With 2013 coming to an end, a lot of us marketers are turning an eye to mapping out strategies and planning campaigns for the new year. And as Canadians, part of that planning process is often how we’re going to either compete with some of our larger counterparts to the south, or engage a market with ten times as many consumers as we have here in...
3 Ways to Step-Up Your Ecommerce Game in 2014
So it’s a little late in the game for me to start telling what you should do (or could’ve done) to get the most out of your ecommerce strategy for the holidays. Thanksgivukkah is a distant memory, and there’s only a dozen or so shopping days left before the presents under the tree day, so you don’t have that much time to start tweaking and optimizing...
SEO for WordPress – Wordcamp Montreal 2012
This past weekend, I gave a presentation at Wordcamp Montreal called “SEO for WordPress”. In it, I explored:
how to use WordPress to maximize your chances of ranking for the terms that are most relevant to your content. Specifically, we’ll look at:
Building a Keyword Targeted Category Taxonomy
Key SEO Plugins
Addressing Duplicate Content
The...
How Your Social Content Strategy Can Support SEO
Social Content Strategy
There’s a lot to be said for how a kick-ass content strategy can support your social media strategy. But if done right, it can also support your rankings. Not only does producing content on a regular basis mean updating your site (which search engines like), but good content naturally attracts back links and social signals...
Targeting Options Across Different Online Channels
So maybe you have an online budget and it’s time to build a strategy. Or maybe you have to build a strategy so that you can lobby the purse-holder for a budget to work with. How do you determine what channels are best suited for your goals?
Well, each online channel offers a distinct form of user targeting, and how you target someone is going to...
SEO Supercharging Your Inbound Marketing Campaigns
Magnetic Marketing
We spend a lot more time on this blog talking about “outbound marketing” rather than “inbound marketing”. Sure, we sometimes touch on how to sync the two, such as using PPC to find SEO opportunities and support SEO efforts, but even then we’re focusing on using “outbound marketing” to support...
Budgeting Ad Spend Across Mobile Channels
With all the talk about mobile ad opportunities, marketers are faced with some tough questions: just how do you go about diverting ad budget from other channels an allotting to mobile?
Well, before you can do that, you have to understand just what mobile channels are relevant to your business. From there, you can take a measured risk approach by...
How PPC Can Support Organic SEO Rankings
One of the most obvious way that PPC can support SEO is with helping your brand show up in the SERPs for the most competitive searches. Now, I’m saying “show up” rather than “rank” because there is nothing PPC can do to directly increase your organic rankings.
What PPC can do, however, is offer you an opportunity to...
Branded SEO for Better Rankings
Making your mark in SEO…
Last week, Greg made a strong case for maintaining brand continuity between offline and paid search marketing efforts. But what about maintaining that brand continuity between offline and organic search? Now, if you’re not ranking for your own brandname(s), then you have problems that are bigger than this blog...
Using PPC to Find New SEO Opportunities
In many ways, it makes sense to treat paid and organic search as two completely separate beasts. For example:
Both PPC and SEO require their own set of expertise and have their own KPIs
PPC yields more short-term/immediate results, while SEO is a long-term strategy (it takes time to rank organically)
SEO allows you to build long-term equity because...