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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.
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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.
As Amazon continues to grow market share and more new sellers try their hand at running an online store, strategies to stand out in the cut-throat eCommerce space are increasingly crucial. Fortunately, most store owners aren't implementing the kind of savvy techniques that increase their visibility and more importantly, techniques that boost average order value and conversion rates. Here are the solutions we implemented that tripled our sales in less than three months.
These days, product or marketing managers are often given ridiculously short deadlines to do multilingual product launches – everything from websites, to compliance documentation, to manuals, to brochures and marketing materials. And it’s all needed yesterday in a dozen or more languages. International SEO is part of this, but remains just that: part of a larger whole.
Whether you're looking for a consultant or an agency, finding a decent SEO is hard work. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand gives his tips for finding an SEO that will be the cheese to your macaroni!
This past year, while saving up for my wedding, I completed a large number of freelance Google Analytics jobs. In doing so, I had to deal with many different problems which arise when you are working on Google Analytics accounts for a large number of clients. This post details some of the solutions I found.
Everything you ever wanted to know about Google's 7-result SERPs, plus 10-12 things you probably didn't want to know. I try to answer the big questions, like are 7-result SERPs connected to expanded site-links (hint: yes).
Big Data is an expected tech trend to influence and shape how we grow in 2013. There’s an entire mountain of material to dig through. These systems are especially popular among financial and marketing professionals, but big data tools and research can also be very valuable to more creative endeavors.