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This document discusses several ways to optimize a website for higher search engine rankings, including improving the title bars, adding relevant keywords to content, ensuring text is in HTML format, adding meta tags, and increasing link popularity by getting links from other high-quality sites. Implementing some simple changes like these could help boost rankings without needing to hire an SEO company.
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SEO involves optimizing a website for organic search results through on-page techniques like keywords, links, and content, while SEM involves paying for search marketing through ads and sponsored listings. Key aspects of SEO best practices include proper coding, relevant and frequent on-page keywords, easy indexing of content, and links from authoritative sites. SEM allows paying for placement and clicks in search results. Proper keyword research is important before beginning SEO or SEM efforts.
Interested In Increasing Your Search Engine Ranking?
This document discusses several ways to optimize a website for higher search engine rankings, including improving the title bars, adding relevant keywords to content, ensuring text is in HTML format, adding meta tags, and building link popularity by exchanging links with other quality sites. It recommends examining and improving these areas before hiring an SEO company, as making some simple adjustments may help boost rankings.
SEO strategies to improve a company's website exposure in search engines include optimizing pages on the website (on-page optimization) and getting links from other relevant sites (off-page optimization). On-page optimization involves factors like keywords, page titles, meta tags, and internal linking. Off-page optimization involves getting backlinks from social media, directories, articles, blogs, and forums. Both on-page and off-page optimization are important for search engine rankings.
The document discusses search engine optimization (SEO) strategies for legal websites. It covers technical SEO topics like site architecture, metadata, duplicate content, and website speed. It also discusses ongoing SEO efforts like keyword targeting, content strategy, and link building. The document provides guidance on hiring an SEO company and recommends they have experience in the legal field and can provide a detailed strategic plan.
Search engine optimization (SEO) refers to techniques that help websites rank higher in organic search results. SEO is part of search engine marketing and involves both organic and paid search listings. Organic listings are determined by relevance and authority as assessed by search engine algorithms, while paid listings can be purchased. Effective SEO strategies include optimizing content, internal linking structures, images, and off-site links to increase a site's authority and relevance for target keywords.
Search engine optimization (SEO) refers to techniques that help websites rank higher in organic search results. The document discusses how search engines work by constantly indexing websites and following links (Section 1). It also explains the importance of having relevant, keyword-optimized content and links from other high-quality sites for improving a website's authority and rankings. Proper use of titles, meta descriptions, images and internal linking can further boost search visibility.
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Search engine optimization (SEO) involves techniques to improve a website's ranking in organic search results. Search engines index websites to include them in their searchable databases. They use algorithms to determine the most relevant results for a query based on on-page elements like content and tags, and off-page elements like backlinks. Rank, authority from backlinks, and relevance to the query keyword are key factors search engines consider when deciding search result placement.
The document provides an overview of search engine optimization (SEO) techniques for optimizing a website to increase its visibility and ranking in search engines. It discusses key on-page optimization strategies like optimizing page titles, meta descriptions, headers, content, URLs, images and site maps. It also covers off-page optimization techniques like link building. The goal of SEO is to make websites more accessible and visible in search engine results pages for targeted keywords.
This document discusses Google Page Rank and Alexa Rank, which are metrics used to measure website popularity and search engine rankings. Google Page Rank is determined by Google's algorithm which considers factors like site structure, keyword usage, external links, and freshness of content. The Alexa Rank solely measures page views, users, and historical data over three months. Both aim to measure popularity, though Google Page Rank focuses more on SEO. The document provides tips for improving rankings, such as optimizing content and tags, submitting sitemaps, and building targeted traffic.
SEO (search engine optimization) is the process of improving how a website ranks in search engines. It involves optimizing aspects like keywords, links, images, and content to attract search engines. Key factors search engines consider are relevant keywords on pages, especially titles and headings, image alt text, internal linking between pages, and external links from authoritative sites. Monitoring tools like Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools help track effectiveness. While good SEO enhances relevance, bad techniques like keyword stuffing or hidden text can trick search engines and hurt rankings.
This "real" example of a SEO / Search Engine Optimization Report identifies website topics of interest for high ranking results in the SERPS: ie - SITE Title, meta information(mainly description), PR, crawled date, indexed pages, amount of back links, 301 re-directs or not, use of analytic programs, Alexa, diggs, etc. Again - this analysis points out areas of interest when it comes to your WEBSITE search engine optimization Effectiveness.
El documento describe las características y ventajas del procesador de texto Microsoft Word 2013, incluyendo sus funciones automatizadas, su grabador de macros, y su capacidad de generar documentos en distintos tipos y formatos. También cubre los precios de los paquetes Microsoft Office y otras aplicaciones de Microsoft como Project y Visio.
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The document discusses how a language portfolio can improve motivation for learning English. It has three main sections: the Language Passport contains personal details and self-assessment of language skills; the Language Biography tracks the student's language learning experience and progress; and the Dossier is a collection of the student's work. The overall goal of the language portfolio is to improve student motivation and document their language learning journey.
