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We asked 128 SEO experts about their thoughts on the relative importance of several clusters of ranking factors. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand shows you what you need to know about the results.
Which rank-tracking method is the most accurate? I set out to answer that question by comparing rankings for 500 keywords across four methods: (1) Personalized, (2) Incognito, (3) Crawler, and (4) Google Webmaster Tools.
Time and again we hear the same old argument that we shouldn’t be building links, but that we should be focusing on developing exciting and unique content that encourages organic linking all by itself. I completely agree with this statement, but I see businesses misinterpret this far too often.
Like it or not, you need to build a significant following on Twitter in order to take full advantage of the platform. These 17 tactics, including two brand-new Followerwonk features, will boost your efforts.
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It can be so frustrating to work with a client that no matter how hard you try, push and argue, due to their sheer size or processes, they just cannot manage to assign resources and implement your suggestions. The same is true for the client. They certainly don't want to be paying for recommendations that cannot be implemented! As SEOs we need to recognise that there are always other priorities and considerations that come into play, so we need to be able to adapt in these instances to retain our value?
SEO is evolving at a faster rate than ever before. As many agencies, industry figureheads and blogs are more than happy to point out “SEO is not just SEO anymore”. Most of us in digital marketing know the days are gone where you can whip out the Google keywords tool, find some juicy targets and create mini-pages/sites optimized for those individual keywords. A lot of writers use t...
With recent posts mentioning the rise of contextual and implicit queries, we are now seeing a deep personalization of search. This takes many forms, and has very real implications for our work as marketers. It's time to break down the silos and see the bigger picture.
From spending time answering a client's questions to accepting additional out-of-scope tasks, consultants are presented with a great many opportunities to derail their projects. By creating plans for the pitching, strategy, and execution stages, you can mitigate the risk and stay on track.
Filing a reconsideration request is so much more than writing a good letter. A good reconsideration request will have HUNDREDS Of hours of work behind it. In this article, I will detail exactly how to go through the process to create the perfect reconsideration request to get your website OUT of the penalty box.
Implicit information like your location and the device you're using are playing an increasing role in search results. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Will Critchlow explains where these queries are headed, and offers some insight into our woes with "(not provided)."
As helpful as analytics can be, they simply can't give as complete a picture as usability studies. This post walks through five of the most important lessons we've learned after performing hundreds of thousands of those studies.
Social (media) listening is emerging as one of the most powerful tools in the social media block. Also, known as social media monitoring, this platform is now effectively used in business circles to monitor, analyze and then engage in customer interactions in social media networks. Studies have repeatedly shown that listening tools if used strategically can prove to be a useful resource for accessing social media information through organizations.
With an interface and user experience far superior to that of Google+ pages, Google's Places for Business dashboard effectively provides everything a small brick-and-mortar business needs. By continuing to promote both services, the company is only confusing its users.
Gone are the days when a search query simply involved a string of words. Today's queries include all sorts of implicit data — location, device, etc. — that add to the search engines' understanding of what searchers really wanted to find. That fact has some very real implications for the way we think about keywords.