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How to Deal with Challenging Clients
If you are a consultant, part of your job is managing your client's attitude and behaviors, even when times get tough. Craig Bradford shares his tips to prevent sunny situations from turning blue, and offers advice for providing a cure if problems arise.
Content Outreach 'Reverse Audience Sourcing'
Last year I attended Search Love Conference and was inspired by Guy Levine's and Richard Baxter's excellent presentations and their ideas of sourcing your audience from competitor's content and finding platforms your ideal audience will engage with. I then came back to the office and had the difficulty of trying to explain the idea to my colleagues. Without having a term for the practice, I found it very difficult indeed.
How Low Can #1 Go? (A Ranking Study)
We measured 10,000 Google SERPs to find out where #1 really ends up. It turns out that the top position actually covers a lot of land, and can be impacted not only by ads but many new search features. Post includes a full visualization of the data plus screenshots of the worst-case scenarios.
Ensuring Your International Domains Don't Cannibalize Your Domestic Rankings
I came in one Monday morning to find the most awful thing an SEO can experience... rankings suddenly switching from .co.uk to international domains across every major generic and brand term in Google UK. This particular client had dominated their own brand and major generic terms in the UK for as long as I can remember and now, somehow their Irish, US (.com) and New Zealand sites were ranking in Google UK, and the .co.uk was nowhere in sight... WTF?!
Mobilize Your SEO: Making the Most Out of the Mobile Search Opportunity
How's your mobile SEO? In today's post, Aleyda Solis offers a supplement to her Mozinar and answers your questions on the mobile SEO process.Level Up Your SEO Skills With Our Free Training
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Competitive Linking: Nine Simple Steps for Sucking Your Competitors Link Profiles Dry
What do you think of when you hear the term “competitive link building”? Do you grin with excitement at the thought of poaching linking opportunities from your competitors? Or do you shudder at the thought of picking through hundreds of low quality links for that one needle in the haystack? For too many SEOs, competitive link analysis is worse than simply not productive, it is a tedious, soul-sucking task that can derail your linking campaign, waste your time, and even get your site sent to Penguin jail. How do you keep this from happening?
How to Identify an Online Community for Your Business
When you’re getting started with building a community around your business, you aren’t really starting from nothing. You can leverage the people, blogs, knowledge sources, and communities that already exist and are relevant to your business and industry, and go from there!
Meaningful SEO Metrics
As marketers, we spend plenty of time and energy tracking the metrics that will push our business forward. In today's post, Will Critchlow walks us through what makes good metrics and how to build the right reports for any situation.
Beyond SEO: Why Good Translation is the Secret Sauce for Successful International Projects
These days, product or marketing managers are often given ridiculously short deadlines to do multilingual product launches – everything from websites, to compliance documentation, to manuals, to brochures and marketing materials. And it’s all needed yesterday in a dozen or more languages. International SEO is part of this, but remains just that: part of a larger whole.