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20 Ways to Generate ROI from a Corporate Blog

Webbiquity SMM

The “ROI of social media&# (or lack thereof) is a hot, and still hotly contested, topic. I summarized arguments from both sides a few months ago in The Social Media ROI Debate. The core of social media marketing efforts should be the corporate blog. All of the old measurements are moot.&#.

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102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)

Webbiquity SMM

This post, along with 79 Remarkable Social Media Marketing Facts and Statistics for 2012 and 87 More Vital Social Media Marketing Facts and Stats for 2012 previously published here, provide a solid foundation for that understanding. What do buyers really want from social media marketers? Social CRM is still confusing.

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Co-op SEO and the Future of Websites | Guest Posts | Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Way back in the early days of PitchEngine (like 2009), people thought we were crazy to offer our social media news release service for free. “I can publish search engine optimized pitches for free, really?&# It’s the power of the users, the crowd, that makes the engine rev. How Does This Help You?

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Does Your Blog Have a Long Tail | Blogging and Content Creation.

Convince & Convert

Last week, I co-published a white paper with Chris Baggott , the CEO of Compendium Blogware (I’m on their advisory board). Because of the specificity, it’s much easier to achieve a top 10 search engine ranking for long tail searches, and higher rankings = higher conversions. I have a small readership on my blog.

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14 Things I Think I Think About Social Media

Convince & Convert

YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world, and yet video content continues to be under-leveraged. I think this is where Adobe can solve a problem for publishers who desire the power of Premier and After Effects and make a web-based SaaS solution. Doing that will help empower publishers to use video more effectively.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Unless you happen to catch lightning in a bottle (#4), the incremental page views stemming from people linking to these posts or finding them on search engines adds up. I may run a similar analysis and rank my top posts by page views coming from search engines. Most of the rest are from spring 2010 or earlier. Search does matter.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

This means the best kinds of marketing content need to be findable by Google (and the others), properly tagged, and optimized for search engines. However, that Facebook profile update is not inherently discoverable by search engines — creating a weakness for that tool. Content isn’t king, optimized content is king.