Category: SEO
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6 Things You Can Do to Compete With Big Sites
Zillow, Trulia, Redfin. These names appear in almost every conversation about buying, selling, or renting property. This is not because people are particularly interested in these platforms but because they’ve become the default starting point for most property searches. The best illustration of this is that out of over 4.5M keywords that Zillow ranks for,…
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Unpacking NerdWallet’s SEO: 10 Things I Discovered
Nobody needs SEO like NerdWallet. Their S-1 shows over 70% of traffic is unpaid. For a business that transforms knowledge-seeking into profit, that’s a perfect strategy. But it’s also imperfect. As a public company, NerdWallet must openly admit when its SEO fails. Worse still, dips in organic traffic can trigger falling stock prices and potential…
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9 Successful PR Campaign Examples, According to the Data
From Barbie-themed ketchup to exploding owl butts, these PR campaign examples prove that with the right data, timing, and a bit of creativity, you can win coverage and drive real, measurable results. In this post, you’ll see the data behind nine successful PR campaigns, and hopefully get some inspiration for your next press idea. 9 popular…
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How to Estimate It and Source Data
Total addressable market (TAM) is an estimation of how much you could earn if you could sell your product or service to every possible customer in your market. The basic formula for calculating TAM is: TAM = (Total Number of Potential Customers) × (Average Annual Revenue per Customer) Understanding TAM helps you figure out the size…
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I Asked 12 SEOs What Their Favorite SEO Books Are
I asked 12 SEOs to share what’s on their bookshelves. Here’s what they said: Authors: Stephan Spencer, Eric Enge, Jessica Stricchiola First published: 6 November 2009 Recommended by: Aleyda Solis Here’s why Aleyda recommended this book: “I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn SEO from scratch or gain insights into any specific SEO…
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My Top 8 Tactics Shared By 107 SEOs
I asked the SEO community and a few experts to share advanced SEO tactics that are working for them. I received 107 replies and had the opportunity to explore where people draw the line between basic and advanced skills in our industry. Here’s everything people considered advanced, ranked based on the frequency of mentions. If you’re…
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How to Get Over the Fear of Creating Thought Leadership Content
Here’s the thing: We previously ran the exact same study for Wix and it did well. So we decided to replicate it for Squarespace. Quite innocuous, right? Turns out it wasn’t. Someone shared the takeaways from that post on Reddit and boy, was the criticism full on. Call me thin-skinned, but I remember feeling hurt. It…
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All You Need to Know
Google officially launched AI Overviews in the U.S. on May 14, 2024. Three months later, they announced that AI Overviews was rolled out to six more countries: the UK, India, Japan, Indonesia, Mexico, and Brazil. Is SEO dead and should you panic? Or is everything a big hoo-ha and there’s nothing to worry about? Here’s everything…
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What Marketers Need to Learn From Hunter S. Thompson
We’ve passed the high-water mark of content marketing—at least, content marketing in its current form. After thirteen years in content marketing, I think it’s fair to say that most of the content on company blogs was created by people with zero firsthand experience of their subject matter. We have built a profession of armchair commentators,…
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I Got 129.7% More Traffic With Related Keywords
A few weeks ago, I optimized one of my blog posts for related keywords. Today, it gets an estimated 2,300 more monthly organic visits: In this post, I’ll show you how I found and optimized my post for these related keywords. How I found related keywords Related keywords are words and phrases closely linked to…