This week, as every week, our experts researched and analyzed trends, updates, new tools, and new features in the world of digital marketing. What are the key takeaways from last week’s news? Index deciphers them for you here.
first, roll up your sleeves. Ready? Let’s go! To facilitate and optimize your search, here are the steps to follow according to this blog from Moz:
https://moz.com/blog/30-minute-keyword-research
Competition Analysis: Who Are my Biggest Competitors?
Knowing your competitors and what they offer can help you stand out from the rest. You will be able to implement strategies that use their weaknesses to your advantage and emphasize your skills. In this article, the author explains how to analyze your competitors and their products and services, and then shows what to do with the information you gather. Analyzing your competitors involves identifying your most important competitors in the market and then upcoming competition. Rest assured that you can master this strategy and bring an innovative vision to your market. Now, go for it!
http://resources.spyfu.com/competition-analysis-find-competitors/
Have you ever heard of Google MyBusiness? It’s a Google tool that presents company listings in an eye catching way during a Google search (just look top right). You can include information on how to reach you, how to find you, and even your business opening hours. Not bad, right? Well, a few days ago, Google added a new feature: a Q&A on MyBusiness listings. This feature allows users to ask questions related to the company they are looking for and to get answers from other users. This will prove to be very practical on a daily basis. So what do we say? We say, Thanks Google!
Read all about it on this French language blog: http://etienne-lesaffre.fr/questions-reponses-fiches-mybusiness
It seems that the machines are now able to understand us and to analyze our language. This process is called “Natural Language Understanding.” It calls on APIs to function. API stands for “application programming interface,” which is a protocol allowing connections between several software components in order to exchange data. Several APIs grouped together allow for analyzing text to help you understand its concepts, its entities, its keywords, its sentiment, and more. Awesome, right? More information here:
https://natural-language-understanding-demo.mybluemix.net/
In this article, you will learn what the direct traffic to your website represents. Here is a short list (yes, I said short so don’t worry!) detailing where direct traffic comes from. Traffic may come from several sources, such as:
To avoid what’s called “Dark Traffic” (unattributed traffic), follow these three tips:
http://www.seerinteractive.com/blog/direct-traffic-is-dark-traffic-and-thats-ok/
Position 0 is not a sporting stance for working your abs! Position zero means the first result Google shows for certain searches – to directly answer a user question with an content extract. This information comes from organic search results. Why, then, did Google implement position zero? In fact, Google developed this technique for the following reasons:
Read more in this French article: https://clustaar.com/blog/position-0-seo-de-demain/
Digital marketing friends, you surely already follow Whiteboard Friday from Moz. If you don’t, one try and you’ll be a fan forever! Every week, Moz co-founder Rand Fishkin tackles different SEO issues through simple, clear videos – always with a touch of humor. This week he’s offering up his organic quality score theory, which is more or less similar to the Quality Score from AdWords. For this, he presents 3 hypotheses about organic quality scoring:
Similarly, Rand presents 3 ways to boost your organic quality score:
For more information and insights on this new tool, watch Rand’s Whiteboard Friday here: https://moz.com/blog/organic-quality-score
The title is provocative … You have always dreamed of entering the Google database and spying on the most popular searches by internet users. Google, a step ahead as always, brings them to you on a silver platter. Here’s a rundown direct from Search Engine Journal. The first 5 will make you smile:
If those five already have you smirking, then the rest will make you laugh out loud. Without further ado, go to the blog where your special surprise awaits: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-reveals-popular-searches/213648/
The digital marketing agency iPullRank presents on its blog a tutorial explaining how to use MySQL to analyze a long list of data. It’s quite common for our marketing experts to end up with an Excel page of 34,500 columns and 12,387 lines to analyze and make sense of. To avoid headaches, this post provides a series of clear and precise instructions to take you through the process, from setup to execution, with a complete set of formulas at your disposal. So jump right in and make everyone jealous of your analytical powers! http://ipullrank.com/how-marketers-can-deal-with-data-over-a-million-rows/