Jared Reed For some people, writing is easy. The rest of us have to slog through multiple revisions and beg our friends and family to proof read for us. With all this work that you put into your blog, wouldn’t it be nice if someone out there in the vast world of the internet actually read it? … Read more
Instagram seems to be making all the right moves. For those of you that have been living under a rock or don’t work at a social media agency, Instagram is a mobile app, pushed live way back all of two years ago, that allows you to take a picture, only in a square format … Read more
Without SEO, he might never have been discovered. Let’s look at the numbers. In 2008, which is like eons ago in web-time, Google said there were 1 trillion pages on the interent. That’s trillion with a capital T. This data doubles each year. It’s not hard math, people. The internet is ginormous! While we are often … Read more
Twitter: Social Media Marketing for the Masses In my never ending quest to stay on top of all the changes that happen in Social Media Marketing, I came across this great post by Jason Keath of Social Fresh! He writes, ” … more than four in ten US adults hear or read about twitter every … Read more
An old codger that lives on my street, the one who always asks if I’ve heard the latest on a local talk radio station, told me yesterday that “Nobody’s gonna buy that Facebook stock. It’s not worth the paper it’s printed on”. Are stocks even printed on paper anymore? This started me thinking. Sure Facebook … Read more
I’m a lover of infographics, that much should be apparent by now. Pre-internet, I often looked down my nose at USA Today, and their profusion of infographics. Let’s face it, the fire hose blast of info that is the internet today is almost impossible to stay on top of. Thus my love of infographics! Pan … Read more
By now you should know, that this is one Social Media Marketer that loves Pinterest. Currently, I have two CPG clients, and Pinterest is their third largest source of traffic behind Google and Facebook. Suffice to say this scrappy, new kid on the block is killing it! I’m also proud to say that my home … Read more
Attention Social Media Marketers! According to a recent study featured on Mashable, Facebook’s Timeline has caused a slowdown in growth for brands. “Comments are down 6.5% per post and fan growth was “slowed slightly” for all brands on average, but brands with more than 1 million fans experienced twice the sluggishness of smaller brands. The … Read more
Every couple of years, I read about the supposed death of SEO and Search in general. With the rise of Social Media, there were times when it really seemed like it could happen. For example, back in 2010, ComScore pointed out that users spend way more time on Facebook than they do on Google. It … Read more
In my ongoing quest to provide brands with solid, data driven reasons why they should participate in Social Media Marketing, I present to you this awesome infographic. Beyond the ranking signals that can help your site in the search engines, just look at the amount of traffic and participation! That’s a lot of eyeballs on … Read more
Online, SEO Is The Game To Play If You Play By The Rules Let’s face it. Spammers ruin everything. In their ongoing effort to make an easy buck, they are experimenting with ways to move traffic around the web. Take Pinterest for example. If you haven’t seen the news about their recent fight with spammers, … Read more
A Website Recipe for SEO Love All too often as SEOs, we’re asked to work our magic on sites that require drastic reconfiguration before we can even begin to make our first recommendation. I’ve seen sites where all the text is locked up in images, or a custom CMS has been created and Title Tags … Read more
SEO for Video Many organizations are jumping on the video bandwagon, and there’s plenty of reasons why they should. Studies show that video growth is accelerating, and viewers can’t seem to get enough. Here is a brief checklist that you can follow to optimize your videos for search. Your video file should be encoded … Read more
When I first began working in Search Engine Marketing back in the early 2000s, I often had to work hard at proving to companies that they needed my services. At that time business owners didn’t understand digital. Only a few of them had websites, and those that did couldn’t grasp why they needed to do … Read more
Mobile and Tablet SEO are the Future! I read two pieces recently that really made me think about the future of my work and the marketing and advertising business in general. The first was an article stating how soon there will be more smartphones than people on the planet. The second was about Kate Spade … Read more
Social Media for Good Being a kid of the 80s, I was shocked this weekend when I learned of Whitney Houston’s death. I might add that I was not surprised. She had been troubled for a very long time. Many years ago I lost a friend to Depression, and I thought a lot about both … Read more