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jack_fox

How to Choose Google My Business Categories (With Cool Tools!) - Moz - 0 views

  • State of the Local SEO Industry 2020 survey found that, out of all factors, GMB elements (which include categories) have the greatest impact on local pack rankings.
  • take your list of keywords and enter them into your choice of free or paid keyword research tools to discover which terms have the highest potential search volume.
  • Finally, refine your list down to a smaller set of terms that combine the highest search volume with being most relevant and important for your company. In most cases, this is the list you’ll move ahead with, although there are some cases in which you would choose to target lower volume search phrases because they are either a) less competitive, or b) a more exact description of what your business is.
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  • the awesome, free, new extension called GMBspy
  • this extension on enables you to go to Google Maps, search for your market competitors and see their categories
  • PlePer’s GMB Category Helper
  • My advice is to experiment with any relevant category and see where it gets you in terms of visibility.
  • check back periodically to see if new categories have become available that could win you new local SERP visibility
jack_fox

How to identify a business prospect for your agency workflow workflow - Specialty Produ... - 0 views

  • You can look for improving domains to show them their full potential or use their declining traffic to demonstrate just how much you can help.
  • Next use the Keyword Gap to identify the keywords that are unique to their domain, and discover gaps in their competitors’ strategies.
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    "You can look for improving domains to show them their full potential or use their declining traffic to demonstrate just how much you can help."
jack_fox

Does Adding Keywords in an Image Filename Help Ranking? - Sterling Sky Inc - 0 views

  • unlike photos on your website, photos on Google My Business listings don’t get indexed or included in Google Images search.  If you take a photo from your GMB listing and run it through Google Images search, it will return no results, provided the image isn’t also hosted anywhere else online.
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    "unlike photos on your website, photos on Google My Business listings don't get indexed or included in Google Images search.  If you take a photo from your GMB listing and run it through Google Images search, it will return no results, provided the image isn't also hosted anywhere else online."
jack_fox

Location Data + Reviews: The 1-2 Punch of Local SEO (Updated for 2020) - Moz - 0 views

  • If Google cares this much about ratings, review text, responses, and emerging elements like place topics and attributes, any local brand you’re marketing should see these factors as a priority.
  • In 2017, when I wrote the original version of this post, contributors to the Local Search Ranking Factors survey placed Google star ratings down at #24 in terms of local rankings influence. In 2020, this metric has jumped up to spot #8 — a leap of 16 spots in just three years.
  • local SEOs have noticed patterns over the years like searches with the format of “best X in city” (e.g. best burrito in Dallas) appearing to default to local results made up of businesses that have earned a minimum average of four stars.
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  • The central goal of being chosen hinges on recognizing that your reviewer base is a massive, unpaid salesforce that tells your brand story. Survey after survey consistently finds that people trust reviews — in fact, they may trust them more than any claim your brand can make about itself.
  • don’t get too many reviews at once on any given platform but do get enough reviews on an ongoing basis to avoid looking like you’ve gone out of business.
  • There’s no magic number, but the rule of thumb is that you need to earn more reviews than the top competitor you are trying to outrank for each of your search terms. This varies from keyword phrase, to keyword phrase, from city to city, from vertical to vertical. The best approach is steady growth of reviews to surpass whatever number the top competitor has earned.
  • Many reviewers think of their reviews as living documents, and update them to reflect subsequent experiences.Many reviewers are more than happy to give brands a second chance when a problem is resolved.
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    "If Google cares this much about ratings, review text, responses, and emerging elements like place topics and attributes, any local brand you're marketing should see these factors as a priority."
Rob Laporte

