Archive for January, 2013

Your business is like a tree — only as sturdy as its roots. You can’t branch out until you know how strong your foundation is, especially when your tree is built upon social media; an ever-changing and increasingly important platform in today’s marketing environment. We’ve created a special infographic that illuminates social media best practices [...]

Two weeks ago, we shared the first part of this two part post, “10 Content Experts Weigh in on Author Rank in 2013,” and discussed how the content experts we interviewed are planning to implement rel=author this year. In part II, we examine if they think author rank will be a focus in 2013 and [...]

It was only 2 years ago when the term “content marketing” was still relatively unknown. Nowadays, we consider content marketing to be a need-to-know factor for companies–both large and small–who want grow their business organically on the web. But understanding the steady rise of content marketing’s importance plus its ability to increase business doesn’t give us the [...]

It seems to be a month full of explorations of Google Authorship and Author Rank here at Vertical Measures. We had a great post by Kaila Strong last week interviewing top industry professionals on author rank’s impact in 2013, and Part 2 is still to come with more thoughts and predictions. Also, David Gould’s upcoming [...]

Did you have a social media plan in 2012? How did it go? Are you planning on doing things differently this year? If so, here is something to ponder and keep in mind when you’re creating your strategy or when using social marketing services: in order to have engagement through your social media channels, your followers [...]