Have you ever heard about cloud link-building? We have trained a team of experts abroad, to focus on doing content spinning, authority sites, RSS feeds, SEO link-building, social media marketing, bookmarking, and much more.
MarCom's team manages building cloud linking around articles for locally based keywords and uses multiple IP addresses for a fast track. These strategies and tactics have been tested using the Caffeine beta since early Fall of 2009, and they are working beautifully with the Beta of Google's new Caffeine, the update to Google's algorithm.
Expanding the MarCom Los Angeles SEO team to other parts of the world allows us to focus on online marketing strategies for our clients, and integrating ways to build their business along with building brands.
Most of our clients are on page one of the search engines as a result of these cloud building and mashing strategies, along with the blogs, online newsletters, bookmarking sites such as DIGG and Delicious, and many other white hat link-building strategies.
Visit www.marcomnewmedia.com for more information and case histories of our client successes.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
Reputation Management is Crisis PR
What is online reputation management? It is what marketers and public relations pros used to call crisis management. Frequently being called "online reputation management" today, MarCom started seeing this challenge back around 2005. It was when many chief executive officers started seeing negative listings, comments or articles about them and/or their company’s products and services on the Internet.
Back then, about ten years ago, marketers spent their time training executives in major corporations on how to handle a crisis, but when the worldwide Web was born,things changed. And today, social media channels like Twitter or Facebook, a crisis can travel at the speed of light, and potentially put a company out of business overnight.
In those days CEOs and many company officers unwittingly responded to people in blogs or news forums and to journalists online – and often times their comments were perceived in a negative way. If anyone anywhere online would say bad things about a CEO or their company and products online, it showed up on page one of the search engines when the CEO's name and his company was searched for online. These kinds of complaints or bad reviews that were showing up in a search meant a loss of revenues, and in some cases, lost businesses period.
These days, most CEOs know better than to say bad things online. The problem being that anything you write on the worldwide Web remains on the worldwide Web. Reputation management services promise to highlight positive pages and bury offending sites deep in search results. Most reputation services work by tracking what's written about a client on the Web, then doing search engine optimization (SEO) and promoting the positive pages, thereby pushing damaging references off the first pages of search results.
Even worse, if you EVER had a bad rap sheet from a prior crime or offence that shows up on the Internet. In one case, a book was written about a group of men that were sent to jail for a crime. That book was reviewed in a national business magazine, and to this day it remains engrained on page one of Google and the Internet, mug shots and all. The bigger the website with a negative listing, the harder it is and longer it takes to remove it.
Today this is known as "reputation management" -- a job that typically falls upon marketing and PR people to make what these CEOs said vanish. Five years ago it only took a couple of months to “bury” negative comments online because Google was less sophisticated and there was less content out there. But then it all depends on the business category. Some categories have more content posted on the Web than others. As just one example, optimizing for "purple hearts" is going to be easier than "wireless technology" becaus therer is less out there about purple hearts.
Therefore, online reputation management was born to deal with a businessman, celebrity, or a politician's negative listings. In addition to using basic public relations strategies, SEO and link building became the way to solve these challenges.
The marketing and SEO firm must determine the new key messages for use online. Then they will use these optimum key words in all written content online and offline. That includes website copy, press materials, and optimized press releases that are posted on electronic wire services; syndicated articles for the Web; blogs and newsletters. And nowadays, we also use Facebook, Twitter and bookmark sites like DIGG, and Stumble Upon, to create links back to the client’s website pages with relevant content.
Within weeks negative listings will start to be pushed back off of Google’s first page, and by three to six months a company’s ranking by the search engines should be showing a significant increase in organic listings based on the key words used, and the negative listings will be pushed down on the pages of the se4arch engines, although they may never be completely gone.
Reputation management services have become mainstream because of the growth online. What took a couple of months to "fix" an issue in years past now takes more time, and a bigger team. We have trained and put people in place globally to assist in this effort. And since we have managed online reputation strategies for other clients too.
Today we use bigger teams to create more links faster, along with newer more sophisticated (and time consuming) tactics like short optimized video postings on YouTube, the syndication of many optimized content articles, and an array of interlinked websites and social media marketing platforms to create RSS mashups, hubspots, and a synergistic approach for moving negative listings back to the back pages on the Web.
Back then, about ten years ago, marketers spent their time training executives in major corporations on how to handle a crisis, but when the worldwide Web was born,things changed. And today, social media channels like Twitter or Facebook, a crisis can travel at the speed of light, and potentially put a company out of business overnight.
In those days CEOs and many company officers unwittingly responded to people in blogs or news forums and to journalists online – and often times their comments were perceived in a negative way. If anyone anywhere online would say bad things about a CEO or their company and products online, it showed up on page one of the search engines when the CEO's name and his company was searched for online. These kinds of complaints or bad reviews that were showing up in a search meant a loss of revenues, and in some cases, lost businesses period.
These days, most CEOs know better than to say bad things online. The problem being that anything you write on the worldwide Web remains on the worldwide Web. Reputation management services promise to highlight positive pages and bury offending sites deep in search results. Most reputation services work by tracking what's written about a client on the Web, then doing search engine optimization (SEO) and promoting the positive pages, thereby pushing damaging references off the first pages of search results.
Even worse, if you EVER had a bad rap sheet from a prior crime or offence that shows up on the Internet. In one case, a book was written about a group of men that were sent to jail for a crime. That book was reviewed in a national business magazine, and to this day it remains engrained on page one of Google and the Internet, mug shots and all. The bigger the website with a negative listing, the harder it is and longer it takes to remove it.
Today this is known as "reputation management" -- a job that typically falls upon marketing and PR people to make what these CEOs said vanish. Five years ago it only took a couple of months to “bury” negative comments online because Google was less sophisticated and there was less content out there. But then it all depends on the business category. Some categories have more content posted on the Web than others. As just one example, optimizing for "purple hearts" is going to be easier than "wireless technology" becaus therer is less out there about purple hearts.
Therefore, online reputation management was born to deal with a businessman, celebrity, or a politician's negative listings. In addition to using basic public relations strategies, SEO and link building became the way to solve these challenges.
The marketing and SEO firm must determine the new key messages for use online. Then they will use these optimum key words in all written content online and offline. That includes website copy, press materials, and optimized press releases that are posted on electronic wire services; syndicated articles for the Web; blogs and newsletters. And nowadays, we also use Facebook, Twitter and bookmark sites like DIGG, and Stumble Upon, to create links back to the client’s website pages with relevant content.
Within weeks negative listings will start to be pushed back off of Google’s first page, and by three to six months a company’s ranking by the search engines should be showing a significant increase in organic listings based on the key words used, and the negative listings will be pushed down on the pages of the se4arch engines, although they may never be completely gone.
Reputation management services have become mainstream because of the growth online. What took a couple of months to "fix" an issue in years past now takes more time, and a bigger team. We have trained and put people in place globally to assist in this effort. And since we have managed online reputation strategies for other clients too.
Today we use bigger teams to create more links faster, along with newer more sophisticated (and time consuming) tactics like short optimized video postings on YouTube, the syndication of many optimized content articles, and an array of interlinked websites and social media marketing platforms to create RSS mashups, hubspots, and a synergistic approach for moving negative listings back to the back pages on the Web.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Best Online Marketing Practices and a Case History
Today's marketers are asking about the value of social media marketing. As a Los Angeles social media marketing agency, we have researched this topic, and here are their top three questions:
1) Tell me what are the best practices of social media marketing?
2) What are the time management considerations with social media?
3) How can marketers measure the return on investment of social media marketing?
MarCom New Media has been doing social media networking since the beginning about six years ago. We believe that blogs and You Tube are the best practices thus far, although we are seeing pretty good results for corporate Facebook fan pages when done in conjunction with Pay per Click (PPC) ads on Facebook.
If you are still having a hard time believing that Twitter has much value other than for link-buliding links back to websites, join the club. However we do know for the food wagons, the construction workers who use it among their teams, and for crisis management, it works, oh and also for the emdia, and celebrities in the entertainment world. For many other businesses, maybe not.
Social media marketing is time consuming - period. This is where you need good writers, skilled at posting to the various social mediums. Social media may be best served when done by more junior staff members, so that senior management can take on strategies, marketing planning, meetings, and stressing about how we should be measuring it.
Last, many marketers are having a difficult time measuring the return on investment (ROI) from social media marketing. In fact, nearly 61 percent of marketers surveyed said their organizations' ROI measurement practices are poor, and 34 percent stated they are "very poor."
It seems that historically, PR has also always had a reputation for been difficult to measure. PR professionals have used the number of press articles (quantitative) and the messages that were written up (qualitative) as methods of measurement in the past, and the reality is that now PR can be measured through onine tools as well.
We will soon start seeing improved measurement capabilities built right into the tools, as search and social media tools are now being improved radically. However, MarCom did a year-end report for one medical devices client in January of 2010 after a big six month push with online marketing. We used many of the measurement tools in the social media services that we have been using use. Here's a sample of what we accomplished during that six month period:
The Value of Social Media Marketing (SMM)
4,803 Links.
63+ blog posts; 90 videos.
20+ Articles each spun over 30 times and syndicated on Web.
10 press releases; 3 consumer, 1 doctor; 1 pharmacist newsletter.
210 Twitter followers; 140 Twitter posts; 2,275 links
114 Facebook friends; 100 posts; Facebook ad ¡V $200 per mo. = average 384 visitors to website. Average cost per month $224. Average cost per visit 60 cents (which is cheap for PPC).