The document analyzes the layout and design of a music magazine's contents page. It notes that the only image is a photo of the band Royal Blood, which is likely the cover story. The page is organized into three columns with different sections clearly labeled using boxes and fonts. The features section stands out the most with its black and white color scheme. Overall, the simple color scheme of black, white and red keeps everything unified while still making key elements like headings and subsections noticeable.
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This document discusses several ways to optimize a website for higher search engine rankings, including improving the title bars, adding relevant keywords to content, ensuring text is in HTML format, adding meta tags, and increasing link popularity by getting links from other high-quality sites. Implementing some simple changes like these could help boost rankings without needing to hire an SEO company.
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SEO involves optimizing a website for organic search results through on-page techniques like keywords, links, and content, while SEM involves paying for search marketing through ads and sponsored listings. Key aspects of SEO best practices include proper coding, relevant and frequent on-page keywords, easy indexing of content, and links from authoritative sites. SEM allows paying for placement and clicks in search results. Proper keyword research is important before beginning SEO or SEM efforts.
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This document discusses several ways to optimize a website for higher search engine rankings, including improving the title bars, adding relevant keywords to content, ensuring text is in HTML format, adding meta tags, and building link popularity by exchanging links with other quality sites. It recommends examining and improving these areas before hiring an SEO company, as making some simple adjustments may help boost rankings.
SEO strategies to improve a company's website exposure in search engines include optimizing pages on the website (on-page optimization) and getting links from other relevant sites (off-page optimization). On-page optimization involves factors like keywords, page titles, meta tags, and internal linking. Off-page optimization involves getting backlinks from social media, directories, articles, blogs, and forums. Both on-page and off-page optimization are important for search engine rankings.
The document discusses search engine optimization (SEO) strategies for legal websites. It covers technical SEO topics like site architecture, metadata, duplicate content, and website speed. It also discusses ongoing SEO efforts like keyword targeting, content strategy, and link building. The document provides guidance on hiring an SEO company and recommends they have experience in the legal field and can provide a detailed strategic plan.
Search engine optimization (SEO) refers to techniques that help websites rank higher in organic search results. SEO is part of search engine marketing and involves both organic and paid search listings. Organic listings are determined by relevance and authority as assessed by search engine algorithms, while paid listings can be purchased. Effective SEO strategies include optimizing content, internal linking structures, images, and off-site links to increase a site's authority and relevance for target keywords.
Search engine optimization (SEO) refers to techniques that help websites rank higher in organic search results. The document discusses how search engines work by constantly indexing websites and following links (Section 1). It also explains the importance of having relevant, keyword-optimized content and links from other high-quality sites for improving a website's authority and rankings. Proper use of titles, meta descriptions, images and internal linking can further boost search visibility.
Page Rank is Google's system for ranking web pages based on their importance and popularity as determined by the number and quality of inbound links. Page Rank is assigned as a numerical value from 0 to 10 that indicates a page's likelihood of appearing at the top of search results. There are several techniques for improving a page's Page Rank such as adding relevant backlinks from other websites, optimizing page titles and content, submitting the site to directories, and ensuring pages link to each other to allow Page Rank to flow through the site. The document provides details on how Google calculates Page Rank and factors it considers like relevance, dangling links, and page structure. It also explains how site owners can control Page Rank distribution through link attributes and page organization
Search engine optimization (SEO) involves techniques to improve a website's ranking in organic search results. Search engines index websites to include them in their searchable databases. They use algorithms to determine the most relevant results for a query based on on-page elements like content and tags, and off-page elements like backlinks. Rank, authority from backlinks, and relevance to the query keyword are key factors search engines consider when deciding search result placement.
The document provides an overview of search engine optimization (SEO) techniques for optimizing a website to increase its visibility and ranking in search engines. It discusses key on-page optimization strategies like optimizing page titles, meta descriptions, headers, content, URLs, images and site maps. It also covers off-page optimization techniques like link building. The goal of SEO is to make websites more accessible and visible in search engine results pages for targeted keywords.
This document discusses Google Page Rank and Alexa Rank, which are metrics used to measure website popularity and search engine rankings. Google Page Rank is determined by Google's algorithm which considers factors like site structure, keyword usage, external links, and freshness of content. The Alexa Rank solely measures page views, users, and historical data over three months. Both aim to measure popularity, though Google Page Rank focuses more on SEO. The document provides tips for improving rankings, such as optimizing content and tags, submitting sitemaps, and building targeted traffic.
SEO (search engine optimization) is the process of improving how a website ranks in search engines. It involves optimizing aspects like keywords, links, images, and content to attract search engines. Key factors search engines consider are relevant keywords on pages, especially titles and headings, image alt text, internal linking between pages, and external links from authoritative sites. Monitoring tools like Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools help track effectiveness. While good SEO enhances relevance, bad techniques like keyword stuffing or hidden text can trick search engines and hurt rankings.
