Rank Ranger Blog

When creating a social media campaign, tracking is crucial.

The reason? Social media marketing generally consists of many working parts that exist on multiple platforms. This means you’ll find your data in many different places.

There are two problems with this.

• It’s almost impossible to understand your data if you look at the parts separately
• It makes client reporting a long and painful process

The obvious solution is to set up a social media dashboard that incorporates all your KPIs based on your business goals.

In this post, I’ll be covering what a social media dashboard is and how you should set it up to take your business to the next level.

How much do you consider search intent when developing your SEO content strategy? Why is it so important to understand intent as it is? And how do you cater for intent?

In episode #108 Adriana Stein explains four ways to determine search intent for a B2B audience including:

1. Streamline buyer personas
2. Keyword research and clustering
3. Keyword mapping   
4. Create your content

What are the key elements of successful Shopify SEO?

In this episode, Iky Tai gives us five essential Shopify SEO tips.

The key elements are:

• Collection or category vs product pages
• Product page writing (don't copy)
• Keyword cannibalization
• Wise internal linking strategy
• Common tech SEO issues

Last week, we made a big announcement and our excitement is just starting to settle in. Rank Ranger has been acquired by Similarweb.

This isn’t just exciting for those of us who have worked tirelessly to build our beloved Rank Ranger product, but for our customers, this good news is just the beginning. This marks a great investment in the enablement of all SEO managers and will allow for new functionality in the coming months.

We understand that an acquisition can raise questions for our long-term users. Especially if you rely on our dashboards and reporting for the success of your business. First, we want to let you know that our number one priority is you, our customers, and our continued investment in our relationship.

Here are the key questions I’ll be answering for you in this post:

• Will there be any big changes to the Rank Ranger functionality?
• Will there be significant pricing changes?
• Will there be any changes to customer service?

What are the key items that you need to include in your SEO strategy? That's what we're going to be discussing today with Irina Serdyukovskaya.    

The elements are:

1. Website structure
2. Content for Commercial pages
3. Content for a blog or news section
4. Create a sitemap
5. Internal linking
6. External links and brand mentions
7. PageSpeed optimization
8. Solve any security issues
9. Conversion optimization
10. Go beyond the text

It’s no secret that video has a big ROI.

The question is…

Can you use video as an SEO strategy?

The answer is, absolutely.

In this post, I’ll be showing you how to make the most of video in SEO. I’ll be getting into how to research video topics that are designed to rank in both YouTube and Google. I’ll also get into some video optimization best practices.

Do you work in an industry that's heavily restricted in terms of what you're able to do from an SEO perspective? That's precisely the challenge that my guest today faces.

The considerations are:

1. Images
2. Videos
3. Age-gating
4. Geo-fencing

There is no question that semantic SEO is the future of SEO.

The reason?

As search engines evolve towards semantic search your SEO strategy should evolve with them.

The problem is the barrier to entry is high. In other words, to do semantic SEO you must have a basic understanding of how semantic search works.

Unfortunately, as things stand at the moment, if you do a Google search for simple easy-to-understand resources for the layman you’ll find yourself scratching your head.

To deal with that, I’ve attempted to create some semantic SEO resources that anyone can understand.

In this post, I’ll be dealing with the question: What is Google’s Knowledge Graph?

Do you work in an SEO agency? And if so, when was the last time you improved your monthly reports? Today we're talking about how you can positively improve your monthly SEO reports.

The steps are:

1. Revenue from organic traffic 
2. Reason for the increase or decrease in organic traffic 
3. Incorporate pending tasks   
4. Add a top-level summary   
5. Ranking report summaries split into categories and rankings

Google Search Console is a great rank tracking tool.

In fact...

Even if you use a paid rank tracker, you should still start your rank tracking journey with Search Console.

The reason is...

Search Console gives you an inside scoop into how Google understands your content (which is difficult to see when using a paid rank tracking tool.)

Using this data, you can make your first optimizations and then move over to a paid rank tracker for a more detailed analysis.

In this post, I’ll show you how to use Google Search Console to boost your rankings and improve your content strategy.

How much of the content that you publish is newsworthy enough to earn links? In episode #103, Amanda Milligan explains three ways to create newsworthy content that earns links.

The steps are:

• Building Brand Authority with Contextualization
• Customize/Personalize Your Pitch with Localization
• Backup Your Pitch with Trustworthy Data

People are bombarded with hundreds of emails every day, and this is not an exaggeration. According to the most recent statistics, a person receives 200 emails a day on average. Surely, you can expect some of these messages to go right to the trash folder if the recipient finds them irrelevant - hardly anyone can handle writing as many replies.

So, obviously, the tactic of overwhelming your recipient with emails until they cave no longer works. The same goes for social media and LinkedIn, in particular.

Thus, the only way to cut through that noise is to start doing exactly the opposite, namely, adjusting your link prospecting angles and pitches so that they target the right group of people, speak their language, and ultimately help you build a relationship with them.

If you’re not sure how this approach works in practice, here’s a short guide you can follow.