20 Diggs; 20 del.icio.us and many more.
Resulting in over 75,000 measurable, trackable views and visits at a cost of $1.66 (our fees). This compares most favorably with the cost of pay per click at $2.00 per visit, minimum. This is a savings to Wiley of over $25,000 for the six month period July 1-Dec 25, or $4,250 in savings per month.
Increase of 49,000 website visitors in 2009
Additional 11,500 visitors to videos in 2009
Additional 6,000 plus visitors to press releases
Additional 25,000 visitors to blog in 2009
6,412 additional visitors to articles in 2009
Additional 6 to 8,000 visitors to press releases in 2009
ADDITIONAL VISITORS 2009 vs. 2008: 105,912
1) Tell me what are the best practices of social media marketing?
2) What are the time management considerations with social media?
3) How can marketers measure the return on investment of social media marketing?
MarCom New Media has been doing social media networking since the beginning about six years ago. We believe that blogs and You Tube are the best practices thus far, although we are seeing pretty good results for corporate Facebook fan pages when done in conjunction with Pay per Click (PPC) ads on Facebook.
If you are still having a hard time believing that Twitter has much value other than for link-buliding links back to websites, join the club. However we do know for the food wagons, the construction workers who use it among their teams, and for crisis management, it works, oh and also for the emdia, and celebrities in the entertainment world. For many other businesses, maybe not.
Social media marketing is time consuming - period. This is where you need good writers, skilled at posting to the various social mediums. Social media may be best served when done by more junior staff members, so that senior management can take on strategies, marketing planning, meetings, and stressing about how we should be measuring it.
Last, many marketers are having a difficult time measuring the return on investment (ROI) from social media marketing. In fact, nearly 61 percent of marketers surveyed said their organizations' ROI measurement practices are poor, and 34 percent stated they are "very poor."
It seems that historically, PR has also always had a reputation for been difficult to measure. PR professionals have used the number of press articles (quantitative) and the messages that were written up (qualitative) as methods of measurement in the past, and the reality is that now PR can be measured through onine tools as well.
We will soon start seeing improved measurement capabilities built right into the tools, as search and social media tools are now being improved radically. However, MarCom did a year-end report for one medical devices client in January of 2010 after a big six month push with online marketing. We used many of the measurement tools in the social media services that we have been using use. Here's a sample of what we accomplished during that six month period:
The Value of Social Media Marketing (SMM)
4,803 Links.
63+ blog posts; 90 videos.
20+ Articles each spun over 30 times and syndicated on Web.
10 press releases; 3 consumer, 1 doctor; 1 pharmacist newsletter.
210 Twitter followers; 140 Twitter posts; 2,275 links
114 Facebook friends; 100 posts; Facebook ad ¡V $200 per mo. = average 384 visitors to website. Average cost per month $224. Average cost per visit 60 cents (which is cheap for PPC).
20 Diggs; 20 del.icio.us and many more.
Resulting in over 75,000 measurable, trackable views and visits at a cost of $1.66 (our fees). This compares most favorably with the cost of pay per click at $2.00 per visit, minimum. This is a savings to Wiley of over $25,000 for the six month period July 1-Dec 25, or $4,250 in savings per month.
Increase of 49,000 website visitors in 2009
Additional 11,500 visitors to videos in 2009
Additional 6,000 plus visitors to press releases
Additional 25,000 visitors to blog in 2009
6,412 additional visitors to articles in 2009
Additional 6 to 8,000 visitors to press releases in 2009
ADDITIONAL VISITORS 2009 vs. 2008: 105,912
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Has Social Media Marketing Replaced Public Relations?
We have entered a new era of what has been called public relations over the years. I remember when PR became corporate communications, then marketing communications, and now many are saying that they believe PR has become social media.
I believe that PR is here to stay - although it is not the old school publicist in a telephone booth dialing the media to share the latest news tip on the street. It has changed from one way publishing and broadcasting to two way conversations.
Over the last year and a half, more than 300 newspapers have folded. Around eight magazines with a circulation of 1 million or more stopped their presses, while more than magazines completely shut down. 600 top-tier publishing employees were laid off. In the radio business alone, more than 10,000 jobs were lost. Bankruptcies have overtaken 100 plus television stations after their parent companies filed Chapter 11 bankrupsy.
It is no surprise. 2010 started out as the year of transformation. Whether it is due to the economy, in part, or just a social uprising - we are in early stages of a re-engineering of business as we know it, driven by social networking which has almost replaced the traditional media. (Source: Vocus Media Research Group.)
Today, people interact online in real-time dialogues with each other. Businesses now speak to customers with the hopes of influencing them. And people listen watch and read what other peoople have to say about products and services. Full disclosure. No longer can companies hide behind brand messaging.
However, marketing and public relations do go hand in hand with online strategies today, helping to launch and maintain social media campaigns. As a Los Angeles public relations agency, MarCom will always believe in synergistic campaigns and using the foundation built by yesterday’s public relations strategies.
As of today, 65 percent of marketers have only been involved with social media marketing for a few months or less.; 56 percent, are using social media for six plus hours every week; and only one in three – do social media for more than 11 hours per week. 85 percent of marketers indicated that the number-one advantage of social media marketing is generating exposure for their business.
For more information on MarCom's social media marketing services, call 323.650.2838.
I believe that PR is here to stay - although it is not the old school publicist in a telephone booth dialing the media to share the latest news tip on the street. It has changed from one way publishing and broadcasting to two way conversations.
Over the last year and a half, more than 300 newspapers have folded. Around eight magazines with a circulation of 1 million or more stopped their presses, while more than magazines completely shut down. 600 top-tier publishing employees were laid off. In the radio business alone, more than 10,000 jobs were lost. Bankruptcies have overtaken 100 plus television stations after their parent companies filed Chapter 11 bankrupsy.
It is no surprise. 2010 started out as the year of transformation. Whether it is due to the economy, in part, or just a social uprising - we are in early stages of a re-engineering of business as we know it, driven by social networking which has almost replaced the traditional media. (Source: Vocus Media Research Group.)
Today, people interact online in real-time dialogues with each other. Businesses now speak to customers with the hopes of influencing them. And people listen watch and read what other peoople have to say about products and services. Full disclosure. No longer can companies hide behind brand messaging.
However, marketing and public relations do go hand in hand with online strategies today, helping to launch and maintain social media campaigns. As a Los Angeles public relations agency, MarCom will always believe in synergistic campaigns and using the foundation built by yesterday’s public relations strategies.
As of today, 65 percent of marketers have only been involved with social media marketing for a few months or less.; 56 percent, are using social media for six plus hours every week; and only one in three – do social media for more than 11 hours per week. 85 percent of marketers indicated that the number-one advantage of social media marketing is generating exposure for their business.
For more information on MarCom's social media marketing services, call 323.650.2838.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Los Angeles SEO Company Goes Local
If you want to get a good grasp of where search engine optimization is going in 2010 think like a realtor. Location, location, location. Our Los Angeles search engine marketing guru Mike Keesling has been tracking the just-this-week-launched Google Caffeine algorithm. And due to the work we started doing with the Beta back in the Fall - all of our clients are being ranked high up in page one of Google.
Mike says this year search engine marketing will become increasingly more important as far as Google is concerned. That is why, in both the second and third option of Maintenance SEO, we make provisions for building cloud linking around articles for locally based keywords.
Hidden in the discussion of what the Caffeine update to the Google algorithm means is that location is going to be a huge factor in terms of what results get returned on searches. Here's why.
All search engines are becoming more and more personalized. What that means is that if you live in Los Angeles and are searching for a hair salon (for instance) you will start seeing more and more Los Angeles based hair salons in the search results as we move into the New Year.
What this affords for the Los Angeles SEO companies like MarCom New Media is a tremendous opportunity by using Google Map API's and other localized search optimization tactics to totally dominate the results for your main keyword phrase (Los Angeles social media marketing in our example) for anyone searching for social media marketing firms who work from the Los Angeles area, as well as for anyone outside of Los Angeles searching for the phrase "Los Angeles Social media marketing firm."
This may be the last time there is a level playing field between small business and big business to dominate search rankings.
Mike says this year search engine marketing will become increasingly more important as far as Google is concerned. That is why, in both the second and third option of Maintenance SEO, we make provisions for building cloud linking around articles for locally based keywords.
Hidden in the discussion of what the Caffeine update to the Google algorithm means is that location is going to be a huge factor in terms of what results get returned on searches. Here's why.
All search engines are becoming more and more personalized. What that means is that if you live in Los Angeles and are searching for a hair salon (for instance) you will start seeing more and more Los Angeles based hair salons in the search results as we move into the New Year.
What this affords for the Los Angeles SEO companies like MarCom New Media is a tremendous opportunity by using Google Map API's and other localized search optimization tactics to totally dominate the results for your main keyword phrase (Los Angeles social media marketing in our example) for anyone searching for social media marketing firms who work from the Los Angeles area, as well as for anyone outside of Los Angeles searching for the phrase "Los Angeles Social media marketing firm."
This may be the last time there is a level playing field between small business and big business to dominate search rankings.
Monday, November 30, 2009
The Paradign Shift in Online Marketing
We are in the earliest stages of a massive paradigm shift among the corporate world and our institutions - and it is all being driven by social media marketing and the Web.
Ie seems like social networking has been tagged as a better way to work. Many experts agree it will become an essential utility to do business, so the faster businesses use social media tools, the better they will do in the New Year. But if your website isn't optimized properly for the search engines, it won't help you on your Google rankings.
In the past, we didn't necessarily think that Twitter was a great of a corporate tool as other networks like Facebook. But now we can see, that both have their places - especially with re-Tweeting capabilities, and tiny urls which fit the 140 character format. We have set up corporate accounts and ghostblog, ghostTwitter, and have corporate fan pages for all of our clients. We also do corporate social bookmarking of content that we write and post all over the Web in spots like DIGG, StumbleUpon, and others.
