Tracking online marketing activity and the sources of useful and relevant online traffic can be done easily with some basic online tools and a little effort. Tools needed to track URLs include published content with a live URL link, the free Google URL builder, and a free Bit.ly account. The URL builder enables site owners … Continued
Having a solid content marketing strategy is crucial. Although they are different, content marketing and SEO are becoming more intertwined and in some cases referred to synonymously. Basic use of keywords and pay-per-click marketing still have their place. But online marketers no longer can only focus efforts on keywords and bid up their rank. One … Continued
Apple and its popular Mac computers hold between about 10 percent and 20 percent of the personal computer and laptop computer markets. But it holds a much firmer grip on the mobile phones and tablet markets, which have been growing in importance among marketers. But with Apple recently announcing plans to allow a new search … Continued
By creating regular communication with potential customers, you create a ‘buzz’ around your brand that helps attract customers.
Some years ago, bidding on keywords and ranking high on search engine results used to be relatively easy. Online marketers needed to simply mention a keywords a couple of times while providing virtually any content at all that was loosely related to the keyword search. Affiliate marketers dominated many search engine results, and business that … Continued
Headers are fickle things. Sometimes they are wanted. Other times they aren’t. Aside from the fact that most successful blogs and websites use them, it’s a reasonable question for one to ask what use they have when it comes to search engine marketing. Other than to help break up and organize content, which make pages … Continued
Information is thrown at us in so many shapes and forms these days that we are on overload. This poses a problem for us in receiving information because it is all vying for our attention. The challenge for those who want us to pay attention to their information is to make the information they throw at … Continued
Most businesses now must have a presence online in order to extend their marketing reach and draw in the maximum amount of potential customers, clients and others. But when using search engine marketing (SEO) strategies and tactics, many modern marketers make the mistake of not tracking the types of traffic their SEO campaigns are bringing … Continued
Few things get under my skin, and even fewer things get under my skin so much that I have to write about them. But guys who use spam to acquire leads… grrr…. From time to time our clients forward me what appear to be very real emails that they received, in the which claim to … Continued
Staying ahead of the competition with online marketing efforts means staying ahead of the curve when it comes to adapting to new innovations in the marketplace. With online marketing, that new innovation in mobile marketing and the rising influence of smartphones, iPads, tablets, and other mobile devices that make it a lot easier to obtain … Continued
Google keeps us on our toes by making adjustments to their algorithms that keep our sites ranking well. Stay on top to stay ahead!
Darwin once suggested that the survival of a species depended on its adaptability to its ever changing environment. The same can be said about business. Businesses have the obligation to keep up with the times to ensure its survival. Social media has been the saving grace for a lot of businesses that perhaps don’t have … Continued
As a social media specialist it’s important for me to stay up on the latest, which can be a little tricky in an industry that’s so young and unpredictable. But these shifting sands aren’t only perilous for me. The social media companies themselves have to adapt or die. Being cool and relevant today most definitely … Continued
Guest blogging is one of the new kids on the SEO scene. Okay, so it isn’t really all that new, but its effectiveness is new. It has always been effective, but now writing a guest blog has become a much more effective means of SEO than, say, article submission. It used to be that a … Continued
Article submission as an organic SEO technique can still work, sort of. The old days of submitting articles to a bunch to e-zines are over. Article submission websites as they became much less effective after some of the more recent Google updates. There are ways to make article submission, in a somewhat different outfit, work, … Continued
The term “white paper” used to refer to a government document designed to explain certain governmental policies. Over time however, the term has come to refer to a document that explains pretty much anything, most often something that someone is trying to sell. To this effect, it has become a powerful marketing tool in many … Continued
Marketing is such a different animal than it used to be. What used to be as simple as buying ad space in a newspaper or recording an ad for the radio turned into full on production with the invention of the television. Add to that the ever growing advertising “free-for-all” that is social media, from Facebook … Continued
I don’t need SEO! In a perfect world, there is no need for search engine optimization. That’s right, no need. That’s because in a perfect world your website would be so incredibly popular and be full of awesome content that you would naturally rank for the terms that are important to the success of your … Continued
As we have mentioned before, attractive, high quality images are key to Las Vegas social media success. It doesn’t matter if you’re on Instagram or LinkedIn; you want all of your pictures in tip-top shape. This can be an intimidating reality for some people, but you don’t need to go out and buy a $700 … Continued
It’s a new year in Fabulous Las Vegas, and we at NeONBRAND are making some predictions about what’s to come in the year 2014. Take a look at these four social media trends that we believe are destined to dominate social media. Social Media Trends: It’s All About Images This is probably no surprise to anyone reading. Last year … Continued
We’ve established that link building has changed. It has to be done differently. We have yet to discuss one of the changes that needs the most attention however. It is now imperative to track where links come from, and not just for penalty purposes. Of course if you have tons of links to your page … Continued
Some are saying link building is thing of the past, but that isn’t entirely true. In fact, link building is as important as it ever was, but for different reasons. There is a different ideology behind successful link building these days, and it has to be handled differently to account for that. Out with the Old … Continued
SEO is going to change. It is a changing world, and Google makes certain SEO “rules” change multiple times in any given year. The question is how are you going to keep up? I mean, you can’t revamp your website every time a new algorithm comes out, right? You could, but then the whole point … Continued
NEWLY UPDATED GUIDE FOR VERSION 2.2.1 Here we will review all of the default settings to use with the WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin (Version 1.5.2.8). A lot of the settings have great explanations right under it, so I’ll try to keep my notes specific only to things that can’t be found on the plugin already. WordPress … Continued
