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Mapping Keyword Usage to the Consumer Purchase Process

It is important for marketers to know where prospective customers are along the purchase process continuum. It enables them more effectively deploy messages and information that will move them ever closer towards a sale.

8 Reasons Why Your Site Might Not Get Indexed

Hi Mozzers, I've recently had to deal with several indexing problems that a few clients were experiencing. After digging deeper into the problems, I figured I'd write a post for Moz to share my experience so others don't have to spend as much time digging for answers to indexation problems. All it means is that your site or parts of it are not getting added to the Google (or one of the other guys) index, which means that no body will ever find your content in the search results.

How to Connect With your Visitors Using Personas

Personas development is a tool that has been put to use in just about every marketing arena. We know that they can help marketers engage potential clients, but as with many ideas that have made the transition from traditional media to digital we can use them in many ways to improve our workflows and our marketing efforts.

The Real Impact of the Google SmartPhone Crawler (Part 1): Situation Overview

Not everyone realizes it, but Google has been serving different search results to mobile phones than desktop computers for a long time. Beyond that, they serve different results based solely on the handset you are using to search. The differences are often subtle, or focused on the order of Universal Results that are included in the mobile result-set, but Google is algorithmically trying to p...

Modern Business and Content Guidance from Bell Labs

I've been reading The Idea Factory, the history of the innovation that came out of Bell Labs around WWII. Innovation, invention and ideas are things that we don't get to talk much about in SEO. It's all about keywords, links, and content, but I want you to take some time today to think about ideas, inventions and innovations. Why? Because we all want to be millionaires (oh hush, yes you do), and while that might not happen to all of us, idea generation is central to our jobs in search marketing.

#SocialSuccess - An Inbound Marketing Case Study for B2B

There has been a lot of great discussion about the term “inbound marketing” of late and exactly what is covered by that phrase. For the purposes of this case study we are using the hubspot definition of inbound and outbound marketing. The following is a case study of how we (Salesforce.com) used inbound marketing along with social advertising and great retargeting to grow both our traffic and leads in the UK.

6 Changes Every SEO Should Make BEFORE the Over-Optimization Penalty Hits

Having overly optimized web pages could soon get your websites in some hot water with Google and their search results. It has recently been announced that Google will start to penalize websites that engage in over-optimization practices. In this week's Whiteboard Friday, we will be covering some changes that you should be making to your SEO practices in order to avoid this type o...

Why Big Brands Get All the Breaks

It can sometimes feel like big brands get all the breaks in SEO. While Google may play favorites, the rise of big brands in search was inevitable. Here's why, and what you can do about it.

ZOMG! Mozcon Agenda Now Live (and Early Bird Pricing Ends Friday)

Every year, our annual summer customer conference, Mozcon, sells out to capacity, and this year is shaping up to be no different. In my opinion this is largely due to the speakers and the format. The content is among the best I see each year because the conference has developed a reputation as a forcing function for "upping one's game" on quality of tactics and presentation delivery.

How to Improve Your Rankings with Semantic Keyword Research

Don't forget about semantic keyword research to help you focus your content and and improve your rankings.

9 Tangible Linkable Asset Ideas and How to Build Links to Them

When I started to work as an SEO for an Australian-based SEO agency in early 2010, I never knew anything about the work (optimizing websites and building links to them) and definitely unsure of most of the things that I have worked on during that time. All I did was to follow all the instructions given to me, build links in volume and research/learn all the basics of SEO from scratch. I got the hang of it after a couple of months, and I thought that I was doing great. Then I got fired.

Overcoming Your Winter of Dis-Content

Are you and your content suffering from the blues after this long Winter? Well have no fear, warmer weather is here and it's time to overcome that winter of dis-"content". Today we will be talking about 5 ways to overcome the content fatigue you may be experiencing. After watching the videos, please share the ways you help keep your content fresh, unique, and successful.