An integrated approach: From SEO to PPC and beyond
Columnist Chris Liversidge shares highlights and insights from two industry events where integrated search marketing was a hot topic this year.
Chris Liversidge has over twelve years web development experience & is the founder of QueryClick Search Marketing, a UK agency specialising in SEO, PPC and Conversion Rate Optimisation strategies that deliver industry-leading ROI.
Load time, static site generators & SEO: How we lowered our own site’s load time by 74%
Google's upcoming transition to mobile-first indexing, combined with its raised expectation of mobile site performance, should convince site owners to consider static site generation. Contributor Chris Liversidge explains.
Building ROI-focused SEO strategies: A framework
How can we, as SEOs, do better for our clients? Columnist Chris Liversidge has his own framework for mapping SEO strategy down to hard-dollar impact.
Why content-led SEO will always fail to build links effectively
Great content doesn't always translate to great links. Columnist Chris Liversidge explains the problem with this strategy and advocates for a more audience-focused approach.
Connect audience insight to your SEO strategy
Columnist Chris Liversidge believes that audience enrichment data is key to making better optimization decisions and that search marketers should be ready to engage with an audience-led strategy.
Integrate lifetime value to benefit a customer-led SEO strategy
Columnist Chris Liversidge explains why fixing your analytics gaps and taking lifetime customer value into account can lead to better results in your organic search initiatives.
Use Power BI to supercharge your SEO
Columnist Chris Liversidge explains how to take advantage of Microsoft’s Power BI (Business Intelligence) rollout to collect and analyze more data than ever before -- and find the SEO performance gaps you didn’t know about.
True performance baselines & ROI for SEO without attribution modeling
How do you determine your SEO program's real performance, discounting the effects of seasonality, paid search spending or any other external factors? Columnist Chris Liversidge lays out a step-by-step process for reaching a reliable ROI calculation.
Develop free, lightweight attribution insights for your paid & organic channels
Looking to reallocate or reduce your paid search spend and not sure where to start? Columnist Chris Liversidge shows how you can identify opportunities by comparing your paid and organic search performance data by keyword and device.
Data-Led Inbound Marketing, Part 2
Columnist Chris Liversidge shows how a streamlined, data-led process can be used to set clear priorities and objectives that drive both social and SEO performance over time.
Data-Led Link Building: Audience Segmentation & Analysis
Columnist Chris Liversidge explains how to use data to determine where and how to focus link-building efforts.
Use Google’s Search Console API & Pivot Tables To Supercharge Your Long-Tail SEO
Columnist Chris Liversidge explains how you can use the Search Analytics API to glean insights from your search query data in Google Search Console.
Maximizing Links From Seasonal Inbound Campaigns
With the holiday season looming, assessing the scope for effective SEO link building projects is top of mind for most SEOs. Columnist Chris Liversidge discusses how you can maximize your backlink gain this winter.
Using Component Metrics In Your SEO Analysis
Metrics are necessary, but looking at them in isolation can be misleading. Columnist Chris Liversidge shows how combining metrics can give you better context.
Mega Menus & SEO
What are the best practices surrounding mega menu navigation elements when it comes to SEO? Columnist Chris Liversidge lays it out.
Calculating SEO Impact To Get Things Done
Columnist Chris Liversidge reminds us that it getting buy-in from clients or the C-Suite often depends on your ability demonstrate the value of your recommendations in terms of revenue.
The Great Chinese E-Commerce Gold Rush
China recently relaxed its regulations on allowing foreign companies to operate e-commerce businesses within the country. Columnist Chris Liversidge provides some advice and insights for businesses thinking of expanding into this new market.
Used Car Sales & SEO: Two Tales Of Woe
Columnist Chris Liversidge walks through some major SEO problems plaguing two well-known second-hand car intermediates.
How To Replace Google’s (Not Provided) Data To Strike SEO Gold
Google Analytics may not be providing keyword referral data anymore, but Chris Liversidge has developed a process for matching keyword queries from Google Webmaster Tools to their probable landing page URLs.
Adidas, Nike & Auditing hreflangs For Explosive SEO Results
These fierce competitors make for a compelling study of differing approaches to internationalizing your website, says contributor Chris Liversidge. They also provide lessons about what can go wrong.
Target’s Mobile Site Shows The Value Of An SEO Spring Clean (Sorry, Target!)
Columnist Chris Liversidge gets back to basics by taking a look at how to tackle a common SEO problem: duplicate content.
Of Apple, SEO & Why Google Thinks NeXT Is Still Alive
Even the world's largest and best-known brands can make unconventional (and unproductive) SEO choices. Columnist Chris Liversidge dissects Apple's handling of NeXT.com.
