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53 Google Analytics-segmenten die jou heel blij maken. Remarket alle schoolcomputers in mediatheken.

53 Google Analytics-segmenten die jou heel blij maken

Vind direct conversieknelpunten. Pluk dat laag hangende en overrijpe fruit dat niemand zag. Weet wat je doelgroep wil van, zoekt in en mist aan jouw website en product. That awkward moment when you realize you've been staring at interesting data for years without knowing it. That awkward moment when you realize you've been staring at interesting data for years without knowing it.

That awkward moment when you realize you've been staring at interesting data for years without knowing it

Every day you're probably using Google Keyword Tool query volume in your SEO research. Of course you have to be careful to use the correct match type, right? You don't want to make the mistake of promising broad match level volume to a client. Recently I began to wonder about the differences in match type volume. Because they are substantial.

Keyword Match Ratio.

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Quick Tips on Google Algorithm Impact Detection & Resolution SEO.com. Giveaways For SEO: The (Almost!) Definitive Guide - YouMoz. Hosting giveaways for the purpose of SEO is nothing new.

Giveaways For SEO: The (Almost!) Definitive Guide - YouMoz

But in the right hands, it can be a profitable and powerful SEO (and social media) tactic to add to your arsenal. The premise is simple: you give away something of value to your audience, and in return, they socialize your brand through platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. It’s a win­­–win situation, and if done correctly, it will attract social buzz and juicy links. Google AuthorRank: Heir to the Throne. A bold ruler ascends—going by the name Google AuthorRank – and his reign will be a long one.

Google AuthorRank: Heir to the Throne

Because, in the very near future, information will take a back seat to who supplies it. We can no longer trust content – there’s just too much of it. And many of “the facts” are flat-out wrong. In an online environment, false information piles up, improving its credibility with every link, citation and reiteration, becoming exponentially more “trustworthy” despite an intrinsic lack of veracity.

Broken Link Building Just Got Stupidly Easy. Two people whom I really admire for their abilities and expertise in SEO, Garrett French of Citation Labs and Russ Virante of Virante Inc, teamed up to produce the Broken Link Prospector.

Broken Link Building Just Got Stupidly Easy

If you’re not familiar with broken link building, it’s essentially a variant on cloning (aka resurrecting) old sites from the dead, which I introduced 4 years ago. You can read a broken link building case study for details on how well it works. Essentially it automates all the research, and I quote: • We run 280 unique search queries that yield • ~28,000 linking pages that yield • ~300,000 pages for status checking • ~250 dead pages and sites ordered by # of inbound domains • Filtered down to the strongest broken link building opportunities… • That you can sort by link popularity and relevance! 10 Dead Simple Tips to Take Advantage of Google+ for SEO. What 65 Google Changes May Mean For Your Link Strategies. About a week ago, Barry Schwartz put together an awesome piece detailing the many search algorithm and quality changes (65 in total), Google made during the months of August and September.

What 65 Google Changes May Mean For Your Link Strategies

If you haven’t read it, have a look: Google’s August & September Updates: Panda, Knowledge Graph, Page Quality & SafeSearch. Google did what? OK, so now what do I do? When Google announces changes, especially this many so close together, my hunch is the first thing some SEOs do (after eating a bottle of TUMs) is try and determine the extent to which various changes will impact their websites. Google's Knowledge Graph: Implications for Search & SEO. In May 2012, Google announced the Knowledge Graph which is designed to help users see factual summaries related to their search queries for such things as biographies of notable figures, tour dates for musicians, and the cast of movies.

Google's Knowledge Graph: Implications for Search & SEO

The purpose of the Knowledge Graph according to Google is to help users: Find the right thingGet the best summaryGo deeper and broader to discover more about the search The Knowledge Graph is available worldwide now, provided the search is made in English. With the Knowledge Graph, Google is trying to make search more intelligent. The results are more relevant because the search engine understands these entities, and the nuances in their meaning, in the same way the user does. Www.mackwebsolutions.com/img/CDA-moz-post/Web-Marketing-Mack-Web-Solutions.pdf.

Content marketing

Social Media. SEO TOOLS. Linkbuilding 2012. Authorrank. Schema 101: Why the New Meta Data Matters – SMX East 2012. Day 2 of SMX East comin’ at ya, and New York was very good to us last night.

Schema 101: Why the New Meta Data Matters – SMX East 2012

If you’re in the city, you have to check out the tapas restaurant Las Rambles. Soo delish. But back to the topic at hand. 6 Steps on How to Cash-In on the New SEO. Author Rank.

6 Steps on How to Cash-In on the New SEO

Panda. Penguin. Mobile. Perfecting On-Page Optimization for Ecommerce Websites. The author's views are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. Back in 2009 (was it really that long ago?!) Rand wrote a post titled Perfecting Keyword Targeting and On-Page Optimization, which is one of the most popular blog posts on SEOmoz. How to Identify a Link Profile Susceptible to Google Penguin. Just as we were getting comfortable with the Panda algorithm updates, Google introduced another game changer in Penguin on April 24th and refreshed it on May 25th in order to crack down on sites that use unethical on- and off-page SEO tactics.

How to Identify a Link Profile Susceptible to Google Penguin

As a result, some sites lost a significant amount of their Google organic traffic overnight. The impacted sites I am helping recover all had one thing in common: an unnatural link profile with a majority of their links coming from low quality sites along with overly optimized anchor text. This article will explain how site owners can diagnose whether they were hit by Penguin themselves and how to detect whether it was off-page factors that caused it. Identifying a Hit from Penguin First, open your analytics. LinkBuilding-Dos-and-Donts.jpg 900×4.364 pixels. 46 Ways to Kill It With Content. Google Shopping: How We’re All Totally & Utterly Screwed. Well OK, I’m being a tiny bit dramatic.

But Google Shopping could totally and utterly screw you over if: You’re not a major brand with an AdWords rep to spoon feed youYou’re not familiar with how shopping feeds, shopping engines & AdWords worksYou haven’t started thinking about this and you’re an ecommerce retailer currently using Google Shopping feeds There are some big changes to Google Shopping rolling out in October. After interviewing CPC Strategy’s CEO and interrogating multiple companies (engines, carts and CSEs), I’m finding out just how unprepared many people are for this massive change. As our CEO, Ian Lurie, said to me after my rant, “Think about it. Successful Site Architecture for SEO [SES London 2011] For today’s blog post, I’m going to write about my favourite topic of all, site architecture for SEO.

This write up is based on my recent presentation at SES London 2011, and rather than just posting the slide deck I thought it might be fun to write up a few of the slides with a commentary for each. To help me recall all of the points I made, I’ll imagine myself stood at a podium with my speaker lanyard round my neck while I’m writing... Matt Cutts and Eric Talk About What Makes a Quality Site. Eric Enge: I would like to review an example scenario with you. I often use this in my presentations on SEO. The scenario is one where a user searches on “frogs”. The first result looks promising, so they click on it, and they get something that looks like this: