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Help with Nomenclature for Links & Brand Mentions
Rand Fishkin

Help with Nomenclature for Links & Brand Mentions

Hey gang - short blog post on a topic our product and marketing teams have been noodling around. As many of you know, we've got our Linkscape index, which is crawled, processed and served out on a monthly basis (there's a new index about every 30 days). We also have a newer datasource, Blogscape, aka Freshscape (which is currently undergoing some repairs in Labs) which crawls a few mi...

The Last Linkbuilding Strategy Your Business Will Ever Need
Anthony Mangia

The Last Linkbuilding Strategy Your Business Will Ever Need

I see companies struggling with linkbuilding all the time. Huge law firms and e-commerce sites paying bottom-of-the-barrel “SEOs” to create Squidoo lenses and blast social bookmarking links once or twice a month. Real estate companies pumping out poorly-spun articles by the hundreds. I'm talking about unfathomably awful content; the type of stuff that makes a conversation between Snooki and Deena seem insightful.

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Roles & Responsibilities of a Web Marketing Team
Rand Fishkin

Roles & Responsibilities of a Web Marketing Team

This week we talk about how the different roles and responsibilities of a web marketing team. What does it take to have a successful marketing team that will take your brand to the next level? What metrics should your team measure? Your marketing team will go through a few different stages while your company grows and this video walks you through those steps.

Be Careful Using AdWords for Keyword Research
Rand Fishkin

Be Careful Using AdWords for Keyword Research

For the past decade, most of us in the field of search have relied on Google's AdWords data (either in the public tool, the API or the tools inside AdWords accounts). It's the best source we've got, but many marketers may not realize that sadly, the numbers and queries may not always match up to what's actually happening on Google's search engine. I'll illustrate ...

Have You Seen This Google Analytics Bug?
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Have You Seen This Google Analytics Bug?

If you use Google Analytics then this bug hyper inflates all your metrics and causes you to make sub optimal marketing decisions. I was recently checking my bounce rates like every analyst does now days and was shocked when I saw my home page with an 83.95% bounce rate. It’s not a blog either it’s a B2B site offering various services which made no sense at all. Put your detective hat on and guess what, you’ve got a bug.

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Lessons I Learned from My SEO Manager Position
Franck NLEMBA

Lessons I Learned from My SEO Manager Position

During the last three years I have been the search engine optimisation (SEO) manager of a leading Ecommerce agency based in Paris. I had the opportunity to deal with top fashion brands and with a bunch of big pure-players due to my position and SEO knowledge. As you might know, SEO is not an exact science; and sometimes when you drive an SEO strategy, it's not always easy to explain how Google works to a marketing director or to someone else in the board of government.

Data Visualization Principles: Lessons from Tufte
Mike Pantoliano

Data Visualization Principles: Lessons from Tufte

When I began to practice SEO 8 years ago, I never would have guessed that I'd be writing a post about data visualization. Perhaps I might have foreseen myself writing about web analytics or information architecture, but data visualization seemed like something for the statistics fans. But today in web marketing, the emphasis on content has never been stronger, and it just so happens that ...

How to Analyze Google Analytics (not provided) Data
Adam Kerr

How to Analyze Google Analytics (not provided) Data

It has been over three months since Google announced the (not provided) update that would hide search referral keywords for organic traffic. Since (not provided) results only show up while logged in to Google, the increase to over 60 million Google plus users – and estimates of 400 million by the end of 2012 – indicates that the problem of search referral data is not going away anytime soon.

Paid Search Ad Copy Auditing
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Paid Search Ad Copy Auditing

This week's Whiteboard Friday focuses on ad copy testing ideas and best practices. With these helpful tips you can make the most of your PPC search marketing dollars so that you can spend more time on SEO. What you'll end up with is a helpful ad copy worksheet template that can be used to develop new ad copy ideas. Please give Brian Rauschenbach a warm welcome as he ...

Putting Guest Post Outreach Theories to the Test [With Some Real World Data]
James Agate

Putting Guest Post Outreach Theories to the Test [With Some Real World Data]

The following is based on a sample of 400 guest posts that we placed for clients over a three month period (November-January). Make of the data what you will, it isn’t conclusive but I feel it does go some way to providing some good starting points for you to explore in your own outreach campaigns – as with most things, the best strategy is for you to test it out for yourself in the industry/industries that you work in.