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jack_fox

5-Step Plan For Success With Google Q & A - GatherUp - 0 views

  • It only takes ONE vote for a question to be eligible to show on the front page of your brand search or in local search results — and it just takes one vote for an answer to that question to do the same. Thus, the system is vulnerable to gaming and competitors up-voting questions or answers that could negatively impact a business.
jack_fox

The Pros and Cons of Google Manufacturer Center - Conversion Path - 0 views

  • Google Manufacturer Center can be most valuable for brands that: Have a lot of collateral surrounding their products such as positive third-party reviews. Convert customers mainly via brick and mortar, letting their online retailers pick up the online demand for their products. Have products that are usually part of a bigger basket. Items that are expensive to ship relative to product cost sometimes do better at ecommerce retailers since they can become part of a bigger basket. Are retailer agnostic – don’t care who sells so long as the sale happens.
jack_fox

New local SERP live in Europe - Search Engine Land - 0 views

  • In April 2019, Google was experimenting with a new local SERP that highlighted alternative directory sources for the same query. At the time, we saw an example in the wild for Germany. Now, an updated version of the SERP featuring branded directory buttons appears to be live in the UK, Belgium, Spain, Greece, and France – if not already throughout Europe.
Rob Laporte

2020 SEO trends that will influence your work - Search Engine Land - 0 views

  • Thanks to such SERP features as featured snippets, Google’s Local Packs, Knowledge graphs, and so on, more than half of all searches are now “zero-click searches.” That means that the user’s query is answered on the SERP itself, without them having to click away anywhere.
  • Consider what kind of searches these are: those are people looking for your address and phone number
  • On the other hand, linkless mentions are becoming more and more important, with Google and Bing confirming those are used as ranking signals.
jack_fox

The real-world impact of keyword stuffing in Google My Business - 0 views

  • reporting 50 examples of keyword stuffing, and in that study, Google took action on 40% of them. Some businesses were given a soft suspension, and others were given a hard suspension.
  • once you get to a point where the entire market is adding descriptors to their name, the ranking power that the keywords provided will diminish. So now you are left with a branding mess and no ranking benefit. We are already seeing this happen in several markets. 
jack_fox

Outranking Tough Competitors: My One-Year Study of a Google Local Finder - Moz - 0 views

  • If you find a sluggish market, your client can become a winner with the right strategy.
  • The higher a business appeared in the local finder, the more stable it tended to be throughout the year. The lower a business appeared in the local finder, the more erratic its position was as the year moved along.
  • If either of these brands were your agency’s client, you would need to take Tansy’s wins column and build your strategy from it. Your strategy could include recommendations for: Primary category adjustment based on ranking goalsWebsite development and optimizationLink developmentPhotographyReview acquisition, including both numbers and recency, as well as review languageCustomer service improvements via owner responses and Q&A usage
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  • I’m confident that we know some of the factors, but certainly not all of them. I think there are X factors out there still to be discovered.I have little confidence that we know the weight Google assigns to individual factors, and I strongly suspect that Google weights unique factors differently in different industries.
  • No one factor will “do the trick” in any local finder.
  • The foundation of success both offline and online is positive real world relationships. Be sure you make this message central to what you teach all clients.
  • use rankings mostly as internal benchmarks, and be sure you’re tracking how the work you’re doing is leading to upward growth in conversions and revenue.
  • Be sure incoming clients understand the influence of user-to-business proximity, meaning that there are no static #1 rankings.
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    "If you find a sluggish market, your client can become a winner with the right strategy."
jack_fox

Entity-Based Search For Advanced SEO - 0 views

  • From a technical SEO perspective, one of the most effective ways to create strong connections is through schema markup.
  • By linking the content on your website to resources across the Web, search engines begin to understand and contextualize the information.
  • One effective way to contextualize your content is to link the information on your website to other entities in knowledge graphs with high E-A-T like Wikipedia. Of course, not all entities exist on Wikipedia pages. Other types of entities, like you, your brand or your company, can be linked to knowledge graphs like LinkedIn.
Rob Laporte

Is the Watch Industry on the Cusp of a Physical Retail Renaissance? Part 1 | WatchTime ... - 0 views

