Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

SEO has come a long way from the days of keyword stuffing. This article will explain key NLP concepts shaping modern SEO so you can better optimize your content. Emerging NLP methods like neural matching and BERT go beyond keywords to understand user intent. Vectorization , where words are converted into numerical values.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 21, 2024

Every year brings a ton of change in digital marketing. In each of my 10 years in the industry, I’ve noticed that the beginning of the year can mark a surge in calls for SEO and PPC to work together. Funnel intent alignment. Funnel intent alignment Now more than ever, thinking about a full-funnel strategy is crucial.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 26, 2024

This isn’t always clear-cut, and it’s important to carry out in-depth analysis and review things critically. So, while this is a great place to start to get a feel for what’s been going on, it’s important to go further. Evaluate the market and gain industry insight Once you’ve analyzed your site, assess the bigger picture.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 4, 2024

A/B testing can be a great tool for enhancing website functionality, user experience and conversions. However, when done at an enterprise scale, A/B testing poses unique challenges that can inadvertently undermine a site’s SEO performance. This article examines the nuanced relationship between A/B testing and SEO.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 6, 2024

Marketing channels and the teams managing them should be constantly collaborating and avoiding operating within silos. One partnership that commonly gets overlooked is between SEO and social media teams – both organic and paid – and how they can collaborate to maximize output, performance, ROI and, most importantly, customer connections.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

SEO for adult sites is a fiercely competitive space – yet pervasive and unwanted adult-intent traffic remains a big challenge for enterprises, ecommerce sites and marketplaces. When non-adult sites rank for adult searches It’s important to understand that “adult-intent traffic” and “adult content” differ.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This disorganized approach hampers the user experience and makes it difficult for search engines to understand and index the content. Here’s how embracing topic clusters can elevate your SEO efforts and meet your audience’s needs more effectively. But there’s a solution.

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Martech

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Too often, companies focus SEO efforts on driving traffic with top-of-the-funnel content and keywords. Let’s delve into how we turned our agency’s SEO strategy upside down and generated revenue as a result. Let’s delve into how we turned our agency’s SEO strategy upside down and generated revenue as a result.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 4, 2024

Internal linking has often been a powerful tool for SEO, helping serve as a bridge to connect various webpages. However, the importance of internal linking extends beyond SEO; it’s pivotal in creating a navigable, user-friendly website, especially for people with disabilities. Match anchor text to user intent 3.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 7, 2024

See how Lectric eBike has transformed SEO to gain valuable insights for any ecommerce business looking to significantly enhance organic search traffic and compete in high-stakes markets. Ecommerce SEO can be painful. Lectric ranks for highly competitive commercial intent keywords and brands in the top three positions of Google.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

SEO has traditionally been viewed as an acquisition channel, focusing on ranking websites to generate more traffic and leads. However, the role of SEO can extend far beyond just acquisition. The role of SEO in user activation By definition, user activation is the moment when a user achieves value.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For those in brand marketing or SEO , the answer might be (or should be) Q4 and holiday planning. Although temperatures continue to linger in the upper half of the thermometer, it’s never too early to begin setting your SEO campaigns up for success amid an ever-crowded holiday shopping field.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Generative AI is revolutionizing SEO , especially for large websites dealing with complex technical challenges. AI’s exceptional capacity to analyze data, forecast trends, aid content creation and automate tasks can help shift your SEO approach from reactive to proactive.

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 4, 2024

There’s nothing like spotting a nose-dive in organic traffic to make an SEO’s heart skip a beat. The contributing factors behind SEO performance are numerous, interconnected and often complex. Dig deeper: Top 5 SEO data pitfalls to avoid for accurate analysis and reporting 2. Where do you even start? Is this a brand problem?

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

In this article I’ve curated some of the most commonly misunderstood elements of entity and semantic SEO, aiming to clear the fog around them. What role does schema markup play in entity SEO? ” In SEO’s semantic framework, entities are unique, identifiable concepts consistent across various texts or contexts. .”

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

I am the first generative AI chatbot for search marketers. I am the first generative AI chatbot for search marketers. Prompt: Write blog on The Importance of Local SEO for Small Businesses. Targeted Traffic and Qualified Leads: By focusing on local SEO, you can attract highly targeted traffic to your website.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Organic search remains an invaluable marketing channel for business-to-business (B2B) organizations looking to capture relevant non-brand search demand and manage their brand reputation. This article provides an overview of why SEO differs for B2B companies and four tips to help you drive success from B2B SEO. What is B2B SEO?

