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20 Great Search Engines You Can Use Instead of Google via @sejournal, @ChuckPrice518

Search Engine Journal

Looking for more privacy or an ad free search experience? In this post, we'll introduce 20 alternative search engines to use beyond Google. The post 20 Great Search Engines You Can Use Instead of Google appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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17 Tips for Writing Effective YouTube Descriptions

Hootsuite

A good YouTube description can spike your audience’s interest and result in longer watch times, better view counts, and even new subscribers. Plus, it can help with YouTube SEO, allowing YouTube’s algorithm to understand your content and suggest it to new users, further boosting your YouTube stats. Writing these descriptions is an important part of your overall YouTube strategy.

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Punch Up Your Writing With These 4 Power-Packed Tips

Content Marketing Institute

Wasted, wimpy verbs drag down your writing. CMI’s resident editing expert shows you how to root out these energy vampires and recharge your content with power-packed alternatives. Continue reading → The post Punch Up Your Writing With These 4 Power-Packed Tips appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Choosing the Right Social Media Platforms for Your Buyer Personas

Marketing Insider Group

What does your ideal customer look like? This question prompts the creation of marketing personas, and the answers vary widely. In today’s hyper-connected world, people expect tailored, personalized experiences in their advertising, whether they realize it or not. For most B2B content creation , personas guide marketers in developing tailored pieces that resonate profoundly with a particular group.

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How to Create a Community Your Members Can't Get Enough Of

Here’s Your Blueprint for Year-Round Member Engagement. Are you ready to transform your association into a thriving, 365-day community? Download GrowthZone’s ebook, How to Create a Community Your Members Can’t Get Enough Of , and learn strategies for leveling out the peaks and valleys of member engagement. This guide provides actionable strategies to create consistent networking opportunities, deliver value-packed content, and foster connections that your members won’t want to miss.

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Google Working on Indexing Instagram & TikTok Videos via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Search Engine Journal

Google is negotiating deals with Instagram and TikTok to index their content in search results, according to a new report. The post Google Working on Indexing Instagram & TikTok Videos appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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7 Ways to Avoid Getting Shadowbanned on Social Media

Hootsuite

Getting shadowbanned is every social media manager’s worst nightmare. Sure, most social platforms deny the shadowban is really a thing at all. We even tried for ourselves to get shadowbanned on Instagram , with no luck. But there are many, many, many people out there who are adamant that the shadow is real, and who fear its consequences. (Wait a minute… is this the “shadow” that Ashlee Simpson was singing about ?!).

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Oracle Fusion Marketing reduces the role of traditional CRMs

Martech

Oracle today announced the launch of Oracle Fusion Marketing, part of Oracle Advertising and CX. The new product tracks account engagement with both email and advertising channels, uses AI to score leads and predict opportunity for sales engagement, then delivers the qualified opportunity to any CRM system. The offering seeks to automate the B2B lead generation and qualification process and push the outcomes directly into the systems used by sales representatives. “Salesforce automation ha

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How to Build SEO-Friendly Internal Link Structures Using AI via @sejournal, @brewco_ai

Search Engine Journal

Artificial intelligence can show you how, when, and where to optimize internal linking to achieve your highest ranking potential. Here's how. The post How to Build SEO-Friendly Internal Link Structures Using AI appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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How to Use Google Scholar to Find Content Ideas and Research

Neil Patel

Looking for a new way to research or find content ideas for your marketing content ? You may have heard of Google Scholar but aren’t sure if it’s the right tool for what you need. Google Scholar is a search engine for scholarly literature at major academic publishers and university presses that lets you find articles or citations on the topic of your choice.

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Hear This: Social Listening Can Help Differentiate Your Brand’s Content

Content Marketing Institute

This woefully underused audience research tactic lets you spy on your competitors, monitor your industry space, and identify the voices in your sector. It’s time to amp up your social listening efforts. Continue reading → The post Hear This: Social Listening Can Help Differentiate Your Brand’s Content appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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AI Strategies for Sales Managers: How to Cut Down on Tedious Admin Work

What if you could help your sellers stop wasting 72% of their day on non-selling activities and focus on bringing in revenue? Incorporating AI in your enablement workflows can help you cut down on busy work, get projects done faster, and let your team (and you!) focus on making a bigger impact. We put together this guide to show you how to use AI to cut time and costs for projects, including collateral creation, development of training videos, and automating tedious processes.

