Improve SEO Using DDC, Actionable SEO Guide 2016, Social Media For 2016, #Speedlink 02:2016

Hi everyone, hope you all had a great and productive week!

Using Your Niche’s Demand Distribution Curve (DDC) to Improve Your SEO, Social, and Content Strategy

As the new year starts shaping up, it’s time to shift into some new habits regarding your keyword research. Rather than simply targeting marketing blasts at either the in-demand or the long tail, you may want to think about carefully tailoring your tactics to the shape of your niche’s keyword demand distribution curve. In Rand’s most recent Whiteboard Friday video below, he details four steps to using these curves to support and improve your existing strategies.

Actionable guide to SEO in 2016

Following Rand’s video above, it’s just about the right time to also plan a SEO strategy for 2016. SEOs’ daily routine keeps changing with new Google updates and new ranking signals introduced, so you may be asking yourself:

• Is it still worth going after the organic ranking?
• What SEO tactics will work in 2016?
• Which are the most important aspects to focus on?

If the above are all issues that matter to you, check out the 2016 SEO guide offered by Link-Assistant.com. the guide will hopefully answer these and many other questions. Brush up your SEO skills and get ready for the coming SEO challenges of 2016.

6 Social Media Trends That Will Take Over 2016

As 2016 begins, it’s important that you and your team take some time to reflect on the past year and all of the changes that it brought. It is safe to expect a lot of great changes to come in 2016, but it’s also helpful to know what has worked and what hasn’t so you can carry those lessons with you in the new year. The infographic below, courtesy of SproutSocial.com, provides us with 6 Social Media Trands to watch for in 2016.

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And as usual, in no particular order:

Content Creation & Marketing/SEO and Search

• 5 Ways to Get More Traffic with Content Marketing
• How to Get Started With WordPress: A Practical Guide
• How to Structure a Perfect Blog Post (With Examples)
• How To Run A Quick Health Check Of Top Landing Pages When Seeing A Drop In Organic Search Traffic
• 8 SEO Experts Reveal Fascinating Predictions for 2016

Social Media/Small Business Bites

• 5 Strategies for Building a Bigger Network on LinkedIn
• Yahoo Looks At Why Smartphone Users Replace Apps
• 4 Free Tools to Analyze Your Social Media Competitors
• Grow Your Pinterest Following: 5 Simple Steps for Brands
• How to Run a Successful Twitter Contest

More from around the web …

• Marketing Day: Location Marketing, E-Commerce Resources & Taco Bell’s Super Bowl Ad
• SearchCap: SEO Implementation, Google Interstitial Ads & Query Mapping
• Inbound Marketing And Social Media – Resources, insights, news and trends

New Sites To Check Out

• Top Affiliate Programs
• Cloud Storage, Hosting, Security and more..

That’s it! Enjoy and have a great week ahead.

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