How to Earn Visibility & Links with Content

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http://www.optimising.com.au/blog/googles-penguin-update-pushes-for-user-friendly-content
“Content marketing” Growth vs. Penguin updates:




Source: http://01100111011001010110010101101011.co.uk/2012/11/google-updates-and-search-behaviour-towards-content-marketing/
Google hates this kind of link building
Google has more signals on quality than ever
Your bounce rates (back to SERPs)
Referring traffic from links
Referring traffic from social shares
Your writers’ authority & influence
Your brand’s reputation
Correlation shows social has great data –
     but don’t give up on links yet!




http://www.searchmetrics.com/en/white-paper/google-ranking-factors-uk-2012/
Re-educating clients on quality vs. quantity
                    is hard!
2011 Link Building Monthly Report:   2013 Link Building Report:
You need quality, method & patience to pay off
Be remarkable…




http://www.ted.com/talks/kid_president_i_think_we_all_need_a_pep_talk.html
Be insightful…
Be first…




http://www.blueglass.com/blog/google-ad-rules/
Be creative…




www.airbnb.com/annual/
Be creative…
Be useful…




http://www.vouchercodes.co.uk/most-wanted/
Be useful…
Be unique…




 http://wish.co.uk/
Be unique…
Be agile…
Be quick…
Be prepared to adapt!
For best outreach results, you need an audience –
social media = likes/shares/retweets, but rarely links
1) Educate your client/boss to focus on the end
  result & be prepared to learn along the way
2) Your publish button is your biggest link
            building weapon
Useful outreach metric: average links per post
3) Send Google brand signals they can’t ignore




           http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/wp-content/who_owns_what.jpg
(or just make your brand the market leading keyword!)
4) Your outreach placements generate natural
        links & co-citations themselves
How to Earn Visibility & Links With Content
How to Earn Visibility & Links With Content

How to Earn Visibility & Links With Content

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