How do you determine your SEO program’s real performance, discounting the effects of seasonality, paid search spending or any other external factors? Columnist Chris Liversidge lays out a step-by-step process for reaching a reliable ROI calculation. Chris Liversidge on June 2, 2016 It’s an old trope of the Search Engine Optimization industry that … Continue reading True performance baselines & ROI for SEO without attribution modeling
Category Archives: SEO Education
Become a Search Engine Ninja Through Advanced SEO Mastery
by John Hodge May 25, 2016 Follow @JohnAHodgeMay 25, 2016 The road to advanced SEO is long and exciting. There are significant milestones during the journey to becoming a master SEO blackbelt. From barely knowing what SEO stands for to orchestrating custom experiments, a lot of growth happens! What’s your SEO belt level? Are you … Continue reading Become a Search Engine Ninja Through Advanced SEO Mastery
The 5 best digital marketing courses for the modern-day marketer
Give your marketing career the digital boost it requires with these popular training courses. Modern-day digital marketers are expected to be competent in a host of skills, including analytics, copywriting, creative direction, sales, digital media, and more. But unless you’re ready to invest tens of thousands of dollars and commit years of your life to … Continue reading The 5 best digital marketing courses for the modern-day marketer
Understanding Semantic SEO
by Gyles Seward May 16, 2016 Follow @ElementaryDigiMay 16, 2016 Semantic SEO is SEO 2.0. It is search entity optimisation. E-commerce experts have already been using the changes to SEO to their advantage. What is Semantic SEO? To start with, we need to explore the notion of semantic SEO. When we use search on Google … Continue reading Understanding Semantic SEO
7 SEO Tips for Beginners From an SEO Consultant
by Josh MacDonald April 30, 2016 Follow @JoshMacDonald19April 30, 2016 Several businesses every day send me emails, looking to hire an SEO specialist to help them with their business before they’ve even done basic optimization themselves. Before fronting $ 200-500 per month on an SEO service, every business should look at doing basic optimization in … Continue reading 7 SEO Tips for Beginners From an SEO Consultant
How Good SEO is Like Gardening
by Owen Radford April 6, 2016 Follow @ElementaryDigiApril 6, 2016 Developing a show-stopping SEO campaign requires plenty of hard work and hours of thankless perseverance. There’s also stages to follow which all bring their own challenges and rewards. At the end of it, you’re left with a sense of achievement (and exhaustion). Does this sound … Continue reading How Good SEO is Like Gardening
Correlation vs Causation In SEO
by Gyles Seward April 5, 2016 Follow @ElementaryDigiApril 5, 2016 SEO may be a science – applied according to mathematical models and statistics – but there are still plenty of grey areas in between. The concept of ‘Correlation Vs Causation’ is one such area. In our quest to improve SEO and spot trends within Google’s … Continue reading Correlation vs Causation In SEO
Yes, Keyphrase Research is Still Important
by Heather Lloyd-Martin April 3, 2016April 3, 2016 Have you heard that you can toss keyphrase research out the window and “write naturally” for Google? Here’s the problem. Following this advice means you’ll lose out on valuable traffic. Here’s why. First, a little history… Once upon a time, keyphrase stuffing was all the rage — … Continue reading Yes, Keyphrase Research is Still Important
Why SEO Is Difficult for Startup Retailers and Online Merchants
by Ronald Dod April 3, 2016 Follow @Visiture_SearchApril 3, 2016 You just started an eCommerce website recently and want to get traffic to your store. It is the natural progression. But is SEO a good fit for you and a way to get traffic to your website? In our experience SEO is very difficult to … Continue reading Why SEO Is Difficult for Startup Retailers and Online Merchants
13 Super-Easy Ways to Immediately Improve Your SEO
by Daniel Louis March 28, 2016 March 28, 2016 What comes to mind when you see the term “SEO“? Where do you focus all your energy when you’re trying to improve your search rankings? Most people focus a large proportion of their time on “keywords” and not much else. However, if you’ve been working diligently … Continue reading 13 Super-Easy Ways to Immediately Improve Your SEO