The Ultimate Guide to Optimizing Site Architecture

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Intro Crawl Your site and prepare the data What to Look For Inbound Links Outbound Links Depth Pages Crawled Vs. Pages That Actually Exist Crawl Path Site Organization Common Problems Inbound Links Pointing to the Wrong Place Too Many Outbound Links Parts of a Page Aren’t Being Crawled Duplicate Crawl Paths Pages Not Present In [...]

Free Broken Linkbuilding Tool

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With Google getting smarter, and smarter everyday, many scalable linkbuilding methods are becoming obsolete. One method that remains scalable and relevant, according to linkbuilding expert Jon Cooper, is broken linkbuilding. The process runs a little something like this: Find Broken Links -> E-mail Webmasters about broken links -> Score Links in Return For Helping Out [...]

9 Pages You Shouldn’t let Google Crawl

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    In the world of search, accessibility is a big deal. It can affect whether users get to your website or not. Most of the work goes into optimizing your site so that Google can access your pages. More often than not, no one spends any time optimizing their website that Google doesn’t access [...]

AdWords Phrase Match Bidding Strategy

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AdWords has four different match types for keywords. These types are broad, modified broad, phrase, and exact match. Whenever you are beginning your campaigns you should always use the basic AdWords bidding strategy outlined in this article. Once your campaign has run, and you have data to begin changing your bids, the challenge begins. Phrase [...]

Creating Scarcity in Saturated Markets

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Some marketers have heard of the scarcity principle. If you haven’t, the scarcity principle describes the urge someone has to gather what they feel like they may not be able to attain in the future. So if something is scarce people will want more of it. This seems really simple, and one of the best [...]

Learn to write better headlines the easy way

            On the Google AdWords Platform you get 130 characters(25 for the headline, 35 for each description line, and the display URL) to grab the readers attention, qualify them as a potential customers, convince them you have what they need, set expectations of what they are going to find, and entice them to click your [...]

Sharing the Secret Recipe: How You Can Help Yourself & The IM Community

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“I’m not going to tell you, because it took me years & 000’s of dollars to learn how to do it myself”-Some guy on LinkedIn   That is an actual quote pulled from a thread in a SEO/SEM group on LinkedIn. This attitude is all over the internet marketing world. Now out of context & [...]

Does my sales page suck or is it my navigation?

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Google Analytics is a great tool, the amount of information you can draw out of it is nearly endless. In fact there is so much information that the average person could easily be lost in the deep well that is Google Analytics. What sets the good apart from the great is not knowing how to [...]

The Bidding Strategy That is Guaranteed to Be Profitable

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If you want to experience a true case of information overload. Go to every Pay-Per-Click website you can find, find a place to ask questions whether in the forums or otherwise, then ask “What is the best bid optimization strategy”. I would be surprised if you got less than 100 responses in 24 hours. Some [...]

Link Investment Part 3: Alternative Link Building Strategies

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So now you’ve found the perfect target for your link investment, and you want to score that sweet sweet link. Obviously there are all the typical ways to doing link building: guest posting, broken links, resource pages, infographics. Those are all good, well, and perfectly effective. However I would not draw your attention to just [...]