Direct Marketing Observations

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The Best SEO Advice I’ve Seen in a Long Time…Relevance is the new PR

Direct Marketing Observations

That’s the nature of competing against Google and it’s algorithm changes. That’s why any article or blog post that talks about Google and search engine optimization has to be paid attention to. The customer and Google search. It’s cat and mouse. The pursuer and the pursued.

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The Biggest Trend in 2011? Our Continued Laziness.

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Why do you think YouTube is the #2 search engine in thw world? He never Googled anything; he never went to any other site; his entire web experience was confined to YouTube videos. YouTube as a search engine. This is different, and powerful- YouTube is the next Google. Did you know that it was? Video as a search result.

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Does Good Content Matter Anymore?

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These folks are trying to appease the almighty search engines. Specifically Google, but Bing and Yahoo and all the other 2nd tier engines figure in as well. Content producers defer to search engines instead of people. Is it people or search engines? There’s an ulterior motive happening here.

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The Problem with Blending Organic Results with Social Information

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Hey Google, you know me, but do you really know me? Just because I have people in my Google Plus Circles doesn’t mean that what they “might know” or talk about is necessarily the search result information that I was looking for or need. This means that if I’m looking for information about violins.

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When Social Media Strategy Becomes Irrelevant

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Here are 3 examples where social media has never figured more prominently and yet it had nothing to do with strategy or ROI, but had everything to do with the engine that does drive social media, PEOPLE. No strategy, no ROI justification-Just YouTube realizing that they could create something that could help people in a time of need.

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Search Results and Quality Content is an Oxymoron

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Thus this post could have easily been titled, “Content for content’s sake&# or “Crappy content for search engines&# , or “The difference between worthless content and worthy content&#. Like it or not we are a search driven society. And that my friends is the problem-at least for the majority of us.

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Who’s making the rules in social media?

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Simply put, a bunch of software engineers and developers built a system in which they assumed they knew what the user wanted without really asking. I came into the project mid-stream and yet the product had essentially been built. And I remember that very first day that I got a look at the site that it wasn’t right. The reason?