Your organic search competitors may not be the sites you think. What matters is who Google and Bing and other search engines think your competition is. They determine which sites rank for individual keywords based on criteria that have little to do with your business model. Keywords to Target To keep things simple, let’s start […]
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Some search experts are saying that the ranking factors studies churned out annually by SEO agencies and vendors are a waste of time. How true is that? And why might they be losing their relevance? Ranking factors studies analyse data from search results to identify the factors that correlate with high ranking pages. These factors
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According to a new report released by RankRanger, a good ranking in YouTube search doesn’t guarantee that a video will also rank well in the video carousel in Google search, and vice versa. This study clearly showed that the YouTube search ranking algorithm is significantly different from the algorithm that Google search uses for videos in the
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It’s no secret we’re living in a mobile world. As marketers, we need to recognize that our current and prospective customers are active on their mobile devices. That’s why you need to learn how to optimize your web design for mobile users. But some of you may have taken this one step further and built
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Posted by Jeff_Baker In January of 2018 Brafton began a massive organic keyword targeting campaign, amounting to over 90,000 words of blog content being published. Did it work? Well, yeah. We doubled the number of total keywords we rank for in less than six months. By using our advanced keyword research and topic writing process
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We all know Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are constantly tweaking their platforms. It seems not a week can go by without one of those social media networks changing SOMETHING in the user experience. But, one social platform seems to fly under the radar a bit when it comes to this conversation: LinkedIn. And it definitely
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Posted by KameronJenkins Being able to pinpoint the reason for a ranking drop is one of our most perennial and potentially frustrating tasks as SEOs. There are an unknowable number of factors that go into ranking these days, but luckily the methodology for diagnosing those fluctuations is readily at hand. In today’s Whiteboard Friday, we
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Posted by BritneyMuller It’s been a few months since our last share of our work-in-progress rewrite of the Beginner’s Guide to SEO, but after a brief hiatus, we’re back to share our draft of Chapter Two with you! This wouldn’t have been possible without the help of Kameron Jenkins, who has thoughtfully contributed her great
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Here's a look at the key SEO trends to be aware of in 2018 – and how you can best prepare for them. Source link
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In May of this year, many small businesses lost a number of Google reviews. A month later, Google provided my colleague Mike Blumenthal a statement that confirmed the reviews were not coming back: We do not allow anonymous reviews today and we’ve removed legacy anonymous reviews. The reviews removed were old reviews from anonymous profiles
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