Posts in 'Search Marketing - Organic/Natural (SEO)'
Bathrooms.com was launched by Ian Monk in 2004, and has just recently relaunched with a fully redesigned website.
Part of the relaunch included a focus on social and a PR-centric SEO strategy. I've been asking Ian about the thinking behind this approach and the results so far...
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by Graham Charlton
23 April 2013 11:07am
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There are 773,692 words in the Bible. It is one of the most read books of all time. The content message in the Bible is everywhere. We all know it, even if we think we don’t.
As content marketing strategies go there is a lot to admire. Dale Lovell illustrates just how much content marketers can learn from the Bible.
In this post I want to illustrate just how much content marketers can learn from the Bible.
Don’t believe me? Let me explain...
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by Dale Lovell
23 April 2013 10:23am
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Content Marketing is the new buzzword. And as with buzzwords, every agency is trying to capture a slice of the action – but this means they all have their own definitions. Which leads to confusion.
Naturally SEOs were the first to jump on Content Marketing as content and links are so intrinsically linked to success, but there’s a lot more to it than SEO.
So to try and ease this confusion I spoke to our resident SEO specialist, David Freeman and we came up with this advice.
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by Darren Goldie
18 April 2013 13:34pm
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It sometimes sucks, being a publisher in a post-Penguin, post-Panda world. It’s great that Google is cleaning up webspam, but it’s not so great to be on the receiving end of stupid demands from people who give the SEO industry a bad name.
What am I talking about? Dubious links, that’s what. Or should I say dubious links on a supposedly authority website (ours), that have been flagged up by dubious SEO tools. Emails with ‘please remove this link’ make our hearts sink.
What else? Dubious expectations. Why is it that publishers like Econsultancy are expected to clean up the mess? This is the last thing I want us to be doing. “It will be good for both of us,” they say, with various degrees of menace. No it won’t. It’s a cost to our business, and to the publishing industry more broadly.
We have always been hugely supportive of the SEO industry, and as a web business we’ve always tried to stay on top of SEO best practice. As such it is deeply frustrating to be on the receiving end of requests to remove ‘suspicious’ links, or to add no_follow to links that I think are perfectly acceptable.
I’m not planning on revealing any names here, but let me explain what I’m talking about. There are three areas for concern. The first two are linked to stupid, short-term thinking, and needless panic. The last one might indicate that Google is changing the goalposts around guest blogging.
Is this the tip of the iceberg, or a few isolated incidents that we’re experiencing?
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by Chris Lake
18 April 2013 11:31am
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Despite the current trend to segment your audience as much as possible it's still easy to overlook the art of meta description writing.
After all Google search still reaches all of your target market and beyond.
Here's a reminder of the important considerations for meta description writing with some examples.
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by Tim Aldiss
17 April 2013 12:21pm
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Along with custom reports (and sometiimes in conjunction with them), custom advanced segments are a great way of gaining extra insight and value from your Google Analytics account.
In this post, I'll round up ten very useful custom segments that you can import straight into your GA account, and save yourself the trouble of creating them yourself.
Please suggest any other segments you find useful in the comments...
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by Graham Charlton
16 April 2013 11:37am
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The SEO industry has undergone something of a renaissance in recent years, with the focus shifting from building links by any means necessary to an appreciation of the power of quality content.
However links are still the fuel that drives Google’s algorithm, so building and maintaining a strong, clean link profile is central to the SEO’s job description.
At Brighton SEO last week Paul Madden from Manual Link Building detailed the steps that search marketers can take to identify bad links.
As a self-confessed former professional spammer Madden knows a thing or two about bad links, but he now uses his skills for good rather than evil.
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by David Moth
16 April 2013 10:26am
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Inbound marketing: is it just another buzzword?
In this two-part article, I'll explain what it really means and why its lead generation potential is causing a stir.
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by Sam Davies
16 April 2013 09:23am
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Ecommerce currently makes up a whopping 43% of Argos’ business and is predicted to surpass 50% by 2015, so managing the company’s search strategy is an incredibly important job.
At Brighton SEO on Friday Argos’ search marketing manager Dan Patmore gave an insight into the way SEO works at the company and the tactics he uses to ensure his ideas are implemented.
Patmore currently has two people working for him internally and also outsources part of the process to NetBooster, but even then he said that managing on-site SEO remains a huge challenge.
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by David Moth
15 April 2013 13:02pm
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As content marketing and SEO grow in importance for all sorts of online business, so does the need for real-time keyword analysis.
Rankinity allows you to check positions of a website for certain keywords in all popular search engines in real time.
The founders of Rankinity are hoping that flexible reports and wide means for joint operation (it can take a lot of cross-department teamwork to successfully manage SEO) will make their service "an irreplaceable assistant both for a SEO savvy and a website owner".
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by Ryan Sommer
12 April 2013 18:22pm
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