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In high-school, I was a total arts geek and enrolled in a performing arts magnet program. I learned the craft of technical theater and became a behind the scenes/backstage guy. I helped build the sets, worked on costumes, installed lighting equipment, managed props, controlled the spotlights and had my hand in anything related to the stagecraft of a show. Essentially, my job was to make the actors and performers look as good as possible by making sure they had the best technical support. The same thing can be said in regards to SEO and content. It’s the SEO’s job to get the content the attention it deserves from search engines by making sure it’s technically sound. I’ll be the first … Continue reading
Our guest poster today: Kerin Foster is the Director of Content Development at SEMrush, an industry-leading service in search and PPC competitive analytics. She brings extensive knowledge and experience from the other side of search marketing and strives to provide the broadest perspective possible to achieve business goals. Kerin holds a Master’s Degree in Literacy from Columbia University and lives and works in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area. There really is no threshold as to what you can discover when using competitive analysis. While many have heard of it, some may not even realize the many advantages competitive analysis can provide for any business, large or small. You can do things such as locate missing/new/lost keywords while comparing yourself against several … Continue reading
In the last 12-18 months, several factors have come together to form what could be described as the ‘inbound marketing perfect storm,’ transforming content into the foundation of both Search and Social. First, search algorithm changes that de-emphasized thin content in the SERPs pushed Marketers to focus on quality content. Second, as is evident from the chart below, social developed into a legitimate content discovery platform for online users. The result? Content is now the foundation of SEO and Social—the bread to SEO’s peanut butter and Social’s jelly, if you will. Content has become so central for the online marketer that improving on their content development strategy is their number one goal in the next 12 months: The Brand as … Continue reading
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
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