This "real" example of a SEO / Search Engine Optimization Report identifies website topics of interest for high ranking results in the SERPS: ie - SITE Title, meta information(mainly description), PR, crawled date, indexed pages, amount of back links, 301 re-directs or not, use of analytic programs, Alexa, diggs, etc. Again - this analysis points out areas of interest when it comes to your WEBSITE search engine optimization Effectiveness.
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The document discusses how a language portfolio can improve motivation for learning English. It has three main sections: the Language Passport contains personal details and self-assessment of language skills; the Language Biography tracks the student's language learning experience and progress; and the Dossier is a collection of the student's work. The overall goal of the language portfolio is to improve student motivation and document their language learning journey.
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The document discusses the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternate Assessment. It describes the learning map, which illustrates the route to mastery of an essential element. The map is comprised of nodes, or chunks of learning, that students must master to achieve the target. There are over 1,600 nodes in English and over 2,300 nodes in math. Nodes are grouped in linkage levels based on complexity and accessibility. Progress is tracked as students master nodes and move through linkage levels from precursor to target. Questions can be directed to the contact provided.
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3. Hummingbird helps Google better understand search intent through natural language processing rather than just keywords.
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In this PDF you will learn about SEO audits. How to do an SEO audit and find your website problems. In this pdf, you deeply learn the right ways to do a Seo audit and also about the best tool that helps you to do an audit.
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How to perform a technical SEO audit and ramp up your content strategy in 10 ...Waqar Ahmad
How to perform a technical SEO audit and
ramp up your content strategy in 10 steps
[with audit presentation template]:
We often assume that search engines are far more precise and knowledgeable than they are in reality. As a result, we often unwittingly develop poor practices that prevent our sites from reaching our search goals. Catching and correcting SEO mistakes like these are what audits are for.
In our time as growth-minded technical SEO consultants, we’ve run audits on a wide range of client sites in a diverse array of industries. We’ll walk you through the process in the following ten steps, elaborate on our checklist, and provide a presentation template. The tools you’ll need to run a technical SEO audit
Let’s help you get ready for the work by sharpening your tools first. Technical SEO audits don’t require a prohibitively large and bleeding-edge tech stack. They require a few simple tools, some of which you likely already have (while the others aren’t likely to break the bank).
Crawling
For web crawling, we’re big fans of Screaming Frog. It’s ideal for raw data analysis. Other workable alternatives like DeepCrawl and the brand-new Sitebulb, offer superior visualization tools. All-purpose You’ll need a more general-purpose SEO platform as well. Semrush and Ahrefs are solid, and offer a range of automated audits and other functions to cut down on the workload.
Content optimization
Optionally, for a better process in page-level optimization, we’ve used and enjoyed MarketMuse, Clearscope, or Surfer.
Analysis and testing You’ll also need platforms for evaluating content performance. Google Analytics in combination with
Google Search Console will suffice as we focus on analytics for SEO purposes.
SEOTesting.com will be your favorite for systematic testing of the growth you achieve by implementing the improvements recommended by the audit.
The 10 steps of our tech SEO audit process
We recommend using the steps below as your checklist. Sometimes you’ll find that a website has more issues in one area than another, and you’ll need to add steps there. But by following the below, you’ll always make sure that you cover all the important aspects of how well search engines can understand your website’s content thanks to clean structure, ease of crawling, thorough optimization, and speed.
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This document provides a case study on how one individual built and ranked a website using only spammy link building techniques. Some key points:
- The individual created a 10-page site on a skincare niche promoting affiliate products and used almost entirely duplicated/PLR content except for a unique homepage.
- Link building was done using GSA Search Engine Ranker to build a tiered link network of spammy, machine-generated content pointing to the site.
- Despite several Google updates targeting low-quality links (Panda, Penguin), the site was able to rank for dozens of keywords and earn over $5,000 total in affiliate commissions to date.
- While some rankings dropped,
This document provides guidance on search engine optimization (SEO) techniques for ranking well in search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN. It discusses how SEO has evolved over time as search engines have improved their algorithms to avoid manipulation. The document recommends dedicating sufficient time to learn SEO fundamentals like keyword research, optimizing web content and HTML, building high-quality links, and remaining patient as rankings can fluctuate. Paid search advertising is presented as an alternative for immediate traffic but an ongoing cost. The main advantage of SEO is that it can provide free, targeted traffic indefinitely without costs beyond web hosting.
Search engine optimization (SEO) involves optimizing websites to increase their visibility in search engine results. The goal is to help websites rank higher in search engine results pages through both on-page techniques, like keyword optimization of titles and content, and off-page techniques like link building. SEO is important for driving traffic to websites from search engines since most internet users find websites through search engines like Google. While SEO requires an ongoing effort, it can be an effective way to promote websites and businesses in a cost-effective manner if done properly.
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The Step-by-Step Guide on Improving Your Google Rankings Without Getting Penalized
1. The Step-by-Step Guide on Improving Your Google Rankings
Without Getting Penalized
Everyone wants to achieve better search rankings. That's because organic search traffic is a proven
driver of business growth.
The only trouble is, SEO keeps changing, and no-one wants a penalty because of doing the wrong
thing. Google has been rolling out updates, ranging from Panda to Penguin to Google EMDs (exact
match domain names) and just recently, the (PBN) Private Blog Network deindexing updates.
If you're concerned about getting targeted traffic without incurring penalties, then this article is for
you.
It's important to know that the most recent Google updates are based on Google's mission
statement:
2. Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful.
To rank well, your content needs to align with that mission. That's why I'm going back to basics with
SEO to help you understand the new SEO rules, learn how to optimize for both humans and robots
and master on-page and off-page optimization.
This in-depth guide will walk you through the steps you need to optimize and improve your Google
rankings so you can generate more organic traffic to your website without getting penalized.
Here's a breakdown of the topics I'll cover:
Assess your current search ranking
Track the right metrics
Diagnose and analyze penalties
Do keyword research
Go after your keywords with great content
Build links the right way
Download this worksheet that you can use for your own site to improve Google ranking.
Step #1: Assess Your Current Search Ranking
Before you can improve your site's search ranking, it's fundamental to know your current position in
the Google search results. This is crucial even if your site is new. There are several tools and
resources that can give you this information.
Use Serps.com to check your site's keyword rank: If you have been targeting specific keywords, use
serps.com to assess your rank. Type in your keyword (I used "content marketing" in this example)
and your site.
The results page will show where your site ranks for the term, as well as the first page on your site
that comes up in search results for the topic.
3. Check your site speed: Next, it's important to check site speed, as this is a major Google ranking
factor. If your site is slow, you have little chance of a high search position and it will affect your
chances of making sales too. According to WebPerformanceToday, Walmart experienced a sharp
decline in conversions when its page load times increased from 1 to 4 seconds.
That's why it's important to run your own site speed test. There are dozens of tools that can help
you do this. Some of my favorites are:
4. Here's how to test your site speed with Pingdom. Go to tools.pingdom.com and type in your URL.
Press the "test now" button and wait for the results to load.
Ideally, you want your site's performance level to be as high as possible. Quick Sprout registers a
performance grade of 71, but as long as your site registers over 50, that's a good start.
If you get a performance grade of less than 50, your site is really slow and you need to work on
improving it.
Check the page load time, too. Quicksprout is a little high at more than 3 seconds. Aim for under 2
seconds for a really fast site and under 1 second for mobile devices. According to research cited by
eConsultancy, 47% of Americans expect sites to load in under 2 seconds.
Check site health: After looking at keyword rank and site speed, assess the health of your site before
you start to optimize. Have you experienced a sudden drop in organic traffic after months or years of
consistency? Are you wondering whether Google has deindexed (or banned) your site?
If you want to know for sure, use PixelGroove's Google penalty checker tool. Input your URL and
click "check."
5. If everything looks fine, you'll soon get a message.
If it doesn't, the tips in this article will help you to recover your Google ranking.
Another aspect of site health is domain age. While Matt Cutts said in this video that "the difference
between a six month old domain and a one year old domain name is not huge at all," that doesn't
mean it's irrelevant.
SerpIQ analyzed over 160,000 SERPs (search engine results pages) and 1.6 million URLs and
concluded that domain age contributed to #1 rankings for the majority of the domain names in their
study:
This also means you need to patient. As your domain ages and the links pointing to your site age,
your rankings should increase.
Step #2: Track the Right Metrics
6. Next, it's time to track some vital metrics for your site to find out what other factors you need to
improve. Here are the most important metrics to assess.
Organic traffic: It's important to know how many visitors find your site via Google. It's a great way to
assess its effectiveness. A chart published on Business2Community shows that 52% of Hubspot's
leads in 2012 came from search engines. Hubspot's chart also shows the importance of SEO in lead
conversion.
To find out how many visitors reach your site, log into your Google Analytics account and check out
the acquisition channels report. This helpful Google Analytics video tutorial will guide you.
Organic traffic conversions: As well as analyzing your search traffic, it's worth paying attention tothe
keywords that generate traffic for your site. One way to find these is with a tool called Serp Fruit.
It's still in beta, but I've been using it to identify the keywords that convert organically for my site.
One reason I recommend it is because it's simple to use.
How to find converting keywords with Serp Fruit
To get started, connect your Google Analytics Account to Serp Fruit via the button on the home
page.
7. Once it's connected, login to your Serp Fruit dashboard, select the domain you want to track, and
click "Go".
Serp Fruit will show you the keywords that have sent organic traffic to your site within the last 12
months. It includes a keyword performance chart.
Below that, you'll find everything you need to know about organic visitors, including the main search
engines sending traffic to you, the number of visits and the number of unique keywords that are
converting.
8. You can also see referring keywords:
This tool makes it easy to get the date you need from Google Analytics and understand the broad
picture relating to keywords on your site. But you still need more.
Keyword ranking for commercial keywords: According to Brian Dean, the #1 keyword research
mistake is not spending enough time on commercial keywords. That's because commercial keywords
9. are the ones that make money. To improve your rankings and make money, you need to understand
the difference between commercial and informational keywords.