Our clients' YouTube videos are a smashing success. Check out www.YouTube.com/Bioidenticals where we have more than 90 videos for client T.S. Wiley, who sells the Wiley Protocol bioidenticals. The fact is, all of these online social media marketing tools are great for content building and linking back to websites, which ultimately gives you first page results in the search engines. But you must know how to link properly.
The 2010 New Year - some time in January with a national roll-out - is when Caffeine launches, a next-generation architecture for Google's web search. So far we are seeing great results for our clients rankings with the Beta version.
What's more, Google's Social Search is a new program that integrates content from a user’s social network into their search results so they can easily find relevant blogs, reviews and other information from within their own social networking groups.
If there's relevant web content written by people in your circle when you sign into Google, it will show up at the bottom of your search results under an area called "Results from people in your social circle." This means that search marketing is going to become more targeted to individuals, as people seriously organize into groups and communities on the Web. It is also becomming more localized.
Overall, today people just want direct communication with the brands, products and services they like and uchoose to use. People want messages that address their individual needs, even if it is only 140 characters in Twitter.
The era of mo more mass marketing is over.
Call Los Angeles SEO company, MarCom New Media at 323.650.2838 for more information on how we can help your business.
Ie seems like social networking has been tagged as a better way to work. Many experts agree it will become an essential utility to do business, so the faster businesses use social media tools, the better they will do in the New Year. But if your website isn't optimized properly for the search engines, it won't help you on your Google rankings.
In the past, we didn't necessarily think that Twitter was a great of a corporate tool as other networks like Facebook. But now we can see, that both have their places - especially with re-Tweeting capabilities, and tiny urls which fit the 140 character format. We have set up corporate accounts and ghostblog, ghostTwitter, and have corporate fan pages for all of our clients. We also do corporate social bookmarking of content that we write and post all over the Web in spots like DIGG, StumbleUpon, and others.
Our clients' YouTube videos are a smashing success. Check out www.YouTube.com/Bioidenticals where we have more than 90 videos for client T.S. Wiley, who sells the Wiley Protocol bioidenticals. The fact is, all of these online social media marketing tools are great for content building and linking back to websites, which ultimately gives you first page results in the search engines. But you must know how to link properly.
The 2010 New Year - some time in January with a national roll-out - is when Caffeine launches, a next-generation architecture for Google's web search. So far we are seeing great results for our clients rankings with the Beta version.
What's more, Google's Social Search is a new program that integrates content from a user’s social network into their search results so they can easily find relevant blogs, reviews and other information from within their own social networking groups.
If there's relevant web content written by people in your circle when you sign into Google, it will show up at the bottom of your search results under an area called "Results from people in your social circle." This means that search marketing is going to become more targeted to individuals, as people seriously organize into groups and communities on the Web. It is also becomming more localized.
Overall, today people just want direct communication with the brands, products and services they like and uchoose to use. People want messages that address their individual needs, even if it is only 140 characters in Twitter.
The era of mo more mass marketing is over.
Call Los Angeles SEO company, MarCom New Media at 323.650.2838 for more information on how we can help your business.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Is Your Website Optimized for the Search Engines?
Our resident SEO expert Mike Keesling was doing Search Engine Optimization (SEO) when Pacific Islands Reservations had one website in 1996. With 12 websites today, we have helped them maintain a top ten ranking in Google, MSN and Yahoo since.
If you are a small business you need a website with interactive content that will attract your customers while they are online seeking what they want. When your potential customers type in the key words or phrases associated with your products and services, MarCom will help get your site ranked to come up within the first page of the results in Google or Yahoo.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is how people will find your website and it's also a way to improve the volume and quality of traffic to your site. When people use search engines to find what they are looking for they type in key words or phrases. MarCom uses a custom analysis will tell us which keywords your customers use, plus those that your competitors have used.
Most web designers do not install Meta, Title or Alt tags properly. This is critical to the search engines and your customers finding your website. One example is that sites with flash pages are not able to be read by Google, so avoiud them. You can use embedded flash, but make sure there's text on each page of your site. Content is king for the search engines.
Optimized tags and content with the proper key words we will make sure every page on your website is optimized properly. More subject-specific content means better qualified traffic. This text is optimized if the search engines can find it via keyword-density.
For more information on search engine optimization, contact MarCom at 323.650.2838 or go to http://www.marcomnewmedia.com/
If you are a small business you need a website with interactive content that will attract your customers while they are online seeking what they want. When your potential customers type in the key words or phrases associated with your products and services, MarCom will help get your site ranked to come up within the first page of the results in Google or Yahoo.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is how people will find your website and it's also a way to improve the volume and quality of traffic to your site. When people use search engines to find what they are looking for they type in key words or phrases. MarCom uses a custom analysis will tell us which keywords your customers use, plus those that your competitors have used.
Most web designers do not install Meta, Title or Alt tags properly. This is critical to the search engines and your customers finding your website. One example is that sites with flash pages are not able to be read by Google, so avoiud them. You can use embedded flash, but make sure there's text on each page of your site. Content is king for the search engines.
Optimized tags and content with the proper key words we will make sure every page on your website is optimized properly. More subject-specific content means better qualified traffic. This text is optimized if the search engines can find it via keyword-density.
For more information on search engine optimization, contact MarCom at 323.650.2838 or go to http://www.marcomnewmedia.com/
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Search Engine Optimization Strategy: Essential for Optimization for a Website
Today, a colleague made a comment about the fact that many of the new open source software and web design applications have built-in search engine optimization. This may be true, but typically the optimization will not work like that of a customized website - the likes of what our SMM guru Mike Keesling does.
Content management sites these days usually are SEO friendly, which means that the page name rewrites a redirect to a file name with an html on it, so it makes search engine friendly urls. Ssecond, alot of these open source CMS sites do come with the ability to individually define Meta tags and title tags, as opposed to before, where we got global tags. They give us a form field, to do individual Meta and title tags -- but you still need to input the correct wording or tag. One still has to do the work and know what you're doing. There is no button to click to optimize your site without doing the work.
Many website designers do not know how to do detailed search engine optimization (SEO). Custom Web site meta, alt and description tags that tie-in with relevant content on each page, and properly characterized. We create a Web site search engine optimization strategy for each of our clients. In fact here's a recent example for client David Gross, founder of Movie Review Intelligence, Inc.
We met with David early in April, and realized that his new movie review aggrigation website would have dynamic content with the new movie reviews each week. MarCom's Mike Keesling knew he would have to be creative with the Website's SEO and come up with a clear onsite search engine optimization strategy.
We typically use the SWAT approach for a new client's launch. That includes:
Search engine optimization
Writing content and linking back to the site.
Analytics to track visitors.
Tracking SEO results.
After conducting a competative Keyword Analysis, he figured out a formula to add the Meta tags dynamically. It worked like a charm and the site was recognized within a week on Google.
Meanwhile we added an RSS press room using Press-feed (http://www.press-feed-com/) and wrote all the press materials, including key words with links to relevant pages on the site.
Next we began the offsite linking strategy, which meant creating a social media marketing strategy, and beginning all the activities of posting tweets in Twitter, Facebook, and the social bookmarketing sites like DIGG. These too include links back to the relevant content on the website.
Currently we are tracking visitors to the website, which are increasing every day. We will do a hard launch with an announcement press release next week on MarketWire. After the second month we will track our search engine optimization results.
Content management sites these days usually are SEO friendly, which means that the page name rewrites a redirect to a file name with an html on it, so it makes search engine friendly urls. Ssecond, alot of these open source CMS sites do come with the ability to individually define Meta tags and title tags, as opposed to before, where we got global tags. They give us a form field, to do individual Meta and title tags -- but you still need to input the correct wording or tag. One still has to do the work and know what you're doing. There is no button to click to optimize your site without doing the work.
Many website designers do not know how to do detailed search engine optimization (SEO). Custom Web site meta, alt and description tags that tie-in with relevant content on each page, and properly characterized. We create a Web site search engine optimization strategy for each of our clients. In fact here's a recent example for client David Gross, founder of Movie Review Intelligence, Inc.
We met with David early in April, and realized that his new movie review aggrigation website would have dynamic content with the new movie reviews each week. MarCom's Mike Keesling knew he would have to be creative with the Website's SEO and come up with a clear onsite search engine optimization strategy.
We typically use the SWAT approach for a new client's launch. That includes:
Search engine optimization
Writing content and linking back to the site.
Analytics to track visitors.
Tracking SEO results.
After conducting a competative Keyword Analysis, he figured out a formula to add the Meta tags dynamically. It worked like a charm and the site was recognized within a week on Google.
Meanwhile we added an RSS press room using Press-feed (http://www.press-feed-com/) and wrote all the press materials, including key words with links to relevant pages on the site.
Next we began the offsite linking strategy, which meant creating a social media marketing strategy, and beginning all the activities of posting tweets in Twitter, Facebook, and the social bookmarketing sites like DIGG. These too include links back to the relevant content on the website.
Currently we are tracking visitors to the website, which are increasing every day. We will do a hard launch with an announcement press release next week on MarketWire. After the second month we will track our search engine optimization results.
Search Engine Optimization Strategy: Essential for Optimization fo a Website
Today, a colleague made a comment about the fact that many of the new open source software and web design applications have built-in search engine optimization. This may be true, but typically the optimization will not work like that of a customized website - the likes of what our SMM guru Mike Keesling does.
