Digital Marketing This Week - August 2nd 2014

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Let's face it. Even the best WordPress site is useless if it's getting minimal traffic. In this episode of Digital Marketing This Week, we show the five things that can boost your WordPress SEO and the two things you might be doing that are hurting your search engine rankings.

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August 2nd, 2014

Chris Mercer• Content Developer• Optimization Expert• Host of DMTW• Call me “Mercer”

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5 Things That Help SEO(And 2 Things That Can Hurt)

Thing 1:“Keywords”

• More Important Than Ever Before

• “Long Tail”

• Placement Matters

Thing 2:“Links”

• These CAN Hurt!

• The Source Matters

• The Mix Matters

Thing 3:“Sitemaps”

• Describes Your Site To Search Engines

Thing 4:“Social Activity”

• Not Just Facebook…• Comments Count• Engagement

Thing 5:“Authorship”

• Totally Free

• Raises Quality Score

Watch Out For:“Duplicate Content”

• Create “Enhanced Content” Instead

• Bounce Rate

• Time On Page

• Think Like A “Bot”

Watch Out For:“Bot Judgement”

The Plugins We Use:

• WordPress SEO By Yoast

• AuthorSure

http://www.seroundtable.com/google-local-search-algorithm-updated-18904.html

http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2358054/Google-Analytics-Helps-You-Filter-Spider-and-Bot-Traffic

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