Tagged: search engine optimization

SEO and web traffic
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SEO cheat sheet for business: the 10 things you need to know

Wolston Lobo

Published: May 21st, 2015
ecommerce, shopping

How Parllay is using ‘relevance’ to bridge the gap between doing marketing and making sales

If there’s one thing social media marketers can learn from search engine marketers, it’s this: Relevance. So says Tarek Najm, CEO of Parllay Inc., a new startup based in Kirkland, Wash. Najm spent

Published on: December 12th, 2014 Candice So
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Google will now show you which sites are mobile-friendly on its search results page

Good news - the next time you look something up on Google using your smartphone, you'll know exactly which sites will look good on your screen, versus the sites that will force you

Published on: November 19th, 2014 Candice So
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The difference between smart and dumb content marketing

Krista LaRiviere has got her content marketing campaigns down to a science. As the CEO of gShift Labs Inc., a company that provides metrics and data analytics for content marketing, she doesn’t launch

Published on: November 10th, 2014 Candice So

Atomic Reach helping marketers write to their ‘audience’s level’

Content marketers have heard it all before – content marketing is supposed to be an art form, a way of reaching people, a way of broadcasting that a brand or company is a

Published on: October 3rd, 2014 Candice So

Google search users now faster and smarter: Mediative

No one knows exactly what goes into Google’s search engine algorithm, PageRank. Even for marketing professionals, it’s a mystery – but that doesn’t mean search engine marketers shouldn’t try to crack the code

Published on: October 3rd, 2014 Candice So

Bing over Google? A Q&A with Andrew Yang of Bing

For most marketers working in paid search, it’s intuitive to turn to Google AdWords to make sure their brands get found online. But there’s still a lot of unconquered territory when it comes

Published on: September 23rd, 2014 Candice So

How marketers can make use of Google+

Google+ has gotten a bad rap. In April, TechCrunch’s Alexia Tsotis and Matthew Panzarino called the social network the “walking dead” and a whole slew of other media outlets began publishing their takes

Published on: August 11th, 2014 Candice So

How SEO benefits inbound marketing: Q&A with Dev Basu

For digital marketers based in Canada, one of the top conference hotspots has got to be Toronto. That’s no surprise, given this is the country’s largest city by population, but with a slew

Published on: August 8th, 2014 Candice So
SEO and web traffic

5 pointers for marketers writing SEO-friendly content

As any marketer knows, search engine optimization (SEO) is a tricky thing to handle. Once you think you’ve got it nailed down, the rules can shift, depending on whether there are unforeseen changes

Published on: May 30th, 2014 Candice So
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4 tips for getting ‘back to the roots’ of content marketing

Correction: A previous version of this post referred to Brian Rotsztein as an independent Internet marketing strategist. He is actually the CEO of Uniseo Inc. and president of the Canadian Internet Marketing Association.

Published on: May 15th, 2014 Candice So
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Google’s search results redesign means fewer letters in link titles

Hopefully you've been getting a lot of practice on Twitter crafting your message with a spartan character limit, because you'll have to put those abbreviated writing skills to work writing titles for Google.

Published on: March 20th, 2014 Brian Jackson

Google Street View, brought indoors

When Google Inc. first brought Street View to its Maps service in 2007, it was a novelty. By now, most people are familiar with Google Street View, where users can go to Google

Published on: February 4th, 2014 Candice So
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Five don’ts of writing press releases, with SEO in mind

When Google Inc. announced it was changing its policies on putting links into news releases back in August, the PR and marketing world collectively shuddered. Basically, any news release that has keywords listed

Published on: October 15th, 2013 Candice So

BroadbandTV releases new platform for YouTube’s content creators

Canadian media and tech company BroadbandTV Corp. has just kicked off an open beta phase of Viso Catalyst, a web platform allowing YouTube channel partners to learn what’s working – and what isn’t

Published on: September 23rd, 2013 Candice So