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Most everyone wants to be great, right? Why not. But in your pursuit of greatness, sometimes it is helpful to take a step back. Before we set out to conquer the world of search, let's first look at 3 simple things that will help you, as a search marketer, to not flat-out suck. That's reasonable, right?
If you're a patron at search events, conferences and workshops, you might walk away the way I typically do: full of "stuff" to try but no clue where to start. Weeks go by, your notes become a beautiful art piece with dozens of brown coffee cup circles and doodles, eventually getting crumpled into a ball and tossed across the room just next to the trashcan you were aiming for....
Often times, you need to discover the right combination of tools in your toolbox to have the internet work for you. In regards to twitter, you can pull more data than you've ever wanted - and easier than ever. I wanted to share some information that I've managed to make use of for a variety of projects, that turned out to be rather helpful.
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Being nice doesn't have to mean you have an ulterior motive. But if it does, that's OK. Ever since the Great Diet Coke Delivery that Charles made to my office, folks have been buzzing. I've watched the comments on Charles' YouMoz post regarding the whole adventure, and there are three schools of thought:
“I'm going to register one hundred domains and link them all to my main website." This notion hits most people in their early stages of discovering how search engine algorithms work. Many people give in to temptation and test it out, and some have even built elaborate schemes that appear to work for a while.
Happy Holidays Everyone! It's that time of year again and Rand gets into the giving spirit with this year's special edition of Whitebeard Friday. Presented here are 8 generous tips that will encourage you to get into the holiday spirit of giving yourself. Please enjoy and don't forget to leave your comments below! ...
Demonstrating the effectiveness of your link building strategies can be challenging. With our new Historical Link Analysis feature you can track changes in your link profile over time, relative to your competitors.
At the end of October we moved house. Given that mOxby Design is mostly myself with some input from my wife, moving the business was just as easy as moving home (anyone find moving home easy?). This was not going to be a small move - from Peterborough (UK) to Inverness in Scotland. This would affect our own local SEO efforts and so I documented our action and have provided some conclusions to help others not have the same problems we have had!
What's better than unicorns and kittens happily leaping over rainbows with gold at the end? The Moz community, that's what! At the end of every year we like to take a...
We've all heard stories about companies who do remarkable things for their customers that results in people talking about them. These examples include the Nordstrom's employee who accepted a return for tires, Zappos providing surprise overnight shipping, or Gary Vaynerchuk sending a Mark Sanchez jersey to a customer, even though he sells wine. Delighting customers with unexpected acts of kindness doesn't have a directly measurable ROI, but often times it leads to loyal customers and evangelists who spread a story.
With the new features that are released every month, Google Analytics becomes a more powerful tool for tracking conversion rates, engaged visitors, content performance and much more. Along with these new features, you can also find the ability to customize and add up to 20 dashboards to your Google Analytics account. However, I suspect that you've already tried to build your own custom dashboards and ended up staring at your screen without knowing where to start.
Almost two years ago, Brad Feld put up an excellent blog post called "Be the CEO of Your Job" based on an interview with Mark Pincus of Zynga by the NYTimes. I loved the concept and have tried to apply it even since before I had a name for the attitude of independence that great companies tend to grant their team.
Looking at your site’s aggregate organic search traffic is a bit like docking a boat without a depth sounder: Sure, you can gauge where you need to go, but you’d be wise to have more details before you head in. On that same tack, we should have more detail about our overall search traffic before we use it to make decisions. First and foremost, this bucket of attention can...