All posts in SEO/SEM

Trust is King

I haven’t covered SEO for a while, so here’s a good article on how to do it well. The great part is that it isn’t the techy details, but the strategy of how to do it right. Author is spot on point out that you need to start thinking like a publisher and remember that content marketing is still marketing. “Content isn’t king. Trust is king. Content is just how you get there.”

– Content isn’t king, trust in king

All Facebook, all the time

Okay, Facebook stuff is still so full-on I’m falling behind on doling them out judiciously. Hence, today is a Facebook special and I’ll catch up all in one post!

This is a great infographic explaining Facebook’s post-sorting algorithm and edgerank. It helps explain why most of your fans don’t see you posts.

I’m batman

Making sure you get your photo’s right in the newly designed feed.

Photos in feeds

I’m not sure trying to have every feature that all your competitors have is the right direction to go. But Facebook is certainly trying.

Facebook hashtags

Another assist for audience targeting (not context targeting) marketers.

Lookalike audiences

Eric, how do you really feel about Facebook?

Like Us

Don’t forget search and email

Social Media is still cool (and has its place), but don’t forget you’re supposed to get actual results.

– Enamoured with social marketing?

Cost efficiencies with display and search – Automotive

Here’s a short and pointed example of how using multiple types of advertising improves campaign effectiveness. This is an automotive example, but it applies to all industry segments.

– Efficiency of display plus search

The Facebook Slide

The big news in digital media is obviously Facebook’s new Graph Search. It’s easy to get information on it if you’re interested, but I don’t plan to address it here because my mum always said that if you can’t say anything nice about something, you shouldn’t say anything… So in the meantime, here’s two articles on how Facebook’s long-term prognosis is anything but healthy.

– The kids prefer Tumblr to Facebook

– Facebook’s allure fading for Kiwis

Ad supported video

Viewership of ad supported online video is continuing to increase, so here’s some recent numbers if you’re interested.

– Ad supported video increasing

It’s beginning to look a lot like a tablet Christmas

Here’s a reminder that you better make sure your sites are tablet and mobile friendly from about the evening of Dec. 24th and after. US focused article but the trend may be even stronger here in NZ.

– A tablet Xmas

Brands will become media

Here’s a nice little essay on how brands will have to become media. Some such as myself believe this is already true, and has been for some time.

– Brands are media

Video ads are effective

Or at least that’s what marketers in the UK say, where over half of them believe video ads to be at least as effective as TV.

– Video as effective as TV

Automation isn’t everything

Just a short little reminder that in an age of increasing automation (real-time bidding, etc.) that there will always be room for a personal touch.

– Automation isn’t everything