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Wednesday 17 April 2013
Thursday 4 April 2013
Advanced Link Manager for Bloggers
Link building is not an easy task,
but it is a task made a little easier if you know how to manage your links more
efficiently. Managing your links can be both tricky and time consuming,
especially if your links number in the thousands. Realistically, there’s just
no way of manually finding out just how many inbound links and the quality of
each link that you already have. In short, if you want to manage your links
effectively, you need some kind of tool to help you.
One tool for managing your links is
the Advanced Link Manager. Despite its name, the Advanced Link Manager is actually
easy to use and perfect for website owners who are just starting out link
building and have a lower level of knowledge than and SEO guru would have. It
is also useful for more advanced users who practice SEO as their profession,
with the depth/level of information you can get from the tool depending on the
version you opt for (Standard, Professional, Enterprise, and Server).
The Standard version is already
sufficient for those who need a basic overview of their link profiles since it
allows you to do the following (and more):
- Find broken links within your site
- Find all incoming links (as indexed by major search
engines)
- Check those existing incoming links to see which ones
are still alive
- Keep track of your link exchange campaigns to and
automatically find out whenever any of your link partners removes the link
to your site.
- Categorise incoming links using customisable URL
filters
- See how your link profile has changed over time via the
backlink evolution chart and search engine evolution chart (The search
engine evolution chart shows the number of links to your site indexed by
each search engine.)
- Customisable URL referrer settings – You can ask for
updates on particular referrers only and get in depth information on the
URL referrer such as page title, anchor text used for your link, use of
the “No Follow” tag, and URL page rank. This helps you assess which of
your URL referrers are most relevant and passing you real value in terms
of link juice.
- Customisable updates – You can adjust your settings and
choose only the elements you deem relevant to you so that you don’t get
overwhelmed by useless/redundant information. This is especially useful if
you plan on using the Advanced Link Manager alongside other link
management/analysis tools.
Upgrading to other versions will
give you even more convenient and powerful features such as fully customisable
reports, give you access to their website crawler and analyser (very useful for
on-page optimisation), manage multiple projects and create user profiles,
automatically find potential link partners, and even use Advanced Link
Manager’s Server to easily access your clients’ database.
As a blogger though, the standard
features will definitely be more than enough to cover your bases. However, if
you manage blog networks and have to handle several projects at once, or want
an automated way to find link partners to help you find leads, then the
Enterprise version will be more suitable for you.
Source: Searchenginejournal
Thursday 14 March 2013
SEO & Content Marketing: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Quality
content seems to be the main edifice on which any SEO campaign can gain a
deep-rooted search presence.
You
share quality content with the groups, circles, or people you're connected with
on various social media platforms. If that content is valuable and informative,
only then does it have the potential to be shared further, go viral, and reap the
targeted return on investment (ROI).
SEO vs.
Content Marketing Tasks
This
shift of focus to content creation (and content marketing) has created a
misconception in the minds of some website owners that just because they
publish content regularly on their website or blog that their SEO is taken care
of. Content creation isn't SEO.
Website owners made a similar mistake in the past when they focused only
on the quantity of links they were getting from various sites to "take
care of their SEO." It took Google's
Penguin update to jolt them and
remove that misconception
SEO is a
branch of marketing, but yet it is unique in its own way and beyond marketing
when it comes to technical aspects. SEO also has many other objectives and
long-term effects and benefits (e.g., rankings, traffic) for the site being
optimized.
The SEO
tasks related to content can be summarized as below:
·
Ensure that the site is crawled correctly and regularly.
·
The site URLs are being indexed as per the XML sitemap and
robots.txt specifications.
·
The site is gradually ranking and is having an improved search
presence as a result.
·
The regular monitoring of the metrics and data of the webmaster
tools and Google Analytics to be sure that the above tasks are gearing the site
in the right direction on the web.
·
Implement the Authorship Markup.
·
Implement the Twitter Cards and Facebook Open Graph.
·
Update XML sitemaps for text content, images, and videos.
On the
other hand, content marketing tasks involve:
·
Regular content creation.
·
Working on a content strategy.
·
Plan the process of sharing it on social media and all over the
web in various forms.
The
Declaration of Interdependence
Though
content marketing and SEO are interconnected and SEO efforts get a boost if the
high quality content goes viral, website owners must not only assign importance
to content creation and sharing. You must also keep a regular check on the core
SEO tasks of monitoring the crawling and indexing.
Neglecting
core SEO tasks may result in losing out on the long-term benefits that can
accrue out of all the social media efforts, as all social media signals may not
get passed on and get correlated to the site if it isn't being regularly
crawled or indexed by the search engines.
Content
shared on social media has a very short life span. Readers quickly move on to
the latest content which is creating a buzz and catches their attention.
The
purpose of sharing content is to try and get the maximum outreach. Therefore,
it shouldn't just create a buzz, result in retweets, and create ripples – it
should also get crawled and indexed by search engines to give websites
long-term benefits.
Website
owners must clearly understood the importance of SEO.
Content creation isn't the only way to go. Instead of creation,
you can curate content and be active on social media
platforms, having relevant conversations revolving around the curated content.
Google's Knowledge Graph is
taking search to a completely different level. The Knowledge Graph is also
paving the way to new approaches toward SEO.
Semantic search isn't
just about the web. It's about all information, data, and applications.
The
content writer may write good quality content but an SEO professional is always
the right person to keep a check on the code for the content behind the page so
that it is readily accepted by the search engine bots and gets its due from
search engines.
SEO
& Content Marketing: Heads & Tails
SEO and
content marketing are two different industries but are like two sides of the
same coin. Your SEO may or may not create content for you and at the same time
your content creator or writer may or may not optimize your site.
No
doubt, every piece of quality content boosts your search presence – provided
your site has been optimized wisely for the search engines and the search
engines can easily index and extract the right context of the content to make
it prominently visible on the search results for their users.
Both
industries, though interrelated and interdependant have distinct identities. A
content creator needs to have knowledge about the concerned industry for which
he wants to create content but a SEO needs to have knowledge about the search
engines, their algorithms, updates, webmaster tools, analytics, etc.
While it's possible that one person may have general knowledge about all
the essential SEO and content marketing tasks, in the field of medicine there
are general practitioners, but specialists are most trusted for their advice.
Source: blog.webpro.in
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