SEO

So you’ve written an amazing piece and scored the placement of your dreams. It took hours of blood, sweat and tears to brainstorm the topic, develop a clever hook, write the copy and source compelling imagery — not to mention the research and the outreach required to score the perfect publisher. …

There are at least 200 ranking factors in Google’s algorithm (not to mention RankBrain), which means a thorough SEO audit could lead to dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of SEO tasks. Few companies have the budget or resources to complete every potential SEO to-do item — and doing so would …

Personal assistants (PAs) aren’t just digital assistants that can be used to perform routine tasks. They’re also the future of SEO. Consider two of the most popular PAs: Siri and Google Assistant. People often use those assistants to retrieve information. And where do you think those PAs get that information …

Keyword ranking is one of the most overrated and misused metrics in SEO. Yes, tracking your positions is important, but placing too much emphasis on this metric is problematic. When it comes to SEO, what you measure gets managed. That means that focusing on the right metrics will help you generate results that have …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: The problem with obsessive rank trackingApr 4, 2017 by Ryan Shelley Search engine optimization (SEO) is often focused on achieving high rankings in search results pages. …

Brands and agencies: a dynamic duo since the beginning of marketing time. We’ve all had good relationships, bad relationships and good relationships gone bad. What makes some brand/agency partnerships so successful, while others fail? This SMX West session explored the payoff of successful partnerships and how to take those partnerships …

Every two years, Search Engine Land updates our Periodic Table Of SEO Success Factors. It’s that time again, and we’re inviting our readers to help us with the process. The goal of the table is to cover the broad factors of search engine optimization that people should focus on. That means it’s not …

Join data experts David M. Raab and John Hurley as they describe how Radius and its clients built a network of B2B business and contact information, and how you can create a new data source with unprecedented freshness, accuracy, and coverage. Attend this webinar and learn: how to measure – …

How do we deal with huge and sudden changes in organic search traffic now that Google no longer posts major updates to its algorithms? Since many updates that formerly would have been assigned a name (like Penguin or Panda), or even a name and an incremental number (Panda 3.0) are now …

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: A deep look at Google’s biggest-ever search quality crisisApr 3, 2017 by Danny Sullivan Under fire for months, can Google reverse the drip-drip-drip of criticism as …