SEO used to be a self-standing marketing discipline, having a well defined, generally accepted set of activities and objectives. Today, SEO is much more intertwined with other marketing activities, making it difficult to know where SEO ends and where social media, for example, begins. Furthermore, recent developments at Google suggest that the search engine giant has embarked on a strategic campaign to change the nature of, and in many ways devalue, the practice of SEO. Google’s SEO Mindset. Great for investors … not so great for SEOs. No more. MORE >>

In the old days there have been a lot of people known as SEO experts which try to tweak websites to trick out search engines to get a better search ranking. Inbound marketing which uses Content Creation strategies like Blogging to publish interesting, valuable and share worthy content are on their way to dominate internet marketing and substitute the old SEO tricks. Further important sources: Infographic: Why Content is King for SEO. 92% of Marketers Agree: Content Is Critical for SEO [Infographic]. But these times are over. Content is king! to their target audience. MORE >>

With over 10 million dollars of tracked ROI for SEO alone, he has been featured on multiple radio shows, podcasts and in The Wall Street Journal. SEO – By connecting your social media platforms via RSS and traditional backlinks you are building a “keyword neighborhood&# that will raise the relevancy of all of your web platforms in the infrastructure for those keywords.  Connect the platforms with links, RSS feeds and widgets (recommend [link] as a start). Since 2002, Chad H. the leading web development and internet marketing agency in the Midwest. MORE >>

Home > Blogging > Google > SEO Google might penalize guest blogging sites someday, because guest blogging does not have the same goodwill with which it started a few years ago. It has been propagated as one of the best methods for free SEO. I remember that when we started accepting guest posts few years back, a lot of bloggers posted great content to share their thoughts, interact with our community, post their best writing and get free traffic, a new audience, a new readership, and hundreds of more RSS readers as hundreds of visitors visited their site. MORE >>

One reason is that reader subscriptions (when via email or RSS feed) tend to grow over time as the blog establishes its voice and readership. But the larger factor is SEO: the longer a blog is actively contributed to, the more content there will be for search engines to index, the more links it will attract, and hence the more search-driven traffic it will enjoy. Content Marketing Social Media Marketing blogging demand geneation techniques HubSpot inbound marketing lead generation RSS SEM SEO SlideShare social networking trade shows Vimeo webinars webiste chat MORE >>