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Guest Blogging Strategies

Guest blogging can be a great way to help build up your brand, earn recognition, and even get some great links back to your site. When guest blogging it's important to study your audience so that you can produce the best content possible. Exceptional content is often heavily shared and that has huge potential value for your site. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, we'll be covering a ...

11 Google Analytics Tricks to Use for Your Website

Do you know what is the most common question that I get every day on social media, forums or email? "How to get insights about my Google Analytics data?" People approach me saying that they have a Google Analytics account for years, but they look only at page views or the number of visitors they get.

Updated Tool: Moz API Data for Google Docs

Moz's API is a great resource for SEOs. Getting your SEO data into a spreadsheet can be very helpful for competitive analysis to link building. But getting that data (if you're not a programmer) can be a royal pain. This post contains drop-in code that gives you easy access to Moz's API firehose directly in a spreadsheet. You'll feel right at home!

Stop Paying for Stupid Clicks: Negative Keywords for Positive ROI

One of my guilty pleasures is looking through the search query reports (SQR) of an AdWords campaign for the cringe-worthy search queries that led to someone clicking on a PPC ad. Really Google? You felt that goat transportation cost was related to my keyword of freight costs? Or that a babe cam search should show my ad for digital camera? Sadly, these matches and worse can happen if you lack proper negative keywords.

February Linkscape Update: 66 Billion URLs

After some wrestling with Amazon's EC2 and the tragic loss of many hard disks therein, we've finally finished processing and have released the latest Linkscape update (previously scheduled for Feb. 14). This new index is, once again, quite large in comparison to our prior indices, and contains a mix of crawl data going back to the end of last year. In fact, this is technically our lar...

How Google Makes Liars Out of the Good Guys in SEO

This past week I gave the keynote presentation at Searchfest in Portland and I hit on a few themes that seemed to resonate with the audience, and Rand. So I wanted to share them here. It’s what I have been passionate about trumpeting for some time now.

92 Ways to Get (and Maximize) Press Coverage

I love Ben Affleck's first scene in the movie "Boiler Room." I always felt that the quote above perfectly relates to companies and press coverage. The ones who don’t get coverage will quickly dismiss it as useless and a waste of time and money to pursue, while the ones who regularly get coverage just smile and hope that you keep thinking that way...

Create Crawlable, Link-Friendly AJAX Websites Using pushState()

Building websites using AJAX to load content can make them fast, responsive and very user friendly. However, it's not always been possible to do this without introducing # or #! symbols into URLs - and breaking the way URLs are 'supposed' to work. The method outlined here will let you build fast AJAX-based websites that also work well for SEO.

Google Analytics Certification and How to Pass the GAIQ Test

When I hear the word, “cookies,” I generally think of warm, gooey homemade chocolate chip cookies. But when it comes to passing the Google Analytics Individual Qualification (GAIQ) test, I had to put my cravings for Mrs. Fields’ Nibblers aside and learn about the differences between first-party and third-party cookies.

The Math of CRO

This week we are talking about math.... Don't worry it's not the tough kind that Isaac Newton used to do, but the math behind Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO). This week Rick Perreault from Unbounce joins us to show the value behind CRO and how you can show its value to your clients/bosses. After watching what Rick has to say, share a comment about your experience with CRO.

What Community Builders Can Learn From Research

It's time to build bridges, this time between inbound marketing and research. In this post, you'll find research on participation patterns, how to spot high value users, seeding content in a new community, how to bring new life to old content, and a little bit gamification.

How to Forecast Seasonal Keyword Traffic with Google Insights and Python Scripts

A while back, I went to a Distilled meetup here in NYC. SEER Interactive's Mark Lavoritano did some cool slides on the seasonality of keywords. Basically, his presentation made the point that you should not only think about which keywords you want to rank for but also WHEN they are most valuable.