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Numero Uno Web Solutions (NumeroUnoWeb.com), a fast-growing global Internet marketing firm that caters to small- and mid-sized business-to-consumer companies, is pleased to announce its top tips for content marketing, designed to help firms gain greater traction in search engine rankings.

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Content marketing is about connecting with consumers through creative story telling; it creates informed customers and can help both small- and medium-sized businesses reach new audiences, says Nadia Iaboni, Digital Solutions Manager at Numero Uno Web Solutions. That said, search engine algorithms are being constantly updated in an effort to promote high quality sitesand that means content marketing is constantly changing. Older content marketing techniques that relied heavily on keywords are ineffective.

As the experts at Numero Uno Web Solutions note, small- and medium-sized businesses hoping to create an effective search engine marketing (SEM) campaign that maximizes search engine optimization (SEO) value should start with content that people want to share; copy, a blog, video, picture, infographics. How content marketing is delivered can be as important as what the information is.

At the same time, its important to create content that reaches as many people as possible, say the experts. The point of content marketing is to market the brand, build brand awareness, and create buzz. According to the experts top tips, creating content that is too niche-oriented can limit an audience.

The Internet has created an equal playing field; as a result, small- and medium-sized businesses in any industry can compete with much larger companiesregardless of their marketing budgets. At the same time, marketing goals and strategies need to be identified from the start. Because content marketing campaigns are results-oriented, its important to evaluate success based on strategy, execution, and expected sales, not unattainable forecasts, Iaboni adds.

As the Numero Uno Web Solutions experts conclude, for a successful content marketing campaign, small- and medium-sized businesses need to find an expert SEO company with a documented record of helping businesses increase web traffic, brand awareness, and online authority, as well as a good track record of getting sites to rank higher on search engine results pages (SERPs).

To learn more about Numero Uno Web Solutions, visit the companys web site at http://numerounoweb.com/sitescore/.

Numero Uno Web Solutions is one of the top Internet marketing firms due to constant innovation and overall customer satisfaction. For more information on Numero Uno Web Solutions, and to discover how the company can help maximize your companys search engine optimization and online presence, visit http://numerounoweb.com/sitescore/. Or call Numero Uno Web Solutions toll-free at 1-855-SEO-XPRT (1-855-736-9778).

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The SEO white paper by Think Cloud Studio claims the practice of SEO is manufactured to serve only businesses practicing SEO services.

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Some of the main points centered on by the author are that the SEO industry is little more than CPC / PPC and internet marketing. It is recognised that Organic search results are not by chance, but they are not the result of any practice that is called SEO, because no one within the SEO industry can truly define what SEO is. How can anyone optimise a search engine that isn't directly associated to a 'Search Engine'?

The paper goes on to cover other areas such as search results. The most important aspect of a search engine is search results; it is suggested that only people who control 'a search engine' can optimise the display of results. So, how on earth can anyone claim to optimise search engine results they

a) have no control over and

b) do not know entirely how it works.

The author states, "SEO is at best, 'guess work', and this is not good enough for an industry that has no governing body over-seeing best practices, especially whilst offering businesses a false hope of growth through search results."

The white paper asks for a redefining of SEO best practice within the search industry. "The crux of the issue is: SEO is defined incorrectly. Websites can be optimised for content containing keywords but this by itself is not optimizing a search engine! If an industry has a set of practices that are ill defined, how on earth can the business community take it seriously."

Broadly, the paper outlines how Internet marketing covers most of the activities that enable website owners with the opportunity to climb to the top of search engines.

The White Paper will be published on 17th March 2013 Draft copies can be obtained by emailing andrew(at)amcoms(dot)co(dot)uk or visiting Think Cloud Studio

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A recent story by Caixin Magazine about a Chinese government crackdown on two public relations firms brought a couple of things to light: that the government no longer has a monopoly on media censorshipand that its actually a really good business.

Up until this past July, when the government threw 100 employees in jail, the companies in question were profiting handsomely from the post deletion business, the service of making unflattering things printed online simply go away.

According to the report by Caixin, which is one of Chinas best-regarded business magazines, these PR firms had developed a few different ways of doing this. One was to befriend search engine administrators who could tweak search results so that a keyword would fail to generate resultsmeaning, all the articles in which the keyword appeared simply wouldnt show up. But the best way to censor negative news about their clients was to buy off the reporters bosses. PR firms regularly bribed news editors to take down articles that they or their colleagues had commissioned in the first place.

And as this business turned out to be quite lucrativeone nervous government official paid the PR firm Yage Times 500,000 yuan ($80,400) for a single deletion projectthese PR firms had begun branching out. Their new line of business, reported Caixin, assigned employees to troll websites looking for negative news and, once they found some, to contact the relevant companies, citizens or government officials and conveniently offer them their services. But when finding articles proved to be just too much work, these firms started generating the bad press themselves, essentially turning the already crooked post-deletion industry into one of straight-up blackmail.

While it is unclear why the government launched the July crackdown,Caixin indicated that local government officials had been availing themselves of post-deletion services, which could possibly have something to do with it given the recent crackdown on corruption. An unnamed employee from Yage Times told the magazine that an estimated 60% of the companys profits came from government officials in small cities, as well as from police officers.

Theyll have no recourse now that the government has stamped out these types of servicesfor a time, at least. But as long as the government requires online media companies to enforce its elaborate censorship dragnet, this PR model is bound to surface again.

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Chinese filmmakers must fight censorship even if it means removing their name from their own work, one-time banned Chinese director Lou Ye told AFP in an interview ahead of this month's Asian Film Awards in which his crime thriller "Mystery" has been nominated in six categories.

Banned in 2006 from filming in China for five years, Lou's latest picture tackles the subject of a new breed of wealthy and middle income men in post-socialist China for whom taking a mistress is the norm, in a practice that harks back to imperial China.

With nominations including best film, best director and best actress for Hao Lei's portrayal of a betrayed wife, "Mystery" begins with a violent death and tells the story of one man's double life.

"The film is about a very small group of people. It is about what happens between two women, the double life that this man leads, but through this I get to talk about things that happen in wider society," he said in Paris where the film was shown as part of a China programme at the city's Forum des Images in February.

"What is important to me is the way in which we see that all the protagonists are linked to the death of this young girl, the way that no-one can say this has nothing to do with me," he said.

According to Lou, having a mistress is now commonplace in China for anyone with sufficient means.

"Currently we see this way of life in particular among people who have money," he said adding that it was seen as a status symbol for men while a woman acting in the same way would be stigmatised.

The film is his second since the end of the ban imposed after he took his love story "Summer Palace", set around the taboo subject of the 1989 pro-democracy Tiananmen Square protests, to Cannes without official approval.

Lou responded by continuing to work, filming his next feature "Spring Fever" in secret using a handheld camera as well as "Love and Bruises" which came out after the ban expired.

Although now able to film in China again, Lou remains the subject of unwanted attention from censors.

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