How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Marketing

Wondering what artificial intelligence features are coming to social media and advertising platforms? Want to know how machine learning can improve your marketing? To explore how artificial intelligence will impact social media marketing, I interview Mike Rhodes. More About This Show The Social Media Marketing podcast is designed to help busy marketers, business owners, and […]

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Overcoming Blockers: How to Build Your Red Tape Toolkit – Whiteboard Friday

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Have you ever made SEO recommendations that just don’t go anywhere? Maybe you run into a lack of budget, or you can’t get buy-in from your boss or colleagues. Maybe your work just keeps getting deprioritized in favor of other initiatives. Whatever the case, it’s important to set yourself up for success when it comes to the tangled web of red tape that’s part and parcel of most organizations.

In this week’s Whiteboard Friday, Heather Physioc shares her tried-and-true methods for building yourself a toolkit that’ll help you tear through roadblocks and bureaucracy to get your work implemented.

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Video Transcription

What up, Moz fans? This is Heather Physioc. I’m the Director of the Discoverability Group at VML, headquartered in Kansas City. So today we’re going to talk about how to build your red tape toolkit to overcome obstacles to getting your search work implemented. So do you ever feel like your recommendations are overlooked, ignored, forgotten, deprioritized, or otherwise just not getting implemented?

Common roadblocks to implementing SEO recommendations

How to Craft Irresistible Clickbait Titles That Drive Big Traffic

Coming up with the title for a blog post or article may seem like the easiest part, but don’t underestimate its importance.

Your title has the biggest effect on whether or not someone clicks on your article… be it in search engines, social media, an email campaign, or some other channel for content distribution.

Why is the title of your content so important?

For every article you create there are likely dozens, if not more, of other articles online that have been created on a similar topic. All of these articles are competing for clicks, search rankings, and the attention of your prospects.

The only way to ensure that your own content stands out and brings in lots of traffic is to write a title that is both engaging and alluring; a clickbait title.

Here are a few tips that will help you craft good clickbait titles for your articles, pages, and blog posts:

1. Insert a keyword

Analyzing for Improved Results: The Journey, Season 2, Episode 7

Do you ever run Facebook campaigns that end up costing more than you think they should? Then watch the Journey, Social Media Examiner’s episodic video documentary that shows you what really happens inside a growing business. Watch the Journey In episode 7, Michael Stelzner (founder of Social Media Examiner) and his team analyze what worked […]

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3 Social Media Monitoring Tools for Marketers

Looking for reliable tools to monitor your brand on social media? Wonder which social media monitoring tools are best suited to specific tasks? In this article, you’ll discover three social listening tools designed to help you capitalize on influencer marketing, online mentions, and lead generation. #1: Social Media Monitoring for Lead Generation With Awario For […]

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