MOZ team says, “Your content has quality links and your keyword targeting is an SEO’s dream. Yet for some mysterious reason, that content still isn’t ranking. What’s missing? In today’s Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains some of the advanced tactics Google may be using to evaluate and analyze your content and what you should be looking out for to help resolve your ranking woes”. How Google May Analyze and Evaluate the Quality, Value, & Rank-Worthiness of Your Content MOZ Blog  [...]

Patricio Robles says, “Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat may hog the social media spotlight, but quietly Pinterest has become a potent social media marketing channel and, for some brands, one of the most productive. Like most social platforms, Pinterest has sought to woo businesses with offerings that help them engage more meaningfully with users. These include Cinematic and Buyable Pins. But Pinterest’s latest offering, how-to Pins, highlights the fact that social platforms are increasingly gaining more than they’re giving, particularly when it comes to SEO. How-to Pins,... [...]

Aaron Agius says, “It’s a common misconception that SEO and content marketing are two mutually exclusive business strategies. They’re not. In a way, it used to be true — keyword-stuffing once helped pages get ranked well, even if the content wasn’t valuable. Now, that’s not the case. Search algorithms have succeeded at offering the valuable content that people are looking for — which is the main goal of content marketing. That’s why it’s now possible, and even fairly simple, to build a keyword-driven content strategy. 1. Identify the keywords that matter most. Determining... [...]

Craig Bradwhaw says, “As digital marketers, the amount of data that we have to collect, process, and analyze is overwhelming. This is never more true than when we’re looking into what competitors are doing from a link building perspective. Thankfully, there are a few things we can do to make this job a little bit easier. In this post, I want to share with you the processes I use to supercharge my analysis of competitor backlinks. In this post, you’ll learn: – How to use URL Profiler for bulk data collection – How to use fusion graphs to create powerful data visualizations –... [...]

Julie Joyce says, “I get incredibly annoyed when I receive an email offering SEO services, especially when the sender notes that he or she has looked at my site, checked my rankings and can tell me why I’m doing so poorly in Google. If you’re an SEO, I’m sure you get tons of these emails, too. While I know that it’s just automated spam, I’m still offended. This type of email clogs up inboxes and likely prevents legitimate outreach requests from being read. Since our main method of developing links involves email outreach, this poses a serious problem for us. I’m not trying to... [...]

Winston Burton says, “Over the years, the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs) have changed a lot. Features like news, images, videos and the Knowledge Graph have impacted the display, sorting and order of SERPs, dramatically impacting organic listings. Recently, Google decided that paid search ads will no longer appear on the right-hand side of search results for desktop users globally, and up to four paid search results will appear at the top of the page (up from a maximum of three previously). Paid search ads that fall below the fourth rank will appear at the bottom of the page, which has... [...]

Lindsay Kolowich says, “Let’s get right down to it: The key to successful SEO is concentrating on long-tail keywords. Although these keywords get less traffic than more generic terms, they’re associated with more qualified traffic and users that are typically further down their path of intent. The good news is that choosing the right long-tail keywords for your website pages is actually a fairly simple process — one that’s made all the more simple and quick when you use the right tools to perform your keyword research. In this post, we’ll cover the nine best... [...]

Rachel Lindteigen says, “If you have customers, then yes, customer service is a big key to your content marketing success. If you don’t have (or want) customers, then it probably doesn’t matter. However, I don’t know of many successful businesses without customers, do you? So how does customer service fit into the overall content marketing mix? Why does it matter, and more importantly, what do you need to do about it in order to succeed? The customer experience — good and bad Think for a moment about a great customer service experience you had. What did you do? Did you tell someone... [...]

Laura Lippay says, “Do you know anyone who is visually impaired? Maybe they have low vision or color blindness, or are fully blind. Think about how they use the Internet. Close your eyes, or at least squint really hard, and try to find today’s news or interact with your friends on Facebook. It’s a challenge many of us don’t think about every day, but some of what we do in SEO can affect the experience that people with visual impairments have when visiting a page. Accessibility and the Internet Visually impaired Internet users are able to navigate and use the web using screen readers... [...]

Kate Morris says, “Growth. Revenue, visits, conversions. We all want to see growth. For many, focusing on a new set of potential customers in another market (international, for instance) is a source of growth. It can sometimes seem like an easy expansion. If your current target market is in the US, UK, or Australia, the other two look promising. Same language, same content — all you need is to set up a site for them and target it at them, right? International expansion is more complicated than that. The ease of expansion depends highly on your business, your resources, and your customers.... [...]