Replace (Not Provided) With Behavioral Analysis & Fuzzy Matching To Boost SEO
Worried about your site's bounce rate? Columnist Chris Liversidge details how to identify and fix problem pages using Google Analytics and Webmaster Tools.
How Social Campaign Audits Can Inform Your SEO
While not a direct ranking factor in Google's algorithm, a strong social presence can still help bolster a brand's search visibility.
Training SEO: 3 Tips To Build Your Team’s Skills
Hiring a talented team is just the start. How to structure ongoing training to ensure your company's SEOs keep up with the latest developments in the space.
Run Your Established SEO Like PPC & Maximise ROI Long-Term
The biggest SEO improvements available are often a more profound shift in strategy that continues to deliver improvement day after day for the entire duration of your SEO campaign. One such strategy is taking the same weekly approach to auditing your SEO strategy using search query reports as a PPC manager would.
Breaking Down Page Speed Events For SEO Gain
It's important to get clear the value of changes in terms of SEO impact before allocating in-demand tech time to work on fixes. To throw up just one example: if your page returns in less than one second what impact will fixing render-blocking CSS have on absolute page load times?
Discover Who’s Eating Your SEO Lunch… And How To Beat Them
The combination of web analytics and a thoughtful SEO strategy is a winner. Here's one of my favourite strategies to ensure you're beating your competition at SEO linkbuilding.
Deliver Transformational SEO Performance With Simple Techniques
I find huge value in big site analysis, as the subtleties of prioritisation can have multi-million dollar impact for a business. This analysis can be informative about approaching a new SEO strategy for any site, and reveal a few truths about the true value of a number of SEO techniques.
How To Massively Scale Ethical Link Building FTW
The linkbuilding toolkit is broader than most commentary suggests, and once the concept of quality and appropriateness (AKA relevancy) is truly embraced (and not just paid lip service to), then the dynamic, cutting edge solution to linkbuilding in 2014 is obvious: scale your processes that generate high quality targets and content opportunities for linkbuilding across the spectrum of all types of linkbuilding.
How 90s HTML Coding Will Save The SEO World In 2014
A surprising blast from the coding past has been making a comeback via SEO, and is frequently making its way into the core of advanced responsive design thinking: the humble sprite.
Showing Value In 2014: SEO Attribution Deep Dive
Carefully thought out campaign attribution can show your SEO campaign's true value to your business. Settling on a model which paints the least-wrong picture is your starting point, but pretty quickly you can make your model sing, providing real value and efficiency to your marketing budget blend.
How To Use Excel To Easily Spot SERP CTR Trends
Get better insights from your SERP Impressions Vs Clicks report with Excel wizardry for SEO content teams.
Breaking The Mobile Speed Barrier For SEO Gold
2014 will offer a new killer SEO technique or two, it's my bet that leading the charge will be changes to the mobile SEO algorithm in Google. Or, more specifically, changes to the algorithm's sensitivity to your site render speed on a smartphone device.
A Mature Digital Marketing Industry Provides SEO Opportunity For Small & Ambitious Businesses
As we are approaching the end of the year, I thought it would be worth reviewing 2013 from the perspective of a UK based SEO with a diverse range of multinational clients and what opportunities lie ahead for all things SEO.
Content Curation: Pruning Old “Fresh” Content To Reveal The Evergreen
Most sites deliver regularly produced content as part of their architecture. At its simplest it might just be a blog section through which company news, updates, and outreach are posted. At its best, however, it's a carefully pruned source of evergreen SEO traffic and a lean component of your site indexing strategy.
SEO Reporting To Shift Your Bottom Line
PPC & CRO are heavily report-driven and have excellent data visibility, and as a result are generally better understood to be a tool rather than an end in itself. SEO, however, has often fallen into the reporting-for-reporting's-sake trap and there have been some surprising stand-out reports that I think are generally underestimated by most SEOs.
Use Google’s Image & Mobile Optimisation Guidelines For SEO Advantage
Avoid impacting your SEO traffic while implementing Google's mobile optimisation guidelines by following this simple guide to mobile & image search optimisation build structure.
Data Analysis for SEO: Industry KPIs For A Mature Industry
As we move closer to the 20th anniversary of the launch of public search engines, a key industry trend in search marketing is the long called-for move to placing transparent, objective & measurable KPIs at the heart of search marketing, social & content campaigns. What KPIs give you an objective measure of your agency?
Big Brand SEO & Penguin 2.0
Taking a broader look at Multinational SEO, though, throws up particular issues for the big brand sites out there, and I though that in light of the upcoming Penguin 2.0 update confirmed by Matt Cutts recently it would be useful to look at particular areas of concern for big site SEO and how to ensure you come out smiling when Google's planned updates take effect.