
Ask the SMXperts: The latest in advanced technical SEO
Search Marketing Expo (SMX) West 2018. Today’s Q&A is from the Latest in Advanced Technical SEO session with Dawn Anderson, Bastian Grimm...

How to turn a boring email into an irresistible link pitch
Link building starts with an email between two people. More often than not, these are two people who don’t know each other. Yes, you know...

Link building is complicated: A rebuttal
Search Engine Land recently published a column by Julie Joyce about how we often overcomplicate link building, and when I read it,...

Ask the SMXpert: Google manual penalties explained
Search Marketing Expo (SMX) West 2018. Today’s Q&A is from the All Google Manual Penalties Explained session with speaker Kaspar...

The ultimate guide to bot herding and spider wrangling — Part Two
Part One of our three-part series, we learned what bots are and why crawl budgets are important. Let’s take a look at how to let the...

Where to find ideas for content your audience will love, look at and link to
While it often feels fun and exciting in the beginning, it can quickly become a monotonous task that you dread. I mean, no matter how...

Searcher intent: The secret ingredient behind successful content development
Sounds easy enough, but things get complicated when there are multiple results that may fulfill the primary intent of a given query. What...

Intent-based keyword research: Let Google be your guide
Whether paid or organic, when it comes to search marketing, keywords are king. Good keyword research is at the heart of any successful...

Is responsive web design enough? (Hint: No)
As mobile-first indexing nears, the need to optimize for mobile has never felt so pressing. Even in its current iteration, mobile search...

How to use a podcast to create smart and usable content
This is Part 3 of a three-part series. Here are Part 1 and Part 2. The more podcast interviews you do, the more credibility and authority...

Why do we overcomplicate link building?
When I answer, “Well I just search the web for good sites and reach out to them,” I tend to get a lot of disappointed looks and long...

Want to target position 0? Here’s what you need to make that happen
We know the assistants are pulling many of those voice-based search responses from featured snippets or “position 0” in the search...

Already doing SEO? Add these two things to optimize for voice search
That’s a popular search engine optimization (SEO) question these days as everyone looks to take advantage of the surge in spoken queries....

Google patent on related entities and what it means for SEO
But that’s not the case with the recently granted Google patent “Related entities.” I believe this patent is being applied and it gives...

How to align SEO and sales teams so everyone benefits
It’s no secret that marketing and sales don’t always see eye to eye. The sales team gets mad at the marketing team for lack of leads and...

The power of podcasting: SEO keyword angles
found here. Once you are booked on a podcast, brush up on the host’s website, bio and about page. Listen to recent podcast episodes so...

How to use the Knowledge Graph for higher rankings
To pull off this extraordinary feat, Google and its team of engineers needed to create connections between their data using “real world...

7 ways to turn a webinar into a stream of link-attracting content
Doesn’t matter if we’re talking about images, articles, blog posts or videos. Producing large quantities sometimes causes a decrease in...

SEO for multi-language websites: How to speak your customers’ language
In my previous column, I took a look at the options, intricacies and best practices for international SEO. In this article, I want to...
























