Pandas And Loyalty + MORE

Limited Edition Link Building Strategy – searchenginewatch.com/seo Having weird and outrageous items in your product range can attract a lot of attention. Even when such products aren’t very lucrative to sell, its relevance to your normal products gets you the right external links. Here’s how it works. Continue Reading On searchenginewatch.com/seo » The Trials and Tribulations of Conversion Rate Optimization – seomoz.org/ugc Posted by Steven_Macdonald Conversion rate optimization is now the most important priority to digital marketers along with content marketing. The demand for conversion rate experts has never been higher and conversion rate optimization is now a common fixture...

9 Experts and a Summary – What makes an ideal SEO employee? + MORE

9 Experts and a Summary – What makes an ideal SEO employee? – seomoz.org/ugc Posted by aaj_14 In 2012, the SEO industry in the UK was worth over £500 million annually, growing 18% from 2011 figures. The US SEO industry is even bigger, topping $16 billion in 2010 . In a time of general malaise about the economy, this industry is growing rapidly, and the good times look set to continue… Continue Reading On seomoz.org/ugc » Building And Selling An SEO Business – seobook.com/blog There’s an in-depth discussion going on in the members area about how to sell an SEO...

Why You Might Be Losing Rankings to Pages with Fewer Links, Worse Targeting, and Poor Content + MORE

Why You Might Be Losing Rankings to Pages with Fewer Links, Worse Targeting, and Poor Content – seomoz.org/blog Posted by randfish Most of us have a pretty good sense for the best ways to improve our search rankings, including earning links, targeting the people who search for us, and making sure our sites contain high-quality content. Sometimes, though, we get outranked by sites that clearly have work to do in these areas… Continue Reading On seomoz.org/blog » 2013 Search Ranking Factors Survey Results From Moz – searchenginewatch.com/seo Moz has released their 2013 search engine ranking factors, surveying 120 SEO professionals...

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 3, 2013 + MORE

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 3, 2013 – searchengineland.com Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: New AdWords Integration For Analytics Changes Campaign Name Reporting Google has announced a new AdWords integration for Google Analytics that starts rolling out….. Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » Things to Remember when Designing Your Website – searchenginepeople.com/blog A good web design can get your readers to read your content and navigate your site. If you are currently on the lookout for a site template or design...

The Right Keyword Data for the Right Job + MORE

Scheduling Your Social Media Monitoring – searchenginepeople.com/blog If you've been tasked with managing your brand on social media, you know that there is a plethora of tools available that claim to do all the work for you. Depending on your budget and your patience for learning how to use and combine tools, you may have great solutions available, or not so much… Continue Reading On searchenginepeople.com/blog » The Right Keyword Data for the Right Job – seomoz.org/ugc Posted by russvirante Keyword data sources have long been a key tool in the pockets of search engine optimizers. There is little argument...

SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 19, 2013 + MORE

SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 19, 2013 – searchengineland.com Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the Web. From Search Engine Land: New Updates To Bing Ads Intelligence, Excel Add-In For Keyword Research And Analysis Microsoft has released an update to Bing Ads Intelligence, the free Excel… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article… Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » Customizing Google+ For Business Can Help Social Media Campaigns Soar – searchenginepeople.com/blog Almost every business owner understands the importance of having a website that looks professional and...

Google Targets Spammy Queries, Bad Mobile Sites With New Ranking Updates + MORE

I Have a Blog: Am I Doing Content Marketing Now? – searchenginepeople.com/blog If you're a blogger, content marketing is a term you've heard quite a few times before. In fact, we all have. Brilliant marketing sources like Moz, HubSpot, and others have mentioned content marketing countless times – not just because it's the hottest buzz word of the moment, but because it matters… Continue Reading On searchenginepeople.com/blog » Inside YouMoz: How To Guest Blog for Moz – seomoz.org/blog Posted by KeriMorgretHave you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes at YouMoz? Here’s an explanation of what we’re looking for,...

Inbound, Outbound, Outhouse + MORE

Sorry, BuzzFeed: Pinterest Isn’t A Better Search Engine Than Google – searchengineland.com I went on a BuzzFeed diet about a month ago, where I stopped following the site and reading the content there. I should have stuck to it, because I wouldn’t be wasting my time now dissecting one of its stupid, pageview-baiting stories. In this one, Pinterest is positioned as a better search… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article… Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » 3 Writing Tips From An Intern Who Had To Crush It! – searchenginepeople.com/blog Everyone has to go through it once, whether it's...

Building a Marketing Flywheel – Whiteboard Friday + MORE

How to Use Twitter to Address Your Negative Internet Reputation – searchenginepeople.com/blog Social media is a wonderful way to spread the word about your business and by using it in your marketing mix new products and services may "go viral" in a cyber-instant. But platforms like micro-blogging site Twitter also have a downside when unhappy customers or disgruntled former employees and competitors send out negative tweets to the Twitterverse… Continue Reading On searchenginepeople.com/blog » Beating a Dead Penguin – searchenginewatch.com/seo With the launch of Google Penguin 2.0 behind us, it seems the majority of folks managed to survive the challenges...

