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What Synonyms Mean for SEO
Google employees Matt Cutts and Steve Baker recently released related posts on how computers understand human language and what that means for webmasters. These posts cemented what a lot of SEOs, webm...
Q & A About Using Q & A Sites to Build Your Business & Reputation
Q&A sites are a great way to get your message across and to build your brand and reputation.How many people use Q&A sites? In a recent Business.com study, 49% of companies that use social media said they ask questions on Q&A sites. Only 29% said they use...
Keyword Targeting: How to Employ Multiple Keywords for SEO & Conversions
At some point during your University's SEO 201: Advanced Keyword Research & Targeting class, they probably gave a few lectures and case studies on how to effectively split up your keyword research list across multiple pages and use those terms/phrases to maximum benefit. But, for those who might have missed that lesson (which would be, umm, all of us, since no...
10 Professional Development Tips to Boost Your SEO Career
So it's a new year (doesn't 2010 feel like the future?!) and it's a new you. As Pete blogged last week plenty of new year's resolutions are being set. For many this may involve getting a better or job or getting paid more money. This post is for you. Hopefully by the time you've read this post you'll have some ideas to tu...
Making SEO Clients Happy with Your Services
This week Will Critchlow is back to help Rand talk about best practices for keeping your clients (and yourself) happy during consulting contracts. It's important to start early (setting expectations, contracting, agreeing on KPIs), maintain good communication, and follow through on deliverables. Happy clients mean more business, improved reputation, higher demand and more success for you.&nb...Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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Find Invisible Pages Using Google Analytics
One often-ignored part of SEO is making invisible pages visible. When I say 'invisible', I mean pages that have received zero clicks from organic search results.If you can find those pages, you can decide:To keep them, but work to raise their organic search profile;To keep them, but use more of their link juice to help other, higher-profile p...
How To Get Past Last-Touch Attribution With Google Analytics
In last week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand and I started by discussing how to gain true insight into what kind of keywords are leading people to discover your brand and ultimately driving conversions for your business (clue: it's probably not branded search phrases, despite what your analytics reports are telling you). Today, I'm going to demonstrate one way of measuring this more accurately in Google Analytics.
11 Conversion Rate Optimization Lessons Learned in 2009 (and annual moz traffic stats)
SEOmoz shares internal traffic statistics from 2009, as well as conversion rate mistakes and opportunities to apply in 2010. In addition to analytics data, the post also has 11 actionable conversion takeaways.
An Update to Our Testing on PageRank Sculpting with Nofollow
A couple of weeks ago I published a post titled "Tests Show PageRank Sculpting with Nofollow Still Works" where I argued that a test that I had run showed that nofollow was a legitimate means for sculpting PageRank. When I originally wrote and posted the blog entry, I full-heart...
Explaining SEO, Role by Role
To make a valuable impact, SEO has to be understood by more than just an organisation's search marketers. This post suggests how to explain the concepts, and get buy-in, from different people within an organisation.