If all your keywords are informational, you will still generate organic traffic, but converting those
visitors to buyers may be difficult.
The reason is because visitors who search for informational keywords like:
how to clear acne with home products
how to install wordpress
make money online for free
free ebook download
top 10 free article spinners
are not in a buying mood. They want you to speak their language - the language of free.
In contrast, people who use keywords like:
best acne products
top 10 web hosting providers
web designers in NY
are probably searching for a solution they can buy.
If you're in the ecommerce industry, you will recognize commercial keywords tend to convert well.
Keywords that have the words below as a prefix (before) or suffix (after) to the rest of the keyword
phrase tend to do well:
Buy
Review
Purchase
Discount
Coupon
Deal
Shipping
Order
10. Earlier, I walked you through the process of determining the keywords that are sending you organic
traffic. Here's another example. Can you spot the difference between informational and commercial
keywords?
Set up an SEO dashboard to track these metrics: I recommend that you set up an SEO dashboard so
you can track all the important metrics at any time. Here's one example from bringshare.com:
As well as setting up dashboards in Google Analytics, you can get even richer keyword data by
11. connecting Google Webmaster Tools to Google Analytics. Here's a step by step guide from
SERPS.com.
Step #3: Diagnose and Analyze Penalties
Now that you understand your search ranking and have set up tracking for the most important
metrics, it's time to examine your site in detail to see if there are any penalties in effect. This is
fundamental, because there is no point in promoting or building links to an unhealthy site.
How link building has changed: Up until 2012, spammy links improved search engine rankings for
thousands of people. This Moz case study shows how one site used link schemes to build inbound
links.
But recent Google updates mean link schemes don't work anymore. Use them and you will incur a
penalty rather than reaping a reward.
That's why it's essential to think about how you generate links to your site. As Matt Cutts says, links
shouldn't just LOOK natural, they should BE natural.
12. To achieve that, you need to identify and eliminate unhealthy links. Here's how you do that.
Analyze links: First, analyze inbound links to your site. There are several link analysis tools you can
use to do this, including:
Let me walk you through a link analysis using Open Link Profiler.
Go to the homepage and type in your URL. Let's use problogger.net:
Now click "Analyze backlinks".
13. The results show the most important elements to look for when analyzing your backlinks, including:
Unique Active Backlinks - This shows the number of links that directly or indirectly affect your
Google ranking. "Unique" means that the links are from different IP addresses... that's one way to
identify a natural link. These links have been indexed by Google in the last 90 days.
Nofollow links - Problogger has 8.3% nofollow links, which equals 1,684 backlinks from the total of
20,293. Google introduced the rel= "nofollow" tag in 2005 to stop spammy blog comments from
artificially manipulating rankings. After the Google Penguin update was rolled out, it became
essential to diversify your link profile. And as Matt Cutts mentioned, you need a mix of dofollow links
(links that pass ranking value to search engines) and nofollow links (links that don't pass ranking
value).
Industry - You might think if you read the content of Problogger that its industry is "blogging" or
"internet marketing", but when you look at this analysis, it turns out to be "media". Knowing your
industry can help you identify relevant links that will improve your backlink profile.
Link Influence Score - This shows how links from the website influence the search engine rankings
of linked pages. The higher the LIS the better. As a very popular and influential site, Problogger's
score is a whopping 99%! Check your own site and see what your LIS is.
Anchor text - Click on the link in the left menu to access data for anchor text (anchor text is the text
that becomes your link and points to your page) linking into your site. Google's Penguin update was
rolled out to prevent site owners from manipulating search results with exact match anchor text. If
you want to stay under the penalty radar, diversify your anchor text.
It is also important to know which links are healthy for your site so you can remove unhealthy links.
Google Penguin 2.0 made it much easier to identify low quality links. Those are links which:
14. come from PR-n/a or PR0 websites
are mostly sitewide links
are from referring domain names with little traffic
come from sites on the same IP class address
comes from web pages with a lot of external links
There are many free tools to help you identify unhealthy links. Two that I've tried include Monitor
Backlinks and Linkquidator. Here's how to check for unhealthy links with Monitor Backlinks.
Simply type in your site URL and click "search" to find unnatural links. Moz has a detailed tutorial
on which links can harm your site and what to do about it. Remember that you also have to export
the list of unhealthy links once you find them. That way, you can refer to them later.
When you discover spammy links pointing to your page, don't be in a rush to remove the page itself;
it's the links you need to remove. That's the next step in cleaning up your link profile, and there are
two ways to do it.
1. Request manual link removal - visit the website where the unhealthy/unnatural links are coming
from, and contact the site owner. Ask the site owner to either remove your link (the better option)
or add a nofollow tag to it.
If you have outsourced link building in the past, you can also contact the person who placed the links
15. for you and get that person to get the links removed. Here's an excerpt from a post at Search Engine
World to show how this would work:
In this case, don't ask the site owner to remove your links, because they will assume you're a
spammer and ignore you. Instead, follow this tutorial from Search Engine Journal to learn the best
way to contact webmasters about link removal.
