TopRank Digital Marketing News

At the recent MarketingProfs B2B Forum in Boston, TopRank CEO Lee Odden and SEO client Jiyan Wei, Director of Product Management for PRWeb, presented on B2B Content Optimization Best and Worst Practices to a packed room of business to business marketers.

Below is the full Powerpoint deck of the presentation including the Strategy & Tactics as well as the PRWeb case study. Below that is a video of the Strategy and Tactics presentation taken by Jeffrey L. Cohen of Social Media B2B.

The 45 minute video of Lee’s portion of the presentation covers: Content SEO Strategy, Core SEO Principles, SEO Best and Worst Practices.

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Integrated Marketing Summit Minneapolis

Driving revenue continues to be the core focus of marketing, whether a company’s strategic and tactical mix leans traditional or 2.0.  The Integrated Marketing Summit is premised on this belief, and by educating marketing professionals on the latest industry best practices, helps companies achieve revenue goals.

As Integrated Marketing Summit enters Minneapolis, MN on May 25^th, TopRank® Online Marketing will be on hand to help educate attendees on the latest best practices in digital marketing.

TopRank CEO Lee Odden will moderate the 2:45pm panel, Search Engine Optimization & Marketing.  Odden’s panel will detail how proper integration of SEO can help elevate the results of any marketing program. Panelists include:

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In a recent post to Online Marketing Blog, TopRank® Online Marketing CEO Lee Odden writes, “Focusing content creation efforts solely to serve Search Engine Optimization (SEO) purposes can be limiting. If the only purpose for creating content is for search engine visibility, the publishing web site may improve search traffic but disappoint when it comes to converting that traffic.”

In the blog marketing and content creation case study below, learn how the TopRank team leveraged this philosophy in the design and creation of a blog for audience response system provider IML. By keeping a bullseye-like focus on prospect and customer needs, TopRank has helped IML create an online resource that exists for the primary purpose of supporting overall business objectives.

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Recognizing how the rules of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and social media evolve is imperative to the continued success of online marketing professionals.  As such, staying one step ahead of the current rules is of far greater importance than simply staying up to date.

This May, TopRank® Online Marketing CEO Lee Odden will help keep online marketing professionals on the cutting-edge with, “Beyond Google: SEO and the Social Web,” the opening keynote for the 2010 Search Exchange Internet Marketing Conference.

Geared towards SEO professionals, this keynote will help attendees:

• Understand the effect social media optimization has on overall goals

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For many businesses, search engine rankings and traffic are simply KPIs supporting larger online marketing goals – inquiries and sales. While these businesses may have tracking systems in regards to online sales, and may be tracking web stats via analytics, it can be difficult to bridge the gap between the two.

Analytics goals and funnels help to bridge this gap, showing how visitors convert into a sale based on factors including:

• Keyword
• Referring source
• Landing page

So why is it important to track this data?

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As traditional PR, social media and reputation management converge into an integrated stream of marketing communications, it is vital that marketing professionals develop a mastery of each element. The companies that do achieve this mastery will be those that uncover the most effective approaches to achieve business objectives.

This June, TopRank® Online Marketing CEO and online public relations expert Lee Odden will be presenting at the 2010 Vocus Users Conference. During his presentation, Odden will be sharing tips and tricks to help marketing and PR professionals write content designed for the web.

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Following the birth of real time search, the proclivity of search engines to prioritize rankings based on new, newsworthy and social content, is real time Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

So what type of content can businesses develop to take advantage of real time search?  Below, find three types of content TopRank® Online Marketing helps develop to support traditional and real time SEO programs for its clients:

1. Optimized Press Releases: More and more, search engines will quickly position newsworthy content atop search results.  News and press releases, optimized for search and published through authoritative newswires, can help companies both achieve higher rankings and ensure positive messaging is found atop search results.

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Much like trying to literally capture lightning in a bottle, haphazardly inserting social media tactics into a marketing plan in an attempt to force customer connection can be inefficient at best and dangerous at worst. In the article below, originally published in Target Marketing, TopRank® Online Marketing CEO Lee Odden offers three tactics that ensure better connection with customers on the social web:

The buzz surrounding companies investing in social media marketing to reach consumers has created a lot of attention for sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and the recently popular Foursquare. Millions of consumers are spending their time online with social networking and media sharing sites instead of other media.

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Today’s 24-hour news cycle means, more than ever before, journalists and bloggers turn to search engines and social media to quickly find stories and sources.  Despite this, many media placement and article syndication companies guard content behind lengthy log-in processes.  The five minutes it takes a journalist to log-in is, oftentimes, five minutes spent finding a more convenient source.

One company that has evolved to meet the needs of its prospect and client base is NewsUSA.  The social media and Twitter case study below details how TopRank® Online Marketing is helping NewsUSA meet business objectives by freeing up and expanding the availability of media content into channels frequented by customers and prospects.

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Examples of strong branding, whether it’s the ‘Uncola’ or the ‘Freshmaker’, light fires in the minds of consumers that are rarely extinguished.  Can the same branding principles used by B2C companies, including personification of a company and persistence of messaging, help B2B businesses achieve their marketing goals?

Below, learn how B2B branding is helping three clients of TopRank® Online Marketing achieve their business objectives:

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Powder-Solutions, distributor of an industrial pipe connector used to enhance safety and sanitation in bulk powder processing plans, sought to humanize its image.

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