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Who will blink first in Canadian community newspaper staredown?

Sherrilynne Starkie

But the backroom deal between competing newspaper publishing companies Postmedia and TorStar must surely up the ante. Community papers are now largely filled with generic, syndicated content and semi-advertorial stories and columns. Photo by Mike Ackerman on Unsplash. Where’s the reader value?

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5 Strategies To Drive Traffic With Buyer Intent [Content Creation Template]

OnlineRockersHub Marketing Blog

Syndicate and promote. Scout your competition on the first page of results to identify the standard being set in order to compete for the top spots. Syndicate and promote. The simplest answer: Improve your website ranking for a relevant keyword to drive visitors with buyer intent. Evaluate your current assets.

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Mike Dillard Sues Website Owner Over Manipulative Search Engine Optimization Techniques

Bill Hartzer

Stein’s actions are interfering with existing and prospective contractual interests and causing confusion by misdirecting online traffic to Stein’s own competing web site.&#. In fact, it appears that all of this is because of organic search engine listings in the Google search engine.

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2018 Content Marketing Trends, Predictions + Editorial Calendar Template

Pam Moore

CMOs at the largest technology organizations report that building content marketing as an organizational competency is 2nd most important initiative, only behind measuring ROI (IDC). Syndication. Billion = expected growth of content marketing software in 2018 (IDC). 35% state their biggest challenge is creating content (Cision).

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5 Essential Skill Sets For Your Social Media Team

Ignite Social Media

Those are important competencies when dealing day to day with customer questions, complaints and even praise among your top brand advocates. The best community engagement is that with an eye for customer relationships. Is your social media team empathetic and skilled in listening? Data Collection and Analysis.

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Pay to Play: Seven Ways Social Media is Getting More Expensive

Social Media Strategery

Unfortunately, it’s only going to get more difficult as brands compete in a social media arms race. Increasingly, to compete effectively in social media, brands realize that to play, they must pay. Syndicating content. It’s become overwhelming. The social media arms race benefits no one.

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The Battle (and Blending) of Social and Search Rages On

Firebelly

Search engines and social networks are competing (and combining) in a myriad of ways. Heres a brief play-by-play: First, Googles Social Search feature graduated from an opt-in Google Labs experiment to a default feature on Google.com for signed in users - although it wont leverage much of Facebook. Having trouble reading this image?

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