  • In other words, e-commerce has undoubtedly become one of the biggest disruptors and challenges for traditional retailers, but giving up physical locations does not seem to be the right answer either. Ironically, even Amazon (estimated to be responsible for about 44 percent of all U.S. e-commerce sales last year, according to a study from One Click Retail) cannot survive online alone.
  • Tourneau CEO Ira Melnitsky’s approach: “We believe the future of traditional retail is still very strong and will be complemented very well by our digital and e-commerce initiatives. One will support the other and vice versa.”
  • A survey that was conducted in 2017 by consulting company Deloitte in six countries among a total of 4,500 consumers revealed that “the vast majority of people surveyed are still likely to buy a watch in-store.” At the same time, the development of online channels turned out to be “the second priority of watch executives after [the] introduction of new products.” Global management consultancy Bain & Company saw online sales in the luxury goods sector jump “by 24 percent in 2017, reaching an overall market share of 9 percent” (with shoes, jewelry, and handbags ranked as the three fastest-growing product categories). At the same time, Bain also estimated that physical stores would still “account for 75 percent of purchases over the next decade.”
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  • This sentiment is shared by most of the watch groups
  • But there’s good news, too. While retail in the U.S. may have seen better times, there are still a lot of watch brands that rely on independent partners with physical locations
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Rob Laporte

Is the Watch Industry on the Cusp of a Physical Retail Renaissance? Part 2 | WatchTime ... - 0 views

  • The average American now spends almost 24 hours a week online, according to data from USC Annenberg published in January 2018. Which means that, even with digital undoubtedly representing one of the most realistic opportunities for growth, the watch industry will still need offline retail for the remaining 144 hours of the week. Consumers are not always online, and they will also appreciate an independent partner. In addition, complicated mechanical watches will always have to be explained, to a certain degree, in person, and not every watch brand can (or wants to) sell watches directly to the consumer. This opens up possibilities for a new generation of retailers who no longer see their role reduced to the transaction of goods and services alone
jack_fox

The 3-Step SEO Process That Grew Organic Traffic 200% - 0 views

  • use Mobile Moxie’s awesome SERPerator tool to check mobile results from your desktop.
  • The key sign of a “gimme” keyword is when the top results show missed opportunities. You can usually tell this just by skimming:  Does the page lack a sensible heading structure? Is it difficult to read or flooded with ads and pop-ups? Does the content seem too thin (or unnecessarily long)? This technique may involve a bit more leg work on the front end, but you will avoid wasting countless hours targeting irrelevant or high-difficulty keywords.
  • This free entity extraction tool provides semantic topics — people, places, brands, and events — referenced in a document.
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  • Using the information from your content analysis, create an SEO outline, and have your company’s SMEs fill it out. This provides the trustworthy content you need, while still giving you control over how the content is written
  • t is perfectly acceptable to include trustworthy research from other sites. Outbound links can help users find out more about a topic and allow them to check your sources.
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jack_fox

SEO Clients Report 2021: What Do Clients Want from SEO? - 0 views

  • Content marketing is the most sought-after SEO service for 31.3% of SEO pros, followed by keyword strategy (30.8%) and web design (25.5%)
  • By tracking what SEO clients are asking their agencies for, we can begin to see where there is a demand for services and potential gaps to fulfill.
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  • Even the biggest retail brands have this challenge because Local can be a royal PITA
  • They often ignore the locations and are missing out on a huge amount of potential local search revenue
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    "Content marketing is the most sought-after SEO service for 31.3% of SEO pros, followed by keyword strategy (30.8%) and web design (25.5%)"
jack_fox

Content consolidation among winning SEO strategies, award winners say - 0 views

  • something that I see really frequently with sites that are negatively impacted by recent core updates is that they have produced so much content for so long–and maybe way back when the content did really well for SEO–but the rules of the game, kind of changed. 
  • you have great product pages, service pages, brand pages, but there’s this blog that has so much content on it. And in many cases that content was not up to par with what we would expect nowadays with good quality content. So it’s really chipping away at that and just making sure that whatever is being indexed by search engines is truly high-quality content.
  • if you see that there’s really no organic traffic going to the page, not a lot of page views, not a lot of engagement, maybe it hasn’t ranked for anything in a few years, that makes it a lot easier to recommend what to do with it. And it’s not always just delete it. In many cases, it’s consolidated into this one, redirect it, and update that existing article.
jack_fox