Many website designers do not know how to do detailed search engine optimization (SEO). Custom Web site meta, alt and description tags that tie-in with relevant content on each page, and properly characterized. We create a Web site search engine optimization strategy for each of our clients. In fact here's a recent example for client David Gross, founder of Movie Review intelligence, Inc.
We met with David early in April, and realized that his new movie review aggrigation website would have dynamic content with the new movie reviews each week. MarCom's Mike Keesling knew he would have to be creative with the Website's SEO and come up with a clear onsite search engine optimization strategy.
We typically use the SWAT approach for a new client's launch. That includes:
Search engine optimization
Writing content and linking back to the site.
Analytics to track visitors.
Tracking SEO results.
After conducting a competative Keyword Analysis, he figured out a formula to add the Meta tags dynamically. It worked like a charm and the site was recognized within a week on Google.
Meanwhile we added an RSS press room using Press-feed (www.press-feed-com) and wrote all the press materials, including key words with links to relevant pages on the site.
Next we began the offsite linking strategy, which meant creating a social media marketing strategy, and beginning all the activities of posting tweets in Twitter, Facebook, and the social bookmarketing sites like DIGG. These too include links back to the relevant content on the website.
Currently we are tracking visitors to the website, which are increasing every day. We will do a hard launch with an announcement press release next week on MarketWire. After the second month we will track our search engine optimization results.
Many website designers do not know how to do detailed search engine optimization (SEO). Custom Web site meta, alt and description tags that tie-in with relevant content on each page, and properly characterized. We create a Web site search engine optimization strategy for each of our clients. In fact here's a recent example for client David Gross, founder of Movie Review intelligence, Inc.
We met with David early in April, and realized that his new movie review aggrigation website would have dynamic content with the new movie reviews each week. MarCom's Mike Keesling knew he would have to be creative with the Website's SEO and come up with a clear onsite search engine optimization strategy.
We typically use the SWAT approach for a new client's launch. That includes:
Search engine optimization
Writing content and linking back to the site.
Analytics to track visitors.
Tracking SEO results.
After conducting a competative Keyword Analysis, he figured out a formula to add the Meta tags dynamically. It worked like a charm and the site was recognized within a week on Google.
Meanwhile we added an RSS press room using Press-feed (www.press-feed-com) and wrote all the press materials, including key words with links to relevant pages on the site.
Next we began the offsite linking strategy, which meant creating a social media marketing strategy, and beginning all the activities of posting tweets in Twitter, Facebook, and the social bookmarketing sites like DIGG. These too include links back to the relevant content on the website.
Currently we are tracking visitors to the website, which are increasing every day. We will do a hard launch with an announcement press release next week on MarketWire. After the second month we will track our search engine optimization results.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Link Building Strategies are Critical to SEO
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) practices have been defined and now companies are competing for visibility within the organic search listings on the Internet. Three years ago it took a couple of months to be optimized; today it is closer to six to eight months. Why? Because so many companies are finally trying to get optimized, and the search engines need time to put them in place. New websites typically spend a month in the Google sandbox, before they are recognized.
Link building strategies are critical to the success of a website’s optimization. Link building provides links using your keywords to various pages on your website, so that the search engines will give the site a higher ranking, and so people using search terms and phrases will be more likely to find your site.
Social media marketing practitioners like MarOm New Media uses various tactics including building links to your site in relevant blogs, photo sites, social media networks, newswires, and directories. If you have short podcasts (audio) or videos, these can also be added to YouTube, and we also syndicate them to hundreds of other video sites. MarCom has completed the Bioidenticals Network on YouTube, for example, for our client The Wiley Protocol, for whom we have filmed, edited, produced, and syndicated more than 42 videos thus far.
Additionally you will find that there are other strategies including ghost blogging, forum posts, and bookmarking on social media networks, all of which provide linking opportunities. Bookmarking means adding content via a button, "add to del.icio.us," for example. You can also submit white papers, or relevant articles to other relevant sites to get your content out there. This way others can create what the industry has dubbed "mashups" to drive traffic back to your website.
MarCom has recently developed some ingenious three way linking strategies for MarCom clients that we'll be launching before July. Hiont: It is named "Billboard Mama."
Link building strategies are critical to the success of a website’s optimization. Link building provides links using your keywords to various pages on your website, so that the search engines will give the site a higher ranking, and so people using search terms and phrases will be more likely to find your site.
Social media marketing practitioners like MarOm New Media uses various tactics including building links to your site in relevant blogs, photo sites, social media networks, newswires, and directories. If you have short podcasts (audio) or videos, these can also be added to YouTube, and we also syndicate them to hundreds of other video sites. MarCom has completed the Bioidenticals Network on YouTube, for example, for our client The Wiley Protocol, for whom we have filmed, edited, produced, and syndicated more than 42 videos thus far.
Additionally you will find that there are other strategies including ghost blogging, forum posts, and bookmarking on social media networks, all of which provide linking opportunities. Bookmarking means adding content via a button, "add to del.icio.us," for example. You can also submit white papers, or relevant articles to other relevant sites to get your content out there. This way others can create what the industry has dubbed "mashups" to drive traffic back to your website.
MarCom has recently developed some ingenious three way linking strategies for MarCom clients that we'll be launching before July. Hiont: It is named "Billboard Mama."
Monday, May 11, 2009
B2B Social Media Marketing
We are getting many questions from our clients asking if we should start signing them up corporately for Facebook and Twitter, etc. Since MarCom has been doing Social Media Marketing (SMM) since the beginning, we have some strategic thoughts on what works and how it should be leveraged for B2B correctly.
First you need to do some research. One thing MarCom has done for several clients including Expensewatch.com, and The Interface Financial Group, is an audit of their competitor's search engine marketing programs, and then we provide recommendations for improvement. We told them, you need to review what to accomplish, and take a look at how SMM will complement your overall marketing plan. All companies need an SMM strategy - but it is difficult for most marketers to do this when this area is not their expertise.
For those of you involved in B2B, if you don't yet believe that MarCom New Media can assist you with your social media marketing, read Paul Gillin's latest book, Secrets of Social Media Marketing. This book will educate you about the ways you can extend your brand, engage customers, launch a product, deal with a crisis, and most importantly, generate leads in communities where your customers live online.
Some of the tactics include ghostwriting blogs, posting videos and syndicating them on the Internet, syndicating articles, and bookmarking in places like DIGG or StumbleUpon, to name only a few. Corporate Facebook pages and Twitter accounts are becomming popular as well. And as always, link backs from these social media sites to your website are encouraged for better search engine optimization and website rankings.
Gillin told us, "Social Media Marketing actually appears to be gaining a head of steam. Peter Kim has a great wiki of social media marketing examples that is up to more than 1,500 entries. The list dramatizes the surge in interest that we are now seeing in SMM, particularly because of the attractive economies."
The good news is that once you have read it - you will realize there's no way you can manage it alone, so we hope you will us so we can develop a strategic plan, put our practiced team on it for you and measure results.
First you need to do some research. One thing MarCom has done for several clients including Expensewatch.com, and The Interface Financial Group, is an audit of their competitor's search engine marketing programs, and then we provide recommendations for improvement. We told them, you need to review what to accomplish, and take a look at how SMM will complement your overall marketing plan. All companies need an SMM strategy - but it is difficult for most marketers to do this when this area is not their expertise.
For those of you involved in B2B, if you don't yet believe that MarCom New Media can assist you with your social media marketing, read Paul Gillin's latest book, Secrets of Social Media Marketing. This book will educate you about the ways you can extend your brand, engage customers, launch a product, deal with a crisis, and most importantly, generate leads in communities where your customers live online.
Some of the tactics include ghostwriting blogs, posting videos and syndicating them on the Internet, syndicating articles, and bookmarking in places like DIGG or StumbleUpon, to name only a few. Corporate Facebook pages and Twitter accounts are becomming popular as well. And as always, link backs from these social media sites to your website are encouraged for better search engine optimization and website rankings.
Gillin told us, "Social Media Marketing actually appears to be gaining a head of steam. Peter Kim has a great wiki of social media marketing examples that is up to more than 1,500 entries. The list dramatizes the surge in interest that we are now seeing in SMM, particularly because of the attractive economies."
The good news is that once you have read it - you will realize there's no way you can manage it alone, so we hope you will us so we can develop a strategic plan, put our practiced team on it for you and measure results.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Join me to Use Social Media on Twitter, Facebook, My Space and More
As a Los Angeles social media marketing consultant, it has been interesting to experiment around with all of the new social media marketing mediums -- the convergence of marketing, advertising and PR on the Web. I do SMM every day for our MarCom New Media clients, including ghostwriting blogs like this one on invoice factoring for Interface Financial, writing articles and syndicated them over the Internet, writing optimized releases and pitch letters, bookmarking content in DIGG and distributing content over RSS feeds. When I pitch the media via email I use pitch letters with embedded videos.
Social Media Marketing for B2B has gotten a bad rap. But I make sure we use podcasts embedded, plus images of their latest products and services. Once our social media press releases are posted on the Internet, via Marketwire, they quickly show up in Yahoo and Google News,l SMM requires every bit as much of a professional to manage, as marketing, PR or corporate communications has always required.
Today, only about 10 to 15 percent of marketers nationwide are doing SMM, according to guru Paul Gillin who wrote a book called The New Influencers. The purpose of SMM is to engage with enthusiasts and existing customers in interactive communities in order to drive more traffic and sales.
If you have not already, start experimenting with blogs, online video, podcasts, corporate communities and public networks. In fact, social networks were only beginning to gain traction in the spring of 2007. Memberships are in the hundreds of millions.
