The results of the Junta42 survey done this month are most encouraging. Back in 2000 a Forrester Research study found that the number one reason someone comes back to a site is the quality of the content. And in Google’s recently published SEO starter guide they say that the most important factor in SEO rankings [...]
Online news has seen a sharp spike in the last year. According to the Pew Research Center for People and the Press the percentage of people getting their news online jumped from 24 percent a year ago to 40 percent. And in this same time period newspapers have been hovering around 35 percent. If you’re [...]
Image by WetWebWork A new study by MS&L, conducted in partnership with GfK Roper, examines some of the corporate values consumers find most important today, and the effects of such perceptions on maintaining long-term business, reports Brandweek. The study polled 6,000 consumers worldwide in the U.S., U.K., France, Italy, Sweden and China on topics such [...]
The Berkman Center for the Internet and Society at Harvard University has a report out today:News and Information as Digital Media Comes of Age. The United States is now several years into what promises to be a transformation of the media. It is driven by the rapid expansion of the number of people and organizations [...]
A post on TechCrunch today titled Death to the Embargo really brings home the fact that news has become a cut-throat, do-eat-dog activity. The race to be first to publish a story is the result of shifts in media consumption, a 27/7 news cycle and a cooling economy. Image by Nebbish1 “As the economy turns [...]
Search Engine Strategies is a conference all about search optimization and visibility. It is not a PR conference. So I was surprised to hear the panel on SEO basics talking about press releases. I caught up with Greg Jarboe after the session and asked him to explain why optimizing press releases, which used to be [...]
Social media marketing is spreading. Companies are recognizing the benefits of blogs, online video and social networking sites such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and more. According to Forrester Research, the number of social media “spectators” – people who read or watch social media – has increased from 48 percent last year to 69 percent of [...]
eConsultancy just released their 2008 Benchmark Report about the state of Online PR in the UK. The results show a surprisingly large percentage of retained PR budgets are being spent on Online PR. Company respondents report that 39% of their PR activity is online whilst agencies report that 47% of their clients’ retained fees come [...]
There was a lot of discussion at Search Engine Strategies in Chicago this week about online PR, optimized press releases and search. Since Google started returning news results in what they now call Universal Search results pages, and news is one of the most clicked results on a page, its become vital to understand how [...]
SEO tips form the speakers each day this weekI am at SES Chicago 08 with the video crew from Firebelly Marketing in Indianapolis. We’ll be talking to keynote speakrs and panelist today and tomorrow and the vidoes wil be postedon YouTube and on htis blog every day this week. So if you were not able [...]
