Using search marketing to amplify TV buys: SMX East 2016
Columnist Erin Everhart provides key takeaways on a session from SMX East 2016 detailing the relationship between paid search and TV advertising.
Erin Everhart is an experienced digital strategist, content developer and search marketer. She's currently the Senior Manager, Media Strategy for The Home Depot and has previously worked agency-side for mid-sized business and Fortune 500 companies. She speaks regularly on digital strategy, content development and inbound marketing at conferences nationwide. Follow her on Twitter @erinever.
5 ways SEO and PR should be working together
When it comes to digital marketing, SEO and PR go together like peanut butter and jelly. Columnist Erin Everhart explains how these two teams can combine forces to benefit each other and the business as a whole.
SMX West: Content, your brand and the battle for customers
When it comes to SEO, Wil Reynolds argues that we need to stop focusing on the algorithm and start focusing on the audience. Columnist Erin Everhart recaps his presentation from SMX West.
How TV (And Video) Influences Search Behavior
In a multi-screen world, you're competing not just for media placement, but for attention. Columnist Erin Everhart discusses how search marketers can use this to their advantage.
How To Prep For The Pending Penguin Update & Ensure You’re Penalty Free In 2016
The next Penguin update is coming soon, according to a Google spokesperson. Columnist Erin Everhart outlines what you can do to prepare.
How To Manage Your Old & Outdated Content
Fresh content is important when it comes to SEO, but Erin Everhart reminds us that there's value in updating old content, as well.
SEO Can’t Always Get What It Wants — Or Can It?
SEO doesn't exist in a vacuum. Contributor Erin Everhart shares tips for getting other company stakeholders on board to achieve SEO success.
5 SEO Problems Plaguing E-Commerce Websites
Columnist Erin Everhart addresses some of the unique challenges facing e-commerce sites when it comes to search engine optimization.
Generalists Vs. Specialists In SEO: What’s The Best Approach?
In a follow-up to her last column, Erin Everhart takes on the question of whether it's better for search engine optimization professionals to be highly specialized in SEO or more of a jack-of-all-trades digital marketer.
In 2015, Your Job As An SEO Isn’t Actually SEO
Columnist Erin Everhart explains how the role of the search engine optimization (SEO) professional is undergoing a major transformation.
My 4 New Year’s Resolutions For A New Year Of SEO
What are your SEO resolutions for 2015? Columnist Erin Everhart shares hers.
2014 Year In Review: A Look Back On What Happened With SEO
Every year, we say how much has changed in the industry — and every year, we’re right. It never ceases to amaze me how much SEO constantly refines itself to more sophisticated Google guidelines and smarter, savvier searchers. Think about it: Since 2011, Moz has counted more than 83 major algorithm updates to the search engine giant. That’s […]
21 Link Building Ideas That Have Nothing To Do With Guest Posting
Need some creative inspiration for link building tactics? Columnist Erin Everhart has you covered.
How To Estimate Traffic From A Ranking Increase Using Actual Metrics, Not Generic Studies
Columnist Erin Everhart shows you how to prove SEO value with traffic estimates based on your own organic data rather than generic web studies.
Should You Really Spend Your Time (And Resources) On Negative SEO?
Every site is bound to have some shady links. But should you disavow? You might be throwing the baby out with the bath water.
How To Prove The Value Of SEO Without Drowning In Data
Having a tough time communicating the value of SEO to your C-Suite? Erin Everhart provides some tips on how to tackle this common issue.
8 Small Tweaks That Can Deliver Big Link Building Results
About this time every year I reflect on my progress thus far and start thinking about what I want to do differently in the second half of the year. Consider taking a good, hard look at your link building campaigns. Even if your strategy isn’t six months old, making changes to your plan multiple times […]
Back To Basics: 5 Fundamentals Of Link Building That Will Never Go Away
SEO is a totally different beast today than it was just a few years ago, and many would argue that link building is the aspect that’s suffered the biggest beating since then. Yes, the process of link building today is nothing like how we did it in years past — but the qualities that make a good […]
7 Things I Wish Execs Knew About Link Building
Whether it’s your CMO, your client or your client’s boss, we’ve all worked with someone who just doesn’t quite get search. And that’s OK. We can’t expect everyone to understand the intricacies behind what goes into that No. 1 ranking. SEO is easy in theory, but it’s a daunting task to take on, and Google […]
Link Building Does Not Equal Content Marketing – But Here’s How They Fit Together
Link building has gone through a lot in the past 18 months — and when content marketing became the buzzword of the day, there were troves of articles saying that content marketing is the new link building or that content marketing has replaced link building. That couldn’t be more false. Content marketing can build links. […]
How To Repurpose Content Without Looking Like A Total Jerk
When content first hit the search scene, search marketers wanted to produce as much content as humanly possible. That’s a lot of work — so much so, in fact, that it’s ushered in wave after wave of crappy content. The great news is that you don’t have to create a lot of content to rank […]
It’s Conference Season! 5 Ways To Build Links At Events
Spring brings more than just a (long-awaited) reprieve from this intense winter we’ve been having. It means conference season is upon us, which means a (much-needed) break away from our computer shackles for some good ol’ fashioned networking. It’s also a perfect time to build links. Yes, conferences are a fantastic opportunity to build links. […]
How Agile Marketing Changes Your Link Building Process Forever
After a year of working in agile marketing, I can’t believe I ever used another process. Efficiency is increased. Morale is improved. Clients are happier. Links seem a little bit easier. Okay, the last one may be a bit of stretch — getting links is still hard. But the process of link building when you’re […]
Creating Links That Offer The Best User Experience
We focus a lot on where we our links should go. We analyze Domain Authority and social metrics until we can spew back a site’s numbers faster than our own phone number. We nit-pick sidebars, in-content and author box placements until we’re blue in the face. But we don’t put nearly enough time on how […]
A Look Back On One Crazy Year Of Link Building
If 2012 was the year of Google Algorithm updates — Moz counted 37 big ones compared to the 15 in 2013 and 21 in 2011 — 2013 was the year that link building suffered from a serious identity crisis. It was sidelined, stretched, swindled and spit back out again more times than your average SEO […]
If Link Building Really Is Dead, What Do We Do Now?
