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15 Smart Ways to Find Guest Posting Opportunities
Anthony Mangia

15 Smart Ways to Find Guest Posting Opportunities

Link Building

Guest blogging is a great way to build relevant links to your website from authoritative websites within your niche. Bloggers are always in need of content, and many will jump on an opportunity to add great content to their blog that their readers will enjoy. The most difficult part of using guest blogging as a link development strategy is the very first step - identifying guest post opportunities. From the head-smackingly simple to some lesser-known gems, below is a breakdown of the best strategies to find these opportunities.

Yes, You Really Can Build Links With Twitter
Casey Henry

Yes, You Really Can Build Links With Twitter

Whiteboard Friday

Since Rand discussed a scammy link building tactics last week, he decided to tackle a good method that anyone can do. This week Rand has 8 tips on how you can build links using Twitter, yes Twitter! Rand discusses what methods he sees generating links and how you can use them. We'd also love to hear how you are using Twitter to generate links and what you see the future of linking building on Twitter will be.

Why Your Linkbait Fails and How to Fix It
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Why Your Linkbait Fails and How to Fix It

Link Building

Howdy Mozzers, I've been spending a couple of weeks this summer in the Distilled office looking at the way they do linkbait in order to write up a guide on it. Whilst researching and reading around what people had posted before, it became clear there were a handful of problems which kept cropping up why people were failing at linkbait. In this post, I hope to address some of the...

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4 Tips for Creating Link Bait
Geoff Kenyon

4 Tips for Creating Link Bait

Link Building

While link bait is frequently seen as more "fun", and it's definitely more creative, than doing things like guest blogging or or emailing people asking for links, it has its challenges. I wanted to share a few things I've learned about creating link bait from my experiences.

eCommerce Syndicated Content: How to Win
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eCommerce Syndicated Content: How to Win

On-page SEO

There is a ton of talk right now about Panda recovery. SEOmoz is no exception to this: questions in Q&A, webmasters cleaning up their content, and so much more. Webmasters are taking control of their sites, building some awesome original content, and ensuring that content can be found by letting users (and bots) know about it.

The Greatest Attribution Ever Graphed
Jeremy Dearringer

The Greatest Attribution Ever Graphed

SEO Analytics

Step-by-Step Instructions for Non-Branded Custom Segmentation in the new Multi-Channel Funnels Section Multi Channel attribution is amazing, to say the least. In the immortal words of Avinash Kaushik, “You will have an orgasm!” If you weren’t there for Mozcon, I’m sorry. Don’t let it happen again, but yo...

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An SEO's Guide to RegEx
Rob Millard

An SEO's Guide to RegEx

SEO Analytics

RegEx is not necessarily as complicated as it first seems. What looks like an assorted mess of random characters can be over facing, but in reality it only takes a little reading to be able to use some basic Regular Expressions in your day to day work.

9 Actionable Tips for Link Prospecting
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9 Actionable Tips for Link Prospecting

Link Building

I find link prospecting to be one of the most time-consuming and challenging parts of link building. In order to build and maintain a natural link profile for your website, your prospecting activity needs to cover a wide range of opportunities and generate the right targets and leads for your project/campaign. So prospecting is usually pretty easy to start off with - run a few Google searches a...

Article Marketing: Mostly A Scam
Aaron Wheeler

Article Marketing: Mostly A Scam

Whiteboard Friday

Article marketing is mostly a scam. Well, wait... some types of article marketing are really scammy. Guest blogging, legitimate article sharing, and similar tactics are great and sustainable linkbuilding practices, but making up terrible article content and passing it off as something people should read or link to is both bad for users and bad for long-term SEO. This week, Rand d...

8 Ways PPC and SEO Are Better When Used Together
Fathom Digital Marketing

8 Ways PPC and SEO Are Better When Used Together

Advanced SEO

Many people approach SEO and PPC as completely separate strategies. And while they are different in many ways, it can be helpful to think of SEO and PPC as being two sides of the same coin: search. There are many ways in which SEO and PPC efforts complement each other, and lead to a more successful search strategy. Consider these eight ways that make a coordinated SEO and PPC ...