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As an SEOmoz PRO customer since the service launched in February 2007, I thought I’d give a quick little tour of how I’ve used SEOmoz’s existing tools for Local optimization in my consulting role at David Mihm, Inc. the past six years. I can’t wait to write Version Two of this post once we’ve got more specific Local functionality built!
In order for agencies and outside SEO consultants to excel under the current conditions we need to become more like employees and less like vendors. But how?
It's no secret that Google's Panda and Penguin updates caused a lot of panic. Although I'm pretty turned off to information about these updates, I've been really interested in the anchor text issues surrounding the Penguin update. If sites that have over-optimized anchors lost traffic due to the update, it seems to make sense that sites can move up with relatively few (or without any) anchored links. I wanted to test that idea and decided that it was time for a good, old fashioned case study.
BlitzLocal CEO Dennis Yu, genius marketer Ian Lurie, EdgeRank expert Chad Wittman, Social Nerdia founder & Sprinklr director and strategist Esteban Contreras, and awesome marketing podcast host and consultant Bob Knorpp were kind enough to help me look at measuring and valuing social media based on their experience and knowledge.
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At the heart of community building strategy, there is a need to share and provide something of value to others. Check out these tips to ensure you're spending time and resources on types of content that are valuable to potential community members you're hoping to attract.
Google Analytics provides a lot of information about your website; but there is always room for more. The traffic for a website vary by day of week, and of course, throughout the day, and it is very useful to know when a website expects the most (or least) visitors. The goal of this post is to show the advantages of using more detailed data to help you make decisions such as when to launch a specific post or take down your website for maintenance.
Not all great content goes viral, but content that does go viral is great. Although we can't guarantee that any piece of content will take the web by storm, we can make sure that a piece of content has what it takes.
The January Mozscape index is now live! Check out the fresh updates in Open Site Explorer, the Mozbar, PRO campaigns, and the Mozscape API.
Below is a brief individual perspective on how I've seen popular content mediums evolve over the last five or six years, and why I feel this evolution is so important to track. I believe that through our study of this evolution, we can find some of the best opportunities available to us as marketers.
Social proof can be a successful form of marketing, but its effects can vary. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand discusses different ways to approach your social proof and shares tips to help increase your potential conversion rate by tailoring your efforts.
Rand’s recent WBF about co-occurrence was a real wake up call for those still transfixed with link building practices of old. While anchor text based links may still have some effect, there is little arguing the fact that the factor’s importance is dwindling. In its place are things like social signals, link age, and, most importantly, a growing reliance on relevancy and how that is deciphered.
How to track your clicks and create a custom event in Google Analytics for your image and video views via Fancybox.
If you've ever dreamed of replicating the charts Moz uses to display your data, today's your lucky day. Excel master Annie Cushing has compiled everything you need to make your data identical to our exportable reports. Do-it-yourselfers, rejoice!
Having recently started a new job in SEO, I have been re-evaluating my favorite Chrome Extensions. Now that I no longer have a large team supporting me, having fast and easy tools at my fingertips has become even more important. So of course I searched SEOMoz to...