How To Dissect Your Organic Traffic By Intent & Funnel It Into Sales

Columnist Neil Patel reminds us it’s not the search query itself, but the intent behind it that is important to divine, if we marketers are to effectively drive conversions

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Stop Procrastinating: It’s Time To Address Mobile SEO

Columnist Janet Driscoll Miller explains how to evaluate your mobile performance in organic search so that you can make the case for investing in mobile.

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Target’s Mobile Site Shows The Value Of An SEO Spring Clean (Sorry, Target!)

Columnist Chris Liversidge gets back to basics by taking a look at how to tackle a common SEO problem: duplicate content.

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Breaking The Glass Ceiling Of Search Through Acquisition

When you’re working on an SEO campaign within a particularly competitive niche, it can sometimes feel that for every step forward you take, your competitors are taking an extra two. This is particularly relevant when you come into a niche where there have been a select number of really…

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Effective Keyword Targeting: The Key To Growing Traffic & Revenue

Columnist Trond Lyngbo explains how proper keyword targeting is the key to improving your site’s visibility in search engines.

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Do You Hate “Not Provided”? Not So Fast… It May Be a Blessing In Disguise!

Things have certainly changed since Google took away keyword referral data, but columnist Stephan Spencer argues that these changes were for the better.

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How To Make Every Single Page On Your Website Evergreen

Web pages may not be meant to last forever, but I think that most web pages can do a lot better. Many pages and articles published today lack evergreen qualities, which means that in a few months or years, they will be old and useless. They will join the billions of other pages littering the…

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How To Write A Meta Description That Gets Click-Throughs

I feel sorry for meta descriptions. Google has long held that meta descriptions do not impact search engine rankings. From a 2007 post on the Google Webmaster Central Blog: Google reiterated this point yet again in 2009 in a post stating that the meta keywords tag was not used as a ranking signal:…

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User-Centered SEO: Creating Long-Term Value

CMOs understand that by its very nature, SEO rarely stays the same for long. The shift to putting end customers and users front and center is quite different from SEO practices of yesteryear. While this new SEO direction may seem daunting, it also opens up a huge realm of opportunity for those that…

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Will Your Business (And Your Website) Adapt & Evolve With Google?

We’ve come a long way from the “10 blue links” search results page. Columnist Trond Lyngbø outlines how to ensure you’re keeping up as SEO develops.

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What SEOs Need To Know About China’s Golden Shield Project

Interested in reaching China’s growing middle-class population? Unlike elsewhere, the search engines aren’t the main arbiters of what people see — you’ll also need to master the Great Firewall, aka the Golden Shield.

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How To Conduct A Winning Local Search Audit

Every week, our support team at BrightLocal fields numerous questions from our customers about how best to conduct a local search audit. The questions range from the type and quantity of data to include, to what processes and tools can be used to speed…

Do Your Own 5-Minute SEO Audit

If you’ve gone to SEO events, you may have attended one or more sessions where experts conduct live site reviews and make recommendations. For agencies and consultants, quickly assessing any website is a great skill to hone. Here is how you can do your own 5-minute SEO audits. Don’t…

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Use These Tools To See What Entities Are On A Web Page

Search engines leverage structured data to determine what entities are on your web page. They can also do this using other techniques such as natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning. This article will introduce you to various tools that …

A Marketer’s Guide To Using Regular Expressions In SEO

Regular expressions (regex) are one of the most powerful tools we have in our SEO arsenal,  but they’re incredibly intimidating! Here are some tips and tricks from one SEO to another that I hope will help you dip your toes into the powerful world of regex. I must begin with a disclaimer:…

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Discover Who’s Eating Your SEO Lunch… And How To Beat Them

The combination of web analytics and a thoughtful SEO strategy is a winner. Here’s one of my favourite strategies to ensure you’re beating your competition at SEO linkbuilding.

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