Some Helpful Ways to Get People to Share Your Blog Posts + MORE

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…

Mind the spelling error and the fact that a fat guy was ordering Pizza Hut on a late night… and read this carefully. After I couldn’t seem to get the Pizza Hut application to work on my iPhone, I went back and looked at the reviews.

I was startled to see so many 1-star reviews claiming the same issues that I found… the app just didn’t work and kept crashing…

  

For most websites, navigation is not particularly challenging. A primary navigation bar, supported by sub-navigation, is often enough.
Typically, sub-navigation displays the parent, siblings and children of the current page. A persistent primary navigation bar shows top-level pages, allowing users to move between sections…

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In today’s Web clinic at 4:00 p.m. EDT – “The Usability Myth: 4 surprising discoveries we made after testing the most common usability principles” – Flint McGlaughlin, Managing Director, MECLABS, will seek to use our research to answer your usability questions, such as:

What is Web usability?
How does it relate to conversion optimization?
How can it be useful?
How does it get in the way of true conversion optimization efforts?

But first, we wanted to learn some Web usability insights from the MarketingExperiments community …
 
Watch users interact with your website
Until you see users interact with your site/app, you can’t know for sure where usability pitfalls lie…

For the small business owner, social media is both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, it’s a relatively inexpensive form of online advertising but on the other hand it can take up a lot of time to deliver only minimal results.
When Constant Contact asked 1,000 small business owners which social media network was tops…

Here are 6 professional development tips, to help you become healthier, wiser and wealthier.

You can use your past as a school or a prison. Learn from the past and become better, not bitter.
Stop trying to be perfect. Nothing is perfect. Perfectionists are stalling, hiding from criticism or both.
Your time is more valuable than money…

Perry Marshall is well known for his best-selling book “The Ultimate Guide to Google AdWords” (now in its 3rd Edition) as well as his many AdWords courses and coaching programs. Through his work, Entrepreneur Magazine says “He has helped over 100,000 advertisers save literally billions of dollars in AdWords stupidity tax…

Whether you’re blogging for fun or for profit, it can be more exciting to do whenever you can get others to share your blog posts. There are some clever blog marketing tactics you can use to make others more willing to share your posts, thereby increasing traffic to your website and potentially strengthening your overall SEO…

“We’re moving from a world where we plan campaigns for the future, to one where we adapt campaigns to the moment.” – Joel Lunenfeld, Twitter’s VP of Global Brand Strategy and the keynote speaker this morning at SES New York.
Lunenfeld shared his vast experience and insight in real-time marketing in Optimizing Second Screen Engagement: Trends, Data & Insights…

We inbound marketers are a unique bunch. One day we love to dream up lovable campaigns to delight our audience, and the next we want nothing more than to dive into some data. As more and more companies begin to turn on their inbound marketing machine and start creating content, let’s remember that our inherent data chops as marketers can help us create content that’s high-quality, shareable, and insightful…

According to a recent mobile hashtag survey by RadiumOne, 58 percent of respondents said they use hashtags on a regular basis, and 70 percent of the hashtag users are doing so from their mobile device. RadiumOne’s survey evaluated how consumers perceive, value, and use hashtags. Of the 494…

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Although social media continues to thread its way into the fibre of more and more organizations, my experience is that many small to mid-sized companies are still lagging behind when it comes to the development and implementation of their social media strategies.
A recent study by the Altimeter Group might suggest otherwise, stating that “most companies feel they have fairly coherent social strategies”, but given the advanced nature of the sample i…