Month: October 2020

  • You Ask, I Answer: Finding Ideal Audience on Twitter?

    Summary In today's episode, I walk through how to map your ideal Twitter audience using network analysis and interaction data. Here's what this means for you. You gain a systematic method for finding topically relevant, highly engaged people who can amplify your reach through genuine engagement. You'll also learn these concepts: how to extract interaction…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: College Degree for Marketing Success?

    Mark asks, “Do you need a college degree to succeed in marketing?” Like any profession, success in marketing is about combining knowledge plus practical application to generate experience. How you obtain those pieces is up to you, but for many employers, a college degree is a heuristic they use to screen and judge candidates. Generally…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: College Degree for Marketing Success?

    Summary In today's episode, I tackle the question of whether you actually need a college degree to succeed in marketing and unpack what the data reveals. Here's what this means for you. You'll get a strategic look at how automated hiring systems screen candidates and how to position yourself based on the type of company…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Measuring Social Media Impact on SEO?

    Sergey asks, “Is it possible to measure the impact of your social media on SEO? If so, how would you do this?” I’d look at content which has been socially shared and its SEO performance versus content that has not been. Using the SEO tool of your choice, extract the data and look at the…

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  • So What? Core Web Vitals and 2021 SEO Planning

    Summary In today's episode, I walk through Google's Core Web Vitals and explain what they mean for your website's search rankings heading into 2021 planning. Here's what this means for you. You gain a practical framework for diagnosing and fixing page speed issues that Google will use as a ranking signal, giving you time to…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Measuring Social Media Impact on SEO?

    Summary In today's episode, I walk through how to measure whether social media activity actually impacts your SEO using a statistical technique called propensity score matching. Here's what this means for you. You get a practical, real-world method for analyzing your own content and finding out if sharing posts on platforms like Twitter, Facebook, or…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Social Media Engagement and SEO?

    Sofia asks, “Do social media likes, shares, and comments have an impact on SEO?” This is a tricky question to answer because the answer will be different for every company. Broadly, we’ve studied in the past and see no clear correlation, but it’s something you have to test for yourself. Can’t see anything? Watch it…

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Social Media Engagement and SEO?

    Summary In today's episode, I walk through a data-driven analysis answering whether social media likes, shares, and comments actually move the needle on SEO. Here's what this means for you. You can stop treating social engagement as an automatic SEO lever and instead measure its true impact on your own site using tools you likely…

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