“He’s dead, Jim.” It’s been shouted from the rooftops, from here to Moz and every blog in between, but I guess it isn’t official until the doctor says so: Link building is dead. Depending on how much you agree with that statement, you’re somewhere in the five stages of grief with the impending death of link […]
5 Ways To Make Your Client Kickoff Meeting A Success
When we moved to agile marketing for our internal process, it changed the way we think. Instead of finding any resources that were available, we had dedicated teams that worked on a smaller number of clients. Instead of working against a 12-month marketing plan, we worked in 30-day Sprints to reach smaller, more attainable goals […]
Updates To Old Link Building Practices That Score Wins Today
Everyone is itching for new link building ideas. Google is getting smarter, and the game is getting harder. What worked five years ago — shoot, what worked last year — isn’t going to work today. Except, that’s not necessarily true. Sometimes, it’s not the tactic that stops working — it’s the way people approach it. […]
9 Things We Should Never Stop Doing in Link Building
A couple of months ago, I went on a little rant. (It happens sometimes; I’m looking into it.) I was overwhelmed by the responses that little column generated, with others picking up my rally cry to eliminate super shady link building practices. But commenters were also quick to point out that there is a lot […]
7 Ways To Get Links When Launching A New Website
Launching a new website is one of the hardest things you do. It’s also one of the best ways to get a nice influx of links pointing your way. I know this because for the past 2 1/2 months, I’ve been living it. On Tuesday, July 16 at 3:52 p.m., 352 Media Group officially became […]
11 Things We Should Never Ever Do In Link Building Again
Okay friends, we need to have a little talk. I am frustrated. All of us Link Week columnists genuinely care about giving away good (and free, I might add) information on how to do link building the right way. So why, why, pray tell, do we continue to see so much crap? Clearly, we’re going to have to […]
3 Ways To Break The Link Building Block
We’ve all been there — that moment in any link building campaign where you hit a wall. There are so many things that you want to do, but there is so little time or buy-in to do them that you settle on just doing the things you need to do. That sucks. It gets tedious, […]
The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Internal Linking Strategy
It’s not the first thing you think of when you hear “link building.” It’s definitely not the sexiest aspect of link building. But, I’d argue it’s among the most important components of a solid link building strategy. That’s right, folks: today we’re going to chat about internal linking. Cue the communal groan. It’s okay! I’m […]
The Art & Science Of Storytelling As Told By Journalists
As SEO becomes more about good content and outreach becomes more about relationship building, the gap between link building and journalism continues to shrink. Where once I cursed my journalist background (because of the lack of job opportunities it brought me), I now adore it because it’s taught me how to tell great stories. Storytelling […]
How 5 Years Of Doing The Right Things Can Be Undone In 9 Months Of Doing Nothing
We’ve all seen those one-and-done link building campaigns. Maybe even some of us have had clients push for them. They never work. It’s like Matthew McConaughey’s abs. Do you really believe that he only goes to the gym for a two-month stint to maintain those perfect pectorals? Doubtful. Why do people think that SEO, and […]
5 Tools You Never Thought To Use For Link Building
Link building tools are everywhere, so much so that it’s safe to assume we’ve saturated the market, and it’s time to move on to building something else. While I rely on some of these as much as Instragram relies on selfies and food photos, some of the best tools I’ve found for link building were actually created […]
How To Build The Best Relationships, Err…I Mean Links
What is it about SEO that makes people stop acting like people? Sure, it has your fair share of data mining in dark corners, but the SEO industry is brimming with personality, sometimes too much of it. So why is it that when it comes to link building, that personality is left to the wayside? […]
6 Things To Think About Before Disavowing Links
Earlier this month, Christmas came early for many in the SEO industry. Google launched its wildly anticipated disavow links tool bringing with it a way for you to remove some of those shady things you your former SEO company have done. The biggest problem with disavowing your links is that at first glance, it looks […]
How To Get Links When Your Goal Isn’t To Get Links
Do really need me to tell you that link building has changed? I said it back in April; Danny Sullivan ranted about it in July; heck, Rand was even clamoring for it 2009. Link building is, and will continue to become, a vastly different industry, but I can’t imagine SEO where links don’t matter. I […]
How To Remove Your Unnatural Inbound Links
Recently, Google went a little crazy — it’s cool; they came back — which subsequently caused anyone who owns a website to go a little nuts, too. Google has sent out oodles of the above messages over the past couple of months, and it has caused a lot of people to question if and how […]