Small Business Mavericks

OCTOBER 29, 2011

SEO stands for search engine optimization. It’s the process that webmasters use to get their pages ranked in the search engines. Consider that most of your competition don’t practice sound SEO strategies in their content marketing efforts. So what makes for sound SEO practices? But the work is tedious.

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Writtent Blog

AUGUST 8, 2014

Is quality content the backbone of your SEO strategy? It doesnt attract search engines, generate leads, or convert sales. So do search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo  Google in particular. SEO Strategy: What Is High-Quality Content? It incorporates valuable keywords naturally based on SEO best practices.

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Kikolani

MAY 11, 2012

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. Search Engines / SEO. In-house SEO, SEO Agency, or Both? Is it better to have one or more in-house SEOs or collaborate with a specialized SEO agency?

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 13, 2014

A business owner in Columbus, Ohio is offering fellow business owners free advice on how to rank quickly in the Google search results while staying away from costly SEO firms and using Search Engine Optimization to rank number one in Google. Apparently Mr. Cross does know the value of good search engine rankings.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 12, 2012

“Ghost town” or not, many experts agree that Google+ is here to stay, and it’s valuable for b2b marketing, SEO , personal branding, and reputation management. Each time a user clicks the +1 button, it helps with that brand’s SEO and the content getting served to users above other content.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 7, 2014

If we study how SEO has evolved in New Zealand, we can learn a lot about how the field of search engine optimization has changed in the last few years. SEO companies were forced to become quite a bit more educated and sophisticated in their approach to ranking websites. SEO tactics vary a great deal from one company to another.

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 30, 2012

As a part of the ClickZ Academy Onsite Training Workshops held right before the Search Engine Strategies Conference in Chicago , I am teaching a 4 hour workshop on researching, creating, and promoting quality content. November 12, 2012, Chicago Illinois. Good content is essential to obtain and maintain good search engine rankings.

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The Social Media Incubator

DECEMBER 3, 2013

If you’ve done any reading on search engines or heard much news about them, then you’ve likely heard something about the Panda update, Penguin update, or most recently, the Hummingbird update. All of these updates are search engine algorithm updates. You might be wondering what that means, exactly.

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 2, 2012

” Looking at the same sample of 40+ b2b technology websites used in the recent b2b mobile website strategy post here, the average for the first quarter of 2012 was about 39%. But the difference in the increase between sites with active SEO programs (18% average increase) and those without (5% average growth) was significant.

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Writtent Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Nothing ever remains the same way for long in the world of SEO. To help you stay informed about the ever-changing inbound marketing landscape, here are 7 pieces of critically-important SEO news: 1. One of the most fascinating and little-known areas of SEO news is Google penalties. image credit: Search Engine Journal.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Editorial SEO Tactics for the Newsroom. Define is launching a company blog soon and we’ve also arranged to do some articles for Search Engine Land, so it will continue to be a challenge to keep up here. Enjoy the holidays and hope you have a great 2012. My Top 10 Posts of 2009 on News Media, SEO and Social Media.

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The Social Media Incubator

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

In what is becoming one of the most talked about Google algorithm updates since Google Penguin (2012) and perhaps the most comprehensive update since Caffeine (2010), Hummingbird is supposed to affect 90% of searches. Either they’re getting better at rolling out updates or the SEO community is getting worse at detecting them.

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Webbiquity SMM

MAY 22, 2018

Do a bit of research with an SEO tool like SEMRush to identify the best keywords to use in your bio. 4. The more content you generate , the more social sharing you do, which creates a consistent online presence and drives traffic to your search-optimized pages, improving your search engine rankings and traffic.

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 23, 2012

That is why, as SEO marketers, we need to take a different approach to ranking on Google and driving free organic traffic to our sites. If you have done any kind of SEO, you know what the key principles of ranking on Google are. If you have done any kind of SEO, you know what the key principles of ranking on Google are.

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Sprout Social

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

2012: Watch time. In 2012, YouTube announced a new metric “ Time Watched ” to use in their search and Suggested Video algorithm. Although demonetization was in effect since 2012 , the platform did not start notifying content creators about their violations of content guidelines until 2016. The YouTube search engine is powerful.

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 22, 2013

Google announced in May 2012 a new direction in search. Other sources of information for the knowledge graph include semantic markup, rich snippets, and other specialized SEO tools. The reason the Knowledge Graph is important is because it is Google’s attempt to transition from a search engine into a “knowledge engine.”

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 27, 2011

According to Search Engine Land , some domains saw a 94% loss in visibility, and others were left picking up the pieces after they lost 80% of their keyword positions. queries according to Search Engine Land. 1: Ten More Updates Announced – Although the updates are over for 2011, ten more updates were announced for 2012.

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Small Business Mavericks

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

A new article at SiteProNews claims that 2012 was a volatile year and there are 4 new lessons you can pick up from it to make 2013 even better. They’ve each been key SEO principles since 2002. Black hat SEOs always get caught. But here’s the truth. These aren’t really new lessons. What are these 4 new lessons?

