Earned Media Podcast

Kasim Aslam is CEO of Solutions 8. He is a widely recognized thought leader in the search marketing arena, due to his exceptional track record of delivering exceptional PPC results and driving business growth through innovative marketing strategies. Sol8 manages $70M a year in PPC ad spending for roughly 200 clients of all sizes, from…

In this Affiliate Marketing Roadmap for Brands episode of the Earned Media Podcast (subscribe), Anna Gita, CEO of MaxWeb, which is one of the fastest-growing affiliate networks, explains what affiliate programs are and how they work. I heard Anna’s keynote at The Berlin Meet Market. She spoke about the future of the affiliate marketing industry,…

If you think digital marketing for wineries is all about social media marketing, think again. While winery marketing for ecommerce certainly involves Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Pinterest, it’s content marketing, search engine optimization, and backlinks that attract new customers and drives online conversions. Contrary to popular belief, PPC and influencer marketing are more effective than…

SEO for news websites is a critical component of reach and frequency. In this podcast, I spoke with ESPN.com director of SEO Louisa Frahm about best practices when it comes to SEO for headlines, how to build an effective program to support SEO for publishers, and what she’s learned about creating resources to support SEO…

Fili Wiese is a former Google Engineer and member of the search quality team. I spoke to him after his keynote at the Affiliate Meet Market in Berlin in October 2022. Tech SEO Topics Covered: How to tell Googlebot what to crawl and what to ignore How to manage your crawl budget How to retain…

I did not write anything below the subhead in this blog post about content marketing outsourcing. The author is Jason Joseph, who writes for a service you can outsource writing to called Verblio. If you’re wondering whether or not Verblio is legit, this podcast and the post below are a live test of their service.…

There’s no fooling the search engines (read, Google). They’ve gotten too good at finding the best content for searchers, not the most tricked-up content marketing. That level of intelligent search challenges companies striving to reach potential customers by providing outstanding content. How do you create content that Google will deem the best and rank in…

If you’re in content marketing services and you’ve never heard of the Writer Access content marketing marketplace this episode can help you make more money for yourself and your clients. This is an exclusive interview with Writer Access CEO Byron White, who built an online marketplace that connects content marketers with freelance writers. It has…

Jake Swearingen, deputy editor at Business Insider has written for Consumer Reports, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, Wired, Slate and LA Weekly.  In this exclusive interview we talk about Business Insider’s meteoric rise to name brand status, media opportunities for coverage and the post-pandemic small business retail rebound. Discussion Topics: How New York Magazine determines…

New York Times technology correspondent Cade Metz talks about his new book Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World, a nonfiction narrative about the tiny clan of artificial intelligence (AI) visionaries who are rapidly changing our world. Cade is a technology correspondent covering artificial intelligence, driverless cars, robotics, virtual…