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The Pillars of Branding

Brand pillars are important for brand recognition purposes. They form a framework for developing a brand strategy. An organization uses brand pillars to define their unique position in the market. Brand pillars can be anything from values, visuals, to the workflow. Understanding brand pillars well increases the chances of success of a business.  They are an extremely important part of the business strategy and the important brand pillars are given below.

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Social Media Marketing Mike Paffmann Social Media Marketing Mike Paffmann

Off-page SEO Essentials

Most companies tend to begin their SEO efforts with on-page SEO. Yet, one of the most important ranking factors on search engine rule pages isn't the efforts on a website, and instead, it's all of the backlinks that are generated from other websites pointing to the company's website. According to studies, some of the top results on Google tend to have an average of nearly 4 times more backlinks than the results that follow. However, on-page SEO isn't all about building backlinks, and it goes a lot deeper than that. Another essential element of on-page SEO is brand mentions, even if they're without a hyperlink. At the end of the day, off-page SEO is all about what search engines and other people think about a website.

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Public Relations, Social Media Marketing Mike Paffmann Public Relations, Social Media Marketing Mike Paffmann

Why Keyword Research is Essential

Nearly 70% of all activity online starts with search engines and queries from users. That's why companies need to base any digital marketing and many Public Relations campaigns they create on keywords. The goal of keyword research is for companies to figure out what their target audiences are trying to find when they're searching online, and then determine what they need to do to rank on the various search engines for the exact same keywords that the audience is using. However, if a company doesn't know which keywords and needs to target, it won't be able to optimize its business website, know which content it needs to create to reach the target audience, or which phrases and queries it needs to use for more link building efforts.

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