Thursday, January 29, 2015

Just Enough SEO Knowledge to Be Dangerous

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January 29, 2015

 

In my experience, the site owners that "goes it alone" when it comes to SEO fall into three distinct categories. Category A - they take their time and move cautiously, make small changes here and there and just let what happens happen. Category B - they hire an SEO firm and let them handle most of the strategy and implementation. Category C - they do their best to learn everything they can about SEO and set out to really make headway in the SERPs, for better or worse. Category A sites don't usually see much movement very quickly, but given enough time those sites can and do well online.

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Over the last two years, ONE link has driven 238 visitors to a client's site. Another SINGLE link on a local news site drove 380 visitors on one day. A third SOLITARY inbound link has sent 78 visitors in the last two months alone. Granted, since July 2013 this site has received over 800,000 visitors, so 78 is just a drop in the bucket. But multiple that one good link by hundreds of good links) and you easily start earning 10s of thousands of visitors through referral links. In fact, about 10% of this client's traffic overall comes from referral links. (For comparison, 23% of their traffic is organic, 17% is paid and about 3% is from social) I don't know about you, but I don't know too many site owners that wouldn't be happy with an additional 80k unique visitors, do you?    

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Having a site built in WordPress provides numerous advantages compared to coding a site from scratch. Simple additions to your site can be easily accomplished by installing plugins. From data capture to boosting SEO, there are numerous WordPress plugins to optimize your site and improve its functionality. Want to know the best part? WordPress has an extensive directory of all of its plugins located right on its site, wordpress.org.
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Has Google+ lost its way? According to former Google+ UX designer Chris Messina, yes it has. The whole thing started when Messina "called out Google+" on Twitter claiming that they were no longer maintaining Google+ and had stopped doing QA. Turns out he was wrong and he openly admits it in a post on Medium. However, what starts as an apology turns into a diatribe as Messina goes on to say:
"When I thought about what motivated me to lob this snarkbomb, I realized I was looking for a reaction. I wanted some kind of defiant response to questions that have recently bugged me."

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Ongoing content creation, publication, and distribution have become crucial components of online marketing success. Great content has the potential to increase not only website traffic and social media follower counts, but over the long term is what nurtures leads and generates sales. Some companies' content marketing strategies are thriving. Others unfortunately are faltering. If you are on the "faltering" side of things, it may be because readers just aren't enjoying your content.  

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Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Brick Marketing SEO Newsletter for January 27

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January 27, 2015

 

When you do finally get the green light to really ramp up your SEO program you have one of two options; you can either hire an SEO firm to manage and guide your campaign, or you can pull it all in-house and hire a new SEO manager. There are pros and cons to both options, but here are three reasons why an SEO firm might be the better choice.

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There are so many benefits to business blogging. It's a way to share your industry knowledge and be viewed as an authority figure. It's a way to earn trust, inbound links, and grow your brand online. Tied together, this results in generating better customers or clients for your company, customers or clients that "get it". Consumers conduct their research online before making a purchase. They want to know what the product, service, and company selling that product or service is all about.   

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If you're investing in PPC search advertising you should know that it's recommended to bid on your own brand terms. It's not hard to rank #1, after all- nobody should rank higher than the brand that is being searched for! Branded terms have a high conversion rate with a low cost per click and cost per conversion. But what about bidding on your competitors' branded terms? Is this a sneaky or deceptive way to advertise? Some advertisers prefer to "play nice" and stay away from this strategy while others love it.
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In case you weren't aware, Google pays attention to bounce rate as one of its many, many search algorithm signals. That means that if someone lands on your content and immediately clicks away, Google takes note. Many things can lead to a bounce but one of thing that could lead to a bounce that you might not be thinking of is the length of the content.  

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Online marketing today is all about content, content, and more content. This might lead you to believe that quantity is what matters. But content isn't for your bosses that are focused on hitting quotas and it's not for the search engines to improve your SEO (even though that is an important indirect benefit). Ultimately, content is for your target audience. It's for the people that you want to buy your products. Before creating any content you need to keep these people in mind, or else your content won't have its desired effect.

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