Nothing can take your business to the next level like great search engine optimization (SEO). Unfortunately, it's not always easy to know what will successfully drive traffic, leads, and sales. If you want to stand out from your competition, your SEO needs a distinctive blend of creativity and logic. Maybe you're a marketing manager or executive who is responsible for SEO growth but do not fully understand how it works. Or maybe you are a seasoned SEO pro looking to optimize further. Either way, this book is your behind-the-scenes guide to online visibility. When it comes to SEO, success often depends not on what you do but on how you do it. That is why Product-Led SEO digs deep into the logic and theory of SEO instead of offering step-by-step guidelines and techniques. You will learn to develop your own best practices and see where most SEO strategies go astray. If your main goal is driving traffic, you are leaving sales on the table.

"Product-Led Growth is about helping your customers experience the ongoing value your product provides. It is a critical step in successful product design and this book shows you how it's done." - Nir Eyal, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of "Hooked"

The #1 Step-by-Step Guide to Search Marketing Success...Now Completely Updated with New Techniques, Tools, and Best Practices! In this book, two world-class experts present today’s best practices, step-by-step techniques, and hard-won tips for using search engine marketing to achieve your sales and marketing goals, whatever they are. Mike Moran and Bill Hunt thoroughly cover both the business and technical aspects of contemporary search engine marketing, walking beginners through all the basics while providing reliable, up-to-the-minute insights for experienced professionals. Thoroughly updated to fully reflect today’s latest search engine marketing opportunities, this book guides you through profiting from social media marketing, site search, advanced keyword tools, hybrid paid search auctions, and much more. You’ll walk step-by-step through every facet of creating an effective program: projecting business value, selling stakeholders and executives, building teams, choosing strategy, implementing metrics, and above all, execution. Whether you’re a marketing, Web, or IT professional, product manager, or content specialist, Search Engine Marketing, Inc., Second Edition will help you define your SEO/SEM goals, craft a best-practices program for achieving them, and implement it flawlessly.

Digital marketing was once a small part of marketing, now it is marketing. Every part of our modern lives revolves around technology: we interact through apps, work from computers and connect to one another via social media. With this evolution has come the digital marketing revolution, and how we consume marketing has changed forever. Nabeel Ahmad is a digital marketing savant and is regarded as one of the top authorities in the marketing industry. He has built up a digital media empire and has been recognised as one of the top marketing experts in the world by International Business Times. In this once in a lifetime opportunity, the award-winning CEO of Skyray Ventures will offer us a glimpse into his mind as he educates us on the world of digital marketing. He will reveal the techniques he used to build his business empire and will teach you how you can take your business to the next level with relevant and engaging marketing. In this book, Nabeel will demystify the obscure world of digital marketing, explaining modern marketing trends and practices, teaching you how to use your own unique selling points to promote your business and how to reach the right customers. His 8-tactic program will guide you through the process of beginning your digital journey, from pitching to blogging, influencer marketing to affiliate marketing, he will impart his wisdom upon you to ensure you can achieve the success you deserve.

When you borrow a plate from grandma, does she ask you to pay a deposit? Of course not. Likewise, blocking your non-paying ("freemium") customers from the core experience of your product, is like chopping your own leg off while running a marathon. Yet, this is just one of the crucial mistakes that most SaaS companies make right off the bat. Think about it. Do YOU have... Stalled accounts taking up valuable space? Sub-par clients who only expect freebies and don't ever use the full features of your product? Low conversion from free accounts to paid? Then, you might have a shot-yourself-in-the-foot problem. In this book, you'll find the easy, 6-step formula you can apply to your operations today that can change absolutely everything. You'll be able to count your company among giants like Mixpanel, Ubisoft, and Outsystems when you: Captivate clients' attention from the get-go. Make it easier for clients to get good at using your software so they are more likely to use it. Create a fool-proof checklist to make your product go viral. Match services with behaviors, and get users addicted to your product. Win rave reviews by making clients feel like VIPs. Use this strategy at each level in your team to supercharge its effect. Rinse and repeat, and watch your business grow while you sleep. In short, you'll discover why putting your customer first is the ultimate secret to growing your company. And how you can achieve astronomical conversions and customer loyalty without even trying. Check out what others are saying:

