What Is Social Media Marketing? Social media marketing refers to the process of gaining traffic or attention through social media sites. Social media itself is a catch-all term for sites that may provide radically different social actions. For instance, Twitter is a social site designed to let people share short messages or “updates” with others. […]
Instagram is taking steps to help improve their users’ mental health with the creation of its new Wellbeing Team. Millions of people around the world use Instagram to visually share and document their lives. However, the unrealistic portrayal of how other people live has been proven to negatively affect how some users view their own […]
Indexing is really the first step in any SEO audit. Why? If your site is not being indexed, it is essentially unread by Google and Bing. And if the search engines can’t find and “read” it, no amount of magic or search engine optimization (SEO) will improve the ranking of your web pages. In order […]
Google may have shifted its focus from keywords to “entities” in years, but columnist reminds us that keyword research is still an important and useful part of the SEO process. If Google no longer looks at keywords (Hummingbird), and people no longer search with keywords (voice search), we don’t need to research keywords, right? Wrong! […]
It’s very exciting to see video SEO becoming a reality thanks to amazing algorithms and massive computing power. Behind the Deep learning What is deep learning? It is probably the biggest buzzword around along with AI (Artificial Intelligence). Deep Learning came from advanced math on large data set processing, similar to the way the human […]
Clients understand the value of SEO initiatives when the results may take weeks or even months to pan out? Columnist shares her advice. How do you show the value of long-term SEO recommendations in the short term? Before we get into the actions themselves, let me clarify what I mean by “long-term SEO.” To me, […]
“While marketing skills like marketing campaign management, SEO/SEM, and channel marketing were in high demand in 2015, things have changed,” according to member marketing and communications. “This year, SEO/SEM dropped five spots from #4 to #9 and marketing campaign management dropped completely off the list. Demand for marketing skills is slowing because the supply of […]
Columnist Sherry Bonelli explains how recent changes to the local search landscape point to an ever-changing discipline that requires increasingly complex strategies. Local SEO is much more challenging These days local SEO is more and more challenging. Why? Part of the reason is that many local businesses have finally realized the importance of doing the […]
My site has been that RankBrain *and/or other machine learning elements within Google’s core algorithm are devloped rewarding pages with high user engagement. Google is looking for unicorns – and I think that machine learning is Google’s ultimate Unicorn Detector. Now, when I say unicorns, I mean those pages that have magical engagement rates that […]
I’m so tired of hearing some people say that SEO is dead. Maybe they are merely being provocative. Perhaps they need to fill seats in their event, and so they come up with “bait” session titles like “Why SEO is fundamentally DEAD.” While SEO is NOT dead, the way that you’re doing it might be. […]