Ideas & strategies

Building a Search-friendly Brand Hub

Your brand’s website design might tick all the visually appealing boxes, but is it stunning to search engines? Effective SEO website design focuses on creating a user-friendly experience, encompassing aspects like mobile responsiveness, content visibility, and intuitive navigation. These factors…

Rethinking Marketing Search and Promotion with Pinterest

How is your business using Pinterest? Surprised I’m asking? It’s time to give Pinterest a second look. Over 450 million active users is no small number. Plus, it’s not just for women anymore. Male users increased 40% year-over-year. These are…

Generate Fresh Blog Topics: The Reverse-Process Technique

Are you struggling to come up with blog topics? Do you find it difficult to come up with ideas for new articles? Zero Ideas, Zero Fresh Content Often when I talk to companies about blogging they tell me while other…

How Should LinkedIn Algorithm Changes Affect Your Strategy?

B2B marketers recognize that the audience on LinkedIn is immensely valuable: more than 1 billion professionals scrolling their feeds with a career-focused mindset. It’s a fantastic platform for B2B marketing activities and the numbers bear that out. But marketers also…

Marketing Budgets Climb, Threads EU Rollout, & Brands Going Acoustic on AI

What B2B Software Buyers Look for in Online Reviews64 percent of B2B buyers have said that they read online reviews during the awareness stage of the purchasing process, with 68 percent reading them while considering purchases, and 54 percent while…

The Six Fundamentals of an SEO Link Building Strategy

One of the big reasons why Google revolutionized search engines when it launched in 1998 was its PageRank algorithm, which rewarded pages based on how many other websites were linking to them.  Evaluating links has proven such a reliable method…

B2B Ecosystem Marketing, Growing Ad Markets, & LinkedIn Learning Expands

B2B growth plan: perfecting partner ecosystem marketing45 percent of B2B marketing decision-makers at typical B2B organizations have said that new or renewed ecosystem partners were their primary revenue source, as more B2B companies have moved towards broadening their partner ecosystems,…

Top New Year’s Resolutions for Marketers in 2024

Happy 2024, fellow marketers! ? It’s that enchanting time of year when we exchange our old marketing hats for shiny new ones. As the digital world whirls at an ever-faster pace, it’s like we’re riding a thrilling, somewhat unpredictable rollercoaster….

Our Top 10 Blog Posts to Help With Your 2024 Content Strategy

What were the top B2B marketing articles that were published on the TopRank Marketing blog over the past year? We’re proud of the continued B2B marketing successes our team of marketers at TopRank Marketing have achieved during another unique year,…

Ranking the Most Popular B2B Influencer Marketing Tactics

You’ve probably heard about B2B influencer marketing. The strategy has exploded in adoption, with a 2023 Ogilvy study finding that 75% of B2B businesses are leveraging influencers in their campaigns.  Even if you have a general idea of how and…

The State of Digital Transformation in B2B In 2024

For B2B companies, digital transformation is not a destination; it’s an ongoing journey. Marketers must continuously assess and adapt their marketing technology stack to remain competitive, meet evolving customer expectations, and seize new opportunities in the digital landscape.  As digital…

What Marketers Need to Know About the Latest Google Algorithm Update

When it comes to search, Google is the primary gatekeeper between your content and your potential buyers. As of last year, nearly 92% of all searches were made on Google. Whenever Google has a major algorithm update, it highlights just…

How to Find the Right B2B Influencer Mix to Succeed in 2024

Influencers elevate B2B marketing by connecting brands with key audiences in a meaningful and authentic way. This relationship leverages the trust and respect influencers have cultivated to turn potential customers into engaged brand advocates. Success, however, is not guaranteed. Our…

Building an SEO Strategy in 2024

Algorithms. Always-on strategies. Artificial intelligence. The arena of search engine optimization is being transformed by a vast array of different forces – and we’re still only at the top of the alphabet. For business leaders and marketers, attempting to keep…

SEO Content Strategy: From Basic to Advanced

Just about everyone knows what SEO is these days, and nearly every professional brand has at least a basic content strategy in place to rank for relevant keywords and attract organic attention. The more crowded the internet becomes with these…

The Growing Importance of Social Media in B2B Marketing

From MySpace to Meta, social media has been through more evolutions than a deck of Pokémon. Today’s platforms offer a multimedia-rich ecosystem, ultimately shaping modern digital culture and commerce. Customer behavior has grown in tandem with these platforms as users…

What’s Involved in a Technical SEO Audit?

Search engines are getting far better at figuring out and matching a searcher’s intent. That means that a big part of search engine optimization (SEO) is writing great content that meets the search intent for specific terms. Great content isn’t…

Ranking in Search for Your Most Wanted SEO Phrase

Your SEO search phrases can be determined in many different ways. You can perform keyword research, you can look at your analytics and logs to see the phrases that people already use, and you can use your gut and experience….

How to Measure B2B Influencer Marketing ROI

Are you feeling the pressure to prove your marketing team’s ROI? If so, you’re in good company. In our 2023 B2B Influencer Marketing Report, 93% of the marketers we surveyed said they’re being pushed to prove their ROI. Of them,…

WordPress Store with WooCommerce Tutorial (Replay)

Sell digital or physical products online using WooCommerce and WordPress with this step by step guide plus free downloadable worksheet. It’s clear from conversations and the news that a lot of people are feeling financially vulnerable going into 2024. One…

What to Look For in an SEO Analysis of a Website

Conducting a thorough SEO analysis of a website provides much more than a list of keywords. An in-depth examination of your SEO strategy helps enhance every aspect of your brand’s marketing. It provides deep insights into what your ideal audience…

Get Indexed in Google

Google Indexing is vital because if you are not indexed, you can’t be found. It doesn’t matter how good your optimization efforts are if Google isn’t even looking at your content! But how do we persuade Google to index our…

B2B Priorities Study, Brand Authenticity Data, & GenAI in B2B

Generative AI in Marketing: How B2B and B2C Adoption Differs [Survey]58 percent of marketing executives have said that their organization has either already implemented AI in marketing efforts or has experimented with the technology, while 33 percent in the B2B…

Linkbait, Flagship Content, and Authority

Are Linkbait posts also Cornerstone Content? How do you separate “Authority Content” from “Bookmarkable Content”? What is the difference between “Pillar Content” and “Flagship Content”? In the comments of one of my articles, Lucy Dee asked: I’m having difficult assessing…