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Using Passive Link Building to Build Links with No Budget
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Using Passive Link Building to Build Links with No Budget

Not everyone has massive budgets or time to invest in link building so this post is for all the people out there that need to find creative ways to get the highest ROI from any time they do invest in link building. I want to show you a process I use to get links without spending all day sending outreach emails or building expensive infographics; I call this passive link building.

Show Keyword Position Using Filters And Advanced Segments
Bryan Casson

Show Keyword Position Using Filters And Advanced Segments

There are many ways to filter your Google Anlaytics results, but how many of the methods out there can actually give us data that we can present to our clients in a way that they understand? After reading various posts on filtering organic traffic in Google Analytics I decided to convert the results we got from the filter into readable, valuable content that the client could understand.

Other Relevance Factors? Please, Google, if it's 30% of My Quality Score, Let Me Know!
Melina Engel

Other Relevance Factors? Please, Google, if it's 30% of My Quality Score, Let Me Know!

As PPC managers, we need to account for every percentage point, every up and down, and ultimately the cost of every conversion. We need to squeeze infinitely more out of a continually shrinking per-keyword budget to optimize ROI. We track, collect, analyze, implement, and iterate at the most granular level. The bad things about our marketing platform can typically be cured by hard work and analysis. The one exception: your Keyword Quality Score.

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Huge, Amazing Changes at SEOmoz: A Documentary of My Success
Aaron Wheeler

Huge, Amazing Changes at SEOmoz: A Documentary of My Success

My name is Aaron Wheeler and, up until a couple of weeks ago, I was the manager of the Help Team here at SEOmoz. Rand's been out of the office at conferences and I've decided it's time to make my move. I've been waiting for this moment for 2 years now, sitting idly by, watching SEOmoz use a bunch of robots to tell us about websites and links and the internets. Robots!...

The New On-Page Optimization
Joanna Lord

The New On-Page Optimization

In this week's Whiteboard Friday, we are covering some advanced techniques that you can use to optimize your landing pages. The typical web user has evolved and it's important for web marketers to evolve with them. By taking a look at how the web has changed we can make more informed decisions on how to optimize our pages and maximize their impact.

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Outreach Letters for Link Building [Real Examples]
Peter Attia

Outreach Letters for Link Building [Real Examples]

Outreach letters are a primary element in any quality link building campaign: If you're not getting responses, you're not getting links. It takes a lot of trial and error to find what works, which can be difficult for new link builders. To make things easier for everyone, I wanted to give several outreach letters I use for contacting different sites.

Free SEO Advice & Marketing Tips for the Music Industry
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Free SEO Advice & Marketing Tips for the Music Industry

Music is one of the most popular forms of entertainment and one of the most traded digital assets on the planet. Ever since Napster's debut in 1999 musicians, record labels and the RIAA have all singled out file sharing as the overwhelming source for loss of revenue in record sales. I have always wondered why they get to point all of these crazy fingers without highlighting how absolutely awful they are at marketing their products on the Internet – not to mention how little they seem to care about the revenue they lose to their own horribleness.