A data analysis of the search results for queries containing 500 of the world's top tech writers' names using Conductor's Searchlight enterprise SEO platform (disclosure: I work for Conductor) – shows that Google is surfacing Google+ accounts for...
How to Use this Segment: Apply this segment to your SEO reports to look at keywords, landing pages, and other dimensions typically explored with organic search. Segment Contributed by: Thom Craver is a technical SEO and web analytics consultant...
According to Lee Odden, author of the book "Optimize": “When a SEO and content marketing strategy work together, repurposing content means additional SEO assets to attract search traffic on many different variations of a theme.
When it comes to link acquisition, SEO professionals and link builders have this long-standing infatuation with .edu links. Much of this preoccupation stems from a belief that Google bestows magical SEO powers on .edu top-level domains (TLDs).
SEO Google accelerates push to replace passwords by joining FIDO Alliance – The VergeGoogle joins board of directors of group aiming to get rid of passwords with identity authentication. Twitter eyes TV, lands major advertising deal in run-up to...
We chose WordPress for its ease of use and customization, and impressive library of open source content management, social, and SEO plugins. As an example, we've developed a persona called Content Katie, and she has a need state called "Upgrade SEO...
Simply, a link (or site/blog/article) network is a group of sites that are connected. Links are important for rankings. We all know that. However, in the rush to get those rankings (that lead to converting traffic of course) webmasters and business...
Google's Matt Cutts and former ex-Googlers talk spam, rankings, and SEO tips. SEO SEO by the SeaGoogle has been granted a new patent, "Determining relevance scores for locations. Other” column, four new status columns (Keyword, Account, Campaign...
Ecommerce organizations are already on top of this – with knowledge passing sales predictions (influenced by the runway) from fashion buyers to merchant and marketing teams focused on feature and promotion planning, but SEO remains the ugly...
SEO 101 In addition to personal growth goals, clearly define project goals across the team by meeting well before the start of each campaign as a group to go over the desired outcome. Managing an outreach team can be a daunting task, as you are...
SEO professionals and link builders largely take the path of least resistance here, but they aren't entirely to blame. Publishing group interviews is akin to the spotlight feature (ego bait asset), but on a much grander scale.
Speakers Erin Everhart (@erinever), director of web marketing, 352 Media Group, and Jo Turnbull (@SEOJoBlogs), founder, SEO Jo Blogs, explained how to build a relationship versus a link and broke down case studies to illustrate why relationship...
You no longer need to use images to render unique-looking text – this helps SEO and indexabililty, copy and pasteability, and sharing. Adding to the importance of mobile, the Kelsey research group says mobile will exceed desktop search in 2015.
If you’re at work, you know there are things that you could be doing right now to improve your website’s SEO. In today’s tough economy, SEO professionals who constantly try to boost their productivity are going to go far.
New York SEO/SEM Meetup Group New York SEO Meetup Group SEO developments rightly have to be assessed in relation to the bottom line. SEO ROI Content marketing likely won't make or break your SEO strategy, but I do think it can be extremely valuable...
Also consider that with universal results and good SEO, a visitor who performed a specific query may have landed directly on the page they needed. However, let's take another bounce from a group of potential students.
Jo Turnbull is founder of SEO Jo Blogs and a blogger for State of Search. EE: It's not really a service: It's just the way that marketing and SEO is going. Considering the timing, I've asked Everhart and Turnbull to answer a few questions on...
Apart from this additional traffic there is one key SEO benefit… For example, while an update to Chrome may not directly impact SEO, it's related by its developing company and impact on website users so it makes our list of applicable blog subjects.
I remember attending my first few SEO conferences and listening to women like Anne Kennedy, Christine Churchill, Jill Whalen, and Dana Todd school the men on SEO. All the SEO Chicks, Debra Mastaler and Jane Copland.
Keyword research is the basis for a lot of what we do in SEO. It’s a Group Thing They influence navigation, linking, images, meta tags and plenty of other decisions. No matter what we’re looking to do, it all usually starts with the data – and...
