Adding Detail and Expanding on Content - Internet Marketing Podcast Number 197

Episode29 min2013-08-07

Post original content on your own site first, diversify link text, build quality relevant links, and treat SEO as an overall strategy rather than a checklist of tactics.

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Key takeaways
content continues to be important, but requires more depth and more detail

About this episode

Join us this week as we talk about making sure that your images are meaningful, Adding detail and expanding on content, and expanding SEO - Strategy, not Tactics. We also discuss Search Engine Optimization Video in Houston Texas. The most popular Internet Marketing Podcast on iTunes. E-Webstyle provides Houston SEO .

Questions this episode answers

Should I post content on my own site or submit it to guest blogs for SEO?

Post original content on your own site first because the content on your site has more value than an inbound link from a guest post. After publishing, you can remix a portion for a guest post with a link back for more information. Save your best link-bait-worthy articles for your own site.

Does keyword-rich URL folder structure still help SEO?

It works, but much less than it used to. Better content and better inbound links now outperform URL keyword tricks. The hosts note that exact match domain names and keyword-rich directories had more impact before 2012 algorithm changes, and content quality matters far more today.

What does it mean that SEO is more strategy than tactics?

Instead of just checking off on-page tasks and building links, you now need to define what purpose your content serves, what audience you want, what you want visitors to do, and how social, blogging, video, and newsletters all connect. The hosts say this strategic thinking applies to PPC as well.

In their words

If your content doesn't address those issues and really solve a particular pain, then your content serves no purpose.

Charles Lewis

No longer the days that you can just build links and get some sort of value from them. You know, even if you get these links from sites that maybe have a high PR, it doesn't matter. These links have to come from sites that are quality.

Charles Lewis

it's not about just doing some things and getting a position. It's about doing those things, getting the position, and then making sure my strategy is in place to get the results we want.

Charles Lewis
Terms defined in this episode
author authority
The SEO value tied to Google authorship markup, which Google was actively testing and reporting positive results on according to a Matt Cutts video mentioned in the episode.
link text diversification
Varying the anchor text used in inbound links so it is not all keyword-stuffed exact match text, required after an algorithm update targeting exact match anchor text.
exact match domain
A domain name that exactly matches a target keyword phrase, such as SEOHouston.com, which the hosts say only carries value if that phrase is the actual company name.
repurposing content
Taking a proven piece of content, such as a blog post, and reformatting it into video, infographics, or other media to reach more audiences and gain additional traction.

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Matthew Bertram, host of The Best SEO Podcast
Matthew Bertram
AI keynote speaker · Owner & CEO, EWR Digital · President, ModalPoint

Matthew Bertram is an AI keynote speaker, creator of DIG™ (Digital Information Governance), and owner and CEO of EWR Digital. He helps energy and industrial leaders win visibility in AI search (GEO and AEO), is President of ModalPoint and CMO of the Oil & Gas Global Network, hosts The Best SEO Podcast, and has authored eight books including LLM Visibility. More about Matthew Bertram.

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