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Content and SEO Beyond Marketing – Optimized Digital Communications

Content is the reason search began in the first place. In the days before Google, directories, lists and forums were the way to discover new content on the fast-growing world wide web. During those early days, the web was as much about the experience of discovery, aka “surfing”, as it was about finding specific answers. Answers to what? Many marketers would have you believe the only content that exists is the information created in support of buyers to discover, consume and transact. But there’s far more to the web than demand generation and advertising. Content is created by companies to serve...

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Yahoo! Turns 20, Google+ Splits, Twitter Ads Everywhere

Which Sites Have The Most Valuable Search Engine Traffic? [INFOGRAPHIC] - If you’ve ever used the tool SEMRush before, you’ve likely noticed how it assigns a dollar amount to your organic traffic. This value is based on the amount of money people are bidding to rank for the keywords you’re getting traffic from organically. Check about the above infographic to see which site generates the biggest organic bucks. Search Engine Journal Twitter Is Rolling Out Swipe To Dismiss Images - Twitter appears to be rolling out a big change to how you get get out of viewing images on the service...

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How to Make Free Stock Images Work for Content Marketing

Visual content is king, but what happens if you don’t have a massive library of brand images to use for your online content? Do you try a simple Google image search and grab something that might be approved for commercial use? Or, do you simply go image-less and rely on your copy to carry the weight? If you’re pillaging images from Google’s regular search, stop right now. Google might tell you that it’s approved for commercial use, but there are other resources that provide greater assurances (and more relief for your legal team). In this post I’ll show you where to...

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