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Why Does Great Content Fail?
Great content just magically creates traffic, wealth, and fame, right? Not always, sadly. Here are a few ways to put great content into motion and market your marketing.
Advanced Google Analytics - Tips and Tricks
Google Analytics affects everyone in search engine marketing (unless you use another analytics package!) but not everyone knows how to take full advantage of it. To take full advantage of it we have to share knowledge and that's what I'm here to do. I'll be sharing some great advanced segments, how to do multiple goal conversion tracking and the secret success behind cross domain tracking.
Five Ways to Check the Quality of a Link Directory
It's a time-tested method used by virtually all SEOs making a plunge into the world of link building – directory submission. For the most part, it's not excessively expensive, doesn't take a lot of time, and if you submit to the right directories (read: ODP and Yahoo! Directory), it can have a meaningful impact on your website search engine ranking.
Custom Reporting using Google Analytics and Google Docs - The Ultimate Analytics Mashup
Realtime Google Analytics data inside a Google Doc— a panacea! In this blog post I'll show how you can do this yourself, and I've created an easy template to help get you started. Create your own custom reports and slice and dice your analytics however you like!
How Big is Your Long Tail?
Choosing keywords to optimize for is a tricky business, made all the more tricky as keyphrases grow longer than a couple of words. As Google has said, up to 20% of search queries in any given day are unique. Should you try to optimize your tauntaun sleeping bags product page for "tauntaun sleeping ba...Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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A Framework for Site Reviews (with Examples)
[Website Review Examples] Learn best practices and samples of website reviews. Over the past decade, I've been part of many reviews of websites, both in-person, as a consultant, and at many events. I've found that much of the time, the reviews themselves lack structure.
16 Insights into Google's Rating Guidelines
Last week, a leaked copy of Google's quality rater guidelines appeared. I pulled 16 insights from the document that help you understand how Google thinks about quality.
How To Recruit An SEO - The SEO Industry Leaders Reveal Their Secrets
There comes a point in your career as an SEO when you need to recruit someone else. Whether that's to expand your own consulting firm, or as part of your management role within another company – either way you need to get another human being on-board with what you are doing.
Use Analytics to Set Pay-Per-Click Campaign Goals
Anyone that has worked in SEO in any capacity knows that it's a complex business and you learn something new just about every day. But the ultimate SEO goal is easily defined: improved search rankings. It's challenging and somewhat frustrating because of the unknowns of search engines (alright...Google). But at my firm, we have an extremely fine-tuned SEO process that works for us and for our SEO resellers.
Getting Rankings into GA Using Custom Variables
Gathering rankings is one of the most annoying and time consuming tasks of an SEO consultant's work. Because of search personalization, it can be near impossible to find accurate rankings for keywords to report to clients or to use to gauge our work's effectiveness. Mike King and I have found a way to get rankings for the keywords driving traffic to your site directly into your A...