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Content Marketing: 15 Top Search Optimization Tips

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Content marketing and search optimization are intricately interwoven. Content provides context to better understand products and services. Going beyond text descriptions, it answers consumers’ questions at every step of the purchase process. Great content enriches your audience persuading them to choose your firm’s product through a variety of different formats and keywords. Sixteen experts give their advice for leveraging content marketing to support your search optimization plans. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog

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Smartphones & Tablets: How We Shop Now [Research]

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With  115.8 million US smartphone owners and 54.8 million US tablet owners estimated by eMarketer in 2012, how we shop is changing. Using multiple devices, particularly smartphones and tablets, at different steps of the purchase process is an emerging trend.

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The Biggest Search Optimization Mistake Marketers Make

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Search optimization is a critical component of every marketing plan because it extends the reach of online and offline content and interactions. [Here's some SEO tips to start.] Search engines are where consumers go to get their questions answered 24/7 via computers, smartphones and tablets.  To help, here are the suggestions of fifteen search optimization experts with a variety of different approaches to optimizing for search .

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2012 Marketing Checkup [Mobile, Social Media & Content Marketing Included]

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As marketing students graduate and start their first jobs, they bring a fresh perspective to businesses. Similarly, marketers can take this same approach to assess 2012’s opportunities and challenges to maximize their marketing effectiveness before the holiday push and budget season begins. [Hint: Mobile, social media and content marketing are on the list!] Here are 5 opportunities and 5 challenges. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog.

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Mobile Search: 15 SEO Experts Give Their Advice [Research]

Attracting customers while they're on the go

Mobile search is an integral part of any mobile marketing strategy with steady growth of smartphones and tablets. Use mobile search to ensure prospects and customers can find you when they actively look for you when they’re on-the-go.  (Here’s some more mobile shopping data you need now!]  Here’s advice from fifteen SEO experts regarding how to optimize you mobile search strategy. Your top priority for mobile should be to have a mobile optimized version of your website.

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Tablet Roundup – 21 Research Charts & Infographics

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Tablets are an exploding market. As a marketer, it’s important to understand how this combination light-weight alternative to a laptop computer and a personal leisure device is used, how it changes content consumption and advertising, and how it fits into consumers’ lives relative to other connected devices, namely computers and smartphones.  [Here's earlier tablet data.] Here are 21 research charts and infographics to help you with your marketing. Source: Heidi Cohen’s Actionable Marketing Blog

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Mobile – Content to Go Please [Research]

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Consumers have smartphones and tablets and they’re using them to get content. In December, 2011, 8.2% of all digital page views were delivered via a mobile device. This breaks down to 5.2% for smartphones, 2.5% for tablets and 0.5% for other connected devices, according to comScore. Here’s how consumers are using their mobile devices and what they’re looking for as well as what it means for marketers. (Includes 4 market research charts.)

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5 Ways to Make Your Marketing More Effective [Charts]

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For marketers, it’s critical to put your money where your customers are, when and where they’re looking for your products and related information. As media options evolve, marketers often debate how to allocate their advertising budget without looking at it in the context of their marketing needs. Here are five critical marketing and advertising factors influencing where you should put your marketing spend along with related research and analysis to help you determine how to distribute it.

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Online Shopping: Tablets (iPads) Versus Smartphones [Charts]

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Marketers are debating whether it’s worth investing in providing their offering on tablets, particularly the iPad. Added to this is the challenge many that online retailers are still trying to get their mobile strategy on track. Four etailing tips and charts included.

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What is Social Media?

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What is social media? Ask any group of social media savvy individuals and it’s likely that they’ll all give you a different answer. Here’s 12 points that define social media based on 30 Social Media Definitions.

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4 Pillars of Digital Marketing

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Digital marketing is any marketing delivered via an Internet, mobile or tablet device. Here’s how to organize your plans and related strategies around the four pillars of digital marketing, content, communication, community and commerce.

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Digital Media: Four Screens No Waiting [Chart]

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The digital media landscape is in flux despite the fact that Americans spend over ten hours a day consuming content. A year after Apple introduced the iPad, Americans consume content on four major categories of devices: televisions, computers (including desktops, laptops and netbooks), tablets and smartphones. At the same time, content consumption continues to change and adapt with the evolution of devices and user functionality. Here are 4 different content consumption habits and a chart to show how to use them on 4 different devices.

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