Adweek covered a recent study conducted by Universal McCann that shows some interesting things about US consumers and social media. The survey was a repeat of one done in September 2006 by the research firm. The second survey showed that the number of survey respondents who regularly read blogs jumped from just over 50 percent [...]
Creating value is key to an online marketing strategy. Most Web sites are sales pitches, and what’s the value in that? Some businesses look at their Web sites like they’re electronic billboards. You can do that to your Web site if you want to, but the problem with doing that is that once your [...]
What is the difference between a search engine and an RSS feed? Search engines and RSS feeds are two different tools work together - like a set of gears - to drive different parts of your marketing strategy. A solid approach uses both search engine visibility and RSS marketing to get visitors to a site [...]
You want to start business blogging but you don’t know where to start. You have ideas for blog marketing but you don’t know how to translate them into an actual product. You know that business blogging can improve your search engine visibility and provide real value to your customers but you don’t know what to [...]
Last week I posted on the importance of link building, and today I would like to expand on that topic a bit. The purpose of blog marketing is to get your weblog as much exposure as possible in the hope that the end result will be customers who are interested in the services you provide.
There [...]
The content that you opt to include within your blog must be a perfectly planned, blog marketing strategy. When a customer first lands at your website, the percentage of them that specifically came to utilize your offered service is small. Instead, some were linked there from a search engine query based on a keyword you had [...]
Just yesterday, Marketing Journal came out with a blog taken from Ryan P. Allis’s book “Zero to One Million” called The 20 Keys to Online Marketing. Although all 20 items (which can be viewed by clicking on the link above) are quite relevant to the topic of blog marketing, it is more pertinent to take [...]
How often should you post? How long should your posts be? Many factors play into those answers but I like Content Blog’s Amrit Hallan’s treatment of the subject.
“These days it is advised — rightly so — that you should write less, write well, and promote a lot.”
Write less. A good rule of thumb. Being one [...]
So. What do you say when you have been away from blogging for awhile? How does one conduct a smooth re-entry? That is what I’m pondering as we resume posting here at RSS Applied. Well, we’ll learn that together, since I’ve found some good suggestions in my search for that very answer.
But first, [...]
I’ve started my Christmas shopping online and it is my goal not to step inside a single brick and mortar store this holiday season. I imagine that there are millions of consumers who are going to go the same route. Are we going to find your e-commerce site or are we going to find your [...]