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

These algorithms don’t just follow rules; they help shape how people think and feel, which is why search and SEO are the way they are today. This article dives into neuromarketing – the study of how our brains react to marketing signals and how these reactions affect what we buy – and how to use it for SEO.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

However, website migrations come with considerable SEO risks. Without proper SEO planning and execution, a platform migration can lead to a significant loss of organic traffic, revenue and market share. Here are 12 common SEO pitfalls to avoid during a website platform migration. A decrease in long-tail traffic.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Unlike traditional keyword-based search, semantic search focuses on comprehending the context and intent behind a user’s query, leading to more accurate and contextually relevant results. They can now comprehend the nuances of language, interpret user intent, and provide answers rather than just links.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Most SEOs know the difference between short-tail and long-tail searches. In local SEO , we take it further by giving these search term types another name: implicit and explicit searches. Implicit vs. explicit search in local SEO: How do they differ? Generally, this difference is less prevalent in organic SERPs.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The debate over the significance of links has been a recurring theme in SEO. Recently, Google’s Gary Illyes has once again ignited discussions around the topic when he said that “ people overestimate the importance of links ,” and it hasn’t been in the top three ranking factors for some time. SUBSCRIBE See terms.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 11, 2024

This article will: Explain why entities are key to a strong SEO strategy. Create content strategies in the language Google thinks Before diving into the reasons for entity analysis, let’s clarify an important idea: modern search engines “think” in terms of entities. Understanding the user’s true intent was difficult.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 3, 2024

As with the rise of Reddit and other forums , Google is trying to serve users more relevant and relatable content – and in the local space, that means showing users more localized content. Specifically, we have seen a major shift in the pages Google shows for searches they think have a local intent. How does one combat that?

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Search Engine Land

APRIL 1, 2024

Often, SEOs will use various methods to prevent search bots from accessing pages they don’t want them to crawl. It is important to check if any of these methods apply to the page you are auditing. Linking to a page from other places on a website gives Google the signal that you feel the page is relevant to users.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This article builds on my previous one, emphasizing the importance of aligning SEO with the customer journey , specifically for companies that provide software as a service (SaaS) that market to other businesses (B2B). Understanding SEO and content for a smooth customer journey 1.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 24, 2023

SEO is a profession with intangible aspects, making it challenging to find concrete evidence of impact. Our work with Van der Garde revealed a strong correlation between brand interest and SEO performance on highly competitive queries. A stronger brand can contribute to SEO. Both share many similarities. Have a path to success.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 11, 2024

Improving SEO and content performance SEO is essential for maximizing the visibility and reach of digital content. AI-powered tools can analyze keywords, trends and user intent to optimize content for search engines effectively. Get the daily newsletter search marketers rely on.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 15, 2023

“We’re at around 100,000 monthly organic traffic, but we cannot sustain the SERP positions and conversions…” “We are at 530,000 monthly organic traffic, but our growth has become stagnant and we’re unable to scale up…” I hear plenty of similar SEO concerns from SaaS companies. is branded, and only 5.6% is non-branded.

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Search Engine Land

OCTOBER 17, 2023

One of my favorite aspects of SEO is diving into competitive research. There are a few standard, check-box steps SEOs take for competitive research, plus a few less orthodox methods that have proven useful for me and my clients over the years. The result is a good list of questions from actual users in your industry.

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Martech

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Search Engine Optimization remains the stalwart mainstay of digital marketing, with search driving around 50% of website traffic on average, according to an analysis of SimilarWeb data by Growth Badger. But the practice of SEO has become more complex and it involves more considerations than SEOs enjoyed in the “ten blue links” era.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The role of an SEO professional has undergone a major transformation in recent years. Traditionally, SEO was primarily about keyword optimization and links and ranking well on search engines like Google and Bing. While these elements remain important, search engines today evaluate a much more complex set of ranking factors.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 13, 2024

Practical SEO strategies : How to optimize your content for this new landscape. Practical SEO strategies : How to optimize your content for this new landscape. We rarely stop to think about the lightning speed of modern information access. Try picturing a time when answers lived only in libraries – it seems archaic now.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 18, 2023

You’re an SEO with the best intentions of driving traffic and awareness for your brand (or client). If the last 12 months or so have taught me anything, it’s that macroeconomic trends significantly impact how users engage with online content. Sources to reference to gauge user reaction. The stock market.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 11, 2024

Despite the availability of marketing APIs from long-established providers like Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and AWS for over a decade, many search marketers prefer generative AI models for their SEO -related tasks. Methodology To test the models’ performance, I’ve put them against one another on the same data (i.e.,

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 1, 2023

A content gap analysis is a valuable type of market research, helping you to discover opportunities you may have missed and improve your content marketing. Content gap analysis is the process of identifying and addressing missing or underperforming content on a website, compared to competitors or market standards.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

By now, you’ve probably already read “Bitter, cynical Verge article blames SEOs for ruining the internet” on Search Engine Land. The Verge article in question provides a critical mention of notable figures in the SEO industry. The Verge article has rightly mentioned that “SEO is now baked into everything.”

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