Archive for May, 2009

SEO Tool Review: BuzzStream for Link Building

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

As I work with our clients on their link building projects, I am often testing out new tools to make the process more efficient. After meeting with Lee at PubCon South in March, Jeremy Bencken - one of the founders of BuzzStream -  followed up with Lee for the opportunity to demo and test out […]

What Snapshot of SEO Drives Your Web Business?

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Search Engine Optimization is a changing field. At any given moment in time, companies that rely on the web for new business or customer communications will consume information about SEO and then rely on that snapshot for months or even years.
In the marketing mix, SEO is only one slice and company marketers are tasked with […]

Learn SEO, Social Media, Digital PR from TopRank

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Over the next 2 weeks several staff from TopRank be hitting the road for multiple SEO/Social Media/PR speaking and training events. We invite you to attend and would love to meet up with readers of Online Marketing Blog.  
Topics during these events will emphasize the practice areas of our agency: Search Marketing, Online Public Relations […]

Measuring the Value of Search Optimized PR

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

Measuring the effect of online marketing and PR efforts is essential for both understanding the return on investment but also for feedback that will improve subsequent efforts.  
Measuring the effect of SEO for Public Relations benefits should start with well defined outcomes. To get a good handle on SEO effectiveness, it’s important to match the […]

Making News Content Search & Social Media Friendly

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Changes in consumer preferences towards news consumption and sharing habits via the social web present both challenges and opportunities for PR agencies.  Searchers increasingly expect to interact with what they find via search. 
The opportunity for Public Relations is to understand that leveraging social media as a distribution channel to attract buzz and earn links is […]

Link Building Tips for News SEO

Monday, May 11th, 2009

For those readers just joining us, this is post #8 in a series of 10 on the intersection of search engine optimization and public relations, “Top Ten SEO Tips for PR Professionals“.
Besides content optimization and making sure a site’s news pages and digital assets can be found and indexed, attracting relevant inbound links is the […]

Pull PR and Newsroom Optimization Tactics

Friday, May 8th, 2009

 Most web sites with active media relations programs host an online newsroom. Analysts, journalists and even some bloggers find newsrooms a useful resource for finding past media coverage, press releases, image assets, executive bios, company history, webinars, white papers, case studies and other information helpful for researching stories.
Any content that is published to the web […]

Essential Press Release Optimization Tips

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

One of the most popular keyword optimization content types for SEOs and Public Relations professionals alike are press releases. As a news communication tool, the value of press releases has undergone changes.  However, press releases provide a substantial amount of content to news search engines and can rank well in standard search engines like Google […]

3 Ways Companies Sabotage Their SEO Investment

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Companies invest thousands and sometimes tens of thousands of dollars per month into improving their natural search engine visibility. At times, certain influences or perspectives occasionally evolve to work directly against the efforts of the professional SEO consultant.  Here I’ll describe three scenarios and hopefully help companies avoid the unfortunate expense of sabotaging their […]

Do’s and Don’ts of On-Page SEO for Public Relations

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

This is post #5 in a series of 10 on the intersection of PR and SEO.  We’ll discuss a few best practices content SEO tactics as well as a few things to avoid.
While there is much to understand about successfully implementing and maintaining search engine optimization efforts, there are a few  fundamental concepts worth starting […]