Blog Post Ideas, Social Media Metrics To Track, Killer Link Building Ideas, Speedlink 21:2017

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

With the ubiquity of blogs, one of the questions we hear the most is how to come up with the right topics for new posts.

In Rand’s Whiteboard Friday video below, he explores six different paths to great blog topic ideas, and tells you what you need to keep in mind before you start.

Blog Post Ideas: Maximize Your Reach with the Right Topics

7 Social Media Metrics Marketers Should Track

Do you want to track the effectiveness of your social media marketing? Wondering which social media tactics are paying off? By defining and tracking a few key data points, you can determine whether your marketing is on target.

#1: Assess Discoverability via Mentions and Inbound Links
#2: Evaluate Engagement From Audience Interaction
#3: Measure the Impact of Influencer Marketing
and more…

In this article, you’ll discover seven social media metrics to help you gauge your marketing’s effectiveness.

17 Killer Link Building Ideas You Need to Try This Year

Every business and brand, regardless of size, wants to dominate its industry online. That means owning as much real estate as possible at the top of the search results.

While search engine optimization (SEO) tactics and strategies are constantly evolving, one vital element of SEO has remained unchanged since a little search engine named Google launched in 1998.

Links matter. A lot.

The content of your pages, and the links pointing at that content, are the two most important signals Google looks at when deciding on the positions pages occupy in the organic search results.

Read full article here

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