by Jordan Kasteler.

Search Engine Land’s Jordan Kasteler wrote on Tuesday that making content easy to share over the web is critical to it becoming viral.

Whether it’s an article written as part of a content marketing campaign or a video, Kasteler believes removing as many steps as possible required to share a link will improve the chances of it becoming viral.

Even for those that don’t necessarily reach enough people to receive the viral distinction, sharing widgets that allow for easy posting to social media websites and content aggregators are generally a good idea.

Beyond social media widgets, making the piece easy to email with a button will help maximize its visibility.

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by Matt.

We’ve been doing quite a few posts about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) lately. SEO isn’t hard the same way calculus is hard, but it can be very time consuming and is constantly changing.

You can ignore it all together, but know you probably won’t get a lot of traffic from Google. You can pay someone to do it for you. Most of the providers you find cheap aren’t very good and the good ones are rarely cheap. The going rate for a firm to look at your site and make recommendations is often $750 to $1000+. That’s for a one time recommendation! To have them monitor and make ongoing recommendations or to actually implement to recommended changes would likely make you faint.

Read the rest of this article from Guerrilla Word Fare.

by Michael Chibuzor.

Life continues to exist because we have laws that govern our attitudes, values and perception of others. Ask yourself, if there were no laws in the state, maybe someone could shoot you without consequence. When it comes to our business life, there are certain laws, although they may not be visible or obvious per say, they ultimately determine how far you go.

Blogging is a unique business model, all bloggers can be likened to citizens of the blogosphere.

Believe me, there are laws in the blogging world, successful bloggers abide by it, young bloggers need it and as you read along, I didn’t promulgate these laws, and I don’t know who did, but it’s vital to abide by them if you desire short and long term success. I would like to point out also, that you’re set to attain great success if you obey them.

Read the rest of this article from We Blog Better.

by Jeremy Scott.

This is the first in a nine-part series on how brands are turning to social video to better reach and engage consumers. Throughout the next nine weeks, we’ll cover social video marketing from all angles, including case studies, best practices, strategies, and more. But for this first installment, I thought it would be a good idea to discuss social video as a concept, defining it and setting the stage for the rest of the series.

Read the rest of this article from Reel SEO.

by Zac Johnson.

There’s no way to get around it: if you’re looking to become a pro blogger, you’ve got some pretty tough competition. Even bloggers who write on supposedly “niche” subjects face opposition from similarly themed blogs.

So how do you keep your content fresh when there’s someone covering the same topic? Believe it or not, the web is big enough to handle multiple blogs about your interest, be it street art, baking, or insurance advice. The key is to properly distinguish yourself among your peers as the go-to person for your niche. Here are some tips to separate yourself from the blogging pack.

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by Trent Brownrigg.

It is well known that online video marketing is incredibly popular these days. Almost every internet marketer is either already doing it or planning to jump on the bandwagon very soon. If you don’t believe me just go take a look at a few product sales pages right now, or some popular internet business blogs, or discussions on your favorite online marketing forum. You could also check out a little site you might have heard of called YouTube. Okay, I think you get the point!

There are marketing videos all over YouTube and all the other major video sharing sites. And just as with guest blogging, social networking, article marketing, and other popular traffic generation strategies; video marketing can make you a lot of money if you do it correctly. This post is going to provide you with three online video marketing tips that you can use to become a rockstar of the industry.

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from DIY Musician.

I know, I’m as guilty as many of you. You’ve spent hours creating and editing a video. You’ve finally got it uploaded to YouTube, and the last thing you feel like doing is making sure you’ve chosen the perfect title and tags so your video is easy to find. But why put in all that work in the first place if nobody’s gonna view your video?

I’ve outlined a few basic practices below that will allow you to optimize your YouTube videos so they get more views online. It doesn’t take much time and it will ensure you get better ranking in both YouTube and Google when people search on your keywords.

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by Siddartha.

In order to succeed in the SEO arena, or in layman terms, to rank higher in the searchengine results, getting the basics right, can make or break things!

If you have got a great business and a great website in your hand, keep an eye of Google search results every day – it is fine, several times per day – to see the ranking. But, it won’t help just to see it if you are on page 3 or four – or may be not even ranking that high. Nothing went wrong – you’re not getting the basics right quite yet.

What you need is to do is little SEO. Yes, it is very much true that SEO is not a simple field, rife with contradictory opinions. Nevertheless, taking few simple points into consideration, it can help the site rankings to get better and better in the search engine results, and draw more visitors.

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by John Smith.

If you’ve been blogging for a few months now then you know that traffic is very essential to success in blogging and that traffic isn’t that easy to get.

There are many ways to get traffic to your blog but my most preferred traffic type is search engine traffic because of how great it is and how effectively it converts. For example, if you’re looking for the answer to a burning question or you want to buy something online urgently but don’t know which site to get it from, what will you do? I’m very sure the first thing you will do is visit Google and search for the thing that bothers you, and that is why in this article I will be giving you 4 tips to help you increase your search engine traffic.

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by Usman.

Due the increasing trend among individuals to rely on the Internet to shop online or discover information there have been a large number of web-sites. All kinds of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) methods are opted by business enterprises to capture top ranks in popular “search engines” such as Yahoo, Google, etc. SEO traffic is increased with high search engine rankings.

Video marketing is one often ignored technique to augment SEO traffic. It has a number of prospective benefits, but only if technicians take certain safety measures to accomplish the most excellent result.

With video marketing you can send traffic SEO to your website. Adding high-quality, interesting videos on your web-site will help to boost SEO traffic.

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