A simple way to build authoritative links to your site

It’s been about 15 years since Larry Page and Sergey Brin hatched the notion of developing a new kind of search engine in that Stanford dorm room… one that would rank websites responsive to a given search query by their popularity, as defined by the number and quality of other sites that point (“backlink”) to them.  15 years, a few gazillion dollars and an untold number of tweaks later, Google’s page-rank algorithm still has that singular concept at its core (as do most – if not all – of the remaining search engines by now).

That’s why we’ve advised in numerous posts (such as this one) and a white paper that [Read more...]

YouTube is a search engine, too …so think SEO

In one of the recent posts in our series on online video, we urged B2B marketers to post their videos on a number of different video channels …especially YouTube, which has become the 2nd largest search engine in the world, with over 800,000 video uploads every day.

But with that incredible volume comes the challenge of ensuring that your video can be found …and especially by [Read more...]

PPC and SEO: once very different …now, not so much

Just recently, we blogged about the convergence of search engine optimization (SEO) and social media …an important trend that every B2B marketer needs to take account of.  In a similar vein, let’s look today at what can be viewed as an analogous instance of convergence:  that between SEO and pay per click advertising (PPC).

Time was, these were very distinct routes to getting interested traffic;  in fact, their only commonality was that [Read more...]

Don’t risk your ranking in a website redesign… read this

It happens to all growing companies… you’ve outgrown your current website, and need to re-do it.  First of all, congratulations! …for facing up to the need, and not putting the remedy off until the site becomes an embarrassment.

Second, assuming that your current site has been performing reasonably well in terms of lead generation/conversion, you’ll want to guard against losing any of that juice in the changeover.  So now is the time to [Read more...]

Heard about the convergence of search & social? …it’s here

Back in the good old days of, say, 2009, there used to be two separate things:  search engines and social media.  They were two separate destinations, two distinct marketing tactics, and were well on the way to becoming separate marketing specialties.  You didn’t really hear much – if any – talk about “convergence.”

But a whole lot has changed in that short amount of time.  The first clue was when social media pages started showing up on [Read more...]

From Google’s Instant Preview: “Check your landing pages.”

Recently, Google activated Instant Preview for Ads …with remarkably little fanfare, considering its game-changing potential in the world of pay per click (PPC) advertising.

In case you haven’t noticed it yet… Instant Preview puts a little magnifying glass next to each paid (and organic) search result;  clicking on it pops up [Read more...]

4 tips to improve search marketing in technical/industrial B2Bs

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Engineers form a key buying influence within the customer/prospect organizations of many B2Bs.  And it’s probably not a surprise by now that those engineers do much of their purchase-related work on the Web.

A recent GlobalSpec survey confirms that, and provides us with [Read more...]