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#RCS, YouTube, and Being Helpful: An Interview with Wil Reynolds
Wil Reynolds talks about who inspires him, his love of using YouTube to help others, and, of course, Real Company Stuff.
How to Build an Online Community for Your Business
Building a community around your company is a great way to generate value in your business and weather the storm of Google's algorithms. Whether you're building a community from scratch, or you're working on growing an existing one, this approach and process will help get your community rolling, or optimize and leverage what you already have.
Remove Unnecessary Steps & Win More Links, Shares, and Conversions
The more you simplify your user experience, the more likely users are to accomplish the goals you've set for the product, website, or communication at hand. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand walks us through user experience and the actions that we can remove from our processes in order to drive more conversions, earn more links, get more social shares.
Competitive Research: 6 Tips For Getting Social & Audience Metrics For Your Competitors' Sites
Measuring traffic and social metrics for your own site is easy – just take a peek in Google Analytics for a wealth of traffic, conversion, and social data. Analyzing your competitors' blogs isn't so easy, but it is important. Proper competitive analysis can lead to new content ideas, better outreach, better guest posting opportunities, insights on marketing, and other helpful data that can improve your marketing ROI. In short, if you’re not analyzing your competitors’ websites, you're missing out.
Finding and Building Citations Like an Agency
So you want to rank locally? If you have already worked hard to add a few citations, complete your on-site local optimization, acquire customer reviews, and build some locally relevant links, well, now it's time to shift your focus. According to David Mihm, citations make-up roughly 25% of the overall local ranking factors.Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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How to Build a Content Marketing Strategy
As successful link building tactics change, companies and clients alike are seeking to understand how certain forms of link building can be translated into long-term content marketing campaigns. But when you're creating a content marketing strategy from scratch, where do you start? Stephanie Chang's content marketing strategy framework is an action-packed, insightful place to start!
Tracking Google Analytics Events with Google Tag Manager
Google Tag Manager (GTM) is a great tool that can really streamline the implementation of your favorite web analytics tool. Basically you put a container tag on your site editing your template, and then you should be able manage the configuration and the data collection process of your web analytics tool without touching your template again. You should be able to do it, but the trut...
Is Your Website Being Replaced with Google Plus Local Listings?
It has been almost a year since Google replaced their business listing service, Google Places, in favor of Google+ Local as part of the search engine’s continuing efforts to increase the relevancy of their social media network, Google+. I don’t know about you, but lately there has been a bit of a stirrup among some of our clients.
How Do You Know If Your Data is Accurate? A case study using search volume, CTR, and rankings
As inbound marketers, we have access to all kinds of data that offers huge value to our campaigns and businesses. However, this data is only valuable if we can unlock it. Our Data Scientist, Matt Peters, takes us into the world of analytics and shares his tips to help you sort through the data around you to find (and implement) the gems.
Dos and Don'ts - Bad Link Building And Useful Alternatives
High-value links and a successful link profiles are still important topics in the world of SEO. Although “Content is King” links are still counting for SEO too. However, it is now important to avoid negative links instead of building more and more new ones.