Audience development personnel have a very specific, and incredibly important job, within an organization. Writing an audience development job description and then finding the right audience development staff can mean
Increasing your website's Google visibility and doubling or even tripling your website traffic in 12 months is a scientific process. More than 15 years ago, we created a step-by-step program
SEO Moz has made some changes to their site and to Domain Authority scores. If you are using the old link for Open Site Explorer (OSE), then you may have found
Last week we talked about how to measure your domain authority, and this week I'd like to talk about how to improve it through link-building strategies.
A client of ours,
Link-building. It seems like that term is as old as the marketable internet. Since publishers have been developing content, we have known that we need traffic to our websites, and
In the words of Heraclitus, “the only thing that is constant is change." And working in publishing, you probably find this especially true. Google changes every day, and so do
There are ways to control how Google reads your website with sitemap tools. While we assume most of our publishing friends are creating kosher content and abiding by the rules,
Intent, alignment, and engagement take the stage in 2017 for audience development professionals
I don't know about you, but I'm eager to see how audience development changes in 2017. Over the
Write an online magazine editor job description like a product description for a Swiss Army knife
Can you remember life before the internet, when a personal computer was another name for
People concern themselves with the external factors (link-building, social media, etc.) of SEO, but those are nothing without website architecture that's built to pass link juice through the website's pipeline.
With an online editor’s job description changing from print to digital, it’s important to understand the role for digital publishing success
In order to succeed online, publishers need to have staff
If you’ve ever contemplated attending one of our Subscription Website Publishing Intensives, but the time – and budget – just haven’t been right, I have a new way for you
Rap Genius is a popular music lyric database site that has grown quite popular in the last year. However, Rap Genius did something incredibly bad for its SEO earlier in
Parade has been a bit slow to make the digital shift but over the past year it's made a few different digital publishing moves. Digiday's Josh Sternberg writes, "In
Publishers using Adobe DPS for their magazine apps should be thrilled that their most recent update includes the ability for users of the app to "pin" their favorite articles. If
iPad publishing for the rest of us. Thats what the Netherlands-based company Prss hopes to achieve with their new platform. Prss hopes to be faster than other publishing platforms and
A 2011-12 growth rate in website visitors of 46% … overall revenues up 50% every year (and solely dependent on advertising) … it’s a dream life for Prime Publishing and
I'm a big fan of planning.
And I believe that your website is a reflection of your entire business and business model.
A visitor to your website should quickly be able to
It might be true that some sites are "winning" the search engines simply by existing and being a well-known reputable sources, like the New York Times or Wall Street Journal.
But
Link building in itself is sort of black hat. You're putting in effort to create inbound links that weren't created organically.
But as marketers, you have a duty to pay attention
Strategies for increasing website traffic
Inbound links are credibility builders. The more you’re able to get from credible sources, the better your chance of getting higher rankings in search engines.
There are
Today we're focusing on SEO tips specifically for bloggers. To have a successful blog you need to maximize your traffic. This is usually done by having as much new content
There seems to be some confusion with the accepted link building practices used by Google, especially after the Google Penguin update. If you want to be able to build your
Knowing how Google operates is the first step in using them as a content partner
Before converting website visitors into email subscribers, you need to attract them to your site with
The word “natural” should be synonymous with white hat SEO. Natural writing and natural linking building are parts of this very in-depth language of optimization. And it’s these two that
10 tips for developing findable content
An audience development blog is a valuable tool for interacting with online audiences and establishing a reputation within your market.
As any audience development professional will
Three ways you can be using content for a comprehensive audience development strategy
Audience development is challenging. Your content has to align with the searches conducted by audience members, and present
Three ways to generate free subscribers
The digital subscription is an interesting audience development tool. It can be used to build an email marketing file, and it can help develop free
Some links are certainly better than others. Any SEO will tell you that a link from a reputable site, organization, or government entity will be more favorable than a link
The future cannot be easily predicted, but current observations can be made to help design a picture of the digital future that may not be too far from reality.
For instance,
For success, digital publishers rely on driving website traffic. During the Digital Publishing Bootcamp, you will learn dozens of ways to drive traffic, including SEO, link building and social media
Three changes the digital publishing industry must recognize
We’ve seen a lot of changes from being in the online business and digital publishing markets since the early 2000s. When we first
In a world where mobile Internet is growing rapidly, many websites still aren’t prepared with an acceptable mobile site
There are a few online components that can protect the future of
A one-day intensive program designed specifically for publishers teaches how to successfully start and run an online business
Mequoda Group released details that its Digital Content Marketing Bootcamp will take place
What comes to mind when you hear the terms: email marketing, search engine optimization, social media optimization and link building?
‘Primary traffic drivers’ should come to the minds of digital
The rules have changed. Running an online business is an evolutionary process that changes quicker than most business owners are familiar with.
Beyond the changes, running an online business is
If you’ve never been trained on best practices for leveraging organic content, than you are likely missing out on website traffic
SEO blogging is unlike anything traditional editors are used to.
Being subscriber-centric puts a focus on your level of direct interaction
What makes your customer relationships unique? Is it that your content successfully brings value to your audience so they can
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