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M Posted 8 years 10 months ago

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The complex, constantly changing world of search engine optimization can feel a lot like standing on the golden beaches of Australia: the sands of SEO never stop shifting under your feet. Google’s algorithm updates continually change the game, requiring SEOs and content marketers to remain light on their feet and adapt their strategies to remain competitive. In fact, 82% of Australian marketers surveyed by Content Marketing Institute say that they are investing in content marketing. Yet, only 28% report that their usage of content marketing is effective.

In this dynamic landscape, it’s crucial to have an integrated content and SEO technology that can peek behind the curtain to reveal the true search intent of your target audience. It’s also important that your keyword research solution allows you to go beyond the domain and analyze your site -- and your competitors' -- at the page URL level, so you can effectively target specific topic and content strategies for your full spectrum of products, services and business objectives.

Here are five tips to help you maintain your sanity and success in the Australian SEO game. 

1. Know Where Your Search Engine Optimization Stands

Creating a successful SEO strategy begins with a clear understanding of where you stand today. Search marketers in Australia now have unfettered access to real-time and historical research for topic and content trends via BrightEdge’s Data Cube. As one of the best SEO platforms, BrightEdge arms marketers the essential means to research and report on key SEO insights. The BrightEdge Data Cube now gives you insight into how your site is trending – and that of your competitors – at both domain and page URL level.

2. Identify Your Biggest Opportunities

Now that you know where your SEO stands, you’ll want to identify what are the low-hanging-fruit topics that can provide you with easy wins. These are the keywords for which your site is currently ranking on Page 2. BrightEdge Data Cube can help you research into that.

Even better, you can identify exactly what types of content will help you target these keywords to deliver the greatest SEO benefits, including images, videos, carousels, places, local 3-pack, and Google Quick Answers.

Furthermore, Data Cube has advanced filtering capabilities that allow you to narrow your research with a number of parameters. For instance, you can focus your research to only look at keywords with 1000 more searches per month. To make it even more specific: you can search with several conditions all at once, such as “show me only keywords that contain certain 'sydney attraction', with more than 1000 searches per month, and currently rank on Page 2."

3. Win With Data Trending 

Immediate information, right down to the hyper-local or micro-moments, are indispensable to adjust content strategy and meet the needs of consumers in a specific place or time. However, changing the course of your campaign by making quick assumptions can also take you off-track from a winning strategy. For example, maybe you’ve noticed that your overall Page 2 listings are growing. Your alarm will be set off immediately...but do these changes indicate content decay or new opportunities? Trended data allows you to step back and examine the bigger picture. Then you’re able to take informed actions to adjust your SEO tactics for sustainable wins.

4. Analyze Competition

Good search engine optimization always includes a focused competitive strategy. Data Cube can shine a light on keywords that are delivering big wins for your competitors, but for which you may not even be ranking. Trending data also gives you insight into how and where your competition is winning or losing, not just in the moment, but over time.

Additionally, Data Cube can show you how your competitors are approaching content strategy overall. Are they learning and improving over time? Are there distinct patterns in their strategy that you can exploit? Do they lack a methodical approach altogether, indicated by the trended data that they’re all over the map, and trying to find something that sticks? Site Comparison within Data Cube gives you all of this powerful competitive knowledge to enable you stay agile and informed.

5. Protect Your SEO Equity During Site Migrations

Imagine you've successfully implemented a winning SEO and content marketing program, and are ready to hit the surf: the last thing you want, is any damage to your SEO equity. Even led with "First no harm" rule, any redesign, or migration to your website might deliver a hit to your SEO rankings.

BrightEdge ContentIQ is a powerful product that will give you detailed information about the key site metrics before and after a site migration. For a quick spot check, you can use Trended data in Data Cube to see if your overall Data Cube score is increasing or reducing after the site migration.

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Hope you find these 5 tips helpful. Now, if you want to learn more about how to organize and operate an SEO team, read our other blog about SEO Management.

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M Posted 8 years 11 months ago

t 9 min read

Only two more days until we are live at Share NYC! We’re extremely excited to meet and connect with the BrightEdge community in New York City on May 18.

Share continues to be the premier content marketing and SEO event of the industry, and this first stop to NY during our 2017 roadshow will kick things off with a bang!

For a full list of the sessions and keynote presenters we’ll be featuring this Thursday, be sure to check out the ShareNYC agenda page.

If you’re already registered, be sure to download the official Share NYC app for Android or iOS to preview the agenda and the speaker sessions. In the meantime, here are a few of the key themes in content and SEO we’re exploring this year and some of the sessions we will feature this week at Share.

The Future of Search

Search marketing is more relevant to businesses than ever before, with 51% of all internet traffic on average coming from organic search. That said, Search is in a state of dramatic change, with trends like the fragmentation of the online customer journey and the advent of Voice Search coming into full fruition.

How can the marketing teams of today get in front of the Search of tomorrow?

“Shaping the Future of Search. Together”

Jim Yu, Co-Founder and CEO of BrightEdge shares his thoughts on shaping the future of search and content marketing. As SEO becomes mainstream and a key driver of content marketing strategies, learn how innovation, community and a focus on results will elevate the role of SEO in modern marketing organizations.

“The Future of Search”

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the oldest and most mature digital marketing tactic. But search marketing is more complex than ever: Customers use multiple devices and platforms to “Search”; Google changes its ranking algorithm constantly; and intelligent agents like Siri, Amazon Alexa, and Cortana are looking to compete with market share from traditional search engines. This session will examine today’s trends in the search marketing world and discuss what the future of search might look like.

Convergence of SEO and Content Marketing

The era of SEO and content existing as separate silos within the marketing stack has reached the end. Modern digital marketing strategy understands that the two cannot exist independently of each other, especially if you want to stand any chance of having search visibility against your competitors.

But what does convergence look like, and how can SEOs and content marketers position themselves for what’s next in the market?

Customer Panel #1: “Search as Marketing’s Secret Weapon”

Search is everywhere, search is the future, and search is the new secret weapon of marketing departments. In this session, learn how search, “the heart of marketing”, is driving marketing strategy, content strategy, and even new product development. Then we’ll tip-toe into the future of search to discuss voice, local search, and Intelligent Content.

Fireside Chat: “Powering the Customer Journey of the Future”

What become of the customer journey? Linear, predictable, or shattered into a million “I want to” micro-moments? In this ever-changing digital landscape, how do brands deliver great – and unified – customer experiences? Our speakers will discuss how the modern customer journey requires a deep understanding of consumer intent and alignment across the marketing organization.

Connecting the BrightEdge Community

Fostering community and serving our customers has always been at the heart of the BrightEdge brand. In pursuit of this ideal, we have designed several sessions aimed at helping our SEO, digital, and content communities connect.

“BrightEdge Customer Hero Showcase”

Learn from the best SEOs and content marketers in the BrightEdge community and hear their customer stories. BrightEdge’s Erik Newton and Alex Volk will review 5 case studies focused on identifying, capturing and converting demand and share how the results were achieved.

They will also cover the new BrightEdge training and new certification exams for 2017 and plans to add additional advanced certification levels in the soon-to-be launched “BrightEdge University” and discuss how certification helps drive SEO maturity.

Lastly, they will announce the categories for the BrightEdge Edgy Awards to be awarded in April 2018.

We cannot wait to welcome the BrightEdge customer community to Share NYC this Thursday, May 18!  

If you have any questions about the event, please email events@brightedge.com.