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This day in search marketing history: February 29

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.” Search In Pictures: SMX Bowl, Google Jeans, Bart’s Chalk Board 2008: The latest images showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more. Opinions expressed in these articles are those of the author and not necessarily Search Engine Land.

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SEO KPIs to track and measure SEO success

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By carefully measuring your SEO with metrics that matter to your business, you can understand where you are currently and what value SEO brings to your marketing. SEO KPIs bridge the gap between your business and marketing objectives and the data available in SEO tools and web analytics. What are SEO KPIs?

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How to build an SEO-forward culture in enterprise organizations

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In my SEO career, I’ve worked with various enterprise organizations, including major CDNs, encrypted email providers, American insurance companies, and commercial passenger airlines. One underlying challenge in these enterprise organizations is stakeholder management and the wider buy-in of SEO activities.

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How to use Google Gemini to improve SEO operational efficiency

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Gemini’s integration with Google Workspace can improve SEO operations and align activities with management priorities. Key insights: Leverage Gemini integrated with Google Workspace for Sheets, Docs and Gmail to analyze documents and create content. However, I’ve found that AI is very helpful in operational efficiency for SEO.

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Looker Studio reporting: 6 do’s and don’ts for search marketers

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Below are key learnings from Gifford’s session in the form of do’s and don’ts, plus some examples of data visualizations that search marketers will find most helpful. Get the daily newsletter search marketers rely on. He spoke about ways to improve your Looker Studio reporting to make it more useful for clients.

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Where is SEO in the business hierarchy?

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In 2004, SEO as a discipline was perceived as some kind of dark art performed behind the scenes. This “SEO voodoo” had minimal effect on a website and nothing to do with the actual business. Today, SEO is about: Content UX Trust And other “new” elements. Marketing Sales. When to start SEO?

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Where should you spend your SEO budget?

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Incoming links, or backlinks, still matter for SEO. ” However, I don’t think spending 100% of your SEO budget on UX and content alone is enough to drive organic search results. Just going after links won’t cut it in most markets either. What you need is a balanced SEO budget. SUBSCRIBE See terms.

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