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Measuring Link Building

SEOs have powerful metrics at their disposal to measure the success of their strategies, such as Domain Authority (DA) and Page Authority (PA). But how best to use them? In today's Whiteboard Friday, Tom shows you how to think about these metrics as part of a holistic approach to your link building analysis.

The Link-Earning Stack Every SEO Should Strive For

The Link-Earning Stack Every SEO Should Strive For

Description: The truth is, there’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all link earning approach or vendor. You need a link earning “stack” that appropriately reflects the complexity of your marketing and content goals. In an ideal world, here’s what that stack would look like.

Protect the Hours of Operation on Your GBP from Unwanted Google Edits

Protect the Hours of Operation on Your GBP from Unwanted Google Edits

Over the next six months, Google is going to employ machine learning and AI to alter the hours of operation on 20 million Google Business Profiles. Google has good reason for pursuing accuracy in their local index, but local business owners have even better reason to proactively safeguard the validity of their own data. Today, we’ll show you what to do to take charge on these vital listings which, while they belong to Google, represent your business.

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Blue Ocean SEO Strategy

If you're familiar with the blue ocean marketing strategy, you know that SEO is inherently a "red ocean" industry. With fierce competition to attain rankings, links, and authority, SEOs are constantly trying to one-up their competitors. In this environment, is there any hope for creating a "blue ocean" — innovating to avoid the choppy waters of the current market?

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7 Local Business Incentives to Offer Instead of Amazon Gift Cards

When budget is allocated to increase sign-ups or improve retention with gifts, we want recipients to feel intrigued, recognized, engaged, welcomed, and understood. And when 65% of your local business customer base views Amazon’s market dominance as a challenge to the existence of their business, it turns out there are much better ways to sweeten a deal than sending a gift card with that logo.

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