Getting on the first page of the Google listings takes a searc engine optimization (SEO) company like MarCom, who spends months getting our clients ranked on the top of the search engines. Check out our Los Angeles SEO Successes
Social Media Marketing for B2B has gotten a bad rap. But I make sure we use podcasts embedded, plus images of their latest products and services. Once our social media press releases are posted on the Internet, via Marketwire, they quickly show up in Yahoo and Google News,l SMM requires every bit as much of a professional to manage, as marketing, PR or corporate communications has always required.
Today, only about 10 to 15 percent of marketers nationwide are doing SMM, according to guru Paul Gillin who wrote a book called The New Influencers. The purpose of SMM is to engage with enthusiasts and existing customers in interactive communities in order to drive more traffic and sales.
If you have not already, start experimenting with blogs, online video, podcasts, corporate communities and public networks. In fact, social networks were only beginning to gain traction in the spring of 2007. Memberships are in the hundreds of millions.
Getting on the first page of the Google listings takes a searc engine optimization (SEO) company like MarCom, who spends months getting our clients ranked on the top of the search engines. Check out our Los Angeles SEO Successes
Friday, April 17, 2009
Onsite Search Optimization Tips
Here are some tips for what NOT to do on your website if you want to attract customers. Never use Flash splash screens. Google and the search engines cannot read it, so Flash is not good for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) results. Embedded Flash is OK to use, but if your home page is a Flash splash screen with no text, the search engines simply won't see it.
As a Los Angeles search engine optimization consultants, we see everything, and mostly we see that website designers do more harm than good when they say they know how to SEO a website. Usually this is just not the case. Good SEO is also all about content... content... content. Make sure there is plenty of content on your website. Nice designs, photos and no content will not help your SEO results, period.
Meta, Title and Description tags are very important. You may have seen some websites where it says "new page" in the browser? That is because the website designer did not put a title tag on the page. A short message with a key word that describes your site in the Description tag is essential so your customers will click through to your site when potential customers see your site's listing.
Never use repeat Title and Description tags. Website pages should each be unique with a theme for key words or phrases for each page. Make your Title and Description tags match the content for one of the keywords per page. You can't optimize one single page for many different key words.
Do not use text as an image. Some sites have text and images combined into a jpg or gif image, so you can't select the text with your cursor. If a search engine can't find any searchable text, you will not get SEO results. Also don't make any headlines into gif images, because they should be text with a key word in it.
Local businesses don't need national SEO. A cigar store in Pasadena does not need to optimize for the national or global market. Customers must live nearby. MarCom had a client like this, so we optimized them for Pasadena Cigar stores. It worked. Now it would have been different if they had an online cigar store.
For those of you who need some more help with your search engine optimization visit our website at http://www.marcomnewmedia.com/
As a Los Angeles search engine optimization consultants, we see everything, and mostly we see that website designers do more harm than good when they say they know how to SEO a website. Usually this is just not the case. Good SEO is also all about content... content... content. Make sure there is plenty of content on your website. Nice designs, photos and no content will not help your SEO results, period.
Meta, Title and Description tags are very important. You may have seen some websites where it says "new page" in the browser? That is because the website designer did not put a title tag on the page. A short message with a key word that describes your site in the Description tag is essential so your customers will click through to your site when potential customers see your site's listing.
Never use repeat Title and Description tags. Website pages should each be unique with a theme for key words or phrases for each page. Make your Title and Description tags match the content for one of the keywords per page. You can't optimize one single page for many different key words.
Do not use text as an image. Some sites have text and images combined into a jpg or gif image, so you can't select the text with your cursor. If a search engine can't find any searchable text, you will not get SEO results. Also don't make any headlines into gif images, because they should be text with a key word in it.
Local businesses don't need national SEO. A cigar store in Pasadena does not need to optimize for the national or global market. Customers must live nearby. MarCom had a client like this, so we optimized them for Pasadena Cigar stores. It worked. Now it would have been different if they had an online cigar store.
For those of you who need some more help with your search engine optimization visit our website at http://www.marcomnewmedia.com/
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Google Bans Duplicate Tags and Content
MarCom’s search engine optimization (SEO) expert Mike Keesling has been telling us for some time that there would be a shakeup about duplicate content on the Internet, and as usual, he was right, because Google is not standing for duplicate content anymore. This includes the Internet, but more importantly, it means no more duplicate META, ALT or description tags on websites.
Recently MarCom New Media looked at a B2B company’s website and noticed that they had their name in all their title tags, which dilutes the effectiveness of the title tag. Google will not give full value to your pages, unless each page has a different title tag. ALL website pages need their own unique description tag. Tags should be keyword rich.
What is a title tag? Interestingly, there are no definitions in the online dictionaries for “title tag.” Not in Webster’s or Wikipedia. However, you will find many other descriptions if you type those words in Google. A title tag is a piece of HTML code that describes a specific web page of content. Title tags guide the search engines in determining what is in the content of specific web pages. TIP: Creating a relevant title tag is one of the most important variables in achieving high search engine positioning.
One of the most common mistakes that we see on 80 percent of our new clients' sites is that they put their company name as the first thing on the title tag for each page. Once we fix that, search ranking results begin to inprove. Most often the url for the site already includes the company name, so wasting valuable characters on constantly repeating the name of the company doesn't accomplish anything in terms of search engine optimization. It also usually ends up making at least 50 percent of each title tag identical which is NOT a good thing.
The other new Google slap is that Social Media Marketing (SMM) content must also be unique. This means that Google's cracking down on social media, just like it did last year with link building farms and bots. The rap is that content in social media sites needs to be original. You need to do the work. Or hire experts like us to do the work. Google will not accept it if you use a service that posts 100 Stumble Upon items that are all the same, from the same IP address or are posting hundreds of other tags, for other clients at the same time they do yours.
Content posted online must be: Unique and from different IP addresses; posted by unique people. That’s true social media...and if this all sounds like Greek to you, then please give MarCom a call at 323.650.2838 and we'll translate it for you.
PS Google LOVES articles these days. Here's just one example of a search optimized article for one of MarCom's clients - The Interface Financial Group. Credit Repair Tips for Small Businesses. But make SURE none of your articles are duplicates. Each article must be a specific percent different than the next.
As the recession forces many consumers to buy less—search engine marketing is key.
Recently MarCom New Media looked at a B2B company’s website and noticed that they had their name in all their title tags, which dilutes the effectiveness of the title tag. Google will not give full value to your pages, unless each page has a different title tag. ALL website pages need their own unique description tag. Tags should be keyword rich.
What is a title tag? Interestingly, there are no definitions in the online dictionaries for “title tag.” Not in Webster’s or Wikipedia. However, you will find many other descriptions if you type those words in Google. A title tag is a piece of HTML code that describes a specific web page of content. Title tags guide the search engines in determining what is in the content of specific web pages. TIP: Creating a relevant title tag is one of the most important variables in achieving high search engine positioning.
One of the most common mistakes that we see on 80 percent of our new clients' sites is that they put their company name as the first thing on the title tag for each page. Once we fix that, search ranking results begin to inprove. Most often the url for the site already includes the company name, so wasting valuable characters on constantly repeating the name of the company doesn't accomplish anything in terms of search engine optimization. It also usually ends up making at least 50 percent of each title tag identical which is NOT a good thing.
The other new Google slap is that Social Media Marketing (SMM) content must also be unique. This means that Google's cracking down on social media, just like it did last year with link building farms and bots. The rap is that content in social media sites needs to be original. You need to do the work. Or hire experts like us to do the work. Google will not accept it if you use a service that posts 100 Stumble Upon items that are all the same, from the same IP address or are posting hundreds of other tags, for other clients at the same time they do yours.
Content posted online must be: Unique and from different IP addresses; posted by unique people. That’s true social media...and if this all sounds like Greek to you, then please give MarCom a call at 323.650.2838 and we'll translate it for you.
PS Google LOVES articles these days. Here's just one example of a search optimized article for one of MarCom's clients - The Interface Financial Group. Credit Repair Tips for Small Businesses. But make SURE none of your articles are duplicates. Each article must be a specific percent different than the next.
As the recession forces many consumers to buy less—search engine marketing is key.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
The MarCom New Media Search Engine Marketing Audit
MarCom is no doubt, one of just a few cutting edge social media marketing firms in Los Angeles, and we are always getting leads for companies that have no clue about what their online marketing needs are or should be. Many people believe their web designers, or programmers, who often times "think" they know how to do search engine optimization (SEO). Our experience almost every time is that companies are NOT well optimized. if anything, webd esigners can do more damage than good when it comes to advising about SEO.
In order to help a company determine what they need to do insofar as SEO and SMM, MarCom has been also been conducting search engine optimization audits for companies. We just did one for client, ExpenseWatch.
Here's what our basic statement of work for an audit looks like. First we research and determine the keywords associated with your company's products or services that are most likely to achieve high search-engine rankings. Next we recommended a keyword strategy with the top SEO words and phrases and make suggestions to map the keywords to specific website pages, as well as how these words relate to competitive websites. You'll get a very comprehensive spreadsheet with this data.
Next MarCom conducts an audit of your current SEO and SEM and then provides recommendations for improving both. The audit reviews website content and offers suggestions for how to repackage pages and add to them. The navigation of the site is reviewed. In some cases we can provide a formula for your website Meta, title and description tags but it's often just easier for us to be hired to implement them.
The audit will also include your competitor activities, site visitor information, Google Adwords spends and organic search results. MarCom also recommends analytics or measurement tools and provides tips to analyze data. If your company already has a Google Adwords program, we'll review it (once you give us access) and provide tips for budgeting, improvements in the campaigns and we'll analyze their results. One of our clients was spending $28k per month. They are now down to around $7k per month thanks to our work. We weaned them off of Google Adword spending and improved their search engine results so they tripled their leads. We saved big marketing dollars.