Entity SEO: The definitive guide - 0 views

  • why are SEOs still confused about entities?
  • entities get conflated with keywords
  • Entity SEO is a far more scientific approach to SEO – and science just isn’t for everyone
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  • By reading this, you’ll learn:  What an entity is and why it’s important. The history of semantic search. How to identify and use entities in the SERP. How to use entities to rank web content.
  • Examples of entities
  • Perhaps the best example of entities in the SERP is intent clusters. The more a topic is understood, the more these search features emerge
  • What is an entity? An entity is a uniquely identifiable object or thing characterized by its name(s), type(s), attributes, and relationships to other entities. An entity is only considered to exist when it exists in an entity catalog.  Entity catalogs assign a unique ID to each entity. My agency has programmatic solutions that use the unique ID associated with each entity (services, products, and brands are all included). If a word or phrase is not inside an existing catalog, it does not mean that the word or phrase is not an entity, but you can typically know whether something is an entity by its existence in the catalog.
  • concepts and ideas are entities
  • More could be said about schema, but suffice it to say schema is an incredible tool for SEOs looking to make page content clear to search engines.
  • That brings us to the current search system. Google went from 570 million entities and 18 billion facts to 800 billion facts and 8 billion entities in less than 10 years. As this number grows, entity search improves.
  • How to optimize for entities What follows are key considerations when optimizing entities for search: The inclusion of semantically related words on a page. Word and phrase frequency on a page. The organization of concepts on a page. Including unstructured data, semi-structured data, and structured data on a page. Subject-Predicate-Object Pairs (SPO). Web documents on a site that function as pages of a book. Organization of web documents on a website. Include concepts on a web document that are known features of entities.
  • We know this, so how can we optimize for it?  Your documents should contain as many search intent variations as possible. Your website should contain every search intent variation for your cluster. Clustering relies on three types of similarity:  Lexical similarity.  Semantic similarity. Click similarity.
  • Schema is one of my favorite ways of disambiguating content. You are linking entities in your blog to knowledge repositories. Balog says:  “[L]inking entities in unstructured text to a structured knowledge repository can greatly empower users in their information consumption activities.” 
  • (Remember, Google wants to understand the hierarchy of the content, which is why H1–H6 is important.)
  • Balog writes:  “We wish to help editors stay on top of changes by automatically identifying content (news articles, blog posts, etc.) that may imply modifications to the KB entries of a certain set of entities of interest (i.e., entities that a given editor is responsible for).” Anyone that improves knowledge bases, entity recognition, and crawlability of information will get Google’s love.  Changes made in the knowledge repository can be traced back to the document as the original source.  If you provide content that covers the topic and you add a level of depth that is rare or new, Google can identify if your document added that unique information. Eventually, this new information sustained over a period of time could lead to your website becoming an authority. This isn’t an authoritativeness based on domain rating but topical coverage, which I believe is far more valuable. With the entity approach to SEO, you aren’t limited to targeting keywords with search volume. All you need to do is to validate the head term (“fly fishing rods,” for example), and then you can focus on targeting search intent variations based on good ole fashion human thinking.
  • We begin with Wikipedia. For the example of fly fishing, we can see that, at a minimum, the following concepts should be covered on a fishing website: Fish species, history, origins, development, technological improvements, expansion, methods of fly fishing, casting, spey casting, fly fishing for trout, techniques for fly fishing, fishing in cold water, dry fly trout fishing, nymphing for trout, still water trout fishing, playing trout, releasing trout, saltwater fly fishing, tackle, artificial flies, and knots. The topics above came from the fly fishing Wikipedia page. While this page provides a great overview of topics, I like to add additional topic ideas that come from semantically related topics.  For the topic “fish,” we can add several additional topics, including etymology, evolution, anatomy and physiology, fish communication, fish diseases, conservation, and importance to humans.  Has anyone linked the anatomy of trout to the effectiveness of certain fishing techniques? Has a single fishing website covered all fish varieties while linking the types of fishing techniques, rods, and bait to each fish?  By now, you should be able to see how the topic expansion can grow. Keep this in mind when planning a content campaign. Don’t just rehash. Add value. Be unique. Use the algorithms mentioned in this article as your guide. Conclusion This article is part of a series of articles focused on entities. In the next article, I’ll dive deeper into the optimization efforts around entities and some entity-focused tools on the market.
Rob Laporte

What Is Artificial Intelligence And How It Will Impact Marketers - 0 views

  • AI can create ads at scale and optimize ad creatives in mere moments. It can run A/B tests with hundreds of different words, all while writing actual ad copy and making adjustments based on data. The future for digital advertising is a lot less manual.
  • As an example, I wanted to see what the Google Sheet could do, so I decided to list a few keywords that are relevant to the marketing industry. Let’s say Foundation wanted to create definition content on topics like content marketing, editorial calendar, and digital marketing for a marketing blog. I simply add these keywords to the Google Sheet that Arielle Phoenix developed. And using an API connected to ChatGPT, it delivers the title, meta description, intro, outline and more: This was all developed in the matter of seconds. 
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    "AI Google Sheets tool"
Rob Laporte

