Posted by randfish Competing with comparison sites in the SERPs can feel like a losing game, but it doesn’t have to. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains the challenges and outlines five solutions that can help you begin ranking for those high-value comparative terms. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high-resolution version […]
Links are the foundation of Google’s algorithm. A naïve reading of the algorithm suggests that you shouldn’t link to anybody else, ever. It turns out that’s not at all true. But your outbound links play an important role in your ability to turn up in the SERPs. Let’s make sure your outbound link game is
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While people relish the convenience and vast inventory available via online shopping, today’s shoppers are still drawn to physical store locations to tangibly touch items, make purchases and process returns or exchanges. Rather than pitting the two channels against each other, retailers can secure a much larger wallet share by giving consumers the best of
No matter how much SEO evolves, backlinks remain the primary “currency” for Google when ranking websites. In fact, a November 2016 study from First Page Sage found that backlinks are still the number one overall ranking factor in Google’s algorithm: And I seriously doubt this will change any time soon. Of course, there are other critical
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NOW UPDATED! This post was expanded for 2017 with new tactics for growing your business with influencer marketing! Are you tired of getting the same old lackluster results for your marketing strategy? Marketing can drive even the most hardened entrepreneur up the wall. Branding, speaking your audience’s language, platforms etc and figuring out which marketing strategies are most
In my previous post, we discovered that MailChimp’s marketing automation tools can be incredibly valuable for e-commerce businesses, leading to nearly 16 times more orders per recipient than regular bulk email. Marketing automation gives you the ability to create a single email—or an email series—that sends automatically based on predetermined triggers. Today, we’re going to
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Chart of the Day: Is a 360 degree customer view a myth or a reality? I have been involved in marketing since the mid 1990s and I was brought up by Martha Peppers and Don Rogers, authors of 1:1 marketing encouraging businesses to develop a single customer view. The nirvana of a single customer view for
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