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In the previous two parts of this series, we’ve discussed nearly everything you need to get you started on the path to SEO success. Last time, we discussed competitor discovery, scaling keywords, and the start of building a content calendar. In this final chapter today, we’re going to cover: 7. Increasing Social Presence in Search 8. Gain Visibility in Universal Search 9. Measuring ROI from Your SEO Efforts 10. Adopting Technology to Scale your SEO Step 7: Increase Social Presence in Search Hand-in-hand with a strong content strategy goes a social media strategy. Social media can be used to drive traffic to the content you create and to engage with content consumers, and increasingly, social results are appearing in the … Continue reading
Some readers may be surprised to discover that despite the opportunity organic search offers—a recent Shareholic study showed organic search drives nearly half of all traffic, 5 times more than social networks combined—many executive budget holders are still reluctant to make an initial substantial investment in SEO. Other, battle-scarred veterans will not be nearly as surprised. Whatever your perspective, the reluctance by senior management to take the leap and make an initial substantial investment in SEO, while theoretically understandable, often leaves the SEO professional lobbying for budget in a chicken and egg, catch-22 situation. “Show me you can move the needle before I am willing to invest”, they are told, but without the resources, technology, and budget it can be … Continue reading
Jump right into the research: Download the full research report, “Why 2013 Will be the Year of the SEO“. When economists seek to take a measure of the large and complex entity that is the economy, they measure several economic indicators such as housing starts, jobs created, and gross domestic product. Taken together, these distinct indicators provide a comprehensive picture of how this large, complicated entity—the economy—is performing. This same collective principle can be applied to the SEO industry to get a measure of its performance and growth. RFP’s from companies for an Enterprise SEO Platform have increased, internal search teams have grown across all verticals, and executives have become increasingly fluent in the language of search. While we have … Continue reading
Recently, we released a study on the missed opportunity in natural search due to SEO professionals neglecting on-page auditing. The Unoptimized SEO 2—How Manual Tasks Sabotage the Potential of Natural Search Marketers report found the majority of SEOs audit their pages once every two weeks – while web pages are actually changing at least once per week. To gauge the potential impact of mature technology on on-page auditing as a tactic, we surveyed SEO professionals’ attitudes and behaviors about on-page auditing. We ran several experiments with auditing varying numbers of pages manually, using semi-automatic on-page auditing software, and with an SEO platform to measure the potential time savings an SEO platform gives the SEO professional. Today we are excited to … Continue reading
So you have the top rankings for all your primary terms, but are the proper pages ranking? Often times in the early stages of SEO you basically throw mud against the wall to see what sticks and then continue to build your campaign from there. Performing preferred landing page (PLP) analysis will help you improve conversions and revenue, regardless of whether your pages improve in position or not. I remember a conversation I had with Conductor’s CEO Seth Besmertnik back in 2009; Seth questioned why I was so addicted to double listings and why I spent so much time trying to get two pages to rank for my top tier terms instead of a hyper-focus on my preferred landing page. … Continue reading
A sneak peak at a study we will be publishing next month shows that three quarters of search marketers audit their pages significantly less than once a week. The reason that most of these professionals cite? Time and Scale. The burden on the SEO practitioner to optimize pages at the scale of millions, not hundreds has grown significantly, however resources are not seen nearly as fast an uptick. Our technology platform, Conductor Searchlight, is pioneering the automation of page auditing for enterprise SEO’s with the provision of accurate and actionable recommendations. Searchlight relieves the pressure on an SEO to conduct manual page and site reviews, and scales page auditing across limitless volumes of keywords. The result is that the SEO … Continue reading