How Educational Videos Can Give Your SEO A Boost

There are countless ways to incorporate video into your internet marketing strategy, but educational videos are often overlooked. Simple videos that teach your visitors new concepts or take a deep dive into important principles can be a great way to engage your audience and attract new visitors to your website.

Internet marketers and SEO professionals often talk about video as “link bait,” a way to tempt others to link to your website. Positioning videos as link bait means that companies often over-think their videos. They go out of their way to try to be funny or entertaining, and unfortunately, this often ends in a flop.

But educational videos can be a great way to gain natural links and diversify your link profile. Developing a video series like this means you don’t have to try to be funny or cute, you can just be yourself. You can show off what your business does best, help your visitors reach their own goals, and position yourself as a go-to for information.

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Is Keyword Obsession Ruining Your SEO Strategy?

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last ten years, you probably know that the foundation of any Search Engine Optimization plan involves choosing the right keywords. Keywords are critical to an internet marketing strategy, it’s true. But there is a difference between being mindful of keywords and becoming keyword obsessed. Keyword rankings can help you track your SEO performance, but if you fail to venture out beyond that, your entire campaign will likely suffer.

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Why Does Good SEO Take So Long to Work?

Anybody with a website probably knows they need to optimize their site to rank well in Search Engines. And most people, by now, have already invested some money in having a professional SEO company work with their website. Unfortunately, a majority of those people have gotten burned. They may have spent thousands of dollars for no results, or many thousands of dollars for fast results that ended up getting them banned from Google.

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Planning Website Architecture for SEO Success

A successful website architecture can mean the difference between your visitors becoming a sales lead or just bouncing away to a competitor’s website.  A more formal name for website architecture is “information architecture”, which is the goal of building a website with your audience’s needs in mind and making information intuitively discoverable.  A successful website architecture gets the right information to the right person as quickly and as simply as possible.  Since websites have different types of visitors, each with different goals, needs, and nuances, it can be difficult to know how to get started planning your website’s structure.  This article covers some website architecture best practices and methods that will help you plan the most effective strategy.

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How to Properly Choose a Website or Blog Topic

Learning how to choose a website or blog topic is the first step in a successful search engine optimization plan.  The topic you choose will have a dramatic effect on the results you can expect from your website or blog as well as how quickly you can acheive success.  Ranking higher for competitive topics is extremely difficult and will require more resources than less competitive topics.

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Resources for SEO Beginners

Getting started in SEO can be daunting.  Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is both a science, backed by empirical, metric driven data, as well as an art form.  It takes skill to develop engaging content that others want to share, and at the same time, understand the vast knowledge base of technical SEO best practices.  This article introduces a number of resources for SEO beginners that will help the novice learn the fundamentals of search marketing and start to “speak the language” of this growing field.

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Online Video Marketing and Its SEO Advantages

Online video marketing is the new battleground for search marketers.  According to Google Industry Trends by the year 2014 online video will make up 91% of all internet traffic.  Gone are the days where adding alt-tags to your website images earned you a few extra spots on Google.  To rank high today, sites need to have lots of rich media content pieces that are properly optimized for SEO.  And what are a search engines favorite rich media content?  Yup, online video!  But just how exactly does online video marketing improve your site’s SEO?

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What Are SEO Stop Words?

As you choose which keywords to target, it is important to understand what SEO Stop words are and why you should avoid using them in certain places on your website.  It is important to know what they are and when it is appropriate to use them, since SEO Stop words dilute the weight of your more important keywords when indexed by search engines.

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Complete Guide to Writing a Blog Post (4/4)

Having trouble thinking of what to blog about?  Planning a variety of different types of blog posts helps figure out what your target audience wants from you.  In Part 1 of the Complete Guide to Writing a Blog Post we discussed how to make your content unique and useful.  In Part 2, we talked about effective post titles, opening lines, and scannable content.  In part 3, I went over granular posting strategy and the optimal length and frequency of posts.  In this post, I’ll introduce you to the top 15 types of blog posts that are the most effective and useful for your content marketing strategy.

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