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Small Business Mavericks

DECEMBER 12, 2013

In 2012, ICANN started the process for the introduction to new top level domains. I wouldn’t say SEO benefit is one of those reasons. Chances are, some of those domains may do well in the search engines. Search engine ranking policies change over time. Market Research domain names ICANN search engines TLDs'

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Webbiquity SMM

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

As things stand now, there’s unlikely to be a 2012 version of this post next year. ” Quora SEO: How to Use Quora if You’re an SEO by WordStream Internet Marketing Blog. Tom Demers delves into two different ways to use Quora for SEO. Will it go the way of MySpace? Or will it fill a niche and level off?

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Webbiquity SMM

JULY 2, 2012

” Looking at the same sample of 40+ b2b technology websites used in the recent b2b mobile website strategy post here, the average for the first quarter of 2012 was about 39%. But the difference in the increase between sites with active SEO programs (18% average increase) and those without (5% average growth) was significant.

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The Social Media Incubator

MARCH 29, 2012

But what if you were one of the lucky students chosen to spend your summer working for the largest online search engine? Google is offering the “ Summer of Code 2012 ,” which is an internship for students who are willing to work on open-source projects. They also offer additional information in their FAQs.

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The Social Media Incubator

MARCH 29, 2012

But what if you were one of the lucky students chosen to spend your summer working for the largest online search engine? Google is offering the “ Summer of Code 2012 ,” which is an internship for students who are willing to work on open-source projects. They also offer additional information in their FAQs.

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The Social Media Incubator

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Starting the year off right, Caroline Melberg of Small Business Mavericks and Chelsea Janke, Social Media Administrator , are headed to sunny California for the 2012 Online Marketing Summit. Links, Likes, Share, Tweets & Follows: The Social Web & SEO (Simon Heseltine). Meaningful SEO Analytics (Brent Chaters & Ryan Jones).

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The Social Media Incubator

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Starting the year off right, Caroline Melberg of Small Business Mavericks and Chelsea Janke, Social Media Administrator , are headed to sunny California for the 2012 Online Marketing Summit. Links, Likes, Share, Tweets & Follows: The Social Web & SEO (Simon Heseltine). Meaningful SEO Analytics (Brent Chaters & Ryan Jones).

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Small Business Mavericks

JUNE 26, 2013

Since June 13, 2012, there have been 1,930 new gTLD applications. The search engines of course will have to adjust to the volume of new domain names. I can foresee a time when each gTLD will have its own search engine. SEO for Small Business domain names gTLD search' Some of them already do.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 5, 2013

Posted in Behavioral Targeting Business Intelligence Conversion Conversion Optimization Customer Experience Interactive Marketing Internet Search SEO Strategy User Generated Content. At home, they’ll respond to a TV or radio ad by firing up search engines on their second screens. The thick of the 2012 holiday season is here.

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Kikolani

MARCH 29, 2013

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. Reverse Engineering a Website Redesign for Competitor Research – You don’t want your business to start losing customers because your competitor has upped their game.

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Hootsuite

AUGUST 18, 2020

But here’s the long answer, too: 2005-2012: View count (a.k.a. 2012: Watch time (a.k.a. In 2012, the platform announced an update to the discovery system designed to identify the videos people actually want to watch. Fifteen years later, people are uploading 500 hours of video to the platform every minute. view duration).

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Kikolani

DECEMBER 23, 2011

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, making money online, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com. 50 Posts on Engagement for Bloggers, Businesses, and Social Media Enthusiasts – Ready to start increasing your engagement in 2012? Happy Holidays.

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Buffer Social

AUGUST 16, 2023

We are also working with several outside marketing consultants to help with content for our blog and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) work. At this point, we have built an AI assistant to generate content for our customers, and we are also using AI internally for areas such as Engineering and Marketing.

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Kikolani

MAY 5, 2016

Backed by marketing studies and reports, we say that links are still in the core of search engines’ algorithm. It’s true that content marketing has overtaken link building for SEO, but remember that most content isn’t capable of naturally acquiring links. Links are great for search engine optimization. How quickly things change!

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 19, 2012

The Pew Research Center’s The State of the News Media 2012 is out and the section on What Facebook and Twitter Mean for News makes for an interesting read. So don’t let social push SEO out of the mix. Pew Research News Survey: Findings on Search Engines, Social Networks and Twitter.

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Bill Hartzer

MAY 11, 2012

As a courtesy and value-added service, American Express is building links and doing search engine optimization for many of their small business clients. – Our SEO content writers create an original blog post related to your industry and post on a proprietary network. business, computers, health, etc.). Have Additional Questions?

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 19, 2012

We all know that search engines are a big piece of blog traffic cake. Unlike other traffic sources (subscriptions or social media), search engines bring visitors who are generally unfamiliar with your blog and have one definite goal: to get an answer or solve the problem with the help of your post. Find free SEO niches.

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Mindjumpers

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

A lot has changed since we wrote about video content in 2012, and today the format is integrated with the largest social platforms. Remember to Search Engine Optimise (SEO) and amplify with Paid. No one should be in doubt about the sender, but don’t overexpose your brand and logo. Mindjumpers and video.

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Writtent Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Who wants to read a blog about the 2012 Summer Olympics or movies released last year? Google and other major search engines reward websites who publish authoritative, smart content. If you’re trying to attract customers through search engines, your content must be optimized using the latest SEO recommendations.

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