No matter if you are looking to do content marketing, increase your eCommerce traffic, or grow the reach of your new site. This book will walk you through the project management of growing your web properties. Updated to address many of the changes to SEO post Panda and Hummingbird. This is one of the few resources with information about doing SEO outside of just link building. Managing online marketing requires a variety of skills which are not directly related to the work being performed. As a manager your job is to measure, budget, and prioritize this work. Understanding the benefits of different types of marketing, the metrics to measure those benefits and the risk reward for each type of marketing campaign is essential to managing online marketing. You can't count on the consultants you are working with, to tell you which methods will work best for you as most will favor whatever they specialize in, so you need the solid understand of how Social Media, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, and Affiliate Marketing work together, and how to balance the limitations of each. This book provides guidance, insight and strategies for managers, marketers, and executives in plain English. While this book is useful for a developer or engineer to understand what the end result of their efforts should be, it does not explain in technical terms how analytics are processed or provide code examples for creating reports. Instead this book focuses on understanding the output of tools, ROI's from different methodologies, and strategies for successfully marketing online. Through simple examples from familiar companies, Brandon walks you through how to use tools from Google, Alexa, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook, Google Plus, Pingdom, and others to keep track of your presence on the web. Illustrations, and sample data let you see real world examples which demonstrate how other companies are approaching online marketing with and without success. Questions included in this text help you to ask your SEO, SEM, and Social Media Experts the right things to find someone who honest, qualified, and with the skill balance you need. Be prepared, your existing hosting may not be adequate for the growth of your website as you leverage all of these insights for massive growth.
About the Author: Brandon Wirtz is an SEO, SEM, and Social Media Expert, but unlike the specialists who focus on just one of these he optimizes his clients investment in marketing by tailoring campaigns which combine Online and Offline marketing components from traditional, social, and new media. Brandon used this strategy to become "Greatest Living American" in an online showdown between some of the best and brightest SEO's in a competition to be the Greatest Living American, or promote Steven Colbert as the Greatest Living American. Through a combined strategy, not dependent on just SEO, Brandon was able to become Google's Top Hit for "Greatest Living American" Managing his clients, and his own web properties, Brandon sees trends from many industries, and engages with companies at all stages of Online Marketing and with a wide variety of budgets. In working with these clients he decided that a common theme was found in all, "this is overwhelming."