17 Advanced SEO Techniques for 2021 - 0 views

  • These entries are all optimized around a single keyword (usually a long tail). And they’re NOT written like normal blog posts. Instead, each entry is more like a Wikipedia article.
  • a recent SEO experiment discovered that “duplicate images” (like stock photos) can hurt your page’s rankings.
  • Content Features are things like: Calculators Comparison charts Feature breakdowns Pros and cons lists Summaries Quote boxes
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  • Google’s own Quality Rater Guidelines state that Supplementary Content is “important”.
  • people are much more likely to edit a brand new post. So the faster you send your email, the more likely you’ll get a link.
  • Google Discover SEO: Content freshness (you get most of your Discover traffic the day a post goes live) Original, high-quality images, charts and graphs Engagement on Twitter (which Google indexes) High level of traffic to a single page Content about popular topics (Discover content suggestions are based largely on that user’s browsing history)
jack_fox

Google My Business now known as Google Business Profile as Google migrates features to ... - 0 views

  • Google Business Profile will be the new name going forward for Google My Business. Google said the reason for the new name is to “keep things simple” and sometime in 2022, Google will retire the Google My Business app completely.
  • before that it was named Google My Business, before that, Google Places, and before that it was Google+ Local, before that it was also Google Places and then prior to that I think it was just Google Local
  • Google lets businesses manage their individual listings directly in the search results or directly in Google Maps, now Google is saying it prefers businesses with single listings manage their businesses in Search or Maps and not in the old Google My Business console.
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  • the existing Google My Business web experience will transition to primarily support larger businesses with multiple locations, and will be renamed “Business Profile Manager.”
  • new features include: Claim and verify your Google Business Profile directly in Google Search and Google MapsCall History is officially launching in US and Canada (more details here)Messaging can be done directly from Google Search (more details here)Message read receipts can be controlled in Google Search and Maps
  • How do you manage your business. You can either just search for your business name in Google Search or Google Maps for businesses or search for “my business” in Google Search to see the business you have already claimed and verified.
  • For now, the web interface is not changing much, outside of branding, but over the coming months, you can expect more and more of the features in the old Google My Business web interface will work directly in Google Search, Google Maps and the respective apps.
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

An SEO guide to understanding E-E-A-T - 0 views

  • Google recently added an extra “E” to the search quality standards of E-A-T to ensure content is helpful and relevant. The extra “E” stands for “experience” and precedes the original E-A-T concept – expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness. 
  • The Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab compiled 10 guidelines for building web credibility based on three-year research with over 4,500 participants. Make it easy to verify the accuracy of the information on your site. Show that there’s a real organization behind your site. Highlight the expertise in your organization and in the content and services you provide. Show that honest and trustworthy people stand behind your site. Make it easy to contact you. Design your site so it looks professional (or is appropriate for your purpose). Make your site easy to use – and useful. Update your site’s content often (at least show it’s been reviewed recently). Use restraint with any promotional content (e.g., ads, offers). Avoid errors of all types, no matter how small they seem. – Stanford Web Credibility Research If the above doesn’t scream, “Be a human, care about your users and your website experience,” I don’t know what does.
  • Experience is especially important in a digital world moving toward generative AI content
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  • It’s probably no coincidence that Google announced the addition of “experience” in its search quality raters guidelines shortly after ChatGPT’s launch. 
  • Besides, expertise will build confidence with the human reading your content, so I would still consider adding: The author’s name. A descriptive bio containing: Their relevant qualifications. Links to their social media profiles. A Person schema with relevant properties for certifications or professions.
  • Authority can be demonstrated in three core ways:  Establishing a strong content architecture covering all aspects of a particular topic. Earning backlinks from other authoritative sites. Building a digital profile or personal brand as an expert in a particular topic.
  • Once again, the idea of publishing content that is truly helpful supports Standford’s web credibility guidelines: Make it easy to contact you. Make it easy to verify the accuracy of the information on your site. Design your site so it looks professional (or is appropriate for your purpose). Make your site easy to use – and useful. Update your site’s content often (at least show it’s been reviewed recently). Use restraint with any promotional content (e.g., ads, offers). Avoid errors of all types, no matter how small they seem.
  • Although they carry less weight than they used to, backlinks are still an indicator of an authoritative site.
  • Consider page experience
  • Show your humans with an About us or Team page
  • Link to authoritative sources
  • Build topical clusters
  • Use internal links
  • Include different content types
  • Engage experts
  • Encourage reviews
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