With YaBlog, our goal is to keep you abreast of digital marketing best practices covering everything from copywriting and development to social media marketing. It’s a busy landscape out there, and you deserve the most useful information to keep you on your toes
But what about the equally important, yet oft-forgotten concept of “disconnecting”? With businesses having to concentrate on so many different platforms at once to keep up with their online marketing, it’s easy to to experience “burnout” and lose focus. Should this burnout become demoralizing, it can potentially affect public perception of your business, particularly if you quickly go from being active to passive. We now present you with some helpful tips that will help you avoid stress amongst the noise of the internet:
With YaBlog, our goal is to keep you abreast of digital marketing best practices covering everything from copywriting and development to social media marketing. It’s a busy landscape out there, and you deserve the most useful information to keep you on your toes
But what about the equally important, yet oft-forgotten concept of “disconnecting”? With businesses having to concentrate on so many different platforms at once to keep up with their online marketing, it’s easy to to experience “burnout” and lose focus. Should this burnout become demoralizing, it can potentially affect public perception of your business, particularly if you quickly go from being active to passive. We now present you with some helpful tips that will help you avoid stress amongst the noise of the internet:
Native advertising is growing in popularity and small business owners everywhere need to understand what it is and why it’s beneficial. It is defined by ShareThrough as “a form of paid media where the ad experience follows the natural form and function of the user experience in which it is placed.” To expand on this, native ads match the visual appearance of the content they are placed in, thus looking and feeling natural. They function naturally and are consistent in behaviour with the native user experience. Read More
Native advertising is growing in popularity and small business owners everywhere need to understand what it is and why it’s beneficial. It is defined by ShareThrough as “a form of paid media where the ad experience follows the natural form and function of the user experience in which it is placed.” To expand on this, native ads match the visual appearance of the content they are placed in, thus looking and feeling natural. They function naturally and are consistent in behaviour with the native user experience. Continue reading →
In Part 1 of this YaBlog series, we discussed 5 of the top SEO don’ts – stealing content, keyword stuffing, link schemes, content spinning and ad spam. This week, we’re back with 5 more “tips” that, in order to achieve SEO success, we recommend businesses avoid. Read on for great ideas on how to get in good with Google, and get found online. Read More
In Part 1 of this YaBlog series, we discussed 5 of the top SEO don’ts – stealing content, keyword stuffing, link schemes, content spinning and ad spam. This week, we’re back with 5 more “tips” that, in order to achieve SEO success, we recommend businesses avoid. Read on for great ideas on how to get in good with Google, and get found online. Continue reading →
SEO, or search engine optimization, is key to getting found online in 2014. As a business owner, however, it can be difficult to separate the good advice from the not-so-good when it comes to following the parameters set by large search engines like Google. Avoiding the following 5 don’ts is key to implementing a strategy that gets results. Read More
SEO, or search engine optimization, is key to getting found online in 2014. As a business owner, however, it can be difficult to separate the good advice from the not-so-good when it comes to following the parameters set by large search engines like Google. Avoiding the following 5 don’ts is key to implementing a strategy that gets results. Continue reading →
Bloggers, have you ever taken a photo from Google Images and put it in your blog? Copied and pasted a piece of another blog post to enrich your own? Have you ever copied CSS code from a website to use as your own design? These are all common blogging actions and while mostly done without ill will, they could have major consequences. Below is a simple guide to making sure your blog is copyright infringement-free. Read More
Bloggers, have you ever taken a photo from Google Images and put it in your blog? Copied and pasted a piece of another blog post to enrich your own? Have you ever copied CSS code from a website to use as your own design? These are all common blogging actions and while mostly done without ill will, they could have major consequences. Below is a simple guide to making sure your blog is copyright infringement-free. Continue reading →
Dealing with unhappy clients online is a reality of digital marketing that you and your business should always be prepared for. No matter how efficient your customer relations, it’s essential to know how to respond to contentious issues in a productive, helpful fashion befitting your company’s image. With things like Facebook, Twitter and Google Reviews making it easier than ever for potential customers to see how you deal with existing ones, we present the following tips to help you get through those tough situations:
Dealing with unhappy clients online is a reality of digital marketing that you and your business should always be prepared for. No matter how efficient your customer relations, it’s essential to know how to respond to contentious issues in a productive, helpful fashion befitting your company’s image. With things like Facebook, Twitter and Google Reviews making it easier than ever for potential customers to see how you deal with existing ones, we present the following tips to help you get through those tough situations:
With images taking over the digital world (think Facebook, Pinterest and Tumblr), they have undoubtedly become a very important aspect of online content marketing, especially blogging.
With the goal of being seen and shared on the world’ssocial networking sites it’s good to build your posts knowing that images get 94% more views and are digested 60,0000 times faster than those without. Not to mention, the alt tag (or image description) acts as a second layer of SEO. Below is a breakdown of 4 different types of images that can enhance your content.
With images taking over the digital world (think Facebook, Pinterest and Tumblr), they have undoubtedly become a very important aspect of online content marketing, especially blogging.
With the goal of being seen and shared on the world’ssocial networking sites it’s good to build your posts knowing that images get 94% more views and are digested 60,0000 times faster than those without. Not to mention, the alt tag (or image description) acts as a second layer of SEO. Below is a breakdown of 4 different types of images that can enhance your content.
As a business, maintaining a social media account comes with different rules and best practices than those of running a personal profile. Though platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn give you the valuable advantage of being able to directly engage your customers, it’s important to retain certain tenets of professionalism when speaking under your company name: Finding the right blend of informative and personally appealing is what tends to give businesses the positive feedback they desire. Here are three tips:
As a business, maintaining a social media account comes with different rules and best practices than those of running a personal profile. Though platforms like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn give you the valuable advantage of being able to directly engage your customers, it’s important to retain certain tenets of professionalism when speaking under your company name: Finding the right blend of informative and personally appealing is what tends to give businesses the positive feedback they desire. Here are three tips:
