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Licensed Content for SEO – Worth My Time? Licensed content can have far-reaching benefits for brand awareness and reputation, but is it worth your time in regard to SEO? To an extent, the subject remains controversial and there are indeed some organic search issues to be aware of when licensing content, but generally speaking, this technique is absolutely worth exploring if you’d like to increase you presence in organic search. Licensing content is when…
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We’ve been performing influencer outreach at Volume Nine for a while now, feeling triumphant in huge successes and suffering through some learning experiences. Fortunately, we’ve learned from both and want to openhandedly share our experience with you. The valuable role bloggers and influencers play in brand promotion should be highly regarded by Internet savvy companies. Online influencers may have a small audience compared to traditional advertising options, but they have earned the much coveted loyalty…
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Coming up with quality, engaging blog topics for your small business can be tough and time consuming. This is why we did you a solid and thought of– not just a few– but 101 topics ready to be used. All of the posts below can be geo-modified, tweaked or completely axed by your blogging team in order to get the best possible content for your blog. We’ve broken up our ideas into three sections. General ideas…
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You’re a B2B business and you want to build your brand, thought leadership & ultimately drive some leads online. Then some kid out of college or over paid consultant told you the answer to all your problems is SEO. So you found some keywords, wrote some content and your traffic graph looks like this: Trust me, I get it. I’ve spent a lot of time working with companies on their B2B digital marketing strategy (I…
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Happy Social Media Day 2015! And in honor of this 6th anniversary of celebrating all things social, we created this quiz to get help you get to know your inner social self. What is your social media personality? Find out from the folks at Volume Nine. P.S. Don’t forget to share this quiz through social media! #SMDay
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You can walk into any Walmart store anywhere in the world and pretty much know where to find what you’re looking for. This isn’t an accident – it’s the science of marketing. Decades of research went into designing store layouts that encourage shoppers to spend money. While the Internet differs from brick-and-mortar in many ways, the science of encouraging shoppers to buy remains the same. In the Internet age, leading potential customers where you want…
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Recently there has been a lot of conversation around the ol’ SEO watercooler about tabbed content. Is it good, bad, useless, advantageous? We wanted to find out the deal with tabbed content so we put our brains together and came up with our most educated thoughts on the subject. First – does anyone know for sure how Google treats content across the board? Absolutely not, (at least for us schmucks that don’t work for Google) but that’s ok because…
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Amplifying your blog content is key. IF you’re writing countless blogs but fail to properly promote them, what’s the point? A better strategy is to create an awesome blog post, brainstorm ways to amplify it, and then spend time getting it out into the great unknown. To get you started, here 10 ways to amplify blog content: Link to Your Blog in Emails In your marketing emails or newsletters, include links to your latest blog posts. It’s…
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Google Analytics reporting for business owners has become some kind of digital enigma to many, which is understandable considering the vast amount of data in the dashboard. Traffic, funnels, tracking codes- it’s a lot to handle for the average human which is why we’ve taken the top pieces of data in Google Analytics and explained why its important, what it tells you and what it doesn’t tell you. Prior to outlining the top five, it’s…
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Both WordPress and Joomla are free content management systems (CMS) that can be used to build gorgeous and functional websites. While WordPress is the most popular CMS, Joomla comes in at a close second which sparks a debate on which is truly better (spoiler alert: it depends). As the top CMS options for do-it-yourselfers, both systems offer different advantages for certain types of individuals, businesses, and organizations. So which one is right for your site? To decide,…
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