Ken Lyons, Co-Founder of MeasuredSEM, is a SEO, inbound marketer and link-based content strategist with an eight-year track record of driving qualified leads and traffic to websites.
Getting a link from an .edu domain can be very valuable. There are a ton of ripe link opportunities at schools, if you know where to look. Here are a few actionable and high probability tips and tactics for acquiring .edu links.
It's paramount to prioritize domain relevancy the same way you would domain trust and authority, and strive to build "on-topic" links as a core focus of your link building efforts. Leverage these tactics and linkable assets to build relevant links.
By implementing these tactics (which range from keyword targeting to link analysis to content usability tips), you will dramatically improve the value of your content for readers, users, customers, and engines – and absolutely own your vertical.
If your site is guilty of transgressions that might provoke the Panda and you haven’t been hit yet, consider yourself lucky. Here's a list of steps and actions to help site owners with websites that may be at risk avoid getting mauled by Panda.
SEO landing pages must persuade users to take a desired action and rank well and drive organic traffic. No easy task. Here’s a process for creating phenomenal SEO landing pages that are optimized for search and structured to generate conversions.
Once you've established foundational SEO value and cast a very wide net with keyword targeting, it's time to get more surgical. Here's how to improve organic visibility for specific keywords in your SERP sweet spot (positions 5 through 15).
This guide explains what the vendor does and what you, the client, owns for your next (or first) infographic project. Come launch day, there will be no surprises, which will help make your campaign run smoother and improve your chances of success.
In-house experts are often untapped assets that PR, media relations, content strategists, SEOs and marketing departments should leverage to net authoritative links, social engagement signals, brand mentions and position the company as an authority.
Publishing value-driven, quality content is a major key to SEO success. But finding a pool of reliable freelancers who have great writing chops and knowledge of a specific industry isn't easy. Here's one approach that can yield excellent results.
Want Google to recrawl your website ahead of schedule? With Submit to Index, you don’t have to wait for Googlebot to crawl your site and discover your fixes. You can resolve technical issues faster, leading to less interruption and happier clients.
Want to gauge organic keyword profitability? This four-step forecasting model will help you predict the potential value of your target keyword verticals, which should help you make a more informed business decision about where to invest capital.
With keyword expansion, your goal is to target new keyword opportunities by discovering potentially untapped relevant and traffic/lead-driving search verticals – adding a mix of modifiers or stems with ideas or concepts to author linkable assets.
Using popular questions to fuel content ideation is one way to unearth keyword ideas. So where and how do you find popular questions for your niche to build content around? Here are some ideas, which range from pedestrian to more advanced tactics.
Internal linking is the most overlooked and undervalued SEO tactic. What many search marketers don't realize is that you can often get just as much SEO value from internal links placed on high-value pages on your site as you can from inbound links.
We’ve dug deep into our bag of marketing tactics from over the years to pulled together 63 free (or almost free) marketing tips and tactics that any business on the planet can use big or small to generate publicity, buzz and awareness on the cheap.