2. Use Google's disavow links tool - If you are unsuccessful in getting unhealthy links removed, your
only option is Google's own disavow links tool. While manual link removal is best, this is a good
second choice.
The disavow links tool is part of Google Webmaster Tools. Click the link above to go directly to the
tool. You will see a list of all your sites. Go to the site for which you want to disavow links. This is
what you will see:
16. When you check for unnatural links, you have the option to export the links you find. If you have
done this, upload the file, and click "done". LIke you, Google cannot actually remove the links as
they don't have access to the referring sites. However, doing this authorizes Google to stop passing
link juice (value) from those links to your site.
3. Diversify anchor text distribution - Anchor text can play a key role in improving or utterly
destroying your search ranking. As I mentioned earlier, if you want a natural link profile, you have to
diversify anchor text. Anchor text distribution looks at how you spread keywords when building
links. The chart below has some recommendations:
17. When distributing your anchor text, think about including these types:
Let's assume your website sells blue denim jeans. If your domain name is bluedenimjeans.com, how
do you distribute your anchor text?
If you want to link three times from a particular site, it's ideal to use this link profile:
Anchor text 1: Bluedenimjeans.com site - target page: homepage
Anchor text 2: denim jeans reviews online - target page: a page where you reviewed the item
Anchor text 3: www.bluedenimjeans.com reviews - target page: your store
4. Avoid over-optimization - When you overuse anchor texts, it can result in over-optimization and
can get you penalized. Geoff Kenyon suggests the percentage below:
To avoid over-optimization, follow these two guidelines:
Avoid excessively keyword-rich anchor text - If you want to link to your internal pages on a topic like
"link building strategies," don't use that same keyword phrase as your anchor text. Instead, vary it
and use something like "learn more about link building" or a combination of a generic plus the exact
keyword.
Avoid irrelevant links - What's the point of linking to your dog training site, using "best golf trainer"
as your anchor? It doesn't make sense and could result in a Google penalty.
If you need a detailed guide on over-optimization, see How to Avoid Over Optimization For your Site.
Step #4: Do Keyword Research
18. When you have got rid of unnatural links, it's time to improve SEO the right way. One essential
element of an effective inbound marketing strategy is keyword research. You won't get far in your
online business without understanding how it works.
Learn how your audience finds your site: To be effective, you need to pinpoint the keywords that
your target audience are using to find your site. Here's how that works.
Log into your Google account and visit Google Keywords Planner.
On the dashboard, click "search for new keyword and ad group ideas".
Now, input your primary keyword. Let's use html tutorials
19. After clicking on the "keywords" tab, the table shows your keywords and their respective search
volume for the month:
Here's how that helps you.
When you research keywords, you're getting firsthand information about your target audience, the
20. information they want to know and how they want it.
For example,when someone searches for "html5 tutorials for beginners," you know that the searcher
is a newbie who might have searched extensively for solutions and wants help with this topic. That
can guide you in writing headlines and content that will rank well in the Google search results.
It's helpful to figure out the buyer personas and customer life cycle of your target audience so you
understand what motivates them. Then you can provide relevant content that will help your site to
rank well. Alexa can help you work out audience demographics, as in the example below for
Upworthy.
Remember when I talked about commercial and informational keywords? When you do keyword
research you can easily figure out whether users are looking for information or wanting to buy.
That's called user intent, and here's how it looks for the keyword research example used earlier.
You need both informational and commercial keywords in your content to improve your site's
ranking. Commercial keywords target buyers who have been pre-sold (educated on the product)
before coming to Google to conduct a search. Informational keywords build on-going rapport with
those who are not yet buyers/customers.
It's your job to educate, inform, inspire and build interest before recommending a product.
Informational keywords can be used to build email lists, and nurture prospects before offering a
product for sale.
21. When doing keyword research, don't ignore long-tail keywords. Rand Fishkin of Moz shows how
targeting long-tail keywords produced an 80% increase in traffic rankings.
Spy on competitors: If your competitors are ranking ahead of you in Google search results, it's time
to spy on them. I like to use Google Keyword Planner for this, because it gives me an accurate
estimate of competitors' keyword targets.
Let's assume you're in the "survival knife" sub-niche. One of the authority blogs you can spy on is
survivallife.com.
On the homepage, instead of inputting a seed keyword, simply type your competitor's URL into the
landing page box, then scroll down and click "get ideas." Next, click the "keyword ideas" tab.
22. You will see the keywords that your competitor is targeting.
This works for any niche and can help you uncover hidden keywords to help you improve your
ranking.
Boost lower ranking keywords: If you find your web page on page 2, how can you boost its ranking
to the front page of Google? You can use the skyscraper method, popularized by Brian Dean from
Backlinko. Find a post or article that's ranking already, improve it and promote it everywhere. This
led to a 457% organic traffic increase for him.
