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Every Metric Is A Vanity Metric

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Posted by Dr-Pete Marketers can get caught up in specific metrics, focusing on those data points that make you look good in reporting, but don’t help you understand your performance.  In this week’s episode of Whiteboard Friday, Dr. Pete discusses the vanity we bring to the metrics we track, and how to take a better, more realistic view of your results. Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab! Video Transcription Hi, everybody. Welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday. I'm Dr. Pete, the Marketing Scientist for Moz, and I want to talk to you today about vanity metrics.  So I think we all have an intuition of what that means, but what I want to discuss today is I think we get caught up in this being about specific metrics. To me, the problem isn't the metrics themselves. The problem is the vanity. So I want to talk about us and what we bring to metrics, and how to do better no matter what the metric is....

LSI Keywords: What Are They and Why Do They Matter in SEO?

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Posted by JessicaFoster The written content on your website serves to not only inform and entertain readers, but also to grab the attention of search engines to improve your organic rankings. And while using SEO keywords in your content can help you get found by users, focusing solely on keyword density doesn’t cut it when it comes to creating SEO-friendly, reader-focused content. This is where LSI keywords come in. LSI keywords serve to add context to your content, making it easier to understand by search engines and readers alike. Want to write content that ranks and wows your readers? Learn how to use LSI keywords the right way. What are LSI keywords? Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) keywords are terms that are conceptually related to the main keyword you’re targeting in your content. They help provide context to your content, making it easier for readers and search engines to understand what your content is about. Latent semantic analysis LSI keywords are based on the concept...

LiveBlogPosting Schema: A Powerful Tool for Top Stories Success

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Posted by cml63 One of the great things about doing SEO at an agency is that you're constantly working on different projects you might not have had the opportunity to explore before. Being an SEO agency-side allows you to see such a large variety of sites that it gives you a more holistic perspective on the algorithm, and to work with all kinds of unique problems and implementations. This year, one of the most interesting projects that we worked on at Go Fish Digital revolved around helping a large media company break into Google’s Top Stories for major single-day events. When doing competitor research for the project, we discovered that one way many sites appear to be doing this is through use of a schema type called LiveBlogPosting. This sent us down a pathway of fairly deep research into what this structured data type is, how sites are using it, and what impact it might have on Top Stories visibility. Today, I’d like to share all of the findings we’ve made around this schem...

Google My Business: What It Is, How To Use It, and Why

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Posted by MiriamEllis Google My Business is both a free tool and a suite of interfaces that encompasses a dashboard, local business profiles, and a volunteer-driven support forum with this branding. Google My Business and the associated Google Maps make up the core of Google’s free local search marketing options for eligible local businesses. Today, we’re doing foundational learning! Share this simple, comprehensive article with incoming clients and team members to get off on the right foot with this important local business digital asset. An introduction to the basics of Google My Business First, let’s get on the same page regarding what Google My Business is and how to be part of it. What is Google My Business? Google My Business (GMB) is a multi-layered platform that enables you to submit information about local businesses, to manage interactive features like reviews and questions, and to publish a variety of media like photos, posts, and videos. What is GMB eligibility? El...

How to Select Meaningful B2B SEO Keywords

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Posted by Cody_McDaniel It’s no secret that B2B marketing is different than B2C. The sales cycle is longer, there are multiple stakeholders involved, and it’s usually more expensive. To market effectively, you need to create content that helps, educates, and informs your clientele. The best way to do that is to identify the keywords that matter most to them, and build out content accordingly. To find out how, watch this week's episode of Whiteboard Friday!  Click on the whiteboard image above to open a high resolution version in a new tab! Video Transcription Hi and welcome to another Whiteboard Friday. My name is Cody McDaniel, and I'm an SEO manager at Obility. We are a B2B digital marketing agency, and today I want to talk about selecting meaningful B2B SEO keyword targets and the process and steps you can take in your own keyword research . So B2B is a little bit different than you would see in your normal B2C types of marketing, right? The sales cycle or the l...

What I Found After Experimenting with Google Discover for Two Months

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Posted by Moberstein I’m completely fascinated by Google’s Discover Feed. Besides the fact that it serves highly-relevant content, it also seems beyond the reach of being gamed. In a way, it almost seems beyond the reach of pure SEO (which makes it downright tantalizing to me). It all made me want to understand what makes the feed tick. So I did what any sensible person would do. I spent the better part of two months running all sorts of queries in all sorts of different ways to see how it impacted my Discover Feed. Here are my ramblings. My approach to analyzing Google’s Discover Feed Let me explain what I did and how I did it, to both give you a better understanding of this analysis and point out its gaping limitations. For five days a week, and over the course of two months, I executed all sorts of user behavior aimed at influencing my Discover Feed. I ran queries on specific topics on mobile, searched for other topics on desktop… clicked on results… didn’t click on results....