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Using AI-powered predictive analytics to time your next move

Martech

Even in uncertain times, AI-driven predictive analytics can help marketers see what opportunities are coming down the pike. So why isn’t this technology being used by more CMOs? At his talk, showed some ways any marketing team can predictively leverage their data. And he also shared some head-scratching. “About two-thirds of CMOs said that they’re managing the present, they’re putting out fires right now, and only about a third are looking towards the future, even in a period of time

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Facebook Has New Ways to Generate Leads & Connect With Customers via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Search Engine Journal

Facebook is rolling out new free and paid business tools designed to help businesses find new customers and connect with them in more ways. The post Facebook Has New Ways to Generate Leads & Connect With Customers appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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How to Optimize Your Website For Free

Neil Patel

The key factor in the “great SEO game” is how well you optimize your site. No matter how brilliant a product or service you have, you’ll have a hard time making money if no one can find it. This guide will help you understand how to optimize your website—for free—without having to use paid tools, services, or products. Why Should You Optimize Your Website?

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How to Document Your Content Marketing Workflow

Content Marketing Institute

A documented content marketing strategy is a big differentiator between the most and least successful. Imagine what a documented workflow could do for your content marketing operations. Here’s how to do it in four stages. Continue reading → The post How to Document Your Content Marketing Workflow appeared first on Content Marketing Institute.

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Evolving Beyond Intent: Create Customer Value with Signals

Speaker: Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing at ZoomInfo & guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester

Buying signals extend well beyond intent. They give go-to-market teams the chance to know everything about their customers. With buying signals, they can reach more customers and win more deals. Join Jam Khan, SVP, Product Marketing of ZoomInfo and guest speaker Amy Hawthorne, Principal Analyst from Forrester for this new webinar where you'll find out how marketing teams operate more efficiently and sales teams close more business when they act on buying signals, not just intent!

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Get your fall campaigns ready with MarTech’s Email Marketing Periodic Table

Martech

It’s here! The latest edition of MarTech’s Email Marketing Periodic Table. Email has long been one of the most reliable marketing channels for getting your messaging in front of your customers. But, because email is one of the most complex ways you can communicate with customers and prospects – through different mail clients, different ISPs, mobile and desktop, etc. – there are a lot of obstacles that can get between you and your intended recipients.

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Google: Referral Traffic Doesn’t Increase Link Equity via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern

Search Engine Journal

When Google evaluates how much weight to assign to backlinks it doesn’t consider factors such as referral traffic or whether the link gets clicked on. The post Google: Referral Traffic Doesn’t Increase Link Equity appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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3 Marketing Tips to Raise Virtual Member Engagement

Marketing Insider Group

With the global pandemic shifting the way groups of people meet, connect, and communicate, many association professionals feel as if they’re fighting an uphill battle just to keep their members engaged. After all, there’s no novelty left in hosting meet-ups on Zoom or Microsoft Teams, with many members already struggling with digital burnout in a year that feels as if it’s been entirely online.

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3 Effective Retargeting Strategies That Actually Work (With Examples)

Neil Patel

Retargeting is one of the best ways to close sales that didn’t happen. On top of that, retargeting efforts are pretty cheap compared to most types of advertising. How do you do it? What retargeting efforts do you need to try? Here are three examples of retargeting that actually work, how to copy them, and what you need to know about the future of retargeting. 1.

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Marketing Operations in 2025: A New Framework for Success

Speaker: Mike Rizzo, Founder & CEO, MarketingOps.com and Darrell Alfonso, Director of Marketing Strategy and Operations, Indeed.com

Though rarely in the spotlight, marketing operations are the backbone of the efficiency, scalability, and alignment that define top-performing marketing teams. In this exclusive webinar led by industry visionaries Mike Rizzo and Darrell Alfonso, we’re giving marketing operations the recognition they deserve! We will dive into the 7 P Model —a powerful framework designed to assess and optimize your marketing operations function.

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Brand strategies for NFTs are expanding

Martech

Last week, QSR chain Burger King launched an NFT-based sweepstakes around their BK Keep It Real Meals. The promotion is designed and supported by NFT marketplace Sweet with a focus on experience and easy adoption of the technology. The payoff could have implications for many brands looking to cash in on interest in collectible NFTs and to crack the code of how to use blockchain technology to encourage sustainable consumer attention and engagement.

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Facebook Shops: What it is and how to drive more social sales

Sprout Social

Has your business been sleeping on Facebook Shops? The popularity of social commerce and selling via Facebook ads is well-documented. And with the introduction of Shops’ product platform, Facebook is giving brands big and small an opportunity to get products in their followers’ hands faster. But as the rollout of Facebook Shops happened early on during the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses still haven’t had an opportunity to take full advantage of its features.

