Krista LaRiviere is the co-founder and CEO of gShift Labs, a web presence optimization company. She blogs and speaks about SEO and the importance of social media, public relations, and press releases to SEO. Her team has helped hundreds of organizations get control of their entire web presence in order to rank higher organically in the search engines. She believes that marketers should have control over their SEO campaigns just like they have control over email marketing and paid search.
Don't fixate on keyword position. Focusing on the discovery of highly-converting keywords beginning with the sales and marketing conversations through delivery and reporting will produce stronger SEO results over the long term and happier clients.
Backlinking strategies within an SEO strategy are often overcomplicated, but they don't have to be. Practice an optimized content marketing strategy and make sure your backlinks pass this RAID test so your web presence will excel on Google.
Four SEO selling and buying tricks produce unrealistic expectations and create imbalance in the SEO services market. These tricks will only lead to failure, because the time and effort required to meet SEO expectations and results won’t match.
In a constantly changing world where Google updates its algorithm on a daily basis and your competitors continue to optimize their web presence, the importance of SEO in the digital marketing mix remains unchanged and unchallenged. Here's why.
Content marketing, social media, video, and public relations affect a web presence and organic search rankings. These tactics can have a significant positive impact on SEO including: rank, backlinking, social signal generation and fresh content.
This framework aims to help marketers and SEO professionals easily forecast and understand the competitive intensity and rivalry for a keyword and to also help determine the resources required to improve a web presence and SEO rankings.
This approach to being found organically will help answer two critical questions: how do you know if you’re maximizing your SEO investment given the changes Google has introduced and how you can sell your services and prove value to your clients?
Success in social media and organic search is only possible with an optimized content marketing strategy. If you don’t have the latter, you may as well forget about being remotely successful with the former. You need content. Now. Here's why.