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Basic SEO

SEO, also known as search engine optimization, refers to a set of tactics and strategies aimed at improving a website’s performance in organic search. These articles will help you learn the fundamentals of SEO.

The Real Gold: Learning from On-Site Search Data

•Basic SEO •Keyword Research

SEO is about understanding user intent and crafting strategy around what people actually want.Optimizing the content on your website and wider…

Crafting Content Magic: Applying Keyword Research to Content Marketing

•Basic SEO •Content Marketing •Keyword Research

According to a recent study by eMarketer, 9 out of 10 B2B businesses in the United States use digital content marketing. It’s not only an industry best…

Rethinking Conventional Keyword Research

•Basic SEO •Keyword Research

Staying competitive in SEO often requires us to revisit trusted workflows and methods when important changes occur in the industry. It’s one of the…

Why Thinking Like Your Customers Is Important for Keyword Research

•Basic SEO •Content Marketing •Keyword Research

Keyword research is a bit like learning to cook, in the sense that it doesn’t take a lot of knowledge or skill to do the basics. Once you know how to boil…

You're Not Ready for Link Building...Yet!

•Basic SEO •On-Page SEO

Your site isn't ready for link building.

It can’t handle it. The penguins are hungry.

You think you want links, because someone once told you that links…

Keyword Research to Increase Traffic Using SEMrush

•Basic SEO •Keyword Research •On-Page SEO

Keyword research is SEO 101 — identifying opportunities via keyword research that will drive traffic to the pages you’ve created.

These pages represent…

The Practical Beginner’s Link Building Toolkit

•Basic SEO •Link Building

To a beginner, the world of link building might look like nothing but technical tutorials and bizarre buzzwords.

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed and…

Promoting Undervalued and Forgotten Assets for Links

•Basic SEO •Content Marketing •Link Building

 Sometimes you invest in creating a linkable asset, but fail to strategically promote it — leaving value (and links) on the table.

Even the most valuable…

Link Builder Spotlight: Katie Wiese

•Basic SEO •Link Building

Katie Wiese is an adventurer, writer, world traveler, and link builder. If you’re hearing the old Sesame Street song, “One of those things is not like the…