Author: MV Editor

Just like anything else, doing SEO requires not only knowledge of the best practices and techniques, but also effort and hard work. Yes, effort and hard work is a “standard” requirement with just about anything you do online to succeed. One of the things you need to have, when providing SEO services, or doing it your own, is a set of tools that will help you achieve a specific objective. Before the privacy issue and other unknown reasons, there were a lot of free tools out there that helped you conduct your keyword and competition researches, without any problems. While…

With Panda, Penguin and all the other Google updates, SEO has changed over the years. What used to work doesn’t anymore. Compliments of QuickSprout.com, this infographic will show you how do you know what you should be avoiding and what you should be doing now? It breaks down the old and the new in SEO and explains how you need to adjust your SEO strategy today.

Don’t you wish there was an easier way to blog? From coming up with ideas to writing and promoting, there is a lot that goes into content marketing. So, how can you facilitate the whole process? You can use a number of tools that can help you generate ideas, make the writing process easier, and even market your content for you. Here are 35 of them: Tools for content discovery Before you can start writing, you need to come up with ideas, ideally ones that will be popular. Once you have figured out what to blog on, the next step…

Shareaholic.com has published recently their Social Media Traffic Report of Q4 2013. This report highlights the traffic referrals from major social networks and is quite interesting to see where they are coming from. Their findings, which are based on four months of data collected, goes over 200,000 websites which a reach more than 250 million unique visitors each month. Aside from Facebook and Stumble Upon, you will notice that one of the biggest increase in traffic referrals comes from Pinterest. That alone is impressive and and for that matter, you may want to seriously include using Pinterest as part of…

Recently Moz.com released a great guide to introduce beginners to the still important link building world. The guide is for beginners but we are pretty sure that even advanced or seasoned SEOs may learn and pick up a few things as well. As they say: Whether you’re brand new to link building or have been doing it for a while, we’re sure you’ll find something useful in this guide. The landscape of SEO and link building is always changing, and today, the importance of building high-quality links has never been higher. The need to understand and implement high-quality campaigns is…

SEO has been around for so many years that it should be easy to figure out what you should and shouldn’t do, right? I wish that were the case! The thing about SEO is that it’s constantly evolving. Not only does that mean a lot of the old information is inaccurate, but it also means there are a lot of misconceptions out there as anyone can create a blog and write about SEO, even if they are not experts. Here are 7 lies about SEO that you probably believe: Lie #1: It’s good to let authority sites republish your content Typically, when…

Social media marketing provides an ideal channel for generating and nurturing leads. Social media can generate almost 100% more leads than other channels including direct mail, telemarketing, trade shows or even PPC. Lead conversion, which is primarily what business owners should be aiming for, occurs 13% higher with social media marketing than the average digital marketing lead conversion rates. If you want to get the same or even better results – then learn these secrets of lead generation in Social Media

Building a blog is really not that complicated. What is complicated is to build a good readership base and promoting your content. There are several tips out there that tells you what to do next after publishing a post. Among the countless tips available, the Referral candy team has created an excellent infographic filled with some tips on how to get your blog in front of more people. Here’s a peek at the key tactics on the list: 1. Be helpful and tell stories in a unique way.2. Don’t let your effort go to waste, make sure it’s searchable.3. A picture paints a…

This infographic, courtesy of QuickSprout.com, shows you how to use social media and email to flip the sales funnel and turn e existing customers into your greatest advocates and sales people.

Now that Universal Analytics has been around for some time, many people are considering making the switch. It just has so much more to offer than the soon-to-be-legacy Google Analytics installation. Being an analytics junkie, I am very excited about this upgrade in features and data. This post is the ultimate guide to Universal Analytics. We will talk about the benefits, installation and all the important ins and outs. Why Switch To Universal Analytics There are many reasons why making the switch to Universal Analytics is a good choice. Aside from the added functionality, the tracking code is also more flexible and easier…