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Building your Google Authority with Backlinks

Despite what they may tell you, even great content and good onpage SEO is just not enough for you to show up in search engines. Offpage SEO is an essential part of a successful SEO strategy—it’s the activity that’s OFF your website’s pages. It’s your total online and offline presence. It’s social media sites where you’re posting on a consistent basis. Offpage SEO includes brand-building and PR. Pitching articles to local publications or industry newsletters. Getting guest blogging and speaking opportunities and including links back to your website. It means networking and meeting people to grow your overall presence.

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What Is the Importance of Offpage SEO?

Off-page SEO is an essential part of a successful SEO strategy—it’s the activity that’s OFF your website’s pages. It’s your total online and offline presence. It’s your social media sites where you’re posting on a consistent basis. It includes podcasts and the reviews you’re getting on your Google Business Profile. If you’re not into endless self-promotion, asking for reviews can be uncomfortable. Get over it. All of us are reading reviews these days before making both big and small decisions. 

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#1 Ranking Factor to Increase Search Traffic

Google Ranking Factors: Posting daily or at any specific frequency doesn’t help with ranking better in Google search results. But the more pages you have in the Google index, the more your content may show up in search results. The key equalizer is the quality of your content and getting that content indexed.

top of mind marketing creating offpage seo that is off the page

What Is the Importance of Offpage SEO?

Off-page SEO is an essential part of a successful SEO strategy—it’s the activity that’s OFF your website’s pages. It’s your total online and offline presence. It’s your social media sites where you’re posting on a consistent basis. It includes podcasts and the reviews you’re getting on your Google Business Profile. If you’re not into endless self-promotion, asking for reviews can be uncomfortable. Get over it. All of us are reading reviews these days before making both big and small decisions. 

top of mind marketing google's key ranking factors include indexing your content

Google Ranking Factors 2022

Google Ranking Factors: Posting daily or at any specific frequency doesn’t help with ranking better in Google search results. But the more pages you have in the Google index, the more your content may show up in search results. The key equalizer is the quality of your content and getting that content indexed.

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What’s the Difference Between a Pillar Page and a Landing Page?

What is pillar page SEO?

Pillar page SEO means identifying keywords you want to rank for and using these throughout your pillar page strategy. This is what it’s all about. Use those keywords in your headings, subheads and other text. Be sure to assign H1 and H2 tags to these headings. Be consistent—use these words throughout all of your online accounts.

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Creating a Persona: Give it a Name and Make it Real!

While your persona is fictional, it’s based on your own research into what your existing and/or desired audience looks like.

While the buyer persona details may vary, they all include demographic information and behavior patterns. Personas are a very useful tool that help small business owners identify their customers.

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What is a 10X Pillar Page?

Once your pillar page is in place, it’s time to start developing the topic clusters, or subpages and blogs, that will provide more details about that topic. These are supplemental materials that support your pillar page. A subpage provides the opportunity to expand on what you’ve highlighted on your pillar page. It also needs to be fairly comprehensive—think 2500 words. These subpages take the form of text, infographics, videos, a guidebook or ebook. This is where you get creative and attract your users. They can be fun and entertaining, and tell a story.

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What is a Pillar Page?

A Pillar page is a 3,000-word-plus piece of content that lives as a main navigation page of your website. It covers one overall topic in depth and links to sub-pages of related content.

What is a pillar-content marketing strategy?

A pillar content strategy is designed around high-value pillar […]

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Is SEO Free on Google?

I can’t tell you how many times I hear this question: Is SEO free on Google?

The more I learn about SEO, the more aware I am of just how confused people are about SEO. They start reading and quickly become overwhelmed. Understandably. There’s a gazillion applications that promise and they promise […]