January, 2014 | Xanthos Digital

January 2014

Matt Cutts says guest blogging for SEO is out – how should you respond?

On the 20th of January 2014, the head of Google’s Webspam team, Matt Cutts, posted the article that has had digital marketers, SEOs and webmasters talking about ever since. In previous years, the practice of guest blogging served as a reliable tactic for building up a good backlink profile, which ultimately increased your chances of ranking well. However, over the past couple of years, since Google began focusing on quality content and domains referring relevant traffic, things have changed.

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Why you MUST have a monthly Facebook budget

In light of recent events – mainly a change to Facebook’s News Feed ranking algorithm – what is and isn’t displayed in your news feed are primary factors forcing businesses’ world-wide to reconsider how they treat Facebook. Given how many factors contribute toward getting seen in the News Feed, the real question remains: Should you invest time in organic (non-paid) posts to your Facebook Business Page in the hopes of getting seen in the Feed?

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What\’s In Store for Xanthos?

2013 was a big year for Xanthos – we became an RAR+ agency thanks to reviews from our clients; we attended AspDotNetStorefront\’s Developer conference in the USA; and we introduced a host of new services as well as our own advanced ecommerce site search.

This year we\’ve got even bigger plans in store and building on last year\’s success are beginning the new year by adding a member to our team. Find out more about what we\’ve got planned.

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What’s In Store for Xanthos?

2013 was a big year for Xanthos – we became an RAR+ agency thanks to reviews from our clients; we attended AspDotNetStorefront’s Developer conference in the USA; and we introduced a host of new services as well as our own advanced ecommerce site search.

This year we’ve got even bigger plans in store and building on last year’s success are beginning the new year by adding a member to our team. Find out more about what we’ve got planned.

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A Digital Round Up of 2013

As always, it’s difficult to sum up an entire year in just one short post. For this reason I’ve chosen to highlight the key events that had an impact on the digital industry (most notably updates to Google’s search ranking algorithm) and that have, and will continue to have an impact on how companies execute their digital marketing in 2014.

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