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Google Updates Keyword Matching Processes for Phrase & Broad Match via @sejournal, @hoffman8

Search Engine Journal

Google Ads has announced updates to the way that queries are matched to keywords. Here's what advertisers need to know! The post Google Updates Keyword Matching Processes for Phrase & Broad Match appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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10 Practices for Wix SEO

Neil Patel

If you’ve ever built a website, or you’re looking for a suitable website builder, you’ve no doubt heard of Wix. It’s renowned for its easy-to-use interface, its suitability for beginners, and it gets good reviews for its flexibility, professional-looking templates, and support. On the downside, Wix SEO limitations often come in for criticism, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enhance your site’s SEO considerably by applying a few best practices.

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The Power of Community: Why a Branded Community is a Must-Have for Every Association

Ever wonder why brands like Apple, LEGO, and Sephora are going all-in on branded communities? It’s because online community building is the secret sauce to connecting with audiences in ways that ads and emails simply can’t. But here's the best part—it’s not just for big corporations. Associations can create thriving online communities too. GrowthZone’s eBook, "The Power of Community," breaks down exactly why a branded online community can be a game-changer for your association.

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iOS 15 is out, but marketers can shake off the loss of email open rates

Martech

The best news to come out of “Pixelgeddon” – also known as Apple’s Mail Privacy Protection feature, which went into effect on Monday, Sept. 20 – is that I will never have to listen to another conference speaker tell his audience, “ It’s all about the opens.” As of Monday, the thing many email marketers have dreaded – iOS 15 – has launched, which will nullify tracking on emails opened by Apple Mail users and makes the open rate even less reliable.

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The Twilight renaissance: Why retailers need social media for trend forecasting

Sprout Social

Gen Z is embracing a new style icon: Bella Swan, the main protagonist from the Twilight film franchise. If you’re familiar with the movies, you may be rightfully confused. After all, Bella’s costume design is purposefully simple. She’s meant to go unnoticed. It’s what makes a 17-going-on-107-year-old vampire falling in love with her all the more interesting.

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5 On-Site SEO Factors That Matter Most via @sejournal, @krisjonescom

Search Engine Journal

What's the difference between SEO factors and ranking factors, and which on-site factors are most important to optimize? The post 5 On-Site SEO Factors That Matter Most appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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The A to Z Guide to Content Marketing for Distributors

Marketing Insider Group

Distributors have a unique position in the supply chain, managing and marketing to manufacturers and retailer partners at both ends. Content marketing for distributors is a way to engage these multiple audiences at once while growing your brand visibility. Sounds awesome, right? But what if you’ve never done content marketing before, or your current strategy just isn’t working?

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How to Prove Marketing Value: Demonstrate Content ROI and Contribution to Sales

Every marketer knows how important it is to prove their efforts drive sales opportunities, but that’s easier said than done. When problems like sales and marketing misalignment, lack of data, and wasted efforts persist, marketers can’t measure, prove, or increase their impact on revenue at a time when demonstrating marketing value is critical. Using analyst and expert data, this guide to marketing impact and content attribution explains: How B2B buyers use content The most common types of conten

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How to improve marketing ROI with clean data

Martech

Marketers know accurate data is tablestakes. It helps organizations make better decisions for their customers and, in turn, increases ROI. Yet even the most meticulous brands more often than not find errors within their datasets. A study published by Zoominfo found that 94% of businesses suspect their customer data is inaccurate. “In 2017 we took a look at our data and found that it was good, but ultimately it wasn’t great and we really wanted it to be so,” said Dominic Freschi

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How to Attract Customers with Buy Now, Pay Later Options

Neil Patel

Article sponsored by PayPal. Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) is the grown-up, digital version of installment plans of the past. BNPL allows consumers to split large purchases into several monthly payments, interest-free. The industry is growing fast, with 37.7 percent of US consumers choosing the option as of July 2020. Customers don’t just like BNPL; it also encourages them to manage their budget in a way that helps them pay for higher-priced items.

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There are no shortcuts to a sustainable social media strategy

Sprout Social

I’ve been seeing a lot written lately about growth hacks and people offering tips and tricks to quickly grow social media audiences. You’ve probably seen them too—posting a certain number of times a day, replying to your own Tweet or using a certain number of hashtags. I have to say, the headlines do grab my attention but upon further examination I’m always unimpressed.

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SEO Clients Report 2021: What Do Clients Want from SEO? via @sejournal, @theshelleywalsh

Search Engine Journal

In our State of SEO report, we asked working SEO pros about what results clients expect from SEO and what clients really think about SEO. The post SEO Clients Report 2021: What Do Clients Want from SEO? appeared first on Search Engine Journal.

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Accelerate Your Marketing with Automation: A Quickstart Guide

Ready to streamline your marketing efforts and achieve more with less? Our guide provides a step-by-step roadmap to: Build a Strong Foundation: Set up your automation infrastructure for success. Execute Proven Tactics: Implement effective strategies to nurture leads and drive conversions. Measure and Optimize: Track your results and make data-driven adjustments.