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Facebook advertising, post boosting, PPC, and even print advertising. How are you deciding where and when to do these? That post your just “boosted”, how did you decide who is going to see it? Sure, you can pick some demographic info about people, pick some interests they already have, and a lot of other “narrowing” it down options. But what about the geographic component?
This year's Search Ranking Factors Study showed a very strong correlation between Google +1s and higher rankings, and there's a compelling reason why. Google+ was built for SEO, and is far better optimized for search than other platforms.
It's times like these that you truly need something to kick-start your day and keep it from becoming another one of those lost weekdays where you get home and wonder what you accomplished. (Hint: probably nothing.) Here is a list of a few easy things to look at SEO-wise that might just ignite a little passion, creativity, or drive to your day:
Here are some useful ways for charities and non-profits to increase their online exposure, without draining too much of their already limited resources. I include tips to increase brand awareness and donations at no cost (except for a little time and effort).
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Finding ways to deal with a client's objections requires both empathy and diplomacy. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Brittan Bright guides us through some common objections and how we can best resolve them.
I started doing some research on the internet, both on the Google Webmaster website along with on Moz to see if anybody had written a good guide on migrating large sites from a dev to live environment. I couldn’t find anything that made it sound simple, so I’ve put together the following tutorial which I believe is fairly straight forward and should hopefully help people in the future.
One of the most common questions about this year's Search Engine Ranking Factors study is whether there are any differences in search results across queries with different search volumes and topic categories. This post dives into the data to find the answer.
Do you know how to recognize an unnatural link? Sometimes unnatural links are easy to spot. But, other times they are not. In this article we will take an in depth look at the link schemes section of the Google Quality Guidelines and discuss what this document says in regards to unnatural links. Along the way I will share some of my experiences in dealing with websites who have been given unnatural links penalties.
There's a lot of work that comes with building and managing a community. Check out these fundamental steps, and set yourself up for success.
Google has officially launched their latest feature, in-depth articles. We pulled some preliminary data on how widespread in-depth articles are since launch, what kind of queries they appear on, and which sites are getting the most out of them.
You can do your own Watergate-style investigation, learning the secrets of your competitors' marketing strategies by scrutinizing their backlinks. Pivot tables in Excel can help you make sense of all that data, and this post will show you how.
As someone who is on both sides of guest posting, requester and requestee, I’ve seen my fair share of great guest post requests and I’ve seen some truly awful ones. The truly appalling requests get thrown out right away. Identifying these types of posts is pretty easy, so easy that I can scan through an email and usually label it trash within a few seconds. Here are six things to avoid when sending out guest posts requests if you don't want your request landing in the trash:
Implementing Google Analytics is fairly simple, but most people don't take full advantage of what it offers. With custom segments, marketers can divide their audiences into smaller sets of data, learning how best to earn the business of each group.
Web marketers increasingly face a fork in the road. Down one path is traditional link building, down the other is the broader world of content marketing. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand helps us figure out which path is right for us.