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Recently Mat Clayton from Mixcloud provided a great snippet of Javascript that could be used to record whether visitors to your site were logged into Facebook or not. I extend that idea to present similar code for Twitter and Google+ and then wrap it all up in Google Analytics goodness. Using this code you can monitor which social networks your website visitors are logged into.
Today's post is about broken link building. It's been a popular topic in the industry, but I also noticed that SEOmoz didn't have a lot on the subject, so I thought it would be nice to write a kick-ass piece for the large SEOmoz community. Now, on to the post.
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...
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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.
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.
We all know that when it comes to getting high rankings in the search engines link building is one of the most critical activities you can engage in…whether you are using tactics to get a large amount of links or zeroing in on attracting high-authority links.
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 ...
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.
Google+ has crept into SERPs near you. From getting hyper-personalized results popping up everywhere to recommending people to follow or showing you results you've +1'd or posts you've made, Google+ isn't giving you the choice to ignore it. Instead, embrace the win-sparkle of personalization.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...