March 19, 2024

Content Marketing and Sharing

Google Is No Longer Judge, Jury and Executioner!

Content Marketing and Sharing

The Internet in 1969

The first message was sent over the ARPANET from computer science Professor Leonard Kleinrock’s laboratory at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to the second network node at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) was at 10:30 PM on October 29, 1969.

We have come a long long way since then! One of the key changes is the ability to share.

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Website Success Formula – for Real!

Website and Blog Success

Where to Focus Your Attention

Website Success FormulaThere are so many things that you can focus on to achieve a more successful website. However, people often get overwhelmed with the multitude to activities and things to do.

The best way to achieve success is to focus. A concentrated approach enables you to get things done – to achieve success. This post will give you some advice on where to focus and it starts with the mathematical website formula for success. Every website owner needs to know this formula and how to apply it.

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10 Content Marketing Advantages over Advertising

10 Content Marketing Advantages

Content Marketing versus Advertising

10 Content Marketing Advantages over Advertising

Content Marketing has several advantages over “traditional” advertising.

Content marketing is the marketing and business process for creating and distributing relevant and valuable content. It is meant to attract, acquire, and engage a clearly defined and understood audience. Its main objective is to drive profitable customer action.

Here is my top ten list of advantages content marketing has over advertising.

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Twitter Series

A Twitter Series

How To Use A Twitter Series to Gain Exposure

The objective of a Twitter Series is to help your content gain exposure. If you create worthy content, then you have to do all you can to gain exposure for this content.

Twitter Series - Gain Exposure, Build Your Follower Base and Curry Favor with Collaborators

A Twitter Series is one way to help give your content an exposure boost. To create and run a series can also help you to see what others are doing on the same topic. The creation process also gives you an opportunity to promote the work of others and to establish and deepen relationships.

Let’s break down the steps to creating and implementing a Twitter Series.

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SEO – Using Image Sitemaps

Maximize the SEO Leverage of Your Image Content

Create and Submit an Image Sitemap

Using Image XML Sitemaps

Google maintains a large image search index. Moreover, it is always interested in discovering more great image content. If your site is rich in images, especially original content, your goal is to get as many of your images indexed as possible. This helps search position. You therefore, need to create an image sitemap.

Moreover, you can increase the SEO value of your image content by submitting an XML Image Sitemap to the major search engines. This prompts them to visit your site, find your images and index them. This boosts the SEO value of your image content.

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Google Reviews

Ten Reasons Your Google Reviews Are Not Being Displayed

Support with Google Reviews

Google Reviews Don't Display

Over the past few months I have received many inquiries from clients about the Google Review situation. People have asked about best practice when it comes to gaining reviews. However, a significant percentage of the inquires also are related to people claiming to have received reviews and their Google reviews don’t display in the Google Knowledge Graph area.

I have looked at this closely over the past couple of months. Here are my conclusions as to reviews may not be displayed in the Google Knowledge Graph area on the right of the search results.

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What Happened To Friendster

What Happened to Friendster?

A Case for Your Very Own Center of Content

Develop and Focus on Your Center of Content - Lesson Learned from Friendster

Friendster was once a big social networking service. The service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, share content and media and discover events, music and hobbies. At its peak it had over 115 million registered users.

 

They tried to transform the service into a gaming site and this only made things worse for the people that wanted to use it as a social network. Friendster got it wrong and as big as they were they are now defunct.

 

On June 14, 2015 Friendster released the follow message to it members and the rest of the world:

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Blog Ideas for Your Content Marketing Plan

Blog Ideas for Your Content Marketing Plan

Good bloggers work from a plan. This plan defines content that the blogger feels will be of interest to their audience and provides value to readers. It make things easier and more effective to work from a plan. In the long run a plan makes your blog better and saves you time.

Blog Ideas and SEO

Here are 7 ideas that I recommend you consider for your blog content marketing plan. You will have better content which leads to improved SEO, higher authority and more and better business!

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