Our BuzzBundle Review: What a Great SEO Tool!
A large part of the ability to do great work for clients in the SEO & Social Media world, is the ability to help them gain social authority….meaning that in their own channel, they are perceived as experts who offer help and counsel freely.
Top quality counsel, mind you…and that can only come from using our best SEO & Social Media skills to build that online reputation for them invisibly.
Invisibly? Well, think on the contra side of that….what we do is we sell to a client our ability to get them SEO site rankings that are built on their Social Media program…and it’s not the client who does it – it’s us.
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Our Innovation Factory 2013 Big DiF Ceremony!
It was last night and it was a total success, eh!
I loved it – for a whole bunch of reasons….not the least of which was that I got to “hob-nob” with some of our community’s true business leaders, drink some wine with them and yes, totally enjoy myself no end! But to recap same, here’s the “official” word from IF itself –
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Thoughts on the 2013 Big DiFizen of the Year Award…
The Big DiF evening, held by our own Innovation Factory is tomorrow night…and as my Outlook notice popped up today to remind me of that event – it got me thinking…
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BING & Yahoo Content Testing….
Yes, I know…with the huge size of Google at approximately 1 Billion searches a day….and more than 7+ Billion page views a day…it’s sort of hard to even think about those “other” search engines…yet I thought it again time to look at BING & Yahoo….but not for searches but for their inclusion of photos within their web search results.
First, you should already know that as Google has rolled out their AuthorShip program, whereby content can be attibuted to any Author that goes through their validation process, that Google now shows that Author’s photo along with the link to that URL where such content can be read.
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Meetings: The End of Creativity & Respect!
Okay, it’s a Monday morning rant today about meetings…specifically those meetings that someone else “calls” and you have to attend ones. I dislike them very much from “some” clients…but then relish them for others….and whats the difference?
First off, it’s the timing and showing up for me. I’m an “early bird” type of business guy – I’m early for every single event in my life. From the early morning waking up before the alarm goes off to get a “jump” on the day to sitting on the couch at 11:30 pm trying to watch the local news and still generate that web audit report or client consultation a few days early, I’m early for everything.
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SMX Toronto 2013 Post Mortem: A Wonderful Success, eh!
Okay, so it’s over…..the 2013 SMX Toronto show ended yesteday and I’m so so appreciative that I was able to be a speaker at same!
Man did I learn online marketing items and did I ever meet a great bunch of marketers too!
I made more than 100 brand new Twitter followers, I followed over 125 myself too….I got tons of new signups to this blog and yes, I signed up myownself to a couple too!
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Innovation Park a Logical Place for an Innovation Conference!
News is always fun to report on, and today we’re just one day away from the upcoming big LiFT Conference to be held at the McMaster Innovation Centre here in our bustling startup community of #HamOnt!
And while I know some of what the Agenda will be, it’s now even packed with more information for any SME owner.
Here’s how the article today in our Hamilton Spectator says will be an event where Entrepreneurs can get a LiFT at a daylong Session -
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Infographics on SEO for 2013!
Just too dang busy yesterday to do up my normal Fabulous Friday blog post on Infographics and how to find some great ones on courting SEO Campaign success!
And yes, you will also most likely already know, that when it comes to the marriage between SEO and infographics, that one can easily get the “gist” of the thought that went into the creation of an infographic – you can learn from simply absorbing the images and the thoughts behind same. Infographics work well in passing along strategy and tactics…and I mean the work well, eh!
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The What, Why and How of AuthorShip Functionality…
First, not my title, really….as I found it on a great new blog piece done by a Deborah Bates who is the Campaign Manager of redrocketmedia.co.uk and what a great title and matching infographic it is, eh!
Think about it for a second before you click above….Authorship is the new Google+ tool that many of us are already using, that attaches our own persona, our identity if you will, to our own content. It’s how Google will track us across the web when it comes to “who wrote what” and then use that same identified content in it’s index to help “rank” it for web searches.
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Google+1′s: Are they Important and Why?
Lately, there’s been quite a bit of traffic in the SEO world concerning yes, the latest info on Google+ and the use of (or non-use) of that ubiquitous +1 button. It used to be true and still is to a large degree, that incoming back links (IBLs to the SEO world) were a great measure for the ranking of a site…but as we’re seeing things change via both Google+ and the sharing of links in social media, the world is yup, changing, eh!
And with all that new info traffic, how can an SMB learn enough to be able to sift thru that data and come up with a game plan that will work – remembering of course that SMBs also have to run their business not just market it online…time we all know is an important item that no one can waste. So what to learn?
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Watches: A Rant about Customer Service!!!
Okay, I like watches. New modern funky looking ones. Old gems like Rolexes. Partial to Movados. Love the Guess brand. And anything ultra ultra hi-tech ie Japanese I just have to have. I think I must own like 30+ of same and the choice each day, standing by my wall mounted “watch carousel” is more than a chore…it’s a love affair with timepieces.
So you get that I like watches. And that means that I scour the web for anything new, anything vibrant to my eyes….I love watches.
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Google+ & Authorship: Beginnings…
Okay, so you’re a fairly well plugged in SME owner, with your own site/blog and you believe that in your own channel, Google is starting to give you some “weight” when it comes to your opinions and comments as you strive to prove to them that yes, you “are” an Authority in your channel.
You found in the past few months, that there is an undercurrent of us SEO practitioners who’re looking at this “Authorship” tactic when it comes to gettiing rankings for general keyword web searches upon which you’re based the idea of adding the “rel=author” tactical addition to your site/blog.
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