SEO content marketing roundup, week ending April 20th
Maybe it’s due to the tax season, but there seems to be a lot of number crunching going on in this week’s latest and greatest web writing news. From content marketers trying to make sense of data and social media marketers measuring returns on relationships, to the SEO and search community analyzing the relative impact of social influences, valuation is the common denominator. Here’s the tally of this week’s selections:
Content Marketing:
Great read at Design Damage about achieving long-term online marketing success, and a smart post at Eisenberg & Associates exploring the value of content marketing.
Seth Godin addresses the “economies of small,” and “tiny media” (the four horsemen of media).
HubSpot posts Excel tricks for crunching tons of marketing data, as well as an (“inbound now’) interview with Joe Pulizzi about all things content.
Content Marketing Institute posts a two-part series on content marketing analytics, the first about what to do with all those numbers and the second about turning analytics into actionable tasks.
The brave and bumpy path to exceptional content is posted at Shelly Bowen’s site (pybop), while Copyblogger posts how brevity can sometimes be bad for your content.
Hugo Guzman discusses the Johari Window concept as a way to understand your marketing, and HubSpot posts a video interview with Gary Vaynerchuk on “context marketing.”
Sonia Simone posts how to consistently attract high-quality traffic to your site at Copyblogger, and Frank Reed posts the many factors that make up internet marketing at Marketing Pilgrim.
Patsi Krakoff (of “the Blog Squad”) posts how to connect the dots to drive content marketing results at Writing on the Web, and Brian Tarcy offers five tips for better business storytelling via HubSpot.
The fundamentals of starting a company blog are at {grow}, and brand expert Jim Joseph shares tips to win customer loyalty at PR Web.
An interesting interview with Hugh MacLeod, discussing the infinite market for something to believe in, is posted at Copyblogger.
Content Marketing Institute offers a step-by-step guide to the new LinkedIn company pages for content marketers, and Search Engine Journal posts free Google tools for generating great web content ideas.
Social Media Today posts thinking strategically about content curation, and a Mashable posts no less than 40 new digital media resources.
Finally, Marketing Sherpa’s inaugural Optimization Summit, June 1st – 3rd in Atlanta, is fast running out of room. Those interested are urged to register soon!
SEO & Search:
Marylene Delbourg-Delphis authors a great piece about the real nature of SEO power words at her site, and Distilled’s Tom Critchlow shows “how to make SEO happen” at SEOmoz.
ClickThrough Marketing reveals the biggest search engine marketing spenders, and Forbes’ Jeff Bercovici reports that Demand Media shares have tanked as a result of Google’s Farmer/Panda update.
In a related post, Search Engine Land’s Matt McGee reports that Google has lowered the boom on eHow, and Pamela Parker reports that the big G is planning to distinguish poor quality landing pages from policy violations.
SEOptimise publishes 30+ resources for Google’s Farmer/Panda update, while DIY SEO gleans the opinions of 45 experts on the biggest mistakes that small businesses make with SEO and online marketing.
Smart guest post by Level 343’s Gabriella Sannino about the need for customized social media and SEO strategies is at Search Engine Journal, and Search Engine Watch posts a great piece on “granular” SEO analytics.
Michael Gray addresses steps to make your website look more brand-like to Google at his SEO blog, and Kimberly Castleberry shares Matt Cutts’ video addressing how to prove your content is original at her site.
Search Engine Land post discusses an “Outbrain” study showing that search drives both more and better traffic to content sites than does social media.
Rand Fishkin looks at detailed data about the relative influence of Facebook and Twitter on Google search rankings at SEOmoz: interesting!
Website Magazine posts an article on 2011 search marketing trends, while Marketing Sherpa discusses capturing future seasonal traffic lifts with four SEO factors.
Ann Smarty guest posts on how to highlight your brand’s name in Google Reader search results at Search Engine Journal, and Linkbuildr discusses tactics for keeping your link-building “fresh.”
SEOmoz’s Dr. Pete discusses eight “easy wins” for on-page SEO, and Search Engine Land offers six simple SEO tips for small businesses.
On a much more ambitious note, SEO Book discusses starting an SEO business, and Level 343 takes on writing for your website visitors.
Finally, SEOmoz announces Pro SEO Boston, scheduled for May 16th and 17th.
Social Media Marketing:
The Social CMO proposes a new measure of social media success, namely, return-on-relationship (ROR) rather than ROI.
How to optimize your brand’s Facebook page for search engines is addressed at Read Write Web (Biz), while All Facebook posts tips for using Facebook features to market your brand.
Top Rank’s Lee Odden posts understanding B2B social media via infographics, and Social Media Examiner cites a study showing that small businesses benefit most from social media.
Pure Driven discusses how to protect your company from “dysfunctional” social media strategies, and Social Marketing Forum posts a thoughtful piece about social media advertising.
iMedia Connection posts simple tips for Facebook and Twitter success, as well as 10 Facebook lessons learned from Apple vs. Google.
The book “Marketing lessons from the Grateful Dead” is discussed by Mack Collier, while Brian Solis announces that his Engage 2.0 in now online and available at bookstores.
Social Media Examiner posts how to use geolocation in your marketing initiatives as well as ways to use social media to sell successfully.
Mark Schaefer posts a video interview with Jay Baer at {grow} in which Baer shares his advice for those wanting to go into social media consulting.
Speaking of Jay Baer, he ponders if Twitter is massively overrated at Convince and Convert, while For Free Blog discusses what makes a great tweet.
Finally, Social Media Examiner headlines its weekly news with YouTube’s new YouTube Live streaming video feature.
I really like these link roundup posts Laura and I know how much work it is to put them together, so thank you!
Lee, thank you so much! It truly means a lot to hear that you appreciate the roundup – it is definitely a labor of love (as you well know). It makes it all worthwhile when I get a word of thanks. And you, Mr. O., are most welcome! :)
Wicked round up Laura and I cannot thank you enough for some of that link love.
Thanks for your comment, Ryan! Glad to give ya that link love :) There’s wickedness each and every Wednesday, by the way, so you’re most welcome to link-love back!