March 2017
Beginner to intermediate
202 pages
5h 54m
English
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Chapter 4. Tools for SEO Measurement and Beyond
SEO helps interested visitors find a site they’re looking for; site interactions help to generate revenue. Repeating the same marketing processes needlessly eats up time and fails to generate real gains. Tools have the potential to save everyone time and money. There is no tool that can perform every function of an SEO’s job, but there are many that try to. It takes a village—of tools—to run or at least supplement a search program.
Competitor research alone can eat up monotonous hours as you compare one to another and assess the search warfare. Another task that eats up time without tools is checking for broken links. A myriad of broken links can create a negative user experience, hurt rankings, and therefore decrease revenue. There are nameless time-consuming, yet necessary, management tasks that tools can help with.
Machine Versus Humans
The game of SEO became much more interesting for marketers when the tools began to became more sophisticated in the late 2000s. Concepts like Pagerank and Moz Trust rank began to come to the forefront. Tools gave birth to the generalist SEO whose daytime job was once pure marketing in the classic sense. Mastery knowledge of tools can play a heavy part in success.
There are simply more digital apparatuses out there on the market than can be tinkered with by yours truly, so I’ll limit this chapter to tools I have personally used. Some folks shudder at disclosing their tools and I am one of them. ...
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