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Whether you’re in charge of executing an SEO strategy for a highly established website or a brand new domain, possessing the ability to understand the current business situation, along with seeing future challenges and opportunities, is critical when crafting a sustainable plan of attack. Take the right steps from the start to gain the most helpful insights to guide your way.
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You may or may not have heard this recently, but SEO seems to have introduced a new sibling into the online marketing family: ASO (or App Store Optimization) is the online marketing of mobile apps through items like their descriptions, keywords, titles, and more. Because apps are marketed somewhat similarly, but not the same way as traditional web content, the industry has dubbed this area of optimization accordingly by giving it the name ASO, and thus identifying the “store” as the means through which one attempts to market their app successfully.
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Many factors contribute to a website reaching and maintaining high positions in search results for target terms. These factors include user experience, site structure, alt tags on images, site maps, and more. Above all content is definitely still king. However, not all types of content can rule over the kingdom of SERPs. The following are 10 tips for writing content that will help your website rank higher in search results:
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There are a million SEO mistakes we can make. Well, actually you’ll get over 4 million results when you search for “seo mistakes”! You could getlost in the most technical aspects of SEO as you try to understand rich snippets, multiple location business listings, disavowing links, rel=canonical and a host of other things. How nice to get the Google Webmaster Guru – Matt Cutts – to lay out the top 5 seo mistakes (by volume) that he sees.
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SEO can take hours, days, months, and years to utilize on your blog, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t ‘quick fixes’ as well. The main idea of SEO is that you keep doing it in order to keep getting results, but if you don’t have a lot of time on your hands, here are a couple of quick tips for improving SEO on your blog that you can likely look into during your lunch break. None of these options will take longer than fifteen minutes (unless you take your time) so you can check them off of your to-do list whenever you have a spare minute or two.
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Pinterest is perfect for businesses with small marketing budgets, and you can improve SEO and drive traffic by optimizing your images.
The image-based social media site is an online bulletin board that lets you collect and share images by “pinning” them to virtual boards. It has been one of the fastest-growing consumer Web properties — according to comScore, it ranked 28th among U.S. Internet users in January, with about 30 million unique visitors.
Pinterest users spend more money, shop more frequently, and purchase items more often and in larger quantities than users on any other social network. If you believe that Pinterest is a viable social media marketing platform for your business and your initial attempt at using it hasn’t yielded the positive results you were looking for, it’s time to optimize your presence — starting with the images you post.
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Quality content seems to be the main edifice on which any SEO campaign can gain a deep-rooted search presence. You share quality content with the groups, circles, or people you're connected with on various social media platforms. If that content is valuable and informative, only then does it have the potential to be shared further, go viral, and reap the targeted return on investment (ROI).
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Let’s face it, blogging is not easy. The hardest part can be thinking of good things to write about. There are only so many different ways that you can talk about the Super Bowl Ads and when you’ve exhausted all options, you’re just left with writer’s block. When it comes to SEO, without good content you can’t grow your rankings. You may find yourself searching for ideas on how to generate fresh content. Here are some great tips from a recent SEOmoz webinar called 'how to blog like you mean it', which should help the next time you find yourself staring at the wall.
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There are a ton of expensive SEO tools available. Many of them do a great job but you shouldn’t forget the great data and insight that can be gleaned from free tools. These tools are often overlooked.
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There are a number of ways using Google+ for marketing can have a beneficial impact on your business' search engine optimization efforts. Because Google is so eager to provide plenty of incentives for people to actively use the network, it has tied the platform very closely to all of its Google Search features as well. As a result, there are many ways that using Google+ can help boost your regular performance in Google's organic search results as well as help you generate more traffic from people doing searches on the topics you already rank for. In fact, because of the strong connection between Google+ and Google Search, businesses can't afford not to create and maintain a Google+ page. Because Google is launching new integrations between Google+ and Google Search on a regular basis, your business' search presence will only suffer without an active Google+ page. Here are 5 ways you can use Google+ to help you enhance your business' SEO.
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January 28, 2012 7:39 AM
Thansk for rescooping this post William. Much appreciated!
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The title tag is one of the oldest attributes there is to a webpage’s layout. Title Tags have been existent since websites came to being. Title tags are also one of the most important attributes that you will ever get to use in your on site optimization. This is a Tutorial on Title Tags.
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SEO can be a very daunting task. With the help of plug-ins, this daunting task becomes a piece of cake. As we all know search engine optimization is extremely important for any website or blog in order to be found on search engines like Google, Yahoo and others.In order to ensure that we meet our SEO goals, we must make sure that we do it properly. Performing search engine optimization tasks improperly can put you even farther behind than where you started. With this list of 10 SEO plug-ins, you will see how to easily exploit search engine optimization techniques and do it correctly. Many of these plug-ins can be used in conjunction with each other, further optimizing your websites SEO potential.
