SEO Myths: Link Building

| Stephan Spencer

Every day a new search engine optimization myth is born; unfortunately, not every day does an old myth die off. Here are the myths about link building.

Demystifying the Myths of SEO

| Stephan Spencer

Every day a new search engine optimization myth is born; unfortunately, not every day does an old myth die off. The net result is a growing population of myths. These are nearly impossible to squash because snake-oil salesmen keep perpetuating …

How to Use Email to Maximize Social Media Engagement

| Debra Ellis

The problem with most social media strategies is that they focus on attracting prospects instead of engaging customers. It is easier to create an acquisition strategy because all you have to do is open an account on the platforms of choice, add some branding images, and start posting content. The build it and they will come approach is intriguing, reminiscent of

How Business Intelligence Can Help You Understand Consumer Behavior

| MCM staff

Business intelligence makes the complex marketing campaign management process manageable. BI solutions aggregate information and provide retailers easy access to data for business reporting, analysis, planning and decision support. By transforming data into actionable information, BI helps retailers make faster fact-based decisions before, during, and after campaigns.

Marketers Recommend a Google+ Presence

| MCM staff

Are you ready to build your Google Plus page? On Monday, Google announced it had opened Google+ Pages, which had been available to businesses by invite only, to global brands worldwide. Marketers say Google+ will be good for the SEO benefits, and the intimacy of a smaller crowd.

Changes in Google’s Ad Positioning May Affect SEM

| MCM staff

Currently, when paid search ads are triggered they show above and on the right hand side of the organic results. This new change, which expects to be completed by the end of November, will show advertisements above the organic results and then either the RHS or below the organic searches.

Retailers Plan to Up Digital Spend in 2012

| MCM staff

Retailers plan to spend marketing dollars on paid search, email and SEO in 2012, but will increase their investments in emerging channels such as mobile, social media and data analytics, according to a survey of 110 retailers conducted by the e-tailing group for email platform provider Bronto Software.

7 Tips for Partnering with Mommy Bloggers

| Tim Parry

Marketers routinely sign mommy bloggers to write about their products because of the exposure it can provide. If the product is a hit, the mommy blogger will be an excellent brand evangelist, and drive traffic