23. If you want to do this for your topic (for example, "outsourcing guide for small business"), follow this
simple guide:
Research extensively on the topic, including research studies
Identify the keywords you can target using the strategies I've shared with you in this post
Write a more in-depth post (that's longer, more accurate and actionable)
Link out to authority blogs that are doing outsourcing well
24. It's also essential to write a powerful and clickable headline.
For instance, if your first headline is:
Outsourcing Guide For Small Business
You can improve it like this:
6-Step Outsourcing Guide For Small Business
The Ultimate Outsourcing Guide + Downloadable Free Report
Contact the blog owners you mentioned in your post and ask them to check it out. Hopefully, you'll
get a handful of authority sites to link back to you and your ranking will soon improve.
Use keyword analysis to improve content: Let's get one thing straight. There is no optimal ratio for
placing keywords in a piece of content.
However, knowing the right keywords to target is of utmost importance. That's the basis for keyword
analysis.
Wordstream defines keyword analysis as:
Keyword analysis is the starting point and cornerstone of search marketing campaigns. By
understanding what queries qualified visitors to your website type into search engines, search
marketers can better customize their landing pages to increase conversion rates.
Unless you know the queries qualified visitors type into Google, you'll find it difficult to improve your
ranking and conversion rates.
By now, you know how to do keyword research. That's the easy part. The difficult part is knowing
which keywords are bringing in organic traffic.
Earlier, I walked you through the process of generating the best keywords using Serpfruit. Now,
we're looking at the results to find the real keywords that people type into Google before your web
page shows up. You can use these to write content that matches user intent (remember that?) That
will improve the Google ranking for your web page.
25. How should you place your target keywords in the content? Let's assume you want to write an in-
depth review on, "best senior irons for seniors." Here are some titles you could use:
Top 10 Best Senior Irons For Seniors
Buyers' Guide For The Best Senior Irons For Seniors
Best Senior Irons For Seniors - The Ultimate Guide
To start your introduction, you could begin like this:
There are several senior irons in the marketplace. But knowing the right one for you is the most
difficult decision. If you read this guide from start to finish, you'll know the best senior irons for
seniors that are affordable and reliable.
Or you could start your introduction by asking a question:
Do you want to find the best senior irons for seniors? This page will not just tell you about the irons,
but will show how to use them to improve your golf game, and provide practical tips on getting a
huge discount for your purchase.
Did you see how I placed the target keyword in the first paragraph without making it seem like
spam?
26. As I've said before, target a specific keyword in a natural manner - don't try to make it look natural.
Step #5: Go After Your Keywords with Great Content
Although I've touched a bit on keyword placement, in this section, we shall look more at going after
the keywords you have researched.
Sadly, a lot of people have misunderstood the whole essence of keyword research and placement.
Even before Google rolled out their first Google Panda update in February 2011, the best search
marketers knew that quality, valuable and useful content should be aimed at a particular group of
people.
Optimize for informational keywords and improve your search ranking by writing resourceful and
detailed content. That will help attract raving fans, get your content shared on social media
platforms and garner relevant and high PR links naturally.
If you want to write resourceful and detailed content, follow the guide below:
Use data-driven articles: A data-driven approach can increase your traffic, says ConversionXL. Back
up facts with accurate data so people will see your content as authoritative. This post on how to
create and promote an Infographic is an example of data-driven content.
Other examples of data-driven content include:
The Simple Science of Getting More Done (with Less Time)
5 Things You're Measuring Incorrectly with Digital Analytics and What To Do About It
7 Proven Strategies To Increase Your Blog's Traffic By 206%
The resources below will help you back up your content with accurate data:
Hubspot Marketing Statistics You Need To Know
The Freelance Economy in Numbers
Over 100 B2B Content Marketing Statistics For 2014
20 Social Media Facts and Statistics
Statistics: Release Calendar
Techniques to try include experimenting and writing case studies for your audience, or expanding on
what others have done. You can even micro-target content. For example, if a blogger experiments
with niche marketing, take it a step further and try niche marketing with an aged domain name,
then write it up.
Use storytelling: Stories can captivate your audience, evoke emotions and improve your conversion
rate.
Cognitive Edge shared a PDF report on how Pfizer increased sales through storytelling and how you
27. can develop a winning content campaign for your business.
Alibaba's China story, which centered on their passion for trading, helped them grow into a multi-
billion dollar ecommerce company.
Here's how to tell a story that captivates your audience...
Begin with something unique: Harvard Business School recommends that you start with a unique
message that resonates with your audience. Ideally, this should connect with your audience's
questions.
Infuse your own experiences: It's called a story for a good reason. Use your own experiences
(whether good or bad) as part of the message. No fakery allowed!
Jon Morrow used this technique to grow his blog to 1,740 loyal subscribers in just seven days. Here's
the post that helped him connect with his audience: How To Quit Your Job, Move To Paradise and
Get Paid To Change The World.
Add a call to action (CTA): Every story must have an ending. Once you capture your readers'
attention, they will expect you to let them in on the solution. After all, your story is supposed to solve
a problem, not nurture it.
