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10 Content Marketing Metrics to Track (+5 Experts on the Ones that Matter to Them)

Buffer Social

5.   Hailley Griffis, Buffer Top content marketing metrics: Organic traffic, blog-assisted sign-ups, and articles per week At Buffer, we track the performance of both our blogs — Buffer Resources and Buffer Library — in a Mixpanel dashboard that shows us page views for the past seven days, 30 days, and three months at a glance.

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How to Build a Billion Dollar SEO Empire

Viper Chill

He showed that back in 2010, Retail Me Not were basically paying people to put the Retail Me Not widget on their websites (a widget which came with a dozen internal links to different pages of RMN – do-followed, of course). I can’t imagine a better resource for competitive or comparative analysis.

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The State of Link Building 2016: What I Learned Manually Analysing 1,000 Search Results

Viper Chill

Billion Dollar Houzz Prove Widget Links Still Work. In April of 2014 I wrote a blog post about Houzz, the multi-billion dollar home design community. To summarise much longer commentary, I revealed that Houzz were using their widget to unsuspectingly embed dozens of hard-coded links in the websites of those who used it.

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Why Google Pushed Me to Build a (Bigger) Link Network

Viper Chill

If you could overly-simplify the Google algorithm and say that they just want “great resources for end users which pick up links naturally” then I think that’s a great model. Yoast higlighted that Godaddy we’re using widgets on their website builder and linking back to their own website with anchor-text rich backlinks.

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Why I’ll Keep Growing My Private Link Network After Google’s “Crackdown”

Viper Chill

In a January blog post I showed that myself and other members of my forum were among the first to notice Google’s first big algorithm change of 2014. Example #1 : Spamming Your Users Sites with Widget Links Can Still Work Incredibly Well. Is it the world’s best resource on shaving?

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PIN’s: The Future of Private Link Building

Viper Chill

Adding do-followed links to widgets. In 2014 when I covered Google’s crackdown on private blog networks I did mention that they would now be less likely to care about private link networks. A good guest article, utilised for a PIN, will link to other recommended resources that are connections of the author.

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The Full Blog Monetization Menu – 60+ Ways to Make Money With Your Blog

ProBlogger

billion mobile devices connected to the net in 2014 – mobile and app advertising is set to take advantage of this in a big way. Advertising widgets. Use widgets such as AdSanity to help you manage and customise ads on your blog. Check out some great resources for paid guest posting: here , here and here. There were 7.1

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