When shaping your SEO strategy, your success metrics come down to bottom-line results – what’s going to move the needle for your company and make a real impact?

Which SEO strategies can you employ to hit your KPIs?

In order to succeed in competitive markets, you must go beyond on-page optimization and sound technical SEO – you need a full-funnel approach.

With the right mix of link building and content creation, you can directly affect the rankings of key product pages while boosting overall performance.

6-Step Process For Boosting Product Page Ranks

To consistently boost your product page rankings, try adding these 6 steps to your SEO strategy:

1. Review the product page(s) for link opportunities.
2. Audit existing content and ensure topical relevance to the product page with strategic internal links.
3. Identify high-intent keywords, a.k.a. your new content opportunity, for the product page.
4. Discover linkable topics with a tie-in to the product page, but make sure they are broad and useful enough to not be advertorial.
5. Create content based on findings, and build external links to the broader topic, with strategic internal links to the high-intent keyword content and product pages.
6. Measure the impact on the primary product page against the keyword ranking KPIs initially identified. Monitor rankings, traffic, and links across the entire funnel as additional KPIs.

Don’t worry, we wouldn’t leave you hanging without more information.

Join our upcoming webinar to learn exactly how to do these steps.

Join Cory Collins, Business Development Manager at Page One Power, and Nick Katseanes, Sales Director at Page One Power, as they show you how a funnel of links and content can result in stronger SEO campaigns.

Learn how you, too, can combine link building and content creation to drive product page rankings in addition to secondary KPIs.

Key Takeaways:

• Learn how to grow product page rankings after technical SEO and on-page optimization are completed.
• Understand how content marketing and link building strategically tie back into product-level SEO KPIs.
• Gain insight into the difference between high-intent keyword content and linkable content, and how to use the two together.

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Are you interested in the new social media platform aiming to compete with Twitter?

Bluesky is a decentralized social network led by CEO Jay Graber, with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey on its board of directors.

What Is Bluesky?

In December 2019, Dorsey announced through a series of tweets that Twitter would fund a small independent team of up to five people to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media.

The aim was for Twitter to become a client of this standard one day.

Dorsey highlighted several factors prompting this move:

• The challenges posed by centralized control include difficulties in global policy enforcement to address abuse and misinformation.
• The shifting value of social media from content hosting and removal to recommendation algorithms. These algorithms, which currently are typically proprietary, direct users’ attention. Dorsey hopes Bluesky would allow for alternatives to be built.
• Existing incentives in social media often draw attention to controversial and outrageous content instead of promoting informative and healthy conversations.
• Recent technological advances, like blockchain, have made decentralized solutions more viable. These solutions could lead to open and durable hosting, governance, and monetization.

We’re calling this team @bluesky. Our CTO @ParagA will be running point to find a lead, who will then hire and direct the rest of the team. Please follow or DM @bluesky if you’re interested in learning more or joining! 🌐💬💙

— jack (@jack) December 11, 2019

Bluesky strives to make social networks function similarly to email, blogs, or phone numbers as open systems that facilitate online interactions.

Bluesky developers created the AT Protocol, which is nearing completion.  The AT Protocol aims to make modern social media and online public conversations more akin to the early Internet era when anyone could create a blog or use RSS to follow multiple blogs.

The Bluesky app demonstrates the features of this protocol.

Bluesky hopes this will lead to new advancements in social media, enabling researchers and communities to solve issues currently faced by social networks, as tweeted by Dorsey.

Social Media Problems Bluesky Hopes To Solve

Most traditional social networks are closed platforms controlled by a central authority that dictates user and developer permissions.

If a user decides to leave a traditional social network, they must begin anew, losing their connections and content. For developers, creating a new app requires overcoming network effects and rebuilding the social graph from the beginning.

Additionally, they risk being shut down abruptly if they try to build using these companies’ APIs.

Similarly, content creators may lose their audience if the platform changes its rules.

The AT Protocol is designed to change this scenario, offering a more open, democratic, and innovative environment for users, developers, and content creators.

How To Get A Bluesky Invite Code

There are several ways to get an invitation to Bluesky.

You can sign up for the waitlist and wait for an invitation to join from Bluesky.

You can ask your friends on other social networks if they have an invite.

You can search Bluesky invite code on Twitter. Check the latest results and reply quickly to get an invite. (This is the method that worked for me.)

Screenshot from Twitter, May 2023

You can even buy an invite code for Bluesky on eBay.

Screenshot from eBay, May 2023

How To Create Your Bluesky Account

Once you have your invitation code, you can create your account on the website or the Bluesky app from the Appstore oder Google Play.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

You can choose the default Bluesky server ([email protected]) or follow these directions to use your own domain ([email protected]). You can change to your own domain later in your account settings.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

Next, enter your invite code, email, password, and birthdate.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

Finally, choose a user handle. You can change this later in your account settings.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

How To Edit Your Bluesky Profile

Once you’ve completed your account setup, you will want to visit your profile and edit it before connecting with others.

You can add a cover photo, profile photo, display name, and 256-character description.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

While there is no specific field for links to your website or other social profiles, you can place a link in the description.

How To Post An Update On Bluesky

Bluesky allows you to post 300-character updates with text, up to four images, and links.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

Note that all profiles and posts are public, and the user content you share is subject to Bluesky’s Terms of Service.