In summary, many companies are able to leverage their existing content and outside websites already linking to them by using best of breed Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tactics. These include adding individual, relevant title tags, description tags, and where applicable, alt image tags to the website. But for others, we recommend our three phase approach: 1) Onsite optimization. 2) Offsite Optimization, and 3) Linking strategies and Social Media Marketing.
In order to help a company determine what they need to do insofar as SEO and SMM, MarCom has been also been conducting search engine optimization audits for companies. We just did one for client, ExpenseWatch.
Here's what our basic statement of work for an audit looks like. First we research and determine the keywords associated with your company's products or services that are most likely to achieve high search-engine rankings. Next we recommended a keyword strategy with the top SEO words and phrases and make suggestions to map the keywords to specific website pages, as well as how these words relate to competitive websites. You'll get a very comprehensive spreadsheet with this data.
Next MarCom conducts an audit of your current SEO and SEM and then provides recommendations for improving both. The audit reviews website content and offers suggestions for how to repackage pages and add to them. The navigation of the site is reviewed. In some cases we can provide a formula for your website Meta, title and description tags but it's often just easier for us to be hired to implement them.
The audit will also include your competitor activities, site visitor information, Google Adwords spends and organic search results. MarCom also recommends analytics or measurement tools and provides tips to analyze data. If your company already has a Google Adwords program, we'll review it (once you give us access) and provide tips for budgeting, improvements in the campaigns and we'll analyze their results. One of our clients was spending $28k per month. They are now down to around $7k per month thanks to our work. We weaned them off of Google Adword spending and improved their search engine results so they tripled their leads. We saved big marketing dollars.
In summary, many companies are able to leverage their existing content and outside websites already linking to them by using best of breed Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tactics. These include adding individual, relevant title tags, description tags, and where applicable, alt image tags to the website. But for others, we recommend our three phase approach: 1) Onsite optimization. 2) Offsite Optimization, and 3) Linking strategies and Social Media Marketing.
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Find me on Twitter at MarCom4SMM - for Social Media Marketing
The Aberdeen Group recently published a report, “The ROI on Social Media Marketing,” which was sponsored by Visible Technologies. The report affirms that marketers have developed the methods and tools to drive return on investment (ROI) for companies via social media. It's just one more reason why I now have a Twitter account for MarCom - twitter me at MarCom4SMM.
This just affirms what Marcom New Media, a Los Angeles social media marketing firm, has been doing for the last five years, which entails listening to customers and influencing prospects. Actually, we keep telling clients that in order to compete online, flourish and be more profitable, there are three key steps:
Phase I - Online SEO
Phase II - Offline Link Building and Pay per Click (PPC)
Phase III- Social Media Marketing
The research report said 63 percent of the companies in their survey (defined as best-in-class) planned to increase their social media marketing budgets this year.
The truth is, social media networks started around the spring of 2007, and today, memberships in platforms like Facebook, or My Space, are in the hundreds of millions. We started doing tactics like forum posting back in the year 2000.
But there is something else know as social media optimization. This includes offsite optimization strategies with the intent of distributed content across multiple social media networks. Tools for this include adding links to services such as Digg, Del.icio.us or Readdit.
MarCom writes unique content (all articles must be 30 to 40 % unique or different than any other document on the Web) that's embedded with your key words and phrases, so when people search online, there’s a better chance of finding your content via the search engines.
We are also a Los Angeles Search Engine Marketing (SEM) firm, and helps clients audit and determine search marketing strategies for increased lead generation online. We use a many different social networking platforms for branding online.
A couple of the areas that have grown for us includes ghostwriting blogs for clients. We also shoot video shorts, edit them and syndicate them online in places like Google video or YouTube, and record and manage podcasts. We recently completed a number of online videos for our client The Wiley Protocol, which are also on YouTube, and syndicated around the Internet.
This just affirms what Marcom New Media, a Los Angeles social media marketing firm, has been doing for the last five years, which entails listening to customers and influencing prospects. Actually, we keep telling clients that in order to compete online, flourish and be more profitable, there are three key steps:
Phase I - Online SEO
Phase II - Offline Link Building and Pay per Click (PPC)
Phase III- Social Media Marketing
The research report said 63 percent of the companies in their survey (defined as best-in-class) planned to increase their social media marketing budgets this year.
The truth is, social media networks started around the spring of 2007, and today, memberships in platforms like Facebook, or My Space, are in the hundreds of millions. We started doing tactics like forum posting back in the year 2000.
But there is something else know as social media optimization. This includes offsite optimization strategies with the intent of distributed content across multiple social media networks. Tools for this include adding links to services such as Digg, Del.icio.us or Readdit.
MarCom writes unique content (all articles must be 30 to 40 % unique or different than any other document on the Web) that's embedded with your key words and phrases, so when people search online, there’s a better chance of finding your content via the search engines.
We are also a Los Angeles Search Engine Marketing (SEM) firm, and helps clients audit and determine search marketing strategies for increased lead generation online. We use a many different social networking platforms for branding online.
A couple of the areas that have grown for us includes ghostwriting blogs for clients. We also shoot video shorts, edit them and syndicate them online in places like Google video or YouTube, and record and manage podcasts. We recently completed a number of online videos for our client The Wiley Protocol, which are also on YouTube, and syndicated around the Internet.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Email Marketing Report in From Forrester
According to a March 13, 2009 alert from Forrester, a report entitled, "Optimizing Email Marketing In An Economic Slowdown And Its Impact On Vendor Selection," by David Daniels
with Lauren Jesuitus, Corina Matiesanu, Dave Frankland and Emily Murphy, makes it clear we need to take heed. Following is an excerpt from that document. Marcom New Media, a Los Angeles Internet marketing company, believes that Forrester reports are a good indicator of the marketing marketplace.
"The current economic environment puts increased pressure on email marketers against which they must adjust their practices and strategies. A July 2008 JupiterResearch/Clickz survey of 286 email marketing executives reveals classic challenges of constrained staffing resources and data integration challenges. Driven by staffing challenges and the need to drive further cost efficiencies, 24% of marketers plan on switching their email service providers (ESPs) over the next 12 months. Email Marketers will need to quickly respond to changing consumer communication patterns and social marketing opportunities and must prioritize tactics to create efficiencies within their email marketing practices, such as improved use of targeting, leveraging automation and customer generated content as well as removing non-responsive subscribers from ongoing mailings."
with Lauren Jesuitus, Corina Matiesanu, Dave Frankland and Emily Murphy, makes it clear we need to take heed. Following is an excerpt from that document. Marcom New Media, a Los Angeles Internet marketing company, believes that Forrester reports are a good indicator of the marketing marketplace.
"The current economic environment puts increased pressure on email marketers against which they must adjust their practices and strategies. A July 2008 JupiterResearch/Clickz survey of 286 email marketing executives reveals classic challenges of constrained staffing resources and data integration challenges. Driven by staffing challenges and the need to drive further cost efficiencies, 24% of marketers plan on switching their email service providers (ESPs) over the next 12 months. Email Marketers will need to quickly respond to changing consumer communication patterns and social marketing opportunities and must prioritize tactics to create efficiencies within their email marketing practices, such as improved use of targeting, leveraging automation and customer generated content as well as removing non-responsive subscribers from ongoing mailings."
Friday, February 27, 2009
The Future - 2009 Marketing Trends
-In case you are wondering, or curious, the outlook for 2009 advertising remains pretty upbeat for certain types of online media and marketing - including search, video and multicultural initiatives. However, traditional media and some social networks can expect to face serious difficulties going forward, says eMarketer.
Here are that firm's key trends for 2009:
1. Marketers will continue to stretch their budgets by making use of cost-efficient online ad placements. In addition to the Internet’s accountability and targeting, which permit more-focused media buys, lower prices for most display ads and less competition for many search keywords will make online a buyers’ market.
2. Search Marketing Remains Recession-Resistant: While search marketing is not recession-proof, it is recession-resistant, with estimated spending growth in 2009 at 14.9%, to $12.3 billion.
The reasons for search’s strength:
Search is highly measurable and will help retain many budgets and increase some others, as advertisers look for secure and effective marketing methods to combat the fear inherent in an economic meltdown.
Consumers who monetize search ads by deciding whether or not to click, will be both taking money off the table (by shopping less) and putting money back on the table (by searching for deals).
Search advertising will grow less in 2009 than in any previous year. Its inherent strength means greater spending gains than for any other major form of advertising, whether online or through traditional media.
3. Video Ad Spending Will Run Counter to Economic Trends: Video ad spending growth will run counter to overall economic developments, rising by 45 percent in 2009 to reach $850 million.
Check out these two key factors: First, the sharp escalation of professional video content on the web — coming mainly from TV networks — is creating a viable base for brand marketers. Second, even though most advertisers are increasingly cautious with their budgets, they still need to reach online audiences, and woo their shrinking wallets, with messages that reach their hearts and minds. This should add up to more video, according to eMarketer.
4. Social Network Shakeout: With US ad revenue growth slowing, smaller and niche social networks will have a tough time gaining traction and several may close down or be acquired by larger players. In addition, marketers that have built standalone social networks tied to their brands will either shutter them or migrate them to existing social network platforms where they can reach a broader audience.
5. New Revenue Streams for Social Networks: E-commerce will be a growing revenue stream for social network sites. Expect both MySpace and Facebook to enhance their self-serve advertising systems to allow consumers and businesses to buy and sell real-world goods and services. Facebook, already a de facto business networking site because of the number of businesspeople who use it, will develop ad programs aimed at B2B companies. This will directly affect LinkedIn.
