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New & Improved: Announcing The Beginner's Guide To Link Building

Moz

Posted by Cyrus-Shepard Link building isn't always easy, but if you want to rank with SEO, links are often the cost of admission. While Google says SEOs sometimes focus too much on links, links remain one of the few confirmed ranking factors. For many, link building also presents a challenge.

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Defining Link Metrics that Impact SEO Link Building Development

KoMarketing Associates

As SEO becomes more involved in the marketing initiatives of the organization, search marketing professionals work in greater coordination with additional team members and departments. Last week our SEO team met with an organization’s marketing communications team. Email address, phone number perhaps.

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The Human Approach to Link Building Outreach

Biznology

To be upfront and honest, I have never been an “email marketer,” worked in sales, or have extensively even used emailing as a strategy before link building. Without great outreach, link building becomes 100x harder, because how can you expect to secure a link if you can’t get anyone to communicate with you?

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Four Predictions About the State of SEO in 2017

Webbiquity

As we reflect on the major events in the world of SEO in 2016, web marketers need to evaluate how the changes will impact the SEO strategy through the rest of 2017. Previously, SEOs had focused more on the authority of sites to improve the amount of pagerank that would help to rank the site for its desired keyword.

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Guest Blogging is NOT Dead (And Matt Cutts Didn’t Say It Is)

Webbiquity

The digital marketing blogs and media have lit up in the last couple of days with reports that “guest blogging is dead,” based on this post from Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s Webspam team. or worse, to something sketchy like an online pharmacy site); and 2) the author’s approach to the links.

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Top 5 Reasons Web Marketing Now Relies on Content Strategy

Webbiquity

Similarly, in web marketing and everything on the social web, visitors read content, search engines refer to content and determine the ranking of your website. They like and recommend on Facebook, re-tweet and quote on Twitter, plus one in Google+, and share links through other sites. Will it be a hit or miss? Information Era.

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Algorithm Updates: Common Questions & What You Should Know

KoMarketing Associates

Google PageRank & Algorithm Updates – Search Engine Roundtable. This has forced many businesses to completely shift their link building strategy from mass quantity to highly targeted quality link building (see my recent Search Engine Land article “ Are you building links or building a business? ”).

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