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Why Every Business Owner Needs to Know a Little Something about SEO

Polaris

If you don’t, your company could be burned, as mine was when Google’s Penguin update came along in 2012. In April 2012, Google introduced its Penguin algorithm update as part of its on-going effort to combat web spam and improve search results for users. But it had several advantages other than SEO. I enjoy writing.

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Digital PR and the Google Penguin

The Proactive Report

PR pros are not all convinced that SEO is a skill they need to master. However, as content marketing gains popularity,SEO becomes more and more important. The more content there is on the web, the more difficult it is to find what you’re looking for. Content marketing isn’t a new idea for PR.

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How to Evolve with the 2016 PR Trends

Marketwired

And so is Penguin, Google’s back-link algorithm (combined in 2012). Since SEO as we used to know it no longer exists, it’s all the more important to have a content strategy in place along with a team to execute it. You can tap into trending topics to determine the best times to share content.

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20 of the Coolest Marketing Conferences to Attend in 2020

PR 20/20

“The premier gathering of digital marketers on planet Earth!”. Traffic & Conversion Summit 2020 will feature seven tracks including: big ideas, agencies only, digital retailers, digital advertisers, content marketers, conversational marketers and growth hackers. MozCon is geared for SEOs (i.e.

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Earned Media: 3 PR Studies Quantifying the Impact of Media Relations on Sales [UML]

Sword and the Script

For example, an academic research project, that was written in 2012 and updated in 2014, about the microlending market studied: “…how traditional and social earned media affect sales and each other…Traditional earned media has a per-event effect on sales that is much larger than the corresponding per-event effects of social earned media.”.

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Look up, don’t look down. Think ‘reputation in the round’

PR in High Definition

A decade after that conversation, during an address at Cambridge University in 2012, Stephen Hawking said, “look up at the stars not down at your feet. I wish I’d known that in 2002 but it was still a useful learning in 2012. Ever since then I have made a conscious effort to look up and look around for inspiration. Be curious.

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My First Six Weeks as a Successful Entrepreneur, Part I: Liftoff

Waxing UnLyrical

2012 was an incredible year for me. — RedShift Writers (started by yours truly) is a high-powered, lightning fast content writing company customized to the digital/social media era. We are dedicated to providing high quality copywriting/content writing for both humans and search engines. Knowledge is money.

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