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SEO Podcast | SEO.co Search Engine Optimization Podcast

Timothy Carterseo.co
Welcome to the SEO.co Daily Search Engine Optimization Podcast. Bringing you daily SEO & digital marketing tips that we've learned throughout our 20+ years of internet marketing. Learn the latest SEO, content marketing, link building, social marketing, conversion optimization, persuasive selling & internet marketing tactics that work today. Learn more at SEO.co.
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Episodes

#700: Content Marketing ROI: How to Measure Your Content Marketing Campaign Performance Episode 1

Many marketers don't understand what's necessary for measuring and analyzing a content marketing campaign. Analysis can help you define, set, and eventually measure your content and goals. There's no "right" or "wrong" way to go about defining your content marketing goals. When you're first starting out, most of your goals will be speculative or based on market research. But once you get rolling, you'll have access to more in-depth, brand-specific pools of data. Experimentation in marketing is v...

Apr 18, 202212 min

#699: Is SEO Dead? SEO is Dying According to 3 Charts

Search engines are losing their role as gateways to the online world. Online and mobile technology are starting to chip away at the dominance of search engines in online behavior. Their influence is waning in response to important trends and developments. Facebook is planning the release of a digital assistant and a search engine within its apps. Apps are killing off the "traditional" online experience, including search engines. Once sold on this voice-activated assistant, the average user is ha...

Apr 15, 20227 min

#698: Content Quality: The 15-Point Checklist You Need for Every Post

If you want to be successful in content marketing or SEO, you need to produce high-quality content. "High-quality" is a vague term that can mean a lot of things. Are you adding something original to the discussion? There's already a discussion around this topic, even if your topic is somewhat unique. Is your content organized logically? It's a good idea to include an image or embedded video for a video, and backlinks for your article. Your articles should be organized and easy to follow. Is your...

Apr 14, 20227 min

#697: Link Building for Lawyers: The Law Firm Guide for Quality Backlink Acquisition Episode 2

Work with a link building services to help law firms enhance their online presence. Legal advertising and promotion were actually prohibited in the United States up until the mid-1970s. Today, legal advertising has blown past the $1 billion mark. Legal firms can use link building to increase exposure, enhance search rankings, and generate more traffic and conversions. Link building is an organic technique that combines elements of SEO, content, advertising, and brand exposure. It's the process o...

Apr 13, 20229 min

#696: Link Building for Lawyers: The Law Firm Guide for Quality Backlink Acquisition Episode 1

Link building for law firms helps tie all your other digital marketing strategies together. The more you're able to secure backlinks from high-authority domains, the more visible and authoritative your own web pages will become. Link building is one of the most ROI-maximizing strategies in online marketing. Link-worthy content isn't self-serving. It needs to have value for the reader. Attorneys can use guest blogging to get other bloggers and webmasters to link back to their site. Google doesn't...

Apr 12, 20228 min

#695: Site Speed: How to Increase Your Website Speed for SEO Episode 2

The WordPress plugin WP Smush.it can help you efficiently compress the size and load times of all your images. Your homepage should be optimized for SEO as it's your most important site page. Maximize your layout and content on your homepage for speed. Get rid of pingbacks and trackbacks to preserve your backlinks. Eliminate unused post drafts to reduce the amount of data on your site. Use a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to improve your site's load times. CDNs allow you to put your content on c...

Apr 11, 202210 min

#694: Site Speed: How to Increase Your Website Speed for SEO Episode 1

Slow sites are punished by both users and search engines. Site speed reflects how quickly a website responds to web requests. For example, Google has indicated that site speed would be a factor they take into consideration for ranking purposes. A webpage is considered "document complete" when it has loaded enough to allow a user to start clicking buttons or entering written text. It's also possible to measure your overall site speed by looking at the "time to first byte" metric. The average "ful...

Apr 08, 20227 min

#693: Expired Domains: How To Find (And Use) Expired Domains For SEO Episode 2

The majority of the expired domain's value is derived from its backlink profile, so the majority of the expired domain's value is derived from it. Various methods can help you find expired domains fast. You only have to enter a few niche-relevant keywords into the software to find expired domain names. Look for domains that were used as blog networks or have been repurposed for another use, so you can avoid issues in your SEO. Those domains that have already expired will not be indexed and will ...

Apr 07, 202212 min

#692: Expired Domains: How To Find (And Use) Expired Domains For SEO Episode 1

As of July 2021, there are a total of 153,210 expired domains on the internet. Acquiring defunct or existing (but not currently live) domains can boost your SEO results. There are downsides to acquiring expired domains, especially if you do it wrong. If it is done right, you can use an expired domain for SEO purposes. When you purchase an expired URL, you can collect some of that traffic for your site. Many old websites may have the traffic that you need for your current site, including the pote...

