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There are many strategies to address inherent SEO issues in Wordpress, and even more ways to solve them. Nick Herinckx shares his tips for SEO best practices on Wordpress in a supplemental post to his Mozinar -- our most attended Mozinar to date!
Over the last year, we've seen a lot of algorithm updates from Google that emphasized the importance of having unique content on a website. Being able to create quality content is often a problem many businesses face. The following is a list of ways that I’ve seen companies use to get others to create great content for them.
Here's a true story about a discount store from the 1970s called D.B. Sales. Now, before you start yelling, give me a chance to explain. You can learn a lot about conversion rate optimization from traditional business.
If you are a consultant, part of your job is managing your client's attitude and behaviors, even when times get tough. Craig Bradford shares his tips to prevent sunny situations from turning blue, and offers advice for providing a cure if problems arise.
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Many brands are using remarketing to bridge the gap from visitor to customer. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Brian Rauschenbach and Nora Park share their tips for leveraging remarketing to target your audience and turn those visits into conversions!
Last year I attended Search Love Conference and was inspired by Guy Levine's and Richard Baxter's excellent presentations and their ideas of sourcing your audience from competitor's content and finding platforms your ideal audience will engage with. I then came back to the office and had the difficulty of trying to explain the idea to my colleagues. Without having a term for the practice, I found it very difficult indeed.
We measured 10,000 Google SERPs to find out where #1 really ends up. It turns out that the top position actually covers a lot of land, and can be impacted not only by ads but many new search features. Post includes a full visualization of the data plus screenshots of the worst-case scenarios.
I came in one Monday morning to find the most awful thing an SEO can experience... rankings suddenly switching from .co.uk to international domains across every major generic and brand term in Google UK. This particular client had dominated their own brand and major generic terms in the UK for as long as I can remember and now, somehow their Irish, US (.com) and New Zealand sites were ranking in Google UK, and the .co.uk was nowhere in sight... WTF?!
How's your mobile SEO? In today's post, Aleyda Solis offers a supplement to her Mozinar and answers your questions on the mobile SEO process.
Fiverr has a bad reputation in the online marketing community. Because, you know, that's not how it works. I would definitely not recommend many of the SEO/Marketing related gigs being sold there. However, Fiverr can be a really useful asset for inbound marketeers who may have a smaller budget, not have as many resources or connections that larger companies would. Here are seven gigs that may help you.
Tracking keyword performance in Google Analytics is, in theory, easy to do and very flexible. Using customised reports and filters, you can drill down into data, filter items, create custom variables and present the information in ways which will usually be sufficient to answer your questions. But what about producing reports to compare groups of very similar keywords? The term ‘broad match’ is usually reserved for paid search, but as SEO managers, we often want to track the performance of terms we are optimising, including their close variations. There is no default report in Google Analytics to help you with this, but you can use existing features to help you build it yourself.
What do you think of when you hear the term “competitive link building”? Do you grin with excitement at the thought of poaching linking opportunities from your competitors? Or do you shudder at the thought of picking through hundreds of low quality links for that one needle in the haystack? For too many SEOs, competitive link analysis is worse than simply not productive, it is a tedious, soul-sucking task that can derail your linking campaign, waste your time, and even get your site sent to Penguin jail. How do you keep this from happening?
When you’re getting started with building a community around your business, you aren’t really starting from nothing. You can leverage the people, blogs, knowledge sources, and communities that already exist and are relevant to your business and industry, and go from there!
As marketers, we spend plenty of time and energy tracking the metrics that will push our business forward. In today's post, Will Critchlow walks us through what makes good metrics and how to build the right reports for any situation.