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Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo Deny Involvement in NSA PRISM Spy Program

These big platforms deny any involvement in this national privacy controversy.  Do you believe them?  We would love to hear your comments – The CME Team

The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) has been named in a massive surveillance operation which includes monitoring activity on multiple U.S. carriers and service providers. Dubbed PRISM, the operation involves collecting data traveling…

Online Metrics to Watch Closely

Measurement is a vital aspect of success in online marketing . And one of the best things about marketing online is the ability to measure everything. Traditional 20 th century marketing campaigns could take weeks or months to measure and as a result, a campaign could bleed money or an opportunity to truly capitalize on a successful campaign could be lost. Online marketing is blissfully…

Content Marketing, the New SEO & Penguin 2.0

“What Should Lead Your Online Marketing Strategy: SEO or Content”. “Why Content Marketing is the New SEO”. “Is Google’s love affair with content marketing usurping SEO?” “Content Marketing is the New SEO ” These are actual titles from article in the top search results for [content marketing and SEO]. Content Marketing Isn’t New CONTENT MARKETING! DO IT! It’s the NEW SEO! In fact, it’s so awesom…

How to Be a Badass Link Builder

There’s a lot of panic and turmoil right now in the world of link building, but there doesn’t have to be – you just have to learn how to be a bad-ass link builder. SEO has changed. We can’t rely on spam and automation to boost traffic and search rankings anymore. A few years ago, link builders never gave that kind of stuff a second thought – it’s just how things worked. The industry is…

How to Claim & Optimize Your Yelp Business Listing

Yelp has remained a leading review site for local businesses for quite some time. Although the restaurant industry is no doubt the most present on the site, other businesses are beginning to take advantage. With more than 100 million monthly unique visitors to the site (both on desktop and mobile), it’s a great place to gain visibility for your company and create a place for reviews, ratings, and…

The Single Most Important Step to Getting Good Conversion from your Visitors

I have for the past couple of months been posting here about an ongoing  MBA class on content marketing  called Marketing with Social Media . The class is being taught by me, Bill Belew, at a university in San Jose (Yes, I know the way). I don’t know of anybody who has been able to gather a lot (73 MBA students) of bloggers and put them in a controlled setting (controlled inasmuch as they do…

How to Create Effective Content to Help SEO & Sales: 3 Top Ideas

Fact: As SEOs we have far more power than we realize. Especially now, most of us do a lot more than simply build links or worry about rankings. We have the added power to attract a large number of potential leads to our clients’ websites through our outreach efforts and we bring about increased sales volume much quicker than waiting for core terms to rank high on page one. Through what we’v…

How to Find & Remove Non-Essential Content

There’s been a lot of talk about quality content in the SEO world for the past couple of years. We do our best to be mindful of Google’s Content Quality Guidelines and know that a human rater may review the page quality of the content we provide for consumption by users. Looking at the Big Picture Creating fresh content that is insightful, entertaining, or informational is important. But that’s…

How to Get Over the One Hurdle Keeping You From Creating Awesome Content

In the last 12-18 months, several factors have come together to form what could be described as a digital marketing perfect storm, transforming content into the foundation of both search and social: Search algorithm changes  that deemphasized thin content in the SERPs pushed marketers to focus on quality content . As is evident from the chart below, social developed into a legitimate content…

Landing page optimization and conversion funnel testing

If landing page optimization and conversion funnel testing are not on the list of items that you’re currently focusing on, then you’re not getting the most out of the visitors that are coming to your site. This is true for all types of websites, whether you want your visitors to make a purchase or donate so you can increase revenue, download a white paper so they can learn more about a specific…

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