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Measuring and Increasing the ROI of Your Content Resources
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.
Using Analytics To Grow Blog Traffic And Improve Your Link Building
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.
Keyword-Driven Personas
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.
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3 Reputation Management Cases You Don't Want to Miss
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.
The Difference Between Penguin and an Unnatural Links Penalty (and some info on Panda too)
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.
How to Rise Above Lackluster Content - Making Your Content Marketing Work for You
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.
Rel=Confused? Answers to Your Rel=Canonical Questions
In light of Google's recent post on common rel=canonical mistakes, I explore the most commonly asked questions we get in Q&A regarding canonicalization.
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Google Shopping Feed, Cost, and PPC Best Practices
Google Shopping is an online shopping campaign which can really give merchants a headache. Here are some best practices and ways to ease that headache.
#RCS, YouTube, and Being Helpful: An Interview with Wil Reynolds
Wil Reynolds talks about who inspires him, his love of using YouTube to help others, and, of course, Real Company Stuff.
How to Build an Online Community for Your Business
Building a community around your company is a great way to generate value in your business and weather the storm of Google's algorithms. Whether you're building a community from scratch, or you're working on growing an existing one, this approach and process will help get your community rolling, or optimize and leverage what you already have.
The Impact of Company Investment on SEO - Link Building Case Study
On the 4th of March 2013 the company I work for underwent a third round of investment from Conde Nast. This was, for a number of reasons pretty big news in the fashion industry as it was Conde Nast’s biggest investment in e-fashion to date – as a result we received a large number of global citations, many of them with links and social signals to our site. So how does Google treat this sudden influx of positive signals to a site and what impact has that had in rankings and visits?
Foolishly Viral: Lessons from a Million Pageview Day
It started as a simple gag designed to target what I assumed (at the time) to be a very niche set of potential readers and influencers. I wasn’t expecting much more out of the prank beyond a few chuckles from those who were already within our modest sphere of influence. But as the one millionth visitor rolled it, I started to think about what I'd accomplished and how I could help others do the same.
Remove Unnecessary Steps & Win More Links, Shares, and Conversions
The more you simplify your user experience, the more likely users are to accomplish the goals you've set for the product, website, or communication at hand. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand walks us through user experience and the actions that we can remove from our processes in order to drive more conversions, earn more links, get more social shares.