by Samuel Scott | Mar 18, 2014 | Marketing Essays
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...
by Samuel Scott | Nov 12, 2013 | Marketing Essays
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...
by Samuel Scott | Oct 8, 2013 | Marketing Essays
Relax. Google’s recent move to eliminate most organic-keyword data in Google Analytics is not – as Moz CEO Rand Fishkin wrote on his personal blog – “the first truly existential threat our industry has faced.” But it is a threat to those companies and agencies that...
by Samuel Scott | Sep 4, 2013 | Marketing Essays
“Did Google just kill PR agencies?” That was the headline of a recent article on ZDNet whose author misunderstands the nature of online public relations and SEO – the answer to its question is a resounding “no.” Tom Foremski, the author, cites this page of...
by Samuel Scott | Jul 22, 2013 | Marketing Essays
Why is global search-engine optimization and marketing important? Simple. As Marcus Wohlsen recently noted in Wired, people trust Google: Custora found that customers who came to retailers from search were more than 50 percent more valuable than average. In other...