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Our guest poster today: Kara Alcamo specializes in organic, white-hat search engine optimization and social media marketing. She works with a team of search specialists at r2i, a digital marketing and technology firm, managing SEO campaigns, search strategies and developing optimized copy for the company’s range of clients. Drawing the Line with Structured Data Markup SEOs spend countless hours poring over data, searching for ways to boost their clients’ rankings, search visibility, and click through rates. If there were a single tool that could improve all of these things at once, you’d think that people would be all over it, particularly if that tool were free. As it turns out, there is such a tool, and although it was … Continue reading
Our guest blogger today: Daniel Vassiliou has been involved in SEO and internet promotion for over 12 years now. He is the CEO of Endurance SEO. You may contact Dan here via his website. Video SEO has been a buzzword in the online marketing world for some time now. People have been trying to figure out how to rank well within the video search engines ever since sites like Vimeo and YouTube started getting recognition for driving decent traffic and interactions for websites and brand names. While a video going viral on YouTube can skyrocket your business to the next level like it did for Dollar Shave Club, this is the exception rather than the rule for … Continue reading
Search engine ranking has become more of a science today than ever before. It is no longer restricted to link building, on-page and off-page optimization, and website architecture. The ranking algorithm has become more complex and feeds on more verticals than it did in the past. Organic optimization has made competition even more intense. So, if you want to do better than your rivals, competitor SEO analysis should be an integral part of your SEO strategy. When you identify your standing in the industry, you can reinvent your SEO campaign and emerge stronger than your competitors. How do you define competitor SEO analysis? To begin with, you need to define your competitors. Cutting it down to basics, you can assume … Continue reading
The past 12-18 months has seen a great deal of attention around the concept of Big Data in both the Marketing world and SEO practice. The numerous ways in which Big Data promises to increase insight into online behavior, customer profiling and more has been written about extensively. As creators of an enterprise SEO platform that culls actionable insight from natural search’s ‘Big Data’ we are certainly a bit biased here at Conductor, in agreeing that Big Data will (has) lead/led to new levels of insight for those Marketers who choose to leverage its capabilities. But, any Marketer digesting the ongoing ‘Big Data’ commentary over the last 12 months or so could be forgiven for drawing the conclusion that when … Continue reading
The practice of SEO is a fairly results-oriented business. Increasingly, metrics dominate the focus of the SEO professional, whether rank, traffic, or conversions. While a move to more measurement is overall a good thing, it means that SEOs are increasingly head down, focused on the things—like link building, on-page optimization, and content creation—that they believe will move the metrics needle. A byproduct of a focus on tactics that can be closely tied to metrics is that activities that are perceived to not produce an immediate impact are often left undone. One example of just such an activity is competitor SEO analysis. Some SEOs don’t do it at all, either for the reasons described above, or because their thinking goes: “It doesn’t … Continue reading
When starting out with a new search effort or performing a keyword refresh for an existing website, the options for discovering new keywords are limited only by the SEO’s imagination. From the Google Adwords Keyword Tool, to digging through analytics, to leveraging sites like Soovle that discover ‘suggest’ keywords across multiple search engines, keyword discovery options abound. Building a pool of potential keywords to optimize for, however, is only half the battle. For those websites driving visitors to a ‘conversion event’ (e-commerce, asset download, form completion, etc.), different keywords will convert at different rates. Not all keywords are created equal and your website might be optimized to convert better for some keywords versus others. Finding out a keyword converts poorly … Continue reading