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Our guest poster today: Ward Tongen is the President of the Minnesota Search Engine Marketing Association (MnSearch), and a principal digital strategist at Medtronic Neuromodulation. Hit With a Hockey Stick A hockey stick graph is a certain shape – a graph showing sudden exponential growth. Here’s how it looks (I added the hockey stick): The hockey stick graph has been used (sometimes controversially) to illustrate the rate of global warming, population growth over time, etc. The rate of change in growing and changing industries like search marketing feels pretty rapid even if it’s not exponential. I like to call it the hockey stick of change because getting hit with accelerating rate of change sometimes feels like getting hit with a … Continue reading
I’m writing this on Thursday, while sitting at the New Orleans airport after a whirlwind few days attending the Pubcon 2013 publishing conference. I was privileged to participate in a panel on Social Media Content Creation together with some smart folks who had a lot of good things to say about creating and disseminating social media content. Conductor’s Director of Search Intelligence Brian McDowell also presented a great session on The Best SEO Tools and moderated another session on Organic Keyword Research and Selection. While it is still fresh in my mind, I want to share a few key themes that came out of the conference that reflect how Marketers are thinking today about the ever-evolving online landscape. (These takeaways … Continue reading
A key finding of our recent survey of more than 600 marketers was that one of the top three challenges Marketers cited was insufficient education about SEO. Staying on top of changes in any industry is important in order to able to perform at your best, but nowhere more so in the SEO industry: Google reports rolling out anywhere between 500-600 changes to their search algorithm each year. Conductors Presenting at Pubcon: New Orleans Conference April 22-25 We’re excited to announce that later this month, two Conductors will be heading south to the Big Easy to present at the Pubcon Search and Social Media conference. Director of Research, Nathan Safran will draw on his experience heading Conductor’s Research and Content … Continue reading
In the previous two parts of this series, we’ve discussed nearly everything you need to get you started on the path to SEO success. Last time, we discussed competitor discovery, scaling keywords, and the start of building a content calendar. In this final chapter today, we’re going to cover: 7. Increasing Social Presence in Search 8. Gain Visibility in Universal Search 9. Measuring ROI from Your SEO Efforts 10. Adopting Technology to Scale your SEO Step 7: Increase Social Presence in Search Hand-in-hand with a strong content strategy goes a social media strategy. Social media can be used to drive traffic to the content you create and to engage with content consumers, and increasingly, social results are appearing in the … Continue reading
Last time in Part 1 of this series, we covered the first three crucial steps to get started on a path to SEO success: 1. Understanding the natural search market opportunity 2. How to grab those first quick, easy wins 3. Getting company buy-in for your SEO objectives This week, we’re going to delve into the SEO competitor landscape, scaling your keyword set, and building a content strategy and calendar. Let’s get started! Step 4: Discover Your Competitive SEO Landscape As you start to gain some traction from following the steps in part 1 of this series, in the search engine results pages by capturing the quick, easy wins, start to pay a bit more attention to the competitive landscape … Continue reading
It’s mid-February, and many marketers are feeling the momentum of New Year’s resolutions starting to hit a slump. Now is a great time to reinvigorate your marketing efforts, and take stock of one of the most promising customer acquisition channels at your disposal: natural search. Over the course of the next three weeks, we will progressively bring you through a step-by-step program that will take you from the very basics all the way to wielding advanced technology to extract valuable insight from your natural search big data set. This first post will cover: 1. Understanding the natural search market opportunity 2. How to grab those first quick, easy wins 3. Getting company buy-in for your SEO objectives Step 1: Understand … Continue reading