Backlink Monitoring: Keeping Track of Your Existing Links + MORE

Bing “Re-Imagined” For Windows 8.1: More Beautiful, Comprehensive And Integrated – searchengineland.com Windows 8.1 is intended to “fix” many of the perceived problems of Windows 8. However for the Bing team the release of Windows 8.1 offered a new opportunity to more deeply integrate Bing into the OS and provide a richer experience for users. With the new release Bing becomes something… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article… Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » How To Use Social Media to Engage Effectively With Customers Offline – searchenginepeople.com/blog Social media (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Foursquare, etc.) is your link...

GoogleMart + MORE

GoogleMart – seobook.com/blog It was hard to spot, at first. It started with one store on the outskirts of town. It was big. Monolithic. It amalgamated a lot of cheap, largely imported stuff and sold the stuff on. The workers were paid very little. The suppliers were squeezed tight on their margins. And so it grew. And as it grew, it hollowed out the high street… Continue Reading On seobook.com/blog » Is Facebook Becoming Skynet? – searchenginepeople.com/blog Much has been written about the amount of information Facebook collects and how they use it. Mark Zuckerberg flat out apologized for Facebook...

Building a Freelance Link Building Team + MORE

Why the Yahoo! Search Revenue Gap Won't Close – seobook.com/blog In spite of Yahoo! accepting revenue guarantees for another year from Microsoft, recently there has been speculation that Yahoo! might want to get out of their search ad deal with Microsoft. I am uncertain if the back channeled story is used as leverage to secure ongoing minimum revenue agreements, or if Yahoo! is trying to set the pretext narrative to later be able to push through a Google deal that might otherwise get blocked by regulators… Continue Reading On seobook.com/blog » Building a Freelance Link Building Team – seomoz.org/ugc Posted...

Measuring Social Media + MORE

How To Ensure You Consistently Produce High Quality Content – searchenginepeople.com/blog The internet is a funny place. An SEO concept that "works" comes to light and those adopting online marketing strategies jump onto it like a trampoline. Some SEO strategies phase out; posting on article directories for instance. The majority of strategies will work just as well now, as they will in 5 years… Continue Reading On searchenginepeople.com/blog » Measuring Social Media – seobook.com/blog Measuring PPC and SEO is relatively straightforward. But how do we go about credibly measuring social media campaigns, and wider public relations and audience awareness campaigns?...

Live @ SMX London: Is Link Building Still Crucial, Or A Waste Of Time & Money? + MORE

Changes to Facebook Pages: The New Canvas for Mobile Marketing – searchenginepeople.com/blog First the responsive newsfeed, then Facebook Home, and today there were changes to Facebook Pages. If it wasn't apparent that Facebook was serious about being "mobile first" before, it certainly is now. Why change the Pages layout? Over 680 million people access Facebook via a mobile device every month, and people engage with brand pages than they ever did before… Continue Reading On searchenginepeople.com/blog » Getting Granular With User Generated Content – seobook.com/blog The stock market had a flash crash today after someone hacked the AP account &...

What Types of Sites Actually Remove Links? + MORE

SMX Sydney – Ecommerce SEO; Avoiding Common Pitfalls – seogadget.com/blog It was an absolute pleasure to be a part of SMX Sydney last week, and I was fortunate enough to present on three topics one of which was ‘E-commerce SEO; Avoiding Common Pitfalls’. It’s a topic that I was really looking forward to presenting on because, being in a position where I get to see a lot of E-commerce sites many of them make a selection of very similar mistakes that could quite easily be avoided… Continue Reading On seogadget.com/blog » 8 – searchenginepeople.com/blog Post from: Search Engine People SEO...

Creating Effective Advertising + MORE

Creating Effective Advertising – seobook.com/blog The Atlantic published an interesting chart comparing print advertising spend with internet advertising spend: So, print advertising is tanking. Internet advertising, whilst growing, is not growing particularly fast, and certainly isn’t catching up to fill the titanic sized gap left by print. As a result, a number of publishers who rely on advertising for the lion’s share of their revenue are either struggling, going belly up, or changing their models… Continue Reading On seobook.com/blog » The Best SEO Firms Will Practice What They Preach – searchenginepeople.com/blog The SEO industry, unfortunately, has a relatively negative reputation....

How to Write About Anything + MORE

A Primer On How To Get The Most Out Of Sitemaps – searchengineland.com Search crawlers are becoming more and more effective every day in discovering new content pages on websites. But, that process of organic discovery can be slow and spotty, so it’s hardly any solace to sites that publish hundreds of new pages a day, or publish extremely time-sensitive content such…. Continue Reading On searchengineland.com » 5 Ways to Improve Your Ranking Signals Today – seomoz.org/ugc Posted by atomni The topic of SEO these days typically brings about a deer in headlights mentality. With dynamically adaptive search algorithms and...