Apr 06, 20227 min

#691: Link Wheel: How Link Wheels Work for SEO in 2021 Episode 3

For internet marketing, there are many things to look at in order to make your website function optimally. One of the various components that a good internet marketer must view is the health of their backlinks. Backlinks are links from other websites that point towards your website. Backlinks ensure that another site is sharing information about your website and ideally for an internet marketer, these backlinks should be relevant to what you write about, so it is a good idea to build a revolving...

Apr 05, 202210 min

#690: Link Wheel: How Link Wheels Work for SEO in 2021 Episode 2

A link wheel is simply a number of web pages that link back to an initial website. Linking in this way allows you to quickly pass PageRank (or value or importance) through to another website. The more you have, the easier it is to get an important site noticed by the major search engines and be found when people are searching for certain words or phrases. For example, if your site has a blog, you might create a specific blog post for SEO and add the same keyword or phrase into an appropriate hea...

Apr 04, 20229 min

#689: Link Wheel: How Link Wheels Work for SEO in 2021 Episode 1

In this series, you'll learn what a link wheel is and how it can help your websites. Why? Because Link wheels are still working for SEO in 2021 and can aid your efforts in increasing traffic to any website of yours from the Search Engines (Google) via the magic of "Backlinks". In the 21st century, most search engines use link wheels as a primary link-building method. A link wheel is essentially a group of sites that all link back to one other site. The more sites that are in the group, the more ...

Apr 01, 20229 min

#688: Trustworthy Website with 15 Elements Episode 2

We all know that when we look for anything on the internet, we're looking for a way to solve a problem or satisfy a need. And yet, analysis of traffic flow has shown that users abandon websites in as little as four seconds if they don't find what they are seeking quickly. So how can you ensure that your website meets their needs and is trustworthy, allowing them to complete their task instead of leaving? To start, there are a few "must-haves" for every website: an email address, an address, and ...

Mar 31, 202210 min

#687: Trustworthy Website with 15 Elements Episode 1

15 Elements of a trustworthy website. Where do you look when you're trying to determine if a website or website publisher is trustworthy? We all have our own ways of deciding whether we can trust what we're reading on a specific website. But there are some elements that all trustworthy websites should have in common, and it's helpful to know what these are so that you can recognize them for yourself. These elements include visual design, verifiability, user experience, content integrity, copywri...

Mar 30, 20229 min

#686: Organic Lead Generations Step-by-Step Guide of SEO

Organic Lead Generations Step-by-Step Guide of SEO is the only program that will teach you 100% organic lead generation. Organic lead generation is where you gain a massive return on investment by using free traffic from search engines to generate a large number of highly qualified leads. You will learn the exact same process that we used to generate over 1 million dollars worth of free traffic in a matter of a few very short months. Our step-by-step guide provides you with a technique that will...

Mar 29, 20227 min

#685: Difference Between WordPress and Squarespace Episode 2

WordPress and Squarespace are two of the most popular content management systems (CMS), each with unique pros and cons for website design and development. Squarespace is a great option for those who have no coding or design experience but still want to create a beautiful website. WordPress enables you to edit the look of your site with coding skills but lacks the ability to create templates like Squarespace. Both of these platforms are designed to allow non-technical individuals to create and ma...

Mar 28, 20227 min

#684: Difference Between WordPress and Squarespace Episode 1

WordPress has been the most popular website software for more than a decade. It's used by tens of millions of people worldwide for everything from personal blogs to major news sites. It combines ease of use with rich functionality, flexible yet robust customization options, and is available in hundreds of free and premium themes and widgets guaranteed to help you jump-start your next project. It is a free, open-source software application used for publishing content on the World Wide Web. It's a...

Mar 25, 20228 min

#683: PPC Campaigns Scaling Technique Episode 2

Scaling your AdWords campaigns is something that many businesses struggle with – they only have so much time to spend on AdWords per day, and the last thing they want to do is spend the majority of their time searching through reports on how their campaigns are doing. Creating a handful of campaigns can be manageable, but at some point, if you expect to grow your business online increasing the number of ad groups, keywords, and URLs will present a challenge. The Scale technique involves adding n...

Mar 24, 20226 min

#682: PPC Campaigns Scaling Technique Episode 1

PPC is a very successful online marketing technique. But, some business owners find it maddeningly difficult to get the technique to work for them. This can be because of mistakes made during set-up or due to failure to maintain the correct approach. When you create a PPC campaign in AdWords, it can sometimes be difficult to know just how many people you're reaching. On the actual AdWords site, the only statistics provided are impressions and clicks, which are not actually indicators of how many...

