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4 Ways to Use Pinterest to Rank High in Search Engines. It’s no secret that companies are using Pinterest for marketing purposes and doing so successfully.

4 Ways to Use Pinterest to Rank High in Search Engines

Pinterest is a great tool for raising brand awareness, driving traffic back to your website and increasing sales. This post isn’t your traditional post about how to use Pinterest for marketing. Instead it will show you 4 ways that Pinterest can help you find link building opportunities. This will assist you in optimizing your website or blog for search engines. So how does link building help you rank higher in Google or Bing when people put in the key words or phrases that they would use to find your products and services? The Importance of Links Search engines will put a higher importance on the value of your website or blog depending on how many websites or blogs are linking to your site.

As an example, a link from the New York Times website to your site has more value than a lonely blogger in outback Australia linking to you. Here are 4 ways to build links by using Pinterest. Slick New Overhaul Brings Rank Tracking Back To Raven Tools. Late last year, many Raven Tools users were surprised to find that Search Engine ranking data had been removed.

Slick New Overhaul Brings Rank Tracking Back To Raven Tools

Under pressure from Google, Raven yanked the SERP data and focused the tool on helping SEOs and Internet Marketers with analytics tools. Well, Raven users that have missed the tracking data can now rejoice, as rank tracking for your website is coming back to Raven (along with major UI changes.) Raven will now be leveraging Google Webmaster Tools (WMT) data to display ranking information for a users’s site. This will operate along the same lines as Rimm Kaufman’s Blueprint Search Analytics tool in that it will pull accurate data from one’s site and monitor progress. The rank tracking tool also ties in other Google data including Google Analytics and Google AdWords data. While WMT currently holds information for 90 days, the new Raven tool will store the data for future use. In addition, the new Raven app has a much more streamlined appearance. SEO: The Free Beginner’s Guide From Moz.

Welcome to your SEO learning journey! You'll get the most out of this guide if your desire to learn search engine optimization (SEO) is exceeded only by your willingness to execute and test concepts. This guide is designed to describe all major aspects of SEO, from finding the terms and phrases (keywords) that can generate qualified traffic to your website, to making your site friendly to search engines, to building links and marketing the unique value of your site. The world of search engine optimization is complex and ever-changing, but you can easily understand the basics, and even a small amount of SEO knowledge can make a big difference. Free SEO education is also widely available on the web, including in guides like this!

(Woohoo!) Combine this information with some practice and you are well on your way to becoming a savvy SEO. SEO: The Free Beginner’s Guide From Moz.