Actionable Tools for Inbound Marketing

        Justin Briggs, SEO Manager
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Who Is This Guy?




       Justin Briggs
     SEO Manager at Big Fish Games
I Love This Stuff
Find Link Sources
Search engines
keep taking our data
Let’s get some back
The Usual Suspects




http://www.majesticseo.com/ and http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/
I miss Yahoo!
Site Explorer
What We Lost




               Searches content of
                  linking pages



  Our Site
I keep trying to solve
    this problem
Google Custom Search Engine




                                                              Good start, but not good
                                                                 enough for me.




http://www.seomoz.org/blog/replace-yahoo-linkdomain-with-google-custom-search-engine
I Built My Own Scraper




                                                                     Way too technical for
                                                                        most people




http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/building-your-own-scraper-for-link-analysis/
Found yolink




                  Searches content
                    behind links!


   Page with
 outbound links
Searches the content
     behind the links




http://www.yolink.com/yolink/
Do you use Google
  Alerts for link
    building?
Link Building with Google Alerts




http://www.rosshudgens.com/link-building-with-google-alerts-a-guide/
Search Alerts with yolink




http://alerts.yolink.com/alerts/
Want to scrape
  without all the
technical mishaps?
Scrape Similar in Chrome




http://justinbriggs.org/quick-link-prospecting-with-scraper-extension
Browser With Scraping Tools




http://www.outwit.com/products/hub/
Visualizing Data
Things are about to
     get sexy
Network Graph Visualization




http://gephi.org/
Export Google
Analytics keyword
       data
Where is Traffic Landing




                     Blue nodes are keywords
                      sending traffic to Pink
                              pages
Visualize Your Keyword Traffic




Better Understand
•Local
•Personalization
•Double Listings
•Keyword
Cannibalization
Looking at
competitor’s link
    profile
The Usual Suspects




http://www.majesticseo.com/ and http://www.opensiteexplorer.org/
Anchor Text Distribution
Find Irregularities
                                                 Most pages on
                                                      site


What Is This?




Doesn’t really share anchors with rest of site
A Pre-owned Domain Redirect



                   They acquired a
              pre-owned domain and 301
               redirected to a subpage.
Use data visualization
   to discover site
      problems
Data Management Workspace




http://www.visokio.com/omniscope
Export Google
Analytics keyword
   data again
Highlight Content Problems
  Good top of funnel keywords




                                All high B.R. land on two
                                      template types




                                        A content gap our users
                                           are experiencing
Export Google
Webmaster Tools CTR
      data
CTR Distribution Curve
Visualize Business Analytics




http://www.tableausoftware.com/
Dynamically Visualize EDW
Technical Work
Web Browser Automation




http://seleniumhq.org/
Stripping inline CSS
out of hundreds of
      articles
RegEx Find and Replace




http://macromates.com/
Screaming Frog SEO Spider




http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
Catching Problems
Adwords team
  enforces policy
without prior notice
Google Analytics Alerts
Solving for Content
Building a new
 information
 architecture
Thousands of
 historical content
pieces without right
    schema data
Crowdsource Data




http://www.smartsheet.com/
Rewriting hundreds
  of thousands of
articles post Panda
Crowdsourced Content




http://www.serv.io/
Ratings and Reviews
bazaarvoice




http://www.bazaarvoice.com/products/ratings-and-reviews
Leverage in
recommendation
     engine
Soovle Keyword Suggest




http://soovle.com/
Using content and
keyword strategy to
   grow revenue
Use data for linkbait
Data Search




http://www.zanran.com/q/
Justin Briggs, SEO Manager
Justin.Briggs@BigFishGames.com
@JustinRBriggs
http://justinbriggs.org

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