After a long period of speculation, Facebook publicly announced its entrance into the search arena. Its new natural language search engine has the potential to change the search and social media habits of over a billion people. How does it work and how do we prepare? Read more →
Posts by John Carcutt
Integrating Social into Traditional Marketing (Part 1 of 3)
We all know that when a new marketing channel appears, it needs to be tested and integrated into existing channels. This integration can be hard to facilitate sometimes. Reporting and baseline metrics need to be created and then merged with traditional reports and schedules. Then what about how this new channel impacts existing channels, this also needs to be tested and measured. Read more →
Sharing Builds Online Credibility
I can’t count how many times over the past few years I have had the same conversation. “Education is the best form of building credibility online.” No one ever disagrees, but then almost no one puts it into practice either. Education or sharing what you know online is now a critical piece of overall branding and marketing strategy. The days of keeping knowledge close to the chest so others won’t steal your ideas or Read more →
Does Schema.org Mark-up Boost Rankings?
Over the past year or two Google has been publishing videos answering SEO related questions on their YouTube Channel. With almost 500 short videos it’s a very valuable resource and archive of SEO info. Today they released a video answering the question “Does Schema.org Mark-up Boost Rankings?” In typical fashion the answer was rather vague. Read more →
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