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I know the headline is a bit contradictory. Local search is still considered SEO by those near and dear to our hearts. Maybe for you targeting people all over the world makes sense. I’m certainly not saying to forget it completely, but I read a lot blogs semi-regularly and you might be pretty well served if you started catering to your local audiences with a more grassroots marketing campaign.
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Social media optimization (SMO) was originally designed to drive traffic from social media sites such as bookmarking sites and social networks. However, SMO is now significantly more important and not simply because social networking has grown but because SMO also improves SEO performance. Good SMO will drive traffic from both direct social site referrals and from search engines.
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It’s true that Google wants the most relevant and quality results at the top of their SERPs, but we can’t overlook the fact that they also want popularity. Your company might be the cool (and smarter) new kid in school, but those that are established and already deemed “popular” are going to stay at the top for a little while longer. This might not seem fair, but in the way of SEO there are really two ways to look at the dilemma. Read on..
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There is a good way and a bad way to do everything, but for some reason when most people start carrying out SEO on their website they choose the bad way. The good way will work and you will get the results you deserve. The good way will cement your top spot in the rankings for lots of different keywords and you will have an endless stream of traffic that visit your site and buy your products. The bad way means you will get no results, or if you do they will be so small that they’re not even worth patting yourself on the back over. You will end up working yourself so hard that your only option is to throw in the towel. Do you know why you’re doing it the wrong way? The differences can be tiny and we’re going to look at them right now so you can change your ways.
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Did you know Google can make your blog disappear from its search results? One day, you’re getting a nice little trickle of traffic to a few of your posts. No, it’s nothing major, but it grows with every new post you publish, and you can see Google becoming a major source of traffic for you in the future. But then it stops. Poof, every single post and page of your blog disappears from Google. No warning, no alarm bells, nothing. You’re just gone, like you never even existed. And the worst part? You don’t even know why. It just feels like the biggest, baddest bully on the Internet decided to knock the crap out of you, leaving you whimpering and bleeding, wondering what on earth you did wrong.
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Looking for a nice selection of SEO power tools that will help diagnose technical issues and optimize your website, or perhaps gain insight on what your competition is doing? Here are 13 helpful SEO tools (many of them free) worth your time.
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This post is an absolute belter! My advice is to bookmark and print out. I'll be very surprized if you can't find one or two tools from this list that you can use in your business immediately.
The best thing about this selection is that many are free or low-cost. Go on you aspiring webmasters, knock yourselves out!
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After offsite engagement for awareness, the next step along the route to revenue looks at the "Consideration" phase where engagement – as well as other factors – can affect click-through rates (CTR) in search results, an oft overlooked, and underrated metric in the world of SEO.
First a caveat! CTR studies are both fun and farcical. When no two search results are the same, predicting the percentage of click-throughs in certain positions, and leveraging that as a prognostication of actual traffic can, at best, provide directional data and, at worst, leave clients unhappy when targets fall short.
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Develop a keyword strategy that will have a much higher success rate and provide you with the results you are looking for.
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A tectonic transformation is happening now in the world of digital marketing. With the exponential rise of social media channels and online consumer engagement, it is getting increasingly difficult to reach consumers and increase ROI through traditional advertising. While big corporations keep shelling out on expensive outbound marketing campaigns, there is increased evidence of a major shift in consumer behaviour, with more and more people being in favour of opt-in promotional methods and tending to block out interruptive advertising messages.
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Marketing is moving from analog to digital and many well established companies have not woken up to this and are still persisting with what was the “tried and true” but is now becoming the expensive and ineffective.
There are essentially 3 elements that have emerged in the last decade that have brought us to this generational shift: 1) social media 2) mobile devices enabled with wireless broadband and 3) Google and other search engines continual evolution. Here is a list of the top 10 essential activities that should be considered part of your marketing strategy roadmap that are becoming vital in a digital world and are quite often ignored by a generation of management that grew up in the age of the TV industrial complex and telemarketing.
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Google recently announced social search features with a mouthful of a name: Search Plus Your World. We’ve been hearing rumblings around the Valley that Google was working on big new features to integrate Google+ with search results and this has been an obvious evolution for the search engine ever since they released their new social network.
This new set of features will include posts, videos, links, photos and more from your friends on Google+. It is not yet rolled out to everyone but will be made available to those signed into Google+ in the United States over the next few days.
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There is a continuing disconnect with people’s personal use of the internet and how they then apply digital marketing to promote their business.
The company CEO will use Google for researching and buying a new car but when it comes to optimizing his web site for ranking high in Google he struggles to see the value and perceives that building a website is all he needs to do to be “found online” and generate mountains of cash.
