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Craft Winning CTAs with Four Simple Tips

Even if you're a novice at crafting CTAs, you have the ability to create messages that attain clicks.

Why Google Rewards Re-Publishing

In this week's Whiteboard Friday, Rand dives into the topic of republishing and why Google rewards it so much. As an underutilized tactic in SEO and in content creation, republishing should have a place in your strategy; take the time to identify your goals and discover the process that's best for your site.

Have We Been Wrong About Panda All Along?

Everyone knows that thin and duplicate content are huge Panda factors. But are they really? In this article, Marie Haynes explores the possibility that Panda is about so much more than thin and duplicate content, and that salvation lies in overhauling your site to be truly excellent.

Why You Should Use Adjusted Bounce Rate and How to Set It Up

Put simply, bounce rate doesn't do what a lot of people think it does: It does not tell you whether people are reading and engaging with your content in any meaningful way. This post shows you a way to change that.

The Anatomy of a Link - What Makes a Good (and Bad) Link?

Are you aware of the finer details of links and linking pages? We've got a sneak peek into a chapter of Paddy Moogan's ebook, "The Linkbuilding Book," detailing all the aspects of a link that you should be considering when you're implementing a linkbuilding strategy.

Beyond Responsive: Design and Development Trends for Adaptable Marketers

"Build a responsive website" is some of the worst stand-alone advice I've ever read. It might be the right choice, but maybe not. If we do recommend responsive we need to be smarter than the average marketer and offer some useful guidance on how to do it right.

Remarketing to People That Have Already Visited Your Website

This week we're chatting about remarketing to people who've already visited your website and then left, or already interacted with your niche, your service, your community, and then gone off somewhere else. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand discusses how to get back in front of folks who have visited your site or engaged with your industry, new options in retargeted ads, and offers some best practices to follow.

Campaign Tracking Without Going Crazy: Keeping Order in AdWords Optimization

Pay-per-click advertising generates vast amounts of data, which presents us with tremendous potential for optimization and success. However, this formidable sword cuts both ways—even skilled managers can quickly find themselves adrift if tests and changes are not carefully tracked. Here’s a quick, actionable guide to keeping order in your AdWords account with a simple and professional activity log.

Why I Stopped Selling SEO Services and You Should, Too

It's no longer just about optimizing your website for Google. It's about optimizing your presence across the web. SEO has tentacles that extend well beyond your website, so it's important that you begin to think of search holistically, taking into account all of the areas that can be optimized.

7 Copywriting Tips That Will Instantly Lower Your Bounce Rates

One of the simplest ways to lower the bounce rates of your landing pages is to use copy that's snappy, enticing and free of useless words and phrases.

Beyond the SEO Plateau: After Optimizing Your Website, What's Next?

It's a near-universal experience for consultants and in-house SEOs who've worked on numerous organic search campaigns. The first 3-6 months (longer if the site is very large or complex) of any SEO effort is almost always exclusively dedicated to fixing mistakes, improving existing issues, tweaking and tuning the suboptimal, and generally closing the gap between what exists now and current best...

Using Social Media as Your Primary (or Only) Link Building Tactic Probably Won't Work

A recent Buzzsumo study has us rethinking how flywheel marketing works. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand explains what we got wrong about social shares, and a better way to describe that piece of the flywheel.