SEO has become less of a marketing play and more of a branding strategy. The document provides a list of 30 easy SEO tips from industry professionals, such as training teams on the 20% of SEO that drives 80% of impact, adding more content rather than just keywords, using social media to promote business, and focusing on mobile results satisfaction.
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Easy SEO Tips for Emerging Businesses
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2. Your business’ Web presence and visibility relies highly on search engine optimization
(SEO). The way you organize and optimize your site should make it easy for visitors and
search engines to understand and find. SEO is what puts your website in front of your
potential customers and positions you to be found by your target audience.
What we found from our research is that SEO has become less of a marketing play
and more of a branding strategy.
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3. We understand how important visibility is for emerging businesses
and startups, so we have compiled a list of easy SEO tips from
respected industry professionals
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“Train project
teams on the 20%
of SEO that drives
80% of the impact.” Jessica Bowman
Founder, SEO-In-House
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“Add more content,
not just more
keywords.”
Neil Patel
Founder, Kissmetrics &
CrazyEgg
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“Start using social
media sites to
promote your
business.” Danny Sullivan
Founder, Marketing Land &
Search Engine Land
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“Instead of hanging
with your old
content, run a
content audit and
fix it.”
Heather Lloyd-
Martin
Founder, SuccessWorks
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“Your E-Mail
Signature is a
Necessary
Resource.” Ross Hudgens
Founder, Siege Media
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“SEO is becoming
more and more
natural, with the
focus moving
towards the user.”
Marcus Tober
Founder, SearchMetrics
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“Mobile results
satisfaction will be
more important
than any other
technical issue.”
Bruce Clay
Founder, Bruce Clay Inc.
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“All links aren’t
equal.”
Kristopher Jones
Former CEO, Pepperjam
Affiliate Network
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“Always keep in
mind the reader as
opposed to the
search engines.” Brian Honigman
Marketing Consultant&
Professional Speaker
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“Aim for a focus
keyword that is
relatively high on
volume and…will fit
your audience.”
Joost de Valk
Creator, Yoast SEO plugin
14. Time Tracking for Teams
“Content that
meets a pain-point
for your user will go
much further in
terms of SEO.”
Michael Morgan
Marketer, Speak Creative
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“Get keyword ideas
from your internal
search data.”
Eric Siu
CEO, Single Grain
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“Optimize [your]
Pinterest profiles,
boards and pins for
SEO!” Cynthia Johnson
Marketing Director, Rank Lab
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“In SEO, content is
king…it is also king
for reputation
management.” Pierre Zarokian
CEO, Submit Express Inc.
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“Step #1: Discover
Awesome Content.”
Brain Dean
Founder, Backlinko
19. Time Tracking for Teams
“Improved content
is more likely to be
referenced, shared
and linked.” Dan Petrovic
Managing Director, Dejan SEO
20. Time Tracking for Teams
“Having pages
render quickly is a
good user
experience.” Bill Slawski
Director of Search, Go Fish
Digital
21. Time Tracking for Teams
“Be sure to check
out active users on
Google+ that are
discussing
authorship and
author rank.”
Ash Buckles
Global SEO Manager,
Intercontinental Hotels Group
22. Time Tracking for Teams
“Visualization plays
a critical role in
capturing and
maintaining the
reader’s attention.”
Derek Edmond
Managing Partner, Ko
Marketing
23. Time Tracking for Teams
“Write what you
know. Talk about a
relevant, cohesive
topic.” Todd Malicoat
Co-developed SEO curriculum
used at Rutgers University
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