September 2013

The Best of Inbound Marketing for September, 2013

Building an Awesome Content Team to Drive Links to Your Website

“There are a lot of reasons where building a content team can have its benefits, and it doesn’t need to cost you a fortune either. Here’s a few reasons why you might want to build a content team.”

findmyblogway.com

Real Marketing Sh*t: An SEO’s Guide to Content Marketing

“Can we all just stop for a moment and think about what marketing is.”

97thfloor.com

How Saving On Design Could Cost You More In The Long Term

“When a designer gives me a bill, I see it as an investment. For me, it is something that appreciates and helps your business grow.”

quicksprout.com

50 Tools to Jumpstart Your Content Marketing Efforts

“Jumpstarting your content marketing efforts can be an uphill battle if you don’t have the right tools in place to get the job done.”

blog.kissmetrics.com

The First Existential Threat to SEO

“Because organic search investments don’t come from faith – they come from data, and critical parts of that data have gone missing.”

moz.com/rand

Colour: User Experience And Psychology

“Colour plays a crucial role in User Experience. It transmits a psychological message to your users and choosing the right colours for your brand, logo or product can be vital as it helps your brand or product get easily recognized and identified with your industry..”

usabilitygeek.com

Google Overhauls their Search Engine with Hummingbird

“Google’s new engine is something unfamiliar – yet it shook the search results page quite hard.”

seo-hacker.com

Not Provided? Unintended Consequences of Killing SEO

“Google finally did us all the service of stopping this charade of keyword transparency this week and finally removed them entirely from their search referrers this week.”

webmarketingschool.com/

4 Ways to Generate Content From Every Employee You Have

“A while back, I discussed a good bit about something I still feel is content marketing’s most potential powerful and useful tool—Insourcing”

thesaleslion.com

Boosting Relevant Online Traffic through Search Engine Optimization

“Traffic is important. We all know that. With a website, traffic is its lifeblood.”

slideshare.net

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What You Need to Know in the World of Inbound Marketing

August 2013, Issue #2

How to Create a Content Strategy (In Only 652 Steps)

“Forget about SEO and rankings. This is about content, which affects every inch of your marketing strategy. Content influences everything in marketing.”

portent.com

Why is Facebook Blue? The Science of Color in Marketing

“Buffer’s Leo Widrich explains the importance of color in website and brand design.”

www.fastcompany.com

2013 Local Search Ranking Factors

“Another year, another increase in the complexity of local search results at Google.”

moz.com

Is Search Still the Dominant Way People Answer Questions?

“It could mean that while social networks are extremely popular, people still rely on search engines for real questions.”

www.stonetemple.com

How Upvote/Downvote Sites like Reddit Breed Irrational Herd Behavior

“The last decade or more has been marked by an explosion of interest in aggregated opinion, and how we can use it to inform our own beliefs, ideas, and decisions.”

io9.com

Secret Ingredients of Better Marketing

“A lot of what passes for marketing fails to capture its audience’s attention or interest. Yet some campaigns & some companies have extraordinary success.”

www.slideshare.net

The Definitive Guide to Growth Hacking

“Those who understand growth hacking will have a competitive advantage that is hard to overstate, and we wanted to provide a robust framework for thinking about it.”

www.quicksprout.com

Customer Support: Always Easy, Never Necessary

“Judge a company by how they treat customers, not prospects, because you’ll be a customer for a lot longer than you’ll be a lead in a pipeline.”

insideintercom.net

How I Built A Top 100 Blog In 12 Months & How You Can Do It Too!

“This is the story of how this blog became a Technorati Top 100 Business Blog in just 1 year.”

www.matthewwoodward.co.uk

Product Review Vendors – Solutions to Fit Your eCommerce SEO Needs

“Choose the right solution for adding product reviews to your eCommerce website with a focus on search engine optimization.”

Archives for September 2013

Growth Hacks Top 10

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