Within the Terms of Service, Bluesky notes that when you share any content (such as text, images, or videos) on a platform or service provided by Bluesky, you give Bluesky and its related companies the right to use and share that content.

With these terms, Bluesky can use, copy, modify, distribute, and display your content in various ways, including promoting Bluesky and its services through social media channels.

I’m going to try to clarify here. First of all, Jack is 1 of 3 board members of Bluesky, and does not have any personal license to any content.

The “rights to user-generated content” term lets us do stuff like this — use screenshots of user-generated content in the app store. pic.twitter.com/yp4SOgJfBS

— Jay Graber (@arcalinea) April 28, 2023

They can do this without paying you. On the upside, they won’t use your content in any sponsored content without your permission.

How To Build Your Bluesky Network

To find people to connect with, use the search to find posts and users with specific keywords.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

You can reply to, repost, and like posts by other users. The three dots offer additional options, including translating and sharing with other networks.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

Switch to the Users tab to find related accounts to follow.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

When you visit another user’s profile, you can follow them or use the three dots to find more options, including one to add the user to a list.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

Bluesky Lists Vs. Twitter Lists

It’s essential to note Bluesky lists are not like Twitter lists.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

On Twitter, you add users to lists when you want to follow them more closely.

On Bluesky, you add users to lists to mute their activity.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

When you create a Bluesky mute list, it will be visible on your profile. You can, however, follow other users’ mute lists to ignore the same group of users privately.

In addition to public mute lists, you can access more ways to moderate the content you see on Bluesky in the Moderation section.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

Here, you can update your content filtering settings, mute an account, or block an account.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

My Feeds

My Feeds allows users to create custom algorithms for displaying content.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

This feed, created by the Bluesky team, shows updates from those you follow and the people they like.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

How To Change Your Bluesky User Handle Or Domain

As mentioned, you can visit your account settings to change your user handle.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

You can also update your user handle to use your domain instead of @bsky.social.

Screenshot from Bluesky, May 2023

The Next Step In Decentralized Social Media

Bluesky may present an approach to decentralized social media that could mitigate many issues plaguing traditional social platforms today.

Bluesky appears dedicated to ushering in a new digital communication era with the AT Protocol’s continued development.

With the issues it aims to solve and the open standard it seeks to establish, Bluesky could be the blueprint for the future of social media. It remains to be seen how well Bluesky will perform once it comes out of beta.

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A multi-channel, holistic approach to search marketing is a must in today’s digital marketing space.

You can maximize digital shelf space by removing silos between teams and finding synergies on how paid and organic search can work together.

On May 10, I moderated a webinar with Wayne Cichanski, Vice President of Search and Site Experience at iQuanti, and Erin Wilson, VP of Marketing at HomeEquity Bank.

Cichanski and Wilson demonstrated how to combine insights and data from paid and organic channels to create a cohesive search strategy that enhances online visibility.

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Step 1: Learn The Power Of Integrating Your Paid & Organic Search Strategy

SEO & SEM each have different roles, places, and advantages.

But these differences help provide insights into gaps that the other marketing school of thought has.

As such, these two channels can work very well together given a cohesive strategy that integrates both of their beneficial aspects.

So, how do you go about understanding the data that each process brings to the table?

How do you tap into the power of these two channels without needing to increase bandwidth?

One way is to start maximizing your digital shelf space.

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Start By Maximizing Your Digital Shelf Space

Between paid results, organic results, People Also Ask (PAA), stories, local map packs, the AnswerBox, video carousels, and more, there are many areas in which you can own a higher market share of a SERP.

So when you think about a cohesive strategy, you’ll need to consider these are these steps:

1. Review total digital shelf space.
2. Know what keywords trigger what.
3. Build assets to acquire.

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After going through these steps, you can now start merging strategies.

Bring Different Tactics Together

Next, focus on synchronizing your research and common messaging across organic site pages, paid search ads, social, display, email, and thought leadership.

You can do this by:

• Carrying the messaging across the entire funnel.
• Using dual rankings to elevate impression share.
• Increasing the halo effect by driving paid to organic.
• Modifying bidding strategies for branded, non-branded mid-funnel vs. lower.
• Discovering and building a common foundation between paid and organic.

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Step 2: Understand The Roles Of Your Marketing Channels

Understanding the roles and expectations for each channel sets them up for maximum contribution.

But before you start, understand that customer centricity is vital. Always consider your customer’s needs, preferences, and behaviors.

Then, leverage each channel for different stages and behavioral needs of the user.

Screenshot by iQuanti, May 2023

Knowing each channel’s defined role means you’ll know what to expect and measure in each corresponding stage.

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Step 3: Deliver A Connected Search Program

To understand the roles and expectations for maximum contribution, start attacking the SERP positions and journey milestones collectively by:

1. Measuring them together.
2. Identifying key themes along the journey.
3. Developing bid strategies.

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Increase Conversions With Paid Branded & Non-Branded Search

Hinsichtlich Branded Search, focus on maximizing conversion & reducing leakage by occupying a secondary position from a neutral test bed site to push down competitors.

In other words, you can push the competitors down from the top by having a high-visibility listing.

In a Non-Brand Search, a good approach is to segment intents by conversion potential. This quadrant better explains this:

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[Slides] 3 Steps To Building A Winning Holistic Search Strategy

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