Website Search and Rescue: How to Fix a High Bounce Rate cause by foreign Visitors Tran... - 0 views

  • How to Fix a High Bounce Rate cause by foreign Visitors Translating a page If you have a lot of foreign visitors to your website they are likely to be using a translation tool, which will cause a high percentage of bounces in Google Analytics, because they are "leaving" your page within 30 seconds, and this can affect your keyword ranking.In order to easily fix it so Google doesn't count this as a bounce, first you need to set up a Google analytics account, if you don't have one, then go to Google translate:Fill in the form to get the code to put on your website but also click on Advanced and also the option to track those who use the translation tool. You will have to enter your Google Analytics ID. Then you just copy that bit of code into all your web pages where you'd like the translation button to appear.This should eliminate all bounces for those who are translating your pages.
Rob Laporte

Eating My (Key)Words: Changing The Way We Think About SEO - 0 views

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    SEO Smackdown Round 2: Old Vs. New Search Engine Optimization
Rob Laporte

Google Confirms "Mayday" Update Impacts Long Tail Traffic - 0 views

  • Google Confirms “Mayday” Update Impacts Long Tail Traffic May 27, 2010 at 11:02am ET by Vanessa Fox Google made between 350 and 550 changes in its organic search algorithms in 2009. This is one of the reasons I recommend that site owners not get too fixated on specific ranking factors. If you tie construction of your site to any one perceived algorithm signal, you’re at the mercy of Google’s constant tweaks. These frequent changes are one reason Google itself downplays algorithm updates. Focus on what Google is trying to accomplish as it refines things (the most relevant, useful results possible for searchers) and you’ll generally avoid too much turbulence in your organic search traffic. However, sometimes a Google algorithm change is substantial enough that even those who don’t spend a lot of time focusing on the algorithms notice it. That seems to be the case with what those discussing it at Webmaster World have named “Mayday”. Last week at Google I/O, I was on a panel with Googler Matt Cutts who said, when asked during Q&A,  ”this is an algorithmic change in Google, looking for higher quality sites to surface for long tail queries. It went through vigorous testing and isn’t going to be rolled back.” I asked Google for more specifics and they told me that it was a rankings change, not a crawling or indexing change, which seems to imply that sites getting less traffic still have their pages indexed, but some of those pages are no longer ranking as highly as before. Based on Matt’s comment, this change impacts “long tail” traffic, which generally is from longer queries that few people search for individually, but in aggregate can provide a large percentage of traffic. This change seems to have primarily impacted very large sites with “item” pages that don’t have many individual links into them, might be several clicks from the home page, and may not have substantial unique and value-added content on them. For instance, ecommerce sites often have this structure. The individual product pages are unlikely to attract external links and the majority of the content may be imported from a manufacturer database. Of course, as with any change that results in a traffic hit for some sites, other sites experience the opposite. Based on Matt’s comment at Google I/O, the pages that are now ranking well for these long tail queries are from “higher quality” sites (or perhaps are “higher quality” pages). My complete speculation is that perhaps the relevance algorithms have been tweaked a bit. Before, pages that didn’t have high quality signals might still rank well if they had high relevance signals. And perhaps now, those high relevance signals don’t have as much weight in ranking if the page doesn’t have the right quality signals. What’s a site owner to do? It can be difficult to create compelling content and attract links to these types of pages. My best suggestion to those who have been hit by this is to isolate a set of queries for which the site now is getting less traffic and check out the search results to see what pages are ranking instead. What qualities do they have that make them seen as valuable? For instance, I have no way of knowing how amazon.com has faired during this update, but they’ve done a fairly good job of making individual item pages with duplicated content from manufacturer’s databases unique and compelling by the addition of content like of user reviews. They have set up a fairly robust internal linking (and anchor text) structure with things like recommended items and lists. And they attract external links with features such as the my favorites widget. From the discussion at the Google I/O session, this is likely a long-term change so if your site has been impacted by it, you’ll likely want to do some creative thinking around how you can make these types of pages more valuable (which should increase user engagement and conversion as well). Update on 5/30/10: Matt Cutts from Google has posted a YouTube video about the change. In it, he says “it’s an algorithmic change that changes how we assess which sites are the best match for long tail queries.” He recommends that a site owner who is impacted evaluate the quality of the site and if the site really is the most relevant match for the impacted queries, what “great content” could be added, determine if the the site is considered an “authority”, and ensure that the page does more than simply match the keywords in the query and is relevant and useful for that query. He notes that the change: has nothing to do with the “Caffeine” update (an infrastructure change that is not yet fully rolled out). is entirely algorithmic (and isn’t, for instance, a manual flag on individual sites). impacts long tail queries more than other types was fully tested and is not temporary
Rob Laporte

