Tag: Search Engine Optimization

Catch up on the Mequoda Daily’s blog posts for this past week … Continue

Catch up on the Mequoda Daily’s blog posts for this past week … Continue

Catch up on the Mequoda Daily’s blog posts for this past week … Continue

Catch up on the Mequoda Daily’s blog posts for this past week … Continue

Discover the carefully guarded source of the world’s most effective email subject lines that most professional copywriters don’t like to share … Continue

Catch up on the Mequoda Daily’s blog posts for this past week … Continue

Catch up on the Mequoda Daily’s blog posts for this past week … Continue

Catch up on the Mequoda Daily’s blog posts for this past week … Continue

Don thought it would be fun to write a post that “explains our methodology for quantifying an uber market.”

Do you know what that means? To quantify an uber market?

Thankfully I know enough to write this post, but I’m fairly sure that 99% of you out there don’t. And that the remaining 1% is probably exclusive … Continue

Catch up on the Mequoda Daily’s blog posts for this past week … Continue

Our list of the best PR websites to submit your press releases for maximum SEO and traffic opportunities … Continue

Stay focused, be quick, and write well
The other day my husband had to fetch a magnifying glass to read what was printed on a box of gourmet chocolate milk mix.

It was in tiny, light brown type on a dark brown background.
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Catch up on the Mequoda Daily’s blog posts for this past week … Continue

“Oh great, one more thing to do,” thinks every editor you’ve ever approached about search engine optimization.

Because of this common adverse reaction, it’s important to emphasize the longevity of articles when they’ve been search optimized. … Continue

Write less but create powerful headlines

Which of the following headlines do you think will perform better? … Continue

Blending compelling copy with keyword strategy takes practice. Lots and lots of practice.

Online copywriting has made it necessary for us, ah, mature copywriters to update our existing skills to meet new demands. And even if you’re a digital native who learned online copywriting right off the bat, the strategies for creating copy that’s both persuasive … Continue

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 that understand the digital evolution.

A significant portion of our consulting strategy relies on properly staffing an organization. If you choose the wrong staff members, or … Continue

Get more page one rankings in Google by being a better keyword density checker for your business

Our SEO process has several layers that starts with keyword research and ends with article marketing and an accompanying white paper. Somewhere in the middle of this process we take what we see as a great keyword and drop … Continue

We’re constantly reading and writing about how to drive website traffic, but how often do we discuss the website traffic report that all of us should be pouring over to see whether or not our hard work is going anywhere? … Continue

Six membership site ideas all digital publishers must follow

How to make a membership website is a topic many publishers struggle with. Membership and subscription websites can be hugely successful in generating revenue for publishers with evergreen and updated content.

However, understanding how to make a membership website is often overlooked during the planning process. Let’s take … Continue

Aggregating great content is just as valuable as creating great content

Content aggregation is often given a bad name, because it’s often done incorrectly.

The best content aggregators approach the process as the valuable art form that it is. Content aggregators recognize the web is all about content aggregation, and their work allows users to reach … Continue

One set of metrics that every user of any capacity should know are your referring website analytics. Referring websites are those who are linking to you and sending you traffic. … Continue

A step-by-step guide to on-page SEO that will boost rankings and site traffic

Publishers are no strangers to search engine optimization, although it’s important to know that there are several dimensions of optimization, and they’re all necessary to get the most residual traffic from your most popular posts. For example, on-page SEO refers to the copy … Continue

Or, a thousand words are worth a single picture

Google the phrase “landing page examples” and you get 3,300,000 results. It’s enough to make the earnest copywriter throw up her hands in despair.

Of course, when you start digging into those results for actual landing page examples, you find that most of them are critiques based on … Continue

If you’re reading this post, you’re probably looking for an Internet marketing company, agency or consultant to help with your Internet marketing strategy and execution.

Internet marketing is easy to do and hard to master.

Internet marketing companies come in all shapes and sizes. If you’re shopping for one, it’s important to find an Internet marketing company … Continue

Who’s the biggest audience development success of the year in the Mequoda family – and how did they do it?

Of more than 60 Mequoda systems, one publishing website has achieved higher traffic growth than all the others in the past 12 months. For the fourth time, Mequoda will honor that digital publisher with its Rocket … Continue

Mequoda’s Audience Development Summit 2012 is more than just talking heads. Not only do you learn the secrets and strategies of the leaders in Internet marketing in six eye-opening sessions, you get to pick their brains, too!

Take home proven strategies for successful digital publishing, niche marketing, content strategy, marketing digital subscriptions and more. Then ask … Continue

Successful digital magazine publishing requires getting found, and optimizing your metadata may help in the process

Digital publishers using landing pages to call attention to their digital magazine content need to optimize for their keyword phrases. Although this isn’t a new concept, with a lot of focus being given to the creation of digital magazine content … Continue

A look at top articles on email marketing from this summer

How much time do you spend on your email marketing strategy? Do you ever wish to spend less time with email and more time with social media or search engine optimization?