6. E-Commerce Sales Growth From Existing Online Buyers: Online retail sales (excluding travel) will grow by only 4% in 2009—the first full year to feel the impact of the economic crisis. Over the long term, online sales growth has been on a downward slope as the number of online buyers approaches saturation. So, the economy accentuates an existing trend. Most retail e-commerce sales growth in the future will come from increased spending by current online buyers.
7. Seismic Shift in TV Ad Sales: US TV ad spending will decline 4.2% to $66.9 billion in 2009. This precipitous drop in spending reflects not only expectations of a continued poor economy but a seismic shift in the way television advertising is bought and sold, eMarketer said.
Like other traditional media, TV advertising was already suffering, and now the climate will be even tougher. Fragmentation on TV and declines in viewership have made it more difficult for advertisers to reach audiences. Broadcasters will be pressed to redefine their businesses in an increasingly digital world. They will focus on expanding programming to the online realm and will continue to test business models.
8. Newspaper Companies to Become Casualties: Newspaper advertising will decline in 2009 more than any other medium. Industry-wide cutbacks will continue, and there will be some consolidation, while firms will be forced to undertake drastic measures to stay afloat. The industry was limping before the recession and the market can expect more newspaper companies to become casualties.
9. User-Generated Content Aggregation: With so much user-generated media populating the web and mobile channels, content aggregation will become more important than ever. In 2009, expect to see the emergence of real-time aggregation tools that combine algorithmic approaches with human input. These aggregation tools will develop from the ground up, much like the content itself.
10. Multicultural Marketing Will Gain Intensity Online: Although white Americans make up about 70% of the US internet population, more and more African-Americans and Hispanics are going online through their PCs and their mobile phones. Marketers will follow, targeting these segments with language and culture-specific messages, which will evolve from their general-market campaigns.
Here are that firm's key trends for 2009:
1. Marketers will continue to stretch their budgets by making use of cost-efficient online ad placements. In addition to the Internet’s accountability and targeting, which permit more-focused media buys, lower prices for most display ads and less competition for many search keywords will make online a buyers’ market.
2. Search Marketing Remains Recession-Resistant: While search marketing is not recession-proof, it is recession-resistant, with estimated spending growth in 2009 at 14.9%, to $12.3 billion.
The reasons for search’s strength:
Search is highly measurable and will help retain many budgets and increase some others, as advertisers look for secure and effective marketing methods to combat the fear inherent in an economic meltdown.
Consumers who monetize search ads by deciding whether or not to click, will be both taking money off the table (by shopping less) and putting money back on the table (by searching for deals).
Search advertising will grow less in 2009 than in any previous year. Its inherent strength means greater spending gains than for any other major form of advertising, whether online or through traditional media.
3. Video Ad Spending Will Run Counter to Economic Trends: Video ad spending growth will run counter to overall economic developments, rising by 45 percent in 2009 to reach $850 million.
Check out these two key factors: First, the sharp escalation of professional video content on the web — coming mainly from TV networks — is creating a viable base for brand marketers. Second, even though most advertisers are increasingly cautious with their budgets, they still need to reach online audiences, and woo their shrinking wallets, with messages that reach their hearts and minds. This should add up to more video, according to eMarketer.
4. Social Network Shakeout: With US ad revenue growth slowing, smaller and niche social networks will have a tough time gaining traction and several may close down or be acquired by larger players. In addition, marketers that have built standalone social networks tied to their brands will either shutter them or migrate them to existing social network platforms where they can reach a broader audience.
5. New Revenue Streams for Social Networks: E-commerce will be a growing revenue stream for social network sites. Expect both MySpace and Facebook to enhance their self-serve advertising systems to allow consumers and businesses to buy and sell real-world goods and services. Facebook, already a de facto business networking site because of the number of businesspeople who use it, will develop ad programs aimed at B2B companies. This will directly affect LinkedIn.
6. E-Commerce Sales Growth From Existing Online Buyers: Online retail sales (excluding travel) will grow by only 4% in 2009—the first full year to feel the impact of the economic crisis. Over the long term, online sales growth has been on a downward slope as the number of online buyers approaches saturation. So, the economy accentuates an existing trend. Most retail e-commerce sales growth in the future will come from increased spending by current online buyers.
7. Seismic Shift in TV Ad Sales: US TV ad spending will decline 4.2% to $66.9 billion in 2009. This precipitous drop in spending reflects not only expectations of a continued poor economy but a seismic shift in the way television advertising is bought and sold, eMarketer said.
Like other traditional media, TV advertising was already suffering, and now the climate will be even tougher. Fragmentation on TV and declines in viewership have made it more difficult for advertisers to reach audiences. Broadcasters will be pressed to redefine their businesses in an increasingly digital world. They will focus on expanding programming to the online realm and will continue to test business models.
8. Newspaper Companies to Become Casualties: Newspaper advertising will decline in 2009 more than any other medium. Industry-wide cutbacks will continue, and there will be some consolidation, while firms will be forced to undertake drastic measures to stay afloat. The industry was limping before the recession and the market can expect more newspaper companies to become casualties.
9. User-Generated Content Aggregation: With so much user-generated media populating the web and mobile channels, content aggregation will become more important than ever. In 2009, expect to see the emergence of real-time aggregation tools that combine algorithmic approaches with human input. These aggregation tools will develop from the ground up, much like the content itself.
10. Multicultural Marketing Will Gain Intensity Online: Although white Americans make up about 70% of the US internet population, more and more African-Americans and Hispanics are going online through their PCs and their mobile phones. Marketers will follow, targeting these segments with language and culture-specific messages, which will evolve from their general-market campaigns.
Thursday, January 15, 2009
A Client's Social Media Format Press Release on Bioidentical Hormones
Today we posted a rather interesting press release on our client's product, the Wiley Protocol. We had just completed five audio tape podcasts of amazing interviews with doctors, so we added one to the MarketWire distribution, and then quoted the other doctor in our release. We added this photo of one of our seminar advertisements, and linked to that page on the website.
We linked to many great reference spots on the website, including testimonials. Since Oprah Winfrey's show today was going to be on hormone therapy, that was mentioned in the release. Since Suzanne Somers' choice for bioidentical hormones IS the Wiley Protocol and she has written about the Protocol in her books, Ageless, and Breakthrough, I used a quote from one of the Wiley testimonials and linked to it on our website.
Next I posted the release on DIGG, bookmarked Del.icio.us and put it in my Facebook page, then Twittered it out to my followers. I blogged bloggers that focus on health, sent it to my personal email list, and the client's list of over 900 contacts, and I plan to email our media contacts tonight and tomorrow.
By the time the Oprah show aired at 3 p.m.PST, our release, blog items, etc. and links to the Wiley Protocol website, blog items, and articles were on the first pages of the search engines like Google when people typed in the key phrases "bio-identical hormones," Oprah Winfrey," or The Wiley Protocol, etc. These tactics are the essence of social media marketing and PR. The release is below.
Doctors Share Promising Symptom Relief From Women on Wiley Protocol Bioidentical Hormone Replacement
Wiley Protocol Hormone Therapy Makes Hot Flashes, Foggy Brain, Sleep Loss, Diminished Libido, Migraines, and Depression Symptoms of the Past; Menopausal Women Look Younger and Feel Like Themselves Again
Doctors worldwide are attending T.S. Wiley's 'Two Days Back on Earth' environmental endocrinology seminars. They are also learning about the only cyclical biomimetic hormone restoration -- the Wiley Protocol bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT).
Dr. Christian Renna shares insights about his patients using the Wiley Protocol bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, stating that it restores the feeling of being yourself after experiencing a loss of self that occurs in perimenopause and menopause.
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Wiley Protocol Hormone Therapy
SANTA BARBARA, CA--(Marketwire - January 15, 2009) - Wiley Systems, Inc. announced that mounting anecdotal evidence from participating physicians indicates that the majority of women who use the Wiley Protocol no longer experience hot flashes, sleep better, have increased energy, report better sex lives, and are happier, less moody, feel better and look younger.
The Wiley Protocol® is a bioidentical hormone replacement therapy that provides women with a more accurate form of restoration for lost endocrine function than conventional bioidentical therapies. More and more health care practitioners are attending Wiley's two-day environmental endocrinology "Two Days Back on Earth" seminar to learn a new perspective on aging, how our environment affects us, and about cyclical biomimetic hormone restoration therapy. With new rationale for treatment and diagnosis of their patients, they are taking that knowledge and applying it to those in need.
Millions of baby boomer women are either in perimenopause or menopause, and the issue of hormone therapy is gaining considerable media attention. Today's "Oprah Winfrey Show" is slated to air the first of a two part segment -- "The Great Debate: Should You Replace Your Hormones?" A feature story by Mary Duenwald in the February issue of O Magazine tells "Everything you need to know about menopause (but were too hot, tired, confused and cranky to ask.)"
After 12 years of research, Wiley developed a new approach to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) called the Wiley Protocol, which provides women with a more accurate form of restoration for lost endocrine function. The components of this protocol and the amount of hormones women take vary throughout the female 28-day cycle to mimic the hormone levels of youth. The Wiley Protocol is the only biomimetic hormone replacement that features plant derived hormones in a biomimetic way.
Tens of thousands of women report that the Wiley Protocol has changed their lives by relieving menopausal symptoms from brain fog, hot flashes, night sweats, and sleep loss to diminished sex drive, moodiness, depression and more, as evidenced by testimonials on the company's website. Wiley is also the co-author of "Sex, Lies & Menopause," Harper Collins, 2005 and "Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar and Survival," Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2000.
