It’s that time of the month again when we need to choose the best SEO blogs we’ve read. So what do we look for? Mostly, we look for practical advice, something that we can apply to our work; if a blog post can help us achieve results then it’s a winner. We like posts that keep us on our feet and push us to refine our own strategies; it keeps us on top of our game. And we love posts that are ground-breaking; we’re always looking for new ideas.
So here are some of the best blog posts we’ve read this month.....
1) Blog Design for Killer SEO – SEOMoz.org
Cyrus Shepard has made it into our top 5 SEO blogs again, this time with a superb infographic! All search marketers love an infographic every now and again, and we’re no different here at The WebMarketing Group. This post condenses masses of information into a digestible, memorable, 15-point resource article with a great image to show new bloggers exactly what they need to do.
2) Experiments on Google+ and Twitter Influencing Search Rankings – SEOMoz.org
Well done to Cyrus for making it into our list for the second this month. This experiment, conducted by the SEOMoz team has been enlightening to say the least. The shutdown of Google Realtime caused a few gasps across the globe, and social media optimisers were all wondering how this affected Twitter influences on search. This post gives us a look at Tweeting post Twitter-Google breakup.
3) How to Make Awesome Landing Pages for Local PPC – SEOBook.com
We love this post because it reaches out to small, local businesses. This article provide some really useful information to companies looking to create targeted PPC campaigns that work for their local business area. The blogger, known only has Vanillacoke (please reveal yourself), uses two superb landing page examples where local customisation has been used.
4) How to Increase Website Page Views – SEOChat.com
Website A has 22,000 unique visitors and website B has 15,792 unique visitors? Which is the better website? This post is great because it forces traffic magpies to really look at what’s important; average page views and average time spent on the site.
5) What is the Best Time of Day to Tweet – Wolf-howl.com
Here at The WebMarketing Group, we believe that social media platforms such as Twitter are a part of an SEO pyramid, and therefore, are essential to every website’s SEO campaign. Signing up to Twitter is essential and we can’t stress it more. But once you’ve signed up, when should you be Tweeting? Every day? All day? In the morning? In the afternoon? This post by Michael Gray gives Tweeters a better idea of how strategic Tweeting can increase traffic to websites.
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