Google’s recent I/O conference put a bow on what we’ve known for a while now: The search giant is leaving behind the text-input box in favor of users’ voices and contextual information. In other words, if the search giant has anything to say about it (and with two-thirds of the U.S. search market, they clearly […]

The Web, and social media sites in particular, is becoming more visually charged, which makes Pinterest a valuable channels for brands. But as content has to be optimized, images need optimization, too. In a guest post for Search Engine People, Ann Smarty offers six steps for optimizing Pinterest images: 1)

Canceled employee bonuses, a buildup of emergency cash reserves, a net loss of $650 million in 2012, laying off 400 employees

Many marketers adore social media because it’s viewed as a mostly free channel for driving engagement and sales. But a recent study from Kenshoo Social, conducted by Forrester, has findings that make a strong case to see social media more as a paid channel. Social tactics: free vs. paid According to the study, which is […]

By Paul Taylor, founder and CEO of Webmarketing123

For most advertisers, the phrase “Managing your PPC Budget for Best Results” will elicit a thought response of setting a daily campaign budget in Google AdWords or maybe a monthly campaign budget in Bing Ads that falls within their budgeting constraints. This is the beginning and end of managing their monthly budget.

Pinterest saw its PC-based audience grow by 1,047 percent in 2012, according to Nielsen. Meanwhile, according to comScore, the image-based social network boasted 27.0 million unique visitors in February, making it the No. 40 Web property in the U.S. Add to these impressive numbers the growing trend of all things visual, and it’s easy to […]

“Big data,” “mobile marketing,” “predictive analytics,” “convergence analytics”

As far as bottom lines and some higher-ups are concerned, content marketing is only as effective as the metrics that are able to prove its true worth. The good news is that though content marketing is created with words, there are plenty of numbers that will reveal how helpful it is to a business’s ability […]

When lead forms are populated with inaccurate information, the business that accepts those leads into their database and attempts to interact with them are at risk of throwing away money and damaging their reputation. Whether you’re a lead generator or a lead buyer, you know that data verification is an essential part of the process, […]

Content marketers appear to have fallen in love with “personas,” but they should really wake up and see the problem inherent in this. It reeks of make-believe