"If I could take anything on a desert island other than my dog, it would be my Wiley Protocol," said Wiley Protocol user Marla Mintz. "I was severely depressed and went everywhere for help and tried everything. I felt just like the woman described in Suzanne Somers' book, ("Ageless: The Naked Truth about Bioidentical Hormones," Crown; 2006) going from one doctor to another and getting nowhere with no help."
According to healthy aging specialist Christian Renna, "The benefits of this protocol are pretty far reaching in that it restores the feeling of being yourself after experiencing a loss of self that occurs in perimenopause and menopause. It's like finding yourself after being lost." Dr. Renna called the Wiley Protocol a universal key to the problem. "Without the estrogen peak on Day 12, the person never gets the full benefit of progesterone activity during the luteal phase, the latter phase of the menstrual cycle."
Wiley Protocol Hormone Therapy Makes Hot Flashes, Foggy Brain, Sleep Loss, Diminished Libido, Migraines, and Depression Symptoms of the Past; Menopausal Women Look Younger and Feel Like Themselves Again
Doctors worldwide are attending T.S. Wiley's 'Two Days Back on Earth' environmental endocrinology seminars. They are also learning about the only cyclical biomimetic hormone restoration -- the Wiley Protocol bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT).
Dr. Christian Renna shares insights about his patients using the Wiley Protocol bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, stating that it restores the feeling of being yourself after experiencing a loss of self that occurs in perimenopause and menopause.
Highlighted Links
Wiley Protocol Hormone Therapy
SANTA BARBARA, CA--(Marketwire - January 15, 2009) - Wiley Systems, Inc. announced that mounting anecdotal evidence from participating physicians indicates that the majority of women who use the Wiley Protocol no longer experience hot flashes, sleep better, have increased energy, report better sex lives, and are happier, less moody, feel better and look younger.
The Wiley Protocol® is a bioidentical hormone replacement therapy that provides women with a more accurate form of restoration for lost endocrine function than conventional bioidentical therapies. More and more health care practitioners are attending Wiley's two-day environmental endocrinology "Two Days Back on Earth" seminar to learn a new perspective on aging, how our environment affects us, and about cyclical biomimetic hormone restoration therapy. With new rationale for treatment and diagnosis of their patients, they are taking that knowledge and applying it to those in need.
Millions of baby boomer women are either in perimenopause or menopause, and the issue of hormone therapy is gaining considerable media attention. Today's "Oprah Winfrey Show" is slated to air the first of a two part segment -- "The Great Debate: Should You Replace Your Hormones?" A feature story by Mary Duenwald in the February issue of O Magazine tells "Everything you need to know about menopause (but were too hot, tired, confused and cranky to ask.)"
After 12 years of research, Wiley developed a new approach to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) called the Wiley Protocol, which provides women with a more accurate form of restoration for lost endocrine function. The components of this protocol and the amount of hormones women take vary throughout the female 28-day cycle to mimic the hormone levels of youth. The Wiley Protocol is the only biomimetic hormone replacement that features plant derived hormones in a biomimetic way.
Tens of thousands of women report that the Wiley Protocol has changed their lives by relieving menopausal symptoms from brain fog, hot flashes, night sweats, and sleep loss to diminished sex drive, moodiness, depression and more, as evidenced by testimonials on the company's website. Wiley is also the co-author of "Sex, Lies & Menopause," Harper Collins, 2005 and "Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar and Survival," Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2000.
"If I could take anything on a desert island other than my dog, it would be my Wiley Protocol," said Wiley Protocol user Marla Mintz. "I was severely depressed and went everywhere for help and tried everything. I felt just like the woman described in Suzanne Somers' book, ("Ageless: The Naked Truth about Bioidentical Hormones," Crown; 2006) going from one doctor to another and getting nowhere with no help."
According to healthy aging specialist Christian Renna, "The benefits of this protocol are pretty far reaching in that it restores the feeling of being yourself after experiencing a loss of self that occurs in perimenopause and menopause. It's like finding yourself after being lost." Dr. Renna called the Wiley Protocol a universal key to the problem. "Without the estrogen peak on Day 12, the person never gets the full benefit of progesterone activity during the luteal phase, the latter phase of the menstrual cycle."
Doctor Stephen Dalton, a physician certified by the American Board of Family Medicine, practicing in Lubbock, Texas attended the "Two Days Back on Earth" 17-credit *Continued Medical Education (CME) seminar in Glendale, California. "The seminar is definitely scientifically based," he said. "The Wiley Protocol has changed my practice. By far, the best method that we have ever tried is the Wiley Protocol, plain and simple."
T.S. Wiley is a medical theorist in environmental endocrinology and Darwinian medicine. She is a noted writer, researcher and lecturer on the effects of hormones, particularly in menopausal women as well as an accepted expert in chronobiology and circadian rhythmicity. Wiley's CME accredited environmental endocrinology seminars, "Two Days Back on Earth" in Glendale, California are attended by physicians from all over the world.
About Wiley Systems, Inc. and the Wiley Protocol
Wiley Systems, Inc. was founded in 2005 in Santa Barbara, California by T.S. Wiley, who is the developer of the Wiley Protocol®, a trademarked patent pending delivery system consisting of biomimetic, bioidentical estradiol and progesterone (Biomimetic Hormone Restoration Therapy.) Wiley Systems began as a project to fund the union of doctors and pharmacists in a common goal to standardize bioidentical hormones for academic research.
The Wiley Protocol is only available at compounding pharmacies that have joined the project for future National Institutes of Health (NIH) study and have contractually agreed to the standardized methods, materials, packaging and recommended pricing. In exchange, Wiley Systems provides intellectual property and sells 28WP logo-bearing packaging consisting of color-coded bags and syringes. The Wiley Protocol name assures customers that they are receiving authentic Wiley Protocol dosing rhythms based on original research.
*Accreditation: The Medical Educator Consortium, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Credit Hours: The Medical Educator Consortium, designates this educational activity for a maximum of 17 hours AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
*Accreditation: The Medical Educator Consortium, is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Credit Hours: The Medical Educator Consortium, designates this educational activity for a maximum of 17 hours AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Contact:Kristin GabrielDirector of MarketingO: 323.650.2838C: 213.840.6978E: kgabriel@thewileyprotocol.comWiley Systems, Inc.P.O. Box 50734Santa Barbara, CA 93150O: 805.565.7508F: 805 456-3939http://www.thewileyprotocol.com/
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Monday, January 12, 2009
eMarketer's Online Predictions for 2009: Multicultural Ramp Up
This just out ... According to eMarketer, traditional media will suffer in 2009, with more print media going out of business, while online media's future looks bright, including search engine optimization, online video, and social media marketing.
They also mentioned something called multicultural initiatives - which will gain intensity. What is this? "Since white Americans make up about 70 percent of the US Internet population, more and more African-Americans and Hispanics are going online through their PCs and their mobile phones, therefore marketers will follow, targeting these segments with language and culture-specific messages, which will evolve from their general-market campaigns." (Source: eMarketer)
Aside from that, today's Internet is a buyer's market with search engine marketing remaining recession-proof, at an estimated growth of 14.9 percent in 2009 up to $12.3 billion.
Key trends include video advertising spending which is projected to go up 45 percent to $850 million. Just watch the escalation of videos online. MarCom is set up to do our next video campaign for the Wiley Protocol this Sunday. We're interviewing doctors attending her Two Days Back on Earth CME seminar on environmental endocrinology.
Web 2.0 from all our sources is on shaky ground, and MarCom's online guru, Mike Keesling, says it will not go away, but it's reached its peak potential insofar as SEO factors. This is where the youth market is and the referral value is still here.
The main issues this year for businesses with websites are twofold: Are you optimized and do you have good original content? What does that mean per Google's manifesto? You need the correct tags on your Web pages, plus 300 to 400 words of original (and optimized) content on each page.
We can show you how to do do this consistently, how to optimize your tags and do off site optimization and link back strategies. We can teach you how to do it yourself, or we can do it. It is not rocket science but in 2009 you have to do it. Most vulnerable are those who use CMS programs, which for the most part are terrible for SEO.
They also mentioned something called multicultural initiatives - which will gain intensity. What is this? "Since white Americans make up about 70 percent of the US Internet population, more and more African-Americans and Hispanics are going online through their PCs and their mobile phones, therefore marketers will follow, targeting these segments with language and culture-specific messages, which will evolve from their general-market campaigns." (Source: eMarketer)
Aside from that, today's Internet is a buyer's market with search engine marketing remaining recession-proof, at an estimated growth of 14.9 percent in 2009 up to $12.3 billion.
Key trends include video advertising spending which is projected to go up 45 percent to $850 million. Just watch the escalation of videos online. MarCom is set up to do our next video campaign for the Wiley Protocol this Sunday. We're interviewing doctors attending her Two Days Back on Earth CME seminar on environmental endocrinology.Web 2.0 from all our sources is on shaky ground, and MarCom's online guru, Mike Keesling, says it will not go away, but it's reached its peak potential insofar as SEO factors. This is where the youth market is and the referral value is still here.
The main issues this year for businesses with websites are twofold: Are you optimized and do you have good original content? What does that mean per Google's manifesto? You need the correct tags on your Web pages, plus 300 to 400 words of original (and optimized) content on each page.
We can show you how to do do this consistently, how to optimize your tags and do off site optimization and link back strategies. We can teach you how to do it yourself, or we can do it. It is not rocket science but in 2009 you have to do it. Most vulnerable are those who use CMS programs, which for the most part are terrible for SEO.
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