SEO
- Is SEO dead?
- Content marketing the new SEO?
- Is social media the glue that holds SEO and content marketing together?Regardless of the camp you’re in, we can all agree that some combination of SEO, content marketing, and social media will have a positive impact on your business. That’s why we’ve gathered up the best SEO, content marketing, and social media articles from August for your enjoyment. When you’ve finished reading, let us know your favorites in the comment section below.
Ad Preview Tool is Google’s tool. It lets you see unbiased organic rankings. It also shows paid search ads. This is for any keyword and location. Use it to check keyword rankings. When you search on Google.com, results are personalized for you. So, use this tool. It shows how the first page of Google really looks to a user.
The top 4 SEO practices are surprisingly simple. These will be the biggest factors for the future of SEO. Many in the search optimization industry discuss Google’s big changes. However, these changes are here and happening.
Give Your Sales Team Leverage by Integrating SEO and Social in Their Strategies
Businesses selling products and services need skilled sales representatives. These reps bring merchandise to customers’ attention. They encourage final purchases. Previously, sales reps pitched to consumers in person at malls. They also used the phone. Sometimes, they even went to potential customers’ doorsteps.
SEO, content, and social media are now closely connected. Business owners and marketers must seize every small advantage. This helps them maximize their efforts in each of these areas.
4 Really Important Search Smoke Signals For Local SEO
You’ve likely seen more local search results recently if you work in SEO. This increase is almost everywhere. For example, even broad searches like “car insurance” show nearby results. This happens without you adding a location to your search.
In parallel, developments in the SEO landscape indicate that Google is implementing stricter measures to combat unnatural links. From our perspective, this is a beneficial change. Consequently, a reduction in unnatural links should lead to a greater emphasis on links that are genuinely relevant and useful. Ultimately, these are the links that readers themselves find valuable. However, it’s understandable that this shift in focus might cause some confusion among our clients.
11 Essential SEO and Analytics Apps for the iPhone
If you’ve ever been a SEO or Internet Marketing Consultant, you probably recall the Dark Ages of Technology when you were literally chained to your computer desk. While laptops and tablets offered more freedom to roam, we were still restricted to an extent. Then, the iPhone came along.
The Benefit of a Social Media SEO Strategy
Content Marketing
A Complete Guide to Comment Marketing: What, Why and How?
Anyone can comment on a blog post. But that doesn’t mean comment marketing is simple. Most Internet marketers treat commenting primarily as a link building tactic (spamming, basically) and don’t really give it a fair shake as a real marketing tactic.
3 Keys for a Successful Content Marketing Campaign
Online marketing and SEO used to be all about banner ads, paid link building, e-mail campaigns, and pay-per-click. Although those things are still used, to be truly relevant to today’s consumer, you must add strategic content marketing in the SEO space to the mix.
5 Ways to Repurpose Existing Blog Posts
You’ll soon realize that regular blogging requires a lot of consistent effort. However, when you feel like giving up, don’t. Instead, find ways to blog more efficiently. Consider these five methods. They will help you maximize your blogging efforts by repurposing your existing posts!
Content marketing is very important now. More and more businesses want to publish articles and other valuable content for their website visitors. Content is important because it gives visitors interesting things to read and share. More importantly, it helps the organization generate leads.
Social Media
The Complete Guide for Finding and Sharing Better Content on Social Media
Our biggest aim at Buffer is to help you share content on social media in better ways. I wanted to look at ways we can help you with this entire process, from finding the content to sharing it, to analyzing your social media posts. So I’ve uncovered some cool ways to do these things that you might not already know.
Are You Leaving Customers Hanging on Social Media?

As Ferris Bueller said “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” And if you are not paying attention to your customers use of social media get customers service issues resolved, then you could be caught with your corporate pants down!
The New SEO – Social Media Management Plays a Larger Role
Social media now plays a much bigger and more important role in your brand’s search results. Succeeding in SEO is no longer just about having the most votes for your sites. It’s not simply “whoever has the most backlinks wins.” Instead, it’s a complex combination of factors. This includes social media presence, specific backlinks, and the careful use of H1 tags, among other things.
Facebook Posts’ Lifetime.. Even Shorter Than You Thought!
How Social Media is Changing the World [infographic]
In less than a decade social media has become a huge part of our daily lives, our culture and the way we interact with those around us. People typically spend more than 3 hours a day on social media platforms (or at least 8h/day here at Brandwatch), browsing for just about everything imaginable.
We’ll finish up this month’s roundup with Matt Cutts answering the question, “Is page speed a more important factor for mobile sites?”