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March 11, 20240Comments

Domain Authority

Domain authority is a numerical score, between 1 and 100, that is assigned to websites as a measure of how authoritative they are. This metric was created by Moz, back when

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March 10, 20240Comments

Topic cluster

What is a topic cluster? A topic cluster is a set of posts on various aspects or nuances of a topic, where the more nuanced posts are subtopics of the main

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February 14, 20240Comments

Google Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines

The Google Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines is the instruction document used by the human quality raters who help Google figure out what the "digital fingerprint" of websites and webpages looks

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May 24, 20170Comments

Google E-E-A-T: What it is and why it matters

Google E-A-T recently became Google E-E-A-T, and this is important. Google has been pushing E-A-T as their main set of quality metrics for years now. This has become especially relevant with Google's

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April 9, 20170Comments

Customer Journey / Buyers Journey

The customer journey or the buyers journey is the steps taken and decisions made by a prospect in the course of deciding to buy whatever it is that you sell. The main

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March 29, 20170Comments

Snippet posts are fairly short posts and either answer one question or convey one main idea. They are contrasted with Pillar Posts which are longer, better researched, and convey more information. Both of which

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March 17, 20170Comments

SERP (Search Engine Result Page)

Introduction A SERP (Search Engine Result Page) is the page Google (and the other search engines) return to you in response to a search query. This post is part of a series and

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March 12, 20170Comments

Private Blog Network

Introduction A Private Blog Network (PBN) is a privately owned network of servers that have obtained high domain authority via some means (generally via what where called Black Hat SEO techniques)

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March 8, 20170Comments

Outbound Links

Introduction Outbound links are links from pages on your website to web pages on other websites. A study of the effect of outbound links was conducted and demonstrates the positive impact of outbound

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February 13, 20170Comments

Brand Publishing/Journalism

Introduction Brand publishing or brand journalism is simply the strategy of practicing journalism, but for marketing. Brand publishing describes how brands (businesses) directly publish content for their customers, their prospects, and to

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February 5, 20170Comments

Plugins

Introduction WordPress is a web server framework that provides a specific set of functionality. Plugins are software packages specifically made to extend the capabilities of WordPress sites. It is like a small

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January 30, 20170Comments

Internal Link Structure

Whether you know it or not, whether you planned it or it happened by accident, your website has an internal link structure. This post is part of a series and here is

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January 29, 20170Comments

Internal Links

Introduction An internal link is noting more than a link that is anchored on one page of a website, and links to a different page on the same website. This post is

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January 28, 20170Comments

Google Sandbox Effect

Introduction The Google Sandbox Effect describes a phenomenon where new sites rank very poorly until suddenly, one day the level of visitors who arrive via organic search increases dramatically, almost overnight,

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January 27, 20170Comments

PageRank

Introduction PageRank is THE original search signal back when Google first started and it is intimately tied up in the Google origin story. Very briefly, back in the 1997ish, a computer science

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January 27, 20172Comments

Pillar posts

Overview Pillar posts are ones that are well researched, well written, longer (than a snippet post) and read more like a white paper or tutorial than a snippet. A pillar post is a

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January 26, 20172Comments

SEO (Search Engine Optimization)

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. In common usage, the phrase has different meanings to different people, but there are two main definitions I find useful. This post is part of a series

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January 25, 20170Comments

Landing page

Overview A landing page is a page on a website that encourages the website visitor to take a specific action, which either results in them: 1) leaving some contact information, or

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January 25, 20170Comments

Conversion

Overview Conversion is often considered to be when someone completes a purchase. While this is true, conversion is also the smaller steps people take during their buying process. Website conversion is the visitors

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January 23, 20170Comments

Inbound Marketing

Introduction Inbound Marketing is the process of attracting your audience to your website through a structured and methodical system of publishing useful and interesting articles and stories to your website, promoting

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January 18, 20170Comments

Backlinks

Overview Backlinks are links from webpages on sites other than your site, that "link back" to pages on your website. Here is an example of a backlink (to the other website) to

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January 14, 20170Comments

Sales Funnel

The concept The Sales Funnel is a concept that relates to how prospects move towards becoming a customer or "fall away", as they learn about a companies products and services, perform

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October 14, 20140Comments

Marketing Automation

Overview I like the definition in Wikipedia.... Marketing automation refers to software platforms and technologies designed for marketing departments and organizations to more effectively market on multiple channels online (such as email,

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