Design | Marketing
Sponsored posts have been a hot topic in the blogosphere and among marketers the last few years. What exactly is a sponsored post? The simple answer is: a company pays a blogger cash to blog about their product or service. This is different than an advertorial since the blogger is paid cash to write the content as opposed to the sponsor creating the message. An entire cottage industry of...
read moreNo this is not linkbait using Jeremiah’s name. Read on to find out what this “not entirely unlike” business from Google is all about and what it has to do with him. A while back I wrote about the new design Google is testing (which I like a lot) that adds a third column to search results along the left side. It’s come and gone a few times since then as I move about the...
read moreOver the last few years, the concept of microblogging has gone from zero to hero. Just a few short years ago, the terms “microblogging” and “microcontent” were known only to early adopters. These days, the only thing “micro” about microblogging and status updates is character count. Consider a few recent statistics: There are nearly 40,000 Tweets a minute,...
read moreOn this fine April Fool’s day BIGLIST foregos the tricks and brings you yet another collection of better than average SEO & SEM blog reviews. Over the past 2 years we’ve reviewed over 1,000 SEO blogs and we offer you 5 more to add to your RSS reader and get search engine smart. Think Traffic – This blog by internet entreprenuer Corbett Barr makes some serious...
read moreWorking with a variety of companies large and small, local and international, B2B and B2C, on SEO projects over the past 12 years has revealed a variety of common obstacles to success. For many reasons, B2B marketers often lag behind B2C in terms of tactics and adoption of new marketing technologies. The customer acquisition and buying cycle are very different for business to business than...
read moreWe’re starting this Spring Break week off with a very rare guest post from TopRank Marketing client, Jiyan Wei. Jiyan is Director of Product Management at Vocus, Inc. where he drives product platform strategy and roadmap execution for PRWeb. I’ve presented on panels with Jiyan several times at search marketing conferences, talking about the virtues of search, social media and public...
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