Timothy Martell's Blog – August 2012 Archive (22)

Twitter and the RNC

Itʼs official: Twitter is THE place for advertisers of every shape and size. Weʼve long suspected itʼs true and last nightʼs Republican National Convention just seals the deal.

Obama has utilized social media marketing since his first campaign back in 2008,…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 31, 2012 at 9:32am — No Comments

Using Your Blog In Conjunction With Your Social Media

Blogging is about a lot of things, producing good content, building trust with your target market, driving traffic back to your website, adding value to your automotive SEO, but one of the most important things that often gets overlooked is that you can, and should, use…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 30, 2012 at 11:00am — 2 Comments

The Complete Guide To Blogging For Business

If you’re involved with the marketing aspect of your web presence, then you’ve probably heard of blogging for business. Simply put, a well executed blog can be the hub of all your internet marketing efforts. Does your business have one? If not, you’re missing out on one of the most…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 29, 2012 at 8:00am — 9 Comments

Huge Growth Among Niche Social Networks

Pinterest and Instagram, the two new kids on the block. They are niche social networks each catering to a specific gap in the market and each are growing at exponential rates. We can expect Facebook and Twitter to remain the supreme social media leaders but these alternatives are growing in popularity very quickly, Instagram doesn’t have a huge value for marketing but…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 28, 2012 at 10:38am — No Comments

5 Questions To Ask Before Hiring An SEO Company

Here at Wikimotive, we love educated customers. Thatʼs why we put together this list, laying out the top five questions a business should ask any prospective SEO Company before hiring them. It doesnʼt cover everything, but with these five questions, you should be able to get a good overall feel and narrow down your prospective…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 27, 2012 at 1:30pm — 7 Comments

New PPC on Facebook!

Facebook is undeniably one of the most influential companies on the internet; they dominate the social media landscape and cause web-wide rage with even the most minor of updates. Could they do more, though? They certainly seem to think so.

The social media…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 24, 2012 at 9:06am — No Comments

Google Tweaks Pand And Penguin To Devalue Unnatural Content

Google announced this week that they would be making further adjustments to their algorithms, specifically with the Penguin and Panda parts of it. If you’ve been reading our blog and following our advice you should have nothing to worry about because you will already be creating good content. If not you might want to pay attention because the adjustments to the algorithm are…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 23, 2012 at 10:07am — No Comments

Wikimotive's New eBook On Internal Linking

If you’re involved with the marketing aspect of your web presence, then you’ve probably heard of internal links. Simply put, they’re links on a website that lead to other pages on that same website (hence ‘internal’). Does your business utilize them? It not, you’re missing out on one of the most powerful and reliable methods of lead generation and…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 22, 2012 at 8:17am — 10 Comments

Site Search Can Boost Your Conversion Rate

One measurement of website success tends to get overlooked a lot in favor of other, bigger numbers like traffic and bounce rate. That measurement is conversion rate, what percentage of visitors to your website convert into a lead. One of the biggest factors when it comes to…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 21, 2012 at 9:56am — No Comments

Facebook Timeline Changes for Your Business

Facebook has rapidly become one of the biggest players in the SEO field. Weʼve given you tips on how to make social network marketing work for you in the past, but itʼs time for an update. Facebook is implementing a major change by making their new Timeline layout…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 20, 2012 at 8:44am — 9 Comments

Google Plus Finally Gets Vanity URLs

Recently Google started offering vanity URLs for Google Plus. The announcement stated that the vanity URLs will start being rolled out with a few verified users but it will soon become available for all users. Finally this is what many of us have been waiting for with Google+ no more massive strings of numbers in your URL now you can just have a simple short URL like…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 17, 2012 at 9:25am — 6 Comments

Wikimotive's Guide For Landing Pages

If youʼre involved in your companyʼs internet marketing, then youʼve probably heard the term, “landing pages”. A landing page, or a lead capture page, is the page that a potential customer arrives at after clicking on an advertisement or other link. The page should be related to…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 17, 2012 at 9:00am — 7 Comments

StatusPeople.com Identifying Fake Twitter Followers

The purchasing of Twitter followers has become an extremely popular trend. It offers the instant gratification that many people and businesses crave. When someone sees you have a mere handful of followers, they arenʼt likely to believe you have much…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 15, 2012 at 9:38am — No Comments

How To Use Social Media As An SEO Strategy

As we have mentioned before, social media is not just a good way to keep in touch with your customers it’s now crucial to your SEO as well. But just how can you use your social media marketing to help your SEO? We’re going to talk about exactly that, how your social media and SEO can work together to grow your business. As is stands now social signals have already become an…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 14, 2012 at 10:21am — No Comments

No More Invites For Pinterest

Pinterest has generally been ignored by the advertising world at large, but the site is making big moves to assert its relevancy. As of last week, the social media website has done away with their invite system.…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 13, 2012 at 8:34am — No Comments

Clay Nissan and the Colters

Social media represents a new dawn for the marketing industry. The level of interaction it enables between business and consumer is nothing short of revolutionary. Most would agree that this is a step forward; more communication is always preferable to less. However, it is not an avenue of communication that businesses can control, or even truly mediate.…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 10, 2012 at 10:00am — No Comments

Google Releases Photo Guidelines For Local Pages

Google recently released guidelines for their Google+ Local Pages, outlining what you can and can’t do with the main picture on your Local page. It is important to stay on top of these announcements from Google, make sure you read over these guidelines to make sure you aren’t hurting your local page, it could have big implications on your…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 9, 2012 at 8:50am — No Comments

Marketing Wizard's Pinterest Spellbook

If youʼre active on social media (and you better be), than recently you may have seen people on your social networks talk about Pinterest. The site is growing rapidly, already ranking above long running sites like LinkedIn. Knowing this, of course the next thing you want to know is if itʼs a…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 8, 2012 at 8:37am — No Comments

Facebook Reveals New Post Targeting Options For Pages

General consensus in advertising today is usually that the most effective advertising is specifically targeted to a narrow field of people that you want to reach. For years this has been accomplished with complicated technology and it has definitely shown performance improvements from non-targeted to targeted ads. This level of targeting has never been available for…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 7, 2012 at 8:26am — No Comments

Man Dresses In Goat Costume, Frolics With Herd!

Listen, sorry about the headline, that’s not actually what this is about (though it is a true story)…but it proves a point: people can’t help but click on weird news headlines!

We all know blogging is a crucial aspect of any business’s search engine optimization…

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Added by Timothy Martell on August 6, 2012 at 9:10am — No Comments

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