Most startups don’t fail because they can’t build a product. Most startups fail because they can’t get traction. Startup advice tends to be a lot of platitudes repackaged with new buzzwords, but Traction is something else entirely. As Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares learned from their own experiences, building a successful company is hard. For every startup that grows to the point where it can go public or be profitably acquired, hundreds of others sputter and die. Smart entrepreneurs know that the key to success isn’t the originality of your offering, the brilliance of your team, or how much money you raise. It’s how consistently you can grow and acquire new customers (or, for a free service, users). That’s called traction, and it makes everything else easier—fund-raising, hiring, press, partnerships, acquisitions. Talk is cheap, but traction is hard evidence that you’re on the right path. Traction will teach you the nineteen channels you can use to build a customer base, and how to pick the right ones for your business. It draws on inter-views with more than forty successful founders, including Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia), Alexis Ohanian (reddit), Paul English (Kayak), and Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot). You’ll learn, for example, how to: ·Find and use offline ads and other channels your competitors probably aren’t using ·Get targeted media coverage that will help you reach more customers ·Boost the effectiveness of your email marketing campaigns by automating staggered sets of prompts and updates ·Improve your search engine rankings and advertising through online tools and research Weinberg and Mares know that there’s no one-size-fits-all solution; every startup faces unique challenges and will benefit from a blend of these nineteen traction channels. They offer a three-step framework (called Bullseye) to figure out which ones will work best for your business. But no matter how you apply them, the lessons and examples in Traction will help you create and sustain the growth your business desperately needs.

This book is geared towards both students and professionals looking to explore the interconnectedness of digital technologies for marketing and branding purposes. The field of marketing has seen an evolution in how brands communicate with consumers, how consumers communicate with brands, and how consumers communicate with one another. Digital technologies such as mobile phones, the internet, social media, and email contribute to what is known as the digital marketing landscape. Digital marketing offers unique ways to meet consumers where they are, engage with potential and existing consumers, capture the voice of the consumer; allow consumers to be part of a brand narrative. This book is geared towards both students and professionals looking to explore the interconnectedness of digital technologies for marketing and branding purposes. This book offers an overview of the digital marketing landscape and how the various elements of digital can work synergistically. When the power of an integrated digital strategy is optimized, both consumers and brands benefit. The Digital Marketing Landscape serves as a practical guide for both students and professionals in a variety of settings. Readers will become familiar with terminology, understand how the different areas of digital marketing connect and work together, and gain the knowledge needed to generate valuable and actionable managerial insights for more informed decision-making.

Your SEO team has stellar skills, motivation, and the discipline needed to get it right. SEO revenues are growing, but you feel it could be better...and you're right, "it" can be a lot better. Doing "it" right is simple in theory, but few companies have been able to do "it." The secret to "it" is to get SEO done right the first time, by the right people, at the right time. Easier said than done? Well, yes and no. It is nearly impossible to achieve that goal without an effective methodology. This book will show you exactly what that effective methodology looks like, step by step. The Executive SEO Playbook was written for executives, but the methodology will inform everyone company-wide. Managers will discover how to get their teams to act on the 20% of SEO that makes 80% of the impact for their role. The SEO team will stop chasing projects and start doing advanced, proactive--and effective--SEO. A truly effective SEO strategy isn't executed by the SEO team, it's executed via company-wide integration. Embrace the future of enterprise-level SEO and enjoy the rewards.

Hundreds of online marketing books have been written about search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM) and pay-per-click advertising (PPC), this is the first to elaborate on the most fundamental marketing tactic of all: links and link building. The world's most recognized authority on link building, Eric Ward, clearsThe web today is comprised of trillions of links: links between websites, links within social media venues like Facebook and Twitter, and even links in email inboxes. Who links to a site and how they link to it is one of the most important factors that search engines rely on when ranking results. But how do marketers control this? Link building expert Eric Ward provides the answers.Sharing little-known techniques for link building via social media platforms, blogs, partnerships, public relations, articles, and more, Ward teaches marketers which link-building techniques will maximize the quality links that point to their site, allowing them to charm both search engines and customers and which methods to avoid.This one-of-a-kind guide details a variety of link building tools, tactics, and techniques illustrated by case studies, expert interviews, and resources. Ward leaves no opportunity unexplored, and no link-building questions unanswered.

Google is key to managing the online presence of your business. Think of the Google search results for your brand name as a "digital business card"-the single most important online representation of your brand message. In The Fundamentals of Brand SERPs for Business, Jason Barnard uses exclusive insight from his business, Kalicube, to explain why Brand SERPs are a vital part of any digital marketing strategy. Google reflects the world's opinion of your brand, so learning how to tailor your Brand SERP elevates brand credibility, audience engagement, and overall success. With other brands leaving their online reputation to chance, now's the time to make your Brand SERP "sexy" and surpass the competition.