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Newsletters, press releases, success stories, brochures … the PDF documents on your website contain plenty of great content. But is that content visible to search engines?
If your PDFs aren’t created properly, search engines will have a difficult time indexing the document which can render all that great content totally invisible (yes, PDFs can and DO show up in search results).
Here are 7 useful tips for optimizing PDFs to ensure SEO benefit and search engine visibility.
I hear it from Sage and Microsoft partners all the time … “I don’t see the value in social media.”
The reason they don’t see value, they say, ranges from “it’s a silly fad for teenagers” and “I don’t care what someone had for breakfast this morning” to “I don’t know anybody that’s made money or closed a deal through social media.”
But there’s one elusive secret about social media that most of those same folks are missing – something you need to understand in order for social media to work for you. And that simple secret is this …
Since we’re a channel marketing firm, we visit a lot of channel partner websites and often discover very simple things you can do to keep visitors on your site longer. Here are two of them:
It seems every bit of communication we see coming out of Sage these days has some sort of plug push promotion for Zift syndicated content.
So, what is syndicated content?
In a nutshell, it’s ready-made blocks of content that you plug in to your website.
But here’s the problem …
It seems that each year brings a flurry of predictions (like ‘the death of email’) and cutting-edge marketing tactics (you know, anything associated with social media) that are going to drive customers to your door by the thousands. And while new marketing tools seem to crop up daily, the most important thing to keep in mind is this …
The basics of good marketing haven’t changed – timeless best practices like defining your target market, identifying your competitive differentiators, nurturing leads, and staying top of mind …
But the way people EVALUATE and BUY products and services has DEFINITELY changed.
Here are four things you should know about marketing in 2012 that can help you find new customers in this brave new socially-aware, Google-dominated world we do business in.
We do a lot of press release writing for Sage and Microsoft partners.
And once they see how powerful the combination of content, keyword optimization, and newswire distribution can be, they get excited and want to put more press releases out. But inevitably, they end up asking themselves the same question …
What the heck are we going to come up with that’s “newsworthy”?
You’ve heard that blogging is essential for small business, that it brings traffic by the thousands to your website, and that Google loves the fresh and frequently-updated content a blog offers.
So you went and got yourself a blog, posted a few entries and … well, nothing happened. No spike in traffic, no increase in revenue, and no improvement in your Google search results. So what’s the deal?
One of the most common issues is that your content sucks!
But assuming the content on your blog offers something of value to your readers, the lack of activity might just be as simple as this … no one can find it.
Even great content needs a little help getting found by readers and indexed by Google. So here are a few SEO tips every blogger needs to know.
In the beginning, there was keyword density, metadata, and other SEO tactics that were fairly easy to figure out and enabled you to dominate top search results. Sure, Google would continually tweak their algorithm and keep you on your feet. But achieving decent search results for your website was still heavily influenced by on-page tactics.
Then along came social media and, more recently, the Google Panda (aka “Farmer”) update. Almost overnight, SEO got a lot harder as Google got a lot smarter.
Most of the technology partners we work with have heard of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and understand the benefit of showing up on the first page of Google for important keywords like ‘Sage ERP’ or ‘Microsoft Dynamics’. Unfortunately, too many VARs think that SEO is a combination of luck, rocket science, and dash of Black Magic.
Well, you need not wonder about the “magic” of SEO any longer. This short video – a collaboration of Search Engine Land and Common Craft – breaks down several of the most important elements of SEO in a way that’s straight forward, easy to understand, and … well, described in Plain English.
Watch and enjoy!
Oh and if SEO still seems like rocket science, then maybe it’s time to check out our GoogleJuice Website Audit.
What is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)?
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One of the most important things you can do to improve search engine visibility is to build links from other websites that point back to your website. Commonly referred to as backlinks (also called inbound links), search engines like Google use these links as a way to measure your online credibility.
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