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If you were trying to rank your website for a search term in Google UK, would it be more beneficial to build links from .co.uk websites then any other?
I have read on Hubspot if your targeting UK rankings then link building from .co.uk domains will have a good impact on UK rankings?
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If indeed Google does use social signals for ranking factors, how would you go about using Instagram for SEO (if it's even possible)?
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1. If you use the Google keyword tool, you can search the competitors website, it will supply a list of keywords it thinks is relevant to their website - It's not the keywords they are bidding on but might unlock some potential terms.
Apart from that you could grab some data from something called 'Hitwise' which uses ISP data.
2. Here is the idea - In order to bring your CPC down you need a high quality score, you gain a high quality score through landing page and ad relevance to the keyword combined with a high CTR.
You bid high to start off to gain high positions which gives you a good CTR, this increases quality score and drops your CPC.
Hope that helps a little.
You are looking at broad match Gordon, I tend to look at the exact term (exact match), you could have terms coming off which are not relevant, which you would almost neg out straight away but anyway that's another thread.
Just so you know Google takes the last 12 months of data and averages it, and it's not the exact number of searches either it's rounded.
If you put both terms in again, tick both of them and choose 'Download' it will break the search volume down into months for you, you will then see different search volumes for the local search each month.
Hope that helped a little.
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/guide-to-guest-blogging/
http://www.copyblogger.com/successful-guest-blogging/
I do guest blogging to the best I can and what I usually do is:
Find a few of the best blogs in the niche of the client, I look at all elements - check out the social channel numbers, the amount of social sharing on the posts, number of comments, number of posts going up daily/weekly, length of posts etc.
I will then try and make a headline which fits in with the blog but hasn't been done to death.
I will then usually create a list type article (Top 5) because I feel the information is broken down better in this format and allows for skim reading if the user doesn't want to sit there and read 2000 words (I make sure every heading has an image as well).
The client goes in the byline.
That's just me, im not a pro blogger/writer I just try to produce something I would be very proud to put on my own blog.
Thanks for that EGOL,
Always helps when someone has experience of actually doing it.
Did you see a higher CTR when you added the pictures?
Cheers
Thanks Egol,
Looking at the way the Authorship system works, do you think if Google was to connect content with auhors then the current system is the best way to do it?
From what I understand you connect your Google+ account with your website much like the way you do with other Google products.
You then link the article to your Google+ and create a connection by linking back, seems to me this would be the best way of doing it, if indeed Google was going to come up with a system (AR).
I've just been looking into way of tapping into social a bit more this year really, I know from older posts of yours EGOL you believe in creating great content and using it on your own website/blog, but do you do anything offsite to help with the marketing of the content?
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Is AuthorRank now the main game in the SEO world for 2013?
I've seen some say AuthorRank must be worked on now, if you haven't started already?
Who's agrees with this and who doesn't? And why...
Any Google+ marketers on here, just have a few questions for anyone who knows about Google+, the way the system works and successful strategies.
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You could start with getting a customer testimonial, just have a page with location you fished, comment and collect them, each one will be unique, can be added to the beach they finished and added benefit 'installs trust in potential new business'.
Send the customer an email day after fishing trip with a link to the form.
That's just one way sure there is other ways.
I personally would start by creating content which fulfils query questions, so if you run a website that sells football boots and you see from Google keyword tool that 'how to change football studs' gets 500 searches a month, create content that fills this, add lots of social sharing tools around the content and knock out 5-10 of these.
Then I would run ppc to these pages for the term which generates traffic and try and build up some social signals, I tend to shuffle the competition column to low and work my way up looking for a term which generates some search, your find its cheaper to bid on.
Some will disagree with this, this is just how I get things moving, after a little while I will start to guest post.
Ok basically what he is saying is your website might be generating clicks from a keyword which has more potential if it moved up the rankings a little.
So he is saying take all the keywords from Google analytics which generated a click from organic (say over a 3 month period) and paste them into Adwords keyword tool as exact match.
You might find a keyword which generated 20 clicks actually has a monthly search volume of 5,000.
Because this keyword has 5, 10, 20 clicks it must not be that far away from page 1 as users don't really dive deeper then page 2 of Google (in general) and your getting clicks for it.
So that would be a good keyword to aim for in your SEO efforts (as long as its relevant to your industry).
If you find a keyword like this, you could most likely search for it in Google and find your result within the first couple of pages.
Hope this makes sense.
Depends on db requests per page and all sorts of stuff.
Anyway SEOMOZ recommend these guys and wordpress backs them as well - http://wpengine.com/
Check it out
I found this a few weeks ago, you may see this as proof you may not but thought I would share anyway.
http://searchengineland.com/what-social-signals-do-google-bing-really-count-55389
Are you talking about PR sculpting? If so see link below.
Personally myself I would have my homepage targeting something like 'Digital Agency' or whatever gets the search but also encompasses everything you do.
I would then create a page for each service so a page for - web design, seo, ppc etc.
So lets say your targeting london.
Homepage - Digital Agency London
web design page - Web Design London
seo page - Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) London
ppc page - Pay Per Click (PPC) London
But thats just how I would do it, some may have other ideas.
Yeah that would be nice, the nearest thing I got to that is going 'incognito' in chrome.
First off it's a monthly fee of $99 so your not locked into a 12 month contract, if you decide in 2 months time it's not for you, you can just end the account.
But more to the point, do you feel using SEOmoz has earned your company $99 in the knowledge you have gained?
Personally if your into SEO or do it for a living then SEOmoz is a must, if you want to learn how to climb the rankings or have a problem then I cant think of a better place to get an accurate answer.
He is a reference to what Google says it's supposed to be used for as well.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html
I personally would say it would have the same effect as if you did a redirect on Domain B pages.
Domain B would rank but Domain A would drop off.
I've never tried it but I'm taking an educated guess.
If Domain A was sitting on say a exact match domain and Domain B was not, then I don't think rankings would be mirrored. So it's not a straight forward flip.