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As more marketers are shifting from strict SEO to inbound marketing, competitor analysis is changing. In today's post, John Doherty touches on a few key areas of inbound marketing where you should revisit your competitor analysis to yield larger returns.
SEO is evolving, and the metrics we currently use to gauge success are broken when it comes to the broader ideals of inbound marketing. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand talks about what we can do to offer a more holistic and strategic approach to success metrics that our clients can get behind.
Five years ago, I purchased a domain name from a competitor who was taking their site down. We simply created a 301 redirect from their site to our home page. Unbeknownst to me, the previous webmaster had built some very questionable links. I never added their domain to Google's Webmaster Tools because there was no reason to. The consequence was that I never received any warning messages.
Spring is here, so why not put some spring cleaning actions through on your website? With that said, let's get straight to the action items. Below is a list of many things you can look for on your site to adjust, add, or remove.
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Like many of you, I work in a heavily saturated industry with a lot of competitors. It's gotten to a point where everyone pretty much sells the same thing. It's like bottled water. All we're really competing on is price and brand. Our company entered the game a bit late so most of the big players had already secured their spots on the first page of Google. During the early years, we probably averaged around page five with our SERPs. Most of our budget went to PPC and although we did pretty well in that area, we knew we were missing a lot of opportunities by not having any organic presence.
Using machine learning to combat dirty link profiles can save hours of time and countless dollars spent on hand-checking web pages. In today's post, Ian Lurie walks us through a tale of successfully implementing machine learning, one step at a time.
Every brand has a story to tell, and the way users consume stories is changing faster than ever. How will you tell your brand's story across multiple media outlets and platforms, while still giving users an active role in the expansion process? Transmedia Storytelling is here to save the day!
We're happy to announce that we've released a brand new Mozscape index for April! You can find fresh, new data across all of our apps, including Open Site Explorer, the Mozbar, your PRO campaigns, and the Mozscape API.
Do you want to know the value of your content? In today's post, Mike Pantoliano shares his tips for calculating the real ROI of your content strategy and marketing efforts.
Any good blogger with a relatively new blog should already be doing a couple of things. Firstly, you should be writing excellent content (old news I know), and secondly you should be promoting your content and your brand all over the place. What follows is a quick look at how we at ThinkTraffic are growing our blog traffic and also how we are using Analytics to make our efforts more effective.
As inbound marketing continues to gain traction, it's time to start building your keywords into the bones of your site, rather than adding them once your site is already completely mapped out. Our Lead SEO, Ruth Burr, talks about using keywords to drive personas and, ultimately, your site mapping process.
Whatever services you provide, whether it be pizzas or hosting services, you should learn how to communicate with your audience, build up a positive image and react to negative reviews and comments of unsatisfied customers (or probably evil competitors!). This post focuses on some recent online reputation management tactics that can be useful for any website.
Are you confused about the difference between Penguin and an Unnatural Links penalty? Not sure whether you should be disavowing your links? Wondering whether you should file for reconsideration? Well...you're not alone! I have spent a good amount of time answering questions and learning from others in the SEOmoz Q&A and I see a lot of site owners and even SEOs who are unsure about the answers to these questions.
Sure, we all know that truly phenomenal content rules. Yet, so many webmasters and SEOs continue investing in just an “OK” content, or rehashing someone else’s content. - This approach is often rationalized as an effort to “scale” the content creation process, as if content is some sort of a commodity measured in quantity, not quality. But, regardless of the number of pieces of the “average at best” content some newbie SEOs decide to employ, there usually isn’t much ROI, as mediocre web-based content is largely ignored by the audiences and search engines alike.