SEO is the digital God. I mean no offense. I just mean to recognize the almighty power of the Internet. When us mortals need spiritual answers, many seek a higher power. And for grappling with many of the challenges of our daily lives, we put our faith in search engines. The search…
How do you get on the first page of Google fast? You run Google AdWords pay-per-click (PPC) ads. (2018 update: AdWords has been renamed “Google Ads.”) If you don’t have the luxury of writing for one of the web’s most established websites, search engine optimization (SEO) is the hard way. Gaining visibility and generating leads…
I wrote a 40-page eBook covering today’s most effective digital marketing lead generation strategies. It was recently published by Three Deep Marketing, a sizable agency in Minnesota that’s one of the nation’s premier practitioners of data-driven digital marketing. From content marketing to marketing automation and many other tactics, the eBook covers a lot of ground. You…
I’m NOT calling SEO bullshit. I’m not saying you don’t need to understand SEO. You do. And when you do, search will become a leading ingredient in your marketing mix and possibly the largest source of traffic to your website. (Psst… I simplified it for you here.) I’m not saying you shouldn’t do SEO. If…
Winning at SEO calls for outmaneuvering the field. Let’s examine how to find keywords your competitors aren’t using—with tactics they don’t even know about. “Keywords don’t matter much anymore.” You find it written everywhere lately. I asked a friend who eats analytics for breakfast and snacks on SEO all day long, “Whatcha’ think about that man?”…
I want to thank you, big time. Interest in The Point, the blog here at Feldman Creative, skyrocketed in 2014. I learned a lot and I’m hoping you did too. I checked the analytics for the top content I published in 2014 and tallied the top topics and posts for page views. I also looked at the…
The “SEO is dead” parade marches on. Even some search professionals are now writing obits for their old friend. But search continues to thrive. It continues to drive traffic more than, well, anything. So what gives? For any given search, ten web pages are going to command page one rankings and earn waaaaaay more…
“We really do want to understand SEO.” I was on a conference call with a client who said that. And then: “Let’s plan to have a 15 minute call where you can explain SEO to us.” Gulp. Can SEO really be simplified to that extreme? Well, I do love a good challenge. But I don’t…
Lessons from (and confessions of) a former content farmer. This is a guest post from Erik Devaney of HubSpot, aka @BardOfBoston, pictured above 😉 Ever stumble across a poorly written, vaguely comprehensible article with a title like, “How to Cook Atlantic Pygmy Octopus on a Weber Grill” or “The Best Types of Blue Flowers for…
I’ll be damned. It’s Halloween time. You know what that means? The year’s final two months are staring us in the face now. As bloggers we’ll have no choice but to write holiday themed stuff, “best of” and “worst of” the year posts, and of course, predictions for next year. Then comes January and we’re…