After a couple months of pulling together examples of research and data, and with help from the great team at Accel.io, I’m thrilled to publish my guide on how to do keyword research for SEO.
You can go check it out right here, otherwise – let me tell you a little about it.
Over the past couple of years I’ve written heavily about keyword research, sharing my experiences …
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I’m a self-proclaimed keyword research junkie.
I spend hours every week auditing historical keyword data and running new queries to expand my targets and improve my focus on user intent.
I use a variety of tools including SerpIQ for SERP-level keyword competition, an internal tool that hits several external API’s to pull in related terms, and what used to be the Google keyword tool – and has since become …
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If you’re not yet ready to move on to advanced SEO for Ecommerce, I’ve written an introductory post about how to get started with the seo basics.
Maximizing the search engine visibility of your eCommerce website, for qualified queries, is perhaps the most important role SEO has to play in selling products online.
The idea of keyword spread is similar to an approach taken by stock options traders …
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Welcome to the long overdue second segment of my podcast series Talking with Industry Experts.
In this podcast I speak with Captain Todd Malicoat, Author of the Stuntdubl SEO Blog, Faculty SEO Chair at MarketMotive, and Fishing Charter Captain at Miami Fishing Charters.
Listen to Todd and I discuss his thoughts on Panda’s integration into Google’s normal algorithm, negative SEO, link building, and find out …
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Reading back over some of the posts that have been shared, I realized many of the links are not as main stream as I believe they should be. So I poured through what has become a library of links and selected the most useful, evergreen pieces.
I sincerely recommend reading everything on this list, and it’s a long one, so take it a section at a time – …
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I really enjoy doing keyword research for SEO.
It is the one search-related process that I bring up in conversation with almost every website owner I meet, and I’m constantly impressed with the different tactics and techniques that business owners are using to expand their online visibility.
I like keyword-level strategy so much that I am going to offer you my very own personalized keyword research services.
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When it comes to business – SEO is a unique monster, because unlike most vertical markets, you don’t need products, vendor relationships, distribution channels, or even start up capital.
But without the right strategy, leveraging search for business can feel a lot like trying to capture lightning in a bottle.
In this post I am going to step through creating a keyword opportunity model to …
Keep ReadingIn case you haven’t heard yet, Paddy Moogan published a book on link building.
It’s really good. One of the most comprehensive link building strategy guides I’ve ever read.
Paddy was nice enough to send me an advanced copy to check out, and I was so impressed with how thorough, well laid out, and well explained the content in the book was, I decided to write this post.
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Keyword research is quite possibly the most important part of SEO.
You cannot begin to plan for a campaign unless you know which phrases you are targeting, and you cannot estimate costs and returns from SEO unless you first know who you’re competing against.
This post is pretty long and I will be keeping it up to date, so I have created a table of contents to make it …
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