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The problem with Analytics is that there is too much data and most people don’t even know how to get started. Staring blankly at your visitor count may be interesting, but it’s not much use unless you can actually take action on it. One great way to reduce your procrastination and ensure that you actually use Analytics effectively is to set up a marketing dashboard.
There's a lot of buzz about viral marketing, and sometimes it stems from unexpected places. This post dives into a case study of my own — a site that gained traction when it hit the front page of Hacker News — and details some advice I learned along the way.
Last month, Rand and I swapped roles. He moved to Philadelphia to take the helm at SEER Interactive, and I moved to Seattle to head the efforts at Moz. This is my greatest takeaway for the Moz community and employees.
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What follows is my process – this is what I do when I want to write great content. It doesn't work every time, but I find that with a process in place it's much easier to write at the best of your ability.
As SEOs, we spend most of our time trying to figure out Google's algorithms so we can rank well. Google, on the other hand, is trying to tweak its algorithms so searchers find the best sites. Rather than trying to optimize for the enigma that is Google, why don't we just make our sites the best results, so Google will have to rank us well?
This tactic was actually shown to me by Jeremiah Smith (my brother) over at SimpleTiger. The need for this came about when one of our Healthcare Marketing clients needed to track the actual impact their PDFs were having on their organic search volume, and traffic in general.
Google's search results are showing a strong bias toward content that has been shared or +1'd by people you follow on Google+. In today's special Halloween edition of Whiteboard Friday, Rand shows you examples of this bias, and explains just what is going on.
As SEOs, we spend too much time living in fear of Google. Like any company, Google has weaknesses, and it's important for us to have perspective about their future (and how it impacts our own future). Here are six things that I think Google fears.
The latest hurdle in the search industry is the possibility of 100% of search referral data to be hidden from Google organic search. Yowza. I'm not going to lie, that stings. But, as usual, marketers will not only find a way, but the savvy marketer will find a way to stand out from the pack.
White-hat link building (an admittedly contentious term) is possible. In this post I’m going to outline four strategies that I have obtained from my experiences of content marketing, specifically guest posting (for want of a better term) for a gambling affiliate website.
One look at Google Trends and you can quickly see that responsive design is super-hot right now. It has actually become an effective solution for many websites to serve a mobile friendly experience to their users. It was even recommended by Google this summer as the optimal way to serve a website to mobile users. But what about responsive design for mobile ecommerce? When we talk about taking all of the product pages and payment checkout processes of an online shop and displaying them in a sales-maximizing mobile shopping experience, is responsive design the best solution? And if so, how can you implement responsive design in the best possible way for your online shop?
A quick tutorial on using Screaming Frog and Google's Structured Data Testing Tool to check your entire website for Google Authorship and Publisher markup.
A small feature was quietly ushered into Google Plus some months ago that I missed. Though I love Google and follow them religiously, I did think (until now) that the Google Plus platform had a very limited social function and online marketing potential. Then I changed my mind. Coming from the people who always seem to do it right another opportunity for success, the opportunity for “Interactive” Google Posts.