Use a call-to-action link or button to lead people to your funnel, and convert them. Matchoffice
increased its conversion rate by 14.79% by changing its CTA copy.
28. Write sharable headlines: Google has made a lot of changes to search rankings, but one element
remains crucial: the headline.
If you write a sharable headline for your post, nothing can stop it from getting clicked, read and
shared by true fans.
Peep Laja of ConversionXL increased his conversion rate by changing the word "today" to "now" in a
headline. And that helped him increase sales by 332%.
Headlines really win the clicks. Even if your web page is ranked at #1 in Google, that doesn't mean
you'll get the most clicks. Let's search for the term how to outsource. Note that the most clickable
headline is in position #2.
29. The perfect example of a website that uses sharable headlines to boost conversion rate is Upworthy.
I've used Buzzsumo to analyze Upworthy's headlines. Check out the amazing number of shares the
first article has racked up.
If I wanted to craft a better headline for my own content, here's what I'd do:
Add numbers: Upworthy's post was shared over 1.6 million times on Facebook because it has a
30. definite number. If the headline was "Americans are Completely Wrong About This Mind-Blowing
Fact", I'm sure the total number of social media shares would be lower.
Here are some more examples. When I wrote this post, these headlines were ranked in Google top
10 for their respective keywords, but a simple tweak would result in a higher click-through rate.
Original headline:
SEO Basics For Optimizing Your Site
Let's add some numbers:
6 SEO Basic Tips For Optimizing Your Site
12 SEO Basics You Need To Optimize Your Site
Original headline:
Freelance Writing Tips For Stay-at-Home Moms
Freelance Writing Jobs To Make Money
Let's add some numbers
5 Freelance Writing Tips To Help Stay at Home Moms Make Money
10 Freelance Writing Jobs You Can Make Money From
Invoke curiosity: Curiosity will cause people to click your headline, but do it with caution and make
sure you deliver on the promise of your headline.
For example, if your title is:
Top 7 Body Building Secrets You Didn't Know
Then make sure you reveal the '7' secrets and ideally what you reveal needs to new or unique. Here
are a couple more examples of sharable headlines that invoke curiosity:
Once you have great content that includes informational or commercial keywords and tells a story
that appeals to your audience, it's time to build links the right way to improve your Google ranking.
Step #6: Build Links the Right Way
Earlier, I showed you how to analyze links to your site using Open Link Profiler. Here's another
analysis I did for the Businessweek site.
31. Note that it shows a range of different types of anchor text for inbound links. That's exactly what you
need to build links the right way. Here are some of the ways to do that and the types of links you
need.
Anchor text linking (in-text links): Anchor text links are simple links that appear within the content.
See an example below...
I discovered that when you place anchor text links "above the fold", it can increase conversion rates.
The anchor text linking strategy is mostly used when you're looking to rank for a particular keyword.
You can use your target keyword as anchor text, but to be on the safe side and avoid penalties, mix it
32. up with generic keywords.
For example, if your primary keyword is digital camera reviews, when building your links from
another site, link naturally like this: find the best digital camera reviews, top digital camera brands,
etc.
Image links: You can also use images to build links when you write posts or guest posts. Here's how
you do that in WordPress. When you are ready to add an image to a post, type the keyword you
would like to use as your anchor text in the "Alt Text" box. Images are indexed by Google and that
means you will get a link back to your site.
Editorial links: If you follow this SEO guide, you should be able to create useful and sharable
content, which will naturally result in valuable inbound links. A good example is the post on 200
ranking factors that Brian Dean wrote which has been cited multiple times.
For Google, what other people say about you is much more important and relevant than what you
say yourself.
33. Over the years, I have created thousands of rich, data-driven and useful blog posts. If you search for
anything related to content marketing, Quick Sprout pops up, which means I get a lot of editorial
links.
Copyblogger links out to useful and relevant resource posts which contribute to the engagement
they already have with their audience.
I strongly believe that the site owners didn't do anything to get those editorial links. They simply
earned the links because of the usefulness of their content. Focus on exceptional content if you want
to earn links that will improve the rank of your web pages.
Scale link building: Link diversity is the ultimate way to generate Google-friendly links and improve
your rankings, while staying off the penalty radar. This complete tutorial from Chris Liversidge will
show you how to scale your link building.
Old techniques like directory submission, forum marketing, wiki sites and even guest blogging and
press releases don't work as well as they did in the past. To get a diverse inbound link profile, write
content that will gain links from local, regional and international sites relevant to your own. That will
give you a natural link profile that will withstand anything Google throws at it.
Conclusion
The whole secret to improving your Google rankings is to understand your market (target audience),
research and identify the long-tail keywords they are searching with and then create in-depth,
useful, interesting and actionable content that will meet their needs. Then promote that content
massively. Do this consistently for best results.
As long as you understand the "intent" of your audience through market research, you will dominate
search engines and your content will rank well without a penalty.
So how did your site do in the most recent Google update? Did you see any change in rankings,
traffic and conversions?
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