HP Empowers Social Care in Customer-Manned Forums – socialmediaexplorer.com They may not be talked about much, but forums are a driving force in true social media success. Social Media Explorer has experienced the prevalence of forums first hand. When we begin working with a client we create a Conversation Report, which uncovers research on where online conversations are happening around their brand, competitors and industry… Continue Reading On socialmediaexplorer.com » PR and the Airline ‘Fat Tax’: Endless Possibilties – prnewsonline.com/prnewsblog/ Recently, Dr. Bharat P. Bhatta of Sogn og Fjordane University College in Norway, laid out a modest proposal in the...
Forget Facebook’s Social Graph: LinkedIn Has a New Search Tool Too – youngentrepreneur.com With LinkedIn’s search update, people may be taking a closer look at your profile. Here are five tips for making sure you remain front and center on the professional network. Continue Reading On youngentrepreneur.com » Is Entrepreneurship Right for You? – inc.com Most advice for aspiring business owners on whether they’re cut out for entrepreneurship is nonsense, claims one founder, who offers alternative guidance.Just about everyone dreams of being an entrepreneur at some point, and why not? The attractions are obvious – the independence, flexibility, passion and...
Facebook advertisers can now reach users in News Feed with ‘unpublished posts’ – insidefacebook.com Facebook has given advertisers new opportunities to run more relevant ads and test their creative in News Feed by allowing them to create “unpublished posts” that intentionally do not appear to all fans of their page. Previously this option was available for ads on the right hand side of the desktop site, but it was not allowed for feed-based ads until last week… Continue Reading On insidefacebook.com » What If Mad Men Was About A Social Media Agency? – socialfresh.com/blog Mad Men, one of my favorite...
King Announces Two New Facebook Games: Papa Pear Saga And Farm Heroes Saga – blogherald.com King, the social gaming company behind the smash hits Candy Crush Saga and Bubble Witch Saga have announced two new games for Facebook. Now available are Papa Pear Saga and Farm Heroes Saga. Last week King.com changed its name to King in an attempt to distance itself from a web only platform. The company has promised to work more closely with Facebook and mobile platforms… Continue Reading On blogherald.com » How To Use IFTTT For Blogging And Internet Marketing – spiceupyourblog.com Guest Post – Our...
Analyzing & Drawing Conclusions From Website Heat Maps – searchenginepeople.com/blog Data is fantastic however in its tabular form, sometimes it can let us down and not provide the best way to analyze the data in front of us. This holds especially true when trying to visualize how people are interacting with your website. Luckily we can take that information and present it on a heat map which can give us quick and easy insights in to how our sites are being used and more importantly…how we can improve them… Continue Reading On searchenginepeople.com/blog » Linking From Within: How to Generate...
25 SEO Tools for Links, Keywords and Rank Tracking – marketingtechblog.com We’re always on the lookout for great tools and with a $5 billion industry, SEO is one market that has a ton of tools to help you. Whether you’re researching you or your competitors’ backlinks, trying to identify keywords and cocurrence terms, or simply trying to monitor how your site is ranking, here are the most popular SEO tools and platforms on the market… Continue Reading On marketingtechblog.com » Better Ingredients. Better Pizza. Better Social Strategy. – marketingtechblog.com Mind the spelling error and the fact that a fat guy...
A Sugar-Free Vodka Goes Head-to-Head with Major Brands – foxsmallbusinesscenter.com We’re highlighting small businesses from around the country as nominated by you, our readers. If your favorite small business is using Twitter to communicate with customers, let us know about it @fbsmallbiz with the hashtag #mysbc, and it may be featured as an upcoming Small Business Spotlight. Continue Reading On foxsmallbusinesscenter.com » Your Legal Checklist for Starting a Business – inc.com Ready to take the leap into entrepreneurship? Make sure you master this checklist first.It’s spring (at least on the calendar), and here at LegalZoom, March means it’s what we...
Billions of online user actions say gamification increases site engagement 29% – venturebeat.com/category/social/ Looking to increase commenting, social sharing, and other user engagement on your site? According to a Gigya study of billions of user actions with partners like Pepsi, Nike, and Dell, adding gamification to your site boosts engagement by almost a third. In fact, gamification boosts commenting 13 percent, social sharing to Facebook, Twitter, and networks 22 percent, and content discovery by a massive 68 percent… Continue Reading On venturebeat.com/category/social/ » Visual Identity Platform Vizify Launches Out Of Beta, Now Lets You Share Graphics Via Social Media Cards...
