Want to learn all about the effective integration of traditional and digital marketing and how to solve the problems in modern marketing? I have debuted my new biweekly marketing column named “The Promotion Fix” at The Drum: The entire marketing industry needs really good editors The internet and mobile devices have made it easy to […]
BERLIN — I had the honor of speaking last week at this year’s Content Marketing Masters, one of three European conferences that are held by the German online marketing agency PerformicsAKM3. The topic? “How to Integrate PR and Content Marketing.” Here, I will summarize my presentation for everyone’s benefit. For more details on the highlights […]
Want to learn about creative publicity campaigns and that get you in the press and spread over social media? Read my new 11,000-word guide on Moz: No one cares about your company or product. Unless your CEO is Steve Jobs or your product is Google Glass, very few journalists and bloggers are going to write […]
I’m getting tired of spam e-mails and bad pitches. So, I was inspired by a recent blog post by Geraldine DeRuiter, otherwise known as the Everywhereist, in which she hilariously replies to every single spam message that she had received over a certain period of time. If you are a PR or communications professional who pitches or an […]
As I once wrote in an essay on how to speak at marketing conferences — events are an underrated marketing strategy because all marketing, in the end, is about people and not keywords, links, and news coverage. However, I write that statement with the caveats that it is first crucial to: Select the best conferences to sponsor […]
Over the past two years, SEOMoz became Moz, ThunderSEO became ThunderActive, and seOverflow became Inflow. Although I do not work for these companies, I would argue that they — and likely many more — have been rebranding themselves by removing affiliations to “SEO” and instead associating themselves with good, old-fashioned “marketing.” The reason? The phrase “SEO” has become […]
In the end, journalists are just another audience in a company’s overall marketing strategy — and they should be treated as such in publicity and public relations plans. A month ago, I wrote an essay for Moz on the coming integration of SEO and public relations. The post included a lengthy infographic flowchart and a […]
What is a “brand”? To discuss modern branding strategy effectively, we first need to define our terms. The American Marketing Association and Wikipedia define the word as “name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller’s product distinct from those of other sellers.” It is the trademarked name, logo, and more that […]
I don’t think I’ve ever been as happy about a Google algorithm update as I’ve been with Panda 4.0. Google rolled out the change on May 20. Search Engine Land’s Barry Schwartz noticed on May 29 that several major press-release websites were hit. PR Newswire announced on June 20 that low-quality content would be removed from the […]
Owned media, as Cara Tarbaj summarizes at Social Media Today, is content that you publish on channels that you control (such as your website). Earned media is when others publish content about you. Both have their benefits and drawbacks, and it is crucial to know when to use which channels. When should you publish on […]
SAN JOSE, California – I had the honor of speaking at Search Marketing Expo (SMX) West last week on the topic of how digital marketers can use traditional public-relations strategies to build brands, earn links, and get media coverage. The topic is important because the age of “building” links for SEO – spinning articles, submitting to […]
My latest SEO essay is up at Moz: As I’ve written elsewhere while using “The Avengers” as an example (Joss Whedon fans, unite!), “SEO” is actually just a slang term for a collection of best practices — it is doing web development well, content creation well, social media well, PR well, and so on. This […]
MILAN, Italy — Following my review of the speakers and presentations at SMX Milan 2013 last week, I wanted to follow-up on my promise to present my talk on how to incorporate public relations into a company’s overall SEO and online-marketing strategy. The full presentation and notes are below — I hope our readers may […]