Mar 23, 20228 min

#681: The Proper Way of Using Negative Keyword List

A negative keyword list can be a great way to make sure you get the traffic you need while staying within the guidelines of search engines. While it is a simple concept, many people do not quite understand how a negative keyword list works or what they should put into one. While a positive keyword indicates what you want to show up in your ad, a negative keyword indicates what you do not want to show up in your ad. An easy example would be: If your business sells basketballs, you might include "...

Mar 22, 20227 min

#680: Strategies of Link Building for SEO Episode 5

Building a website and online visibility makes everything easier. But, if you are looking for something different, something that sets you apart from the crowd, it is time for you to learn about link building. It does not matter if you are a veteran of search engine optimization or just an average web-surfer and user, this is for anyone who has Internet access and wants to improve their overall search engine ranking. Link building is the process of attracting links to your website from other web...

Mar 21, 202212 min

#679: Strategies of Link Building for SEO Episode 4

Building links is a necessity when it comes to search engine optimization and link-building strategies are essential to getting your site ranked higher. Link building involves the process of developing quality inbound links that connect a page or website with relevant content and in doing so, gain value. The first and most obvious idea of link building is simply getting other websites to link back to your site. The more knowledgeable, reputable, and trusted the site that is linking back to you i...

Mar 18, 202211 min

#678: Strategies of Link Building for SEO Episode 3

Link building is an essential part of most SEO tactics. Some use link building to discover what are keyword phrases are already being used, and build a website in order to compete for those keywords; others use it to promote a social media campaign for their particular business or brand. While good on-page SEO and quality content can help drive natural links to your site, you should also focus on what you can do to get existing websites to link back to your website. There are numerous strategies...

Mar 17, 202210 min

#677: Strategies of Link Building for SEO Episode 2

Online SEO is about more than just the content and code on your website. Your success will depend on your ability to attract links from relevant, authoritative websites. Building links is one of the most important tasks that search engine optimization companies perform on a regular basis. Links are one of the factors that form PageRank and have a direct impact on a website's rankings in SERPs. If a website has more links it can load faster in a browser, since it uses fewer resources to load the ...

Mar 16, 202210 min

#676: Strategies of Link Building for SEO Episode 1

Increasing the number of incoming links to your website can give it more Search Engine Ranking Position (SERP) and is also used by search engines as a way to identify relevant content for specific topics. As companies with similar target markets or providing similar services tend to link to one another, acquiring relevant text links from relevant websites is an effective way to improve the reach of your content. We link to trustworthy websites that are relevant to the website's topic - this buil...

Mar 15, 202210 min

#675: Building a Progressive Web App Episode 2

In this course, you will learn exactly how to build your very own Progressive Web App that works across all modern browsers. You will learn about technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript as well as Service Workers and more. In this course, we also cover the advantages of a PWA over native applications and some other cool stuff you can do with PWAs such as add push notifications. With the emergence of modern browsers, there has been a rise in single-page applications that respond to user act...

Mar 14, 20227 min

#674: Building a Progressive Web App Episode 1

A progressive web app is a service worker-enabled website that can be added to your home screen and installed like any other native mobile app. It works offline, is installable, re-engageable, and responsive. It involves taking your project to the next level with features found in modern browsers beyond generic requirements for standard web pages. Some of these features include offline support, service workers with push notifications, and application caches. Not only do these features unify web ...

Mar 11, 20228 min

#673: Different Alternative Ad Networks of PPC

PPC or Pay-Per-Click Ads have proven to be a very effective way to make an advertisement show up in front of your target audience. A business can use various ads for Social Media websites such as Facebook, Google, and YouTube. The profit made from the ads depends on what website the ad was running on. Although its success varies according to different factors, it is still a very effective way to market your business. There are now lots of different alternative PPC Ad networks that can offer you ...

Mar 10, 20227 min

#672: The Reason Why SEO Take So Long

Search engine optimization is a constant and must-be-updated challenge that every website owner and SEO specialist faces. Gaining and maintaining a top ranking on search engines takes an extraordinary amount of time and effort; while professional SEO specialists who work with multiple sites for multiple clients day after day experience the difficulties of handling client demands while dealing with Google's ever-changing ranking algorithm. However, there are some things you must keep in mind whil...

Mar 09, 20227 min

#671: The Function of Mobile-First Indexing in SEO Episode 2

Mobile-First Indexing is a change of Google's and Bing's indexing algorithm designed to build a separate index for mobile searchers. This will help all websites that are mobile-friendly rank higher on search engines such as Google, including local businesses that want to get higher rankings for positions 1 & 2 in Google Maps. As Google's web index grows, it's getting harder and more expensive to keep crawling the web at its current rate. Thus, the need for Google to move to a new mobile-firs...

Mar 08, 20228 min
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