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Check out the DE guest post on Search Engine People

We’re learning a lot covering all these conferences! In addition to sharing highlights with you here, Suzanne digests it all into guest posts, which are an effective technique for increasing your reach.

In this case, Suzanne left a comment on a post at Search Engine People and was invited to write a guest post. According to Search Engine People’s site, the firm is Canada’s largest and most trusted Internet marketing company: “Our team of over 40 seasoned experts is the trusted choice for over 300 clients worldwide, including many of Canada’s top brands.”

Designated Editor’s SEO Meetup presentation key take-aways on Google’s Panda update

 

Rather than reiterate my presentation at the Boston SEO Meetup, I asked my friend Nancy Wolff Leary to offer her take-aways from my talk “Panda-monium: How to Panda-proof your content now & for future algo-evolution.”

By Nancy Wolff Leary

I attended Suzanne’s recent presentation “Panda-monium: How to Panda-proof your content now & for future algo-evolution” at the Boston SEO Internet Marketing Group. I am a passionate advocate for online usability, so Suzanne’s recommendations to focus content on the user were music to my ears. She said that finding the best SEO is essential for your site, she gave a great list of SEO in Mississauga. It comes to great help if you were to learn and gather information from https://sites.google.com/view/white-label-seo-company-review and sites that are similar. This would greatly impact your website positively and also help your site reach greater heights.

As a small business owner, I can’t afford to gamble on risky techniques, even if such methods might occasionally reap big rewards in terms of my online visibility.  As algorithm changes, such as Google’s recent Panda update show, those risky approaches can land you in the bottom of search engine listings.

I advocate use of disciplined professional SEO services and content-building techniques that will continue to work even when Google decides to flex their search algorithm muscle.  Creating a process to provide an ongoing source of interesting, original, user-focused content for your blog, website, and social media profiles will keep users engaged and your traffic growing. Go through https://www.adam-seo.com/ site to know more about the SEO Malaysia Services.

Suzanne discussed use of quality content tools

Building quality content means creating fresh, relevant, and useful information for your users.  It can be a challenge to keep the creative juices flowing.

By establishing Google Alerts for relevant terms – including your competitors’ products – you create an idea stream to employ in your social media comments and blog posts.

Another way to engage users and create a dialogue is to ask questions of your users, perhaps using the new Facebook polling feature.

If you aren’t sure what questions to ask, try using LinkedIn Answers – yet another of Suzanne’s suggestions. See what questions are being asked on LinkedIn, answer them, and then build blog content around topics of interest to your target audience.

 

Quality content tactics

Another area of Suzanne’s recent presentation that really resonated with me was the use of quality content tactics. By creating an editorial or content calendar, you can extend the life of a story, both repurposing content effectively and leveraging it in social media to broaden the online reach of the story.

Just as a traditional newspaper continues reporting on a story for days, providing new tidbits of content, you can use techniques to extend the life of your social media or blog post:

Tease the story, tell the story, ask for (and respond to) opinions and tell about the outcome of an event or story.

 

Engaging keyword use

Use of relevant terms, or keywords, can help boost your search engine results, but you need to maintain a user-centric focus. As Suzanne mentioned in her presentation, it’s important to not keyword-stuff your content.

Here’s a technique to balance the need to maintain a user focus with the use of relevant terms for the search engines:

Try using your website analytics to see which terms customers are using to find your site, so you can create content that is both keyword-relevant and customer-focused.

By using quality content tools and tactics, you won’t have to worry about aggressive pandas who want to chase your company off the search results pages.

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YouTube your video with Newport Interactive Marketers

Do you YouTube? How to use video to get ahead

By Julie Woodside

If you don’t use YouTube for your business, statistics suggest you probably should.  As the 2nd largest search engine, trumped only by Google, YouTube receives over 2 billion views per day.  Further, 82% of US population have watched a YouTube video.  If these statistics don’t portray YouTube’s importance for video then read on…

At Newport Interactive Marketers‘ March gathering, video pro, Scott Quillin from New England Multimedia tells the audience why YouTube is an important tool to use for video online.

New England Multimedia’s video, YouTube, and SEO tips for businesses

YouTube statistics

  • December 2005: YouTube lauched & 8 millions videos viewed per day.
  • October 2006:  Google buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion on YouTube, why? Why compete if you can buy?
  • October 2009: 1 billion views per day.
  • May 2010: 2 billion views per day.
  • Currently: 100 years of video is uploaded on YouTube every single day.
  • At least 50% of NIM attendees had watched a video on YouTube THAT DAY.
  • 45% of users heard about a YouTube clip via word of mouth.

Is video practical for everyone?

  • Video the next best thing to meeting someone – flaws and all, just go for it.
  • Video makes it personal and more likely to land a client.
  • The younger the web user (think of your core audience), the less reading and more video usage.

SEO tips: YouTube is more of a hosting service, leverage YouTube to get your video found

  • Can set up a YouTube channel & not have any original videos, just have favorites
  • File name should include your targeted keywords.
  • Titles need to be descriptive and match your keywords.
  • Start description with url to whatever site you want viewers to go to.
  • Use keywords for your tags.
  • Images and video files with keywords will boost SEO.
  • Use the http:// in your link: bots are not that smart.
  • Targeted keywords need to be in the first 25 words of YouTube description.
  • Add video transcription to your video channel to help people find the data they want in your videos.
  • Use map location settings.
  • Turn comments on.
  • Make videos public.
  • Choose best thumbnail.
  • Be social.
  • Check your YouTube comments to be sure you’re not be flamed.
  • Use transcription: Type in text doc & upload in dashboard of your YouTube channel.
  • Speechpad.com lets you upload audio file, sends price. About $1 a minute. They send you transcript.

Video pointers and tips

  • When shooting video w SLR camera, have to keep wary of focus.
  • Always want to shoot in highest quality even if for the web.
  • Screenflow for mac or camtasia for PC for screen captures, iShowU another option.
  • Canon Vixia another option for video.
  • Do not buy video camera that records to DVD; you compress the hell out of final product.

Using the insight of our video experts, Patrick & Scott, go out, be creative, have fun, and start making your video for your website.