Search Force SEM Platform Now Supports Image Ads - MarketingVOX - 0 views

  • Search Force SEM Platform Now Supports Image Ads SearchForce, a company whose platform consolidates bid optimization, campaign management and reporting, has incorporated support for content-rich image ads. The company claims it is the first search engine marketing and bid optimization firm to do so. Users can now decide the specific placement of image ads within Google's AdWords network. They can also optimize bids, track conversions and view reporting on them. According to SearchForce, image ads remain lamentably little-used because of lack of visibility, awareness about location of placement, and the inability to clearly associate ROI to spend. Apart from the support of image ads, its platform also enables users to segment keywords by performance and automate multiple programs. In May, the company launched a new profit algorithm that enables clients to quickly adjust bids based on quality, seasonality and day of the week patterns. A recent Hitwise report found that, while marketing dollars are increasingly moving online, search advertising has taken a blow as a result of the recession.
Rob Laporte

Does Google Look At Keywords In Long Titles? - 0 views

  • Let's not forget that Google recently confirmed showing longer snippets for the description part of the search listings. Would this translate to longer titles and clickable links? Who knows - it would not surprise me to see this.
Rob Laporte

AdWords Bid Management: Advanced Tactics - 0 views

  • Tracking conversion value as expected customer value For many AdWords advertisers, simply tracking conversions is an “advanced” tactic. High-performing marketers go a step further and also use AdWords conversion tracker to dynamically track the value associated with each conversion. With a simple modification to the conversion tracking script (and a tiny bit of custom programming), you can track the monetary value associated with each conversion. If one conversion brings in $30 while another brings in $50, both values will be recorded with their respective keyword in the AdWords reports (Google doesn’t currently allow you to see conversion value in the normal interface. The “total value” and “value / cost” stats are only available through reports in your AdWords Report Center.).
Jennifer Williams

Do Search Engines Look at Keywords in URLs? - 0 views

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    Newly published Yahoo patent.
Rob Laporte

Google third-party policy - Advertising Policies Help - 0 views

  • In addition to meeting the requirements outlined below, third parties must make reasonable efforts to provide their customers with other relevant information when requested.
  • If your applicable terms of service require a monthly performance report for customers, you must include data on costs, clicks, and impressions at the Google advertising account level. When sharing Google advertising cost data with customers, report the exact amount charged by Google, exclusive of any fees that you charge.
  • you can meet this reporting requirement by allowing your customers to sign in to their Google advertising accounts directly to access their cost and performance data. Learn how to share account access.
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  • Third parties often charge a management fee for the valuable services they provide, and end-advertisers should know if they are going to be charged these fees. If you charge a management fee (separate from the cost of AdWords or AdWords Express), let customers know. At a minimum, inform new customers in writing before each first sale and disclose the existence of this fee on customer invoices.
  • It's important for advertisers to have the ability to contact Google directly with concerns about a third-party partner. To allow Google to properly investigate and assist the advertiser, we require that you provide your customers with the customer IDs for their AdWords or AdWords Express accounts when requested. Learn how to find an AdWords customer ID
  • putting undue pressure on an advertiser to sign up or stay with your agency
  • Having a separate account for each end-advertiser is essential to maintaining the integrity of the AdWords Quality Score. Because account history is a core component of the AdWords Quality Score, mixing advertisers in one account can result in Quality Scores that inaccurately represent any one advertiser's performance. Additionally, we'll show only one ad per account for a particular keyword, so mixing advertisers in one account could unfairly limit ad serving for those advertisers. For these reasons, we require that you use a separate account for each end-advertiser that you manage.
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    "In addition to meeting the requirements outlined below, third parties must make reasonable efforts to provide their customers with other relevant information when requested."
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