These thoughts have probably developed within your organization before. Social media is extremely popular and … Continue

The recent SEOMoz 2012 SEO Industry Survey showed that most SEO professionals spend most of their time creating articles/guides, posting blogs and maximizing social media efforts. White papers were pretty low on the totem pole, but Mequoda publishers are usually a step ahead anyway—we live and breathe the numbers behind every successful white paper SEO … Continue

Review your audience development strategies after this recent Google change

Google unleashed another round of Panda updates last Monday. Google confirmed the update and announced that less than one percent of search queries were affected. This update has had less impact than past algorithm changes, particularly the Penguin update.

This update marks Google Panda version 3.9.1. The … Continue

How to become the best copywriter you can be

New copywriters often wonder how to become the best they can be. The key is to focus on tried and true elements of copywriting that haven’t changed much throughout the years, even if mediums and platforms have changed.

This article serves as a brief guide to persuasive copywriting. … Continue

You have a keyword universe…now what?

Successful online businesses rely on talented copywriters who understand search engine optimization. In a time when job requirements are changing, especially in the publishing industry, SEO copywriting is a skill that many online business professionals are trying to learn. … Continue

Need more ideas for better SEO? Search Engine Watch is a great place for endless amounts of info on all of your SEO needs. From tips on creating better content to latest news on everything SEO, Search Engine Watch is the place to be. Below are a few articles from them on different aspects of … Continue

SEO Campaign Management remains popular in building audiences and email marketing lists

I’m sure you all understand the importance behind getting more visitors to your website. And if your website is designed with proper conversion architecture, the added website traffic will generate more conversions for you.

A bigger email circulation means a bigger community will be exposed … Continue

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 great information. Helping your audience members find your content through the noise throughout the Internet is the toughest part.

Fortunately, we have some tried and true … Continue

With the recent Google Penguin update it can be very confusing deciding which SEO techniques to utilize. Here are a few articles that might help dispel the confusion. … Continue

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 and paid subscribers. There are three subscription website archetypes that particularly target free subscribers,

In many circles, blogging is still misunderstood by many. However, as more … Continue

Your blog or portal is central in building an audience. The amount of content provided in these locations equates to the amount of landing pages that can bring in audience members. The search engine optimization used on each of these pages and posts dictates the visibility behind them.

Multiplatform publishing has become the name of the … Continue

New workshop, new needs analysis, new analytics suite and consulting program

It’s been said that it may be hard to remember that the original goal was to drain the swamp, when you’re up to your ass in alligators. The process of building website traffic is complex and varied. There are day-to-day responsibilities, analytics everywhere, conflicting priorities, … Continue

As the managing editor and lead audience development professional of a digital publication, I’ve come to utilize a variety of audience development tools. Search engine optimization, in particular, has been very beneficial for me. However, the most valuable audience development tool is something I only recently started using.

This tool is inherently for professionals who have … Continue

Claim your FREE digital copy of Organic Audience Development Strategy: 68 Audience Development Strategies for Building a Robust Audience Development Plan now. … Continue

Writing a professional bio that must double as a landing page on your website, is perhaps one of the most daunting tasks a writer can face

As a consultant, author, and speaker for more than 20 years, I’ve had some practice writing many variations of my professional bio. For me, it’s much easier to write a … Continue

Are you making avoidable mistakes that lead to fewer email subscribers?

I wonder how many readers will unsubscribe from this email newsletter after reading today’s article. For the ones who do, I’m sure there is a good reason for it…perhaps you don’t care about email marketing, audience development or digital magazine publishing anymore. Or maybe you … Continue

Depending on your background, the switch to email copywriting can bring a few additional challenges for writers. This is the case especially if the email copy is also going on the web for search engine optimization purposes.

Beyond the points of striking an emotional connection and presenting the content with a direct response for the reader … Continue

Bob Kaslik shares five keys for digital publishing success

Few people know more about digital publishing and marketing than Bob Kaslik. Since 2008, he has managed the creation, operation, and optimization of 10 robust digital publishing communities including Interweave’s flagship Knitting Daily.

On April 11, Kaslik joined eight other industry professionals in the Mequoda Digital Publishing Hall … Continue

These audience development tips will help you attract, obtain and convert casual visitors to your website

There are plenty of ways of executing audience development efforts in the digital landscape. Today we are going to discuss a few of them.

For organic audience development we suggest utilizing search engine optimization, SEO copywriting and the distribution of SEO … Continue

Social media is one of the more organic methods for promoting ideas to interested parties. After all, people are on social networks to interact with other people – what can be more organic than that?

Among social media marketers, email and search engine optimization were preferred marketing channels, according to Social Media Examiner, which recently released … Continue

From audience development with search engine optimization, to email marketing and social media, Google displays relevancy

Getting found online is important. Fortunately, search engines have made the process much easier. And according to the Pew Research Center, more people are satisfied with search engines than ever before.

Out of all the options, 83% of respondents cited Google … Continue

Google has always used your search data in order to deliver you the most relevant search results. This is why they’ve beat out every other search engine in terms of content curation and prioritization. User data, like search queries, power the search engine and allow it to come up the right answer to whatever question … Continue