Content Marketing & Promotion To Drive Quality Links: Up Close @SMX West
Contributor Mark Traphagen recaps a session from SMX West 2015 on how to create link-worthy content.
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Optimization On The Content Battleground: Human + Machine Learning
When it comes to search engine optimization, only one website can win the battle for top spot. Columnist Jim Yu argues that winning this battle means relying on machine learning to analyze and interpret data.
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A Content Marketer’s Guide To SEO: A Checklist
Content is an integral element of search engine optimization (SEO), so check out columnist Thomas Stern’s handy checklist to ensure your content reaches its full potential.
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7 Essential Quality Metrics For Evaluating Publishers For Guest Blogging
Guest blogging may not be a great link building strategy anymore, but columnist Jayson DeMers reminds us that it’s still a valuable tactic.
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How To Make Every Single Page On Your Website Evergreen
Web pages may not be meant to last forever, but I think that most web pages can do a lot better. Many pages and articles published today lack evergreen qualities, which means that in a few months or years, they will be old and useless. They will join the billions of other pages littering the…
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How To Write A Meta Description That Gets Click-Throughs
I feel sorry for meta descriptions. Google has long held that meta descriptions do not impact search engine rankings. From a 2007 post on the Google Webmaster Central Blog: Google reiterated this point yet again in 2009 in a post stating that the meta keywords tag was not used as a ranking signal:…
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Pound Wise, Penny Foolish SEO (And Content Marketing)
For many B2B businesses, good SEO used to be a side effect of other marketing efforts. But columnist Tom Schmitz warns that this strategy isn’t sustainable in the long-term.
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What Makes Enterprise SEO And Does Your Site Need It?
Even if you don’t have an enterprise company, the size of your website may necessitate enterprise SEO. Columnist Tom Schmitz addresses issues of importance to operators of big web sites, no matter the size of the business.
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B2B Content Marketers: Are You Making These 5 Common SEO Mistakes?
Dear Content Marketers, Have I told you (lately) that I love you? Seriously! Content marketing has taken the elusive concept of “thought leadership” and transformed it into a prescriptive, clear-cut process. You equip prospects with the helpful information they need and, at the same…
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The Future Of Content & SEO: How To Stay On Top
Do you ever look back on SEO and long for the simpler days? SEO has always been content-driven, but the meaning of optimized content has changed drastically over the years. Previously, we usually viewed content as a separate thing from SEO; the two existed in separate silos, only to come together…
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Google’s Bodiless Matt Cutts On Importance Of Body Content For Search Engines
Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, posted a fun video where fellow Googler, Michael Wyszomierski, cropped out his body in the video to make a point. The statement Matt made was that there is importance of content in the body of a page and not just the header, such as the title tag. If…
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How Much Content Do You Need For B2B SEO Success?
While B2B SEOs understand the value in content marketing initiatives, we sometimes fail to understand the level of content commitment required to demonstrate success. In the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) Council’s recent study, “The Content Connection to Vendor Selection,”…
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Content & SEO Alignment: 3 Steps To Create The Perfect Win-Win
According to new research, brands invest $40.2 billion in content every year. As online content marketing budgets rise, it is essential that modern day marketers align their content and SEO efforts to maximize ROI. Have you ever been in a situation whe…
Just Say No To SEO (Sometimes)
There are some SEO rules that you should break. While conventional SEO wisdom advises certain types of behavior, there are times when that advice should be ignored. SEO must be viewed as part of a larger overall marketing picture, and sometimes other c…
The Concept Of Sameness & Why It Should Matter
Long ago and far away, there was a world where there was no Web. Back in those early years (such as the 1960′s through the mid-1990s), there were certain basic concepts that guided the world of marketing. One of the facts of life during those times was that each market space tended to support…
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Why My Optimized Landing Pages Trump Your SEO Or PPC Landing Pages Every Time!
Landing page optimization is big business for successful PPC campaigns. Google’s weighting of where a paid ad will show and how much each click costs is factored, in part, on the quality of the landing page the ad leads to. But, on the SEO side of things, you don’t hear a lot about…
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Long Tail Content For SEO — 2013 & Beyond
There was the old way of doing SEO for the long tail. It worked for a long time, and lots of people made lots of money doing it. But those days are gone. What was the old way, you ask? In a nutshell: Research a long list of long-tail keywords Create a …
Use Site Search Data To Fuel Your Content & Key Phrase Strategy
Blindfolded, Dave listened carefully to his guide. Her clues about what lay beyond the two doors were interesting, but vague. Then the horn blared. He was out of time! He had to choose his path. But how? He needed more information! Much like Dave, mark…
Five Ways To Flip Your Copywriting For Higher Conversion Rates
When faced with creating a conversion-focused SEO landing page, what should our copy focus on? There are so many things we can do — so many directions we can go — that it becomes hard to know what to choose. Do I go with statistics or stories? Facts or feelings? Data or discounts? If…
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The Informational Content Advantage
You may have heard that content is king, but the truth is that informational content is king. It’s estimated that approximately 50-80% of search queries are informational in nature (pdf). Most websites have very little informational content on them, preferring instead to focus on driving a…
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