Author Archives: Slingshot

3 Ways to Avoid Feeling Socially Awkward

by Steven Shattuck On the first Friday in May, I had the pleasure of joining Jeff Jordan, the Social Media Product Manager at Adobe, and Beth Perell, VP of Communications & Information Management at Goodwill Industries International for a panel discussion – Feeling Socially Awkward: A Strategy for Measuring this Hip New World – at […]

New Search Engine Puts Spin on Things: Blekko

by Slingshot Bloggers Buffer Founded in 2007, Blekko is the newest search engine among powerhouses Google and Bing.  According to TechCrunch, the company’s query relevancy is comparable to Google—making search engine users wonder, “What makes Blekko different than Google?”  The answer: the ability to specialize your search with the use of slashtags, a distinct feature […]

Personalized Content Pays Off

by Rasheite Radcliff Content is King: It seems that phrase, attributed to a Bill Gates article circa 1996, will never expire. It is the most important aspect of the internet these days, and unless you are satisfying your customers with great content you probably aren’t returning good search results. But it goes far beyond writing […]

3 Characteristics of Content Marketing From the Heart

October 5th, 2012 by Steven Shattuck Almost everything you consume on the web today—blogs, tweets, videos, white papers and eBooks—is part of a content marketing strategy, whether the creators are aware of it or not. Despite the fact that it’s been around for hundreds of years, it seems like marketers have only recently started to […]

Enterprise SEO: Fortune 500 Natural Search Questions Answered

by Jeremy Dearringer I recently sat on a search summit panel for a Fortune 500 company. Their natural search questions covered ROI, social media and the management process. These were my answers to those panel questions. What does enterprise SEO look like as a management process in the next few years? As digital relevance marketers, […]

Our Innovation Task Force & Its Role at Slingshot SEO

by David Tittle What does innovation mean? This was a question posed to us by Aaron Aders, our co-founder and Chief Operation Officer. While many of us innovate without much thought, we aren’t typically tasked with defining what innovation means to us. What does it mean to us as individuals? What does it mean to […]