How To Create SEO Reports with Ranking, Linking and Analytics Data

A good search engine optimization strategy is based on careful planning, a lot of work and good choices made on key issues. Everything will get analyzed at the end of each month, when the time comes to send out reports to your customers.

Looks familiar?

These reports are the mirror of your efforts. The only difference is that your customers will not ask “who’s the fairest of them all”, but rather:

  1. Where do I rank in the search engines for this keyword?
  2. How many links do I have with this anchor text?
  3. How many visitors are coming to my website searching for this keyword?

Each question should find its answer in the details of the reports you prepare. To make them as “readable” as possible, here’s what you should consider:

Combine ranking, linking and analytics data in a consistent way

Remember, your customers do not have your SEO expertise. Things that seem so obvious to you may not make much sense to them. You need to make sure the ranking, linking and analytics details are displayed in such a way that marketers can easily extract the information they need to build future strategies.

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How To Track Rankings For International Clients With Google Location

With so many ways to communicate in the age of Globalization, more and more SEO experts provide their services to customers overseas.

If, let` s say, you are based in San Francisco and you just found a potential customer with a local business in France, le Champs-Élysées will have to wait. All it takes is a few emails and some phone calls, and the new search engine marketing campaign is ready to start.

Sounds easy? Sure it does, but there`s a catch!

Search engines usually show different results for the same keyword, based on different locations.

For example, the Google results you will see from your San Francisco office will not be similar to those your customer will see from Paris. So, when she receives your first ranking report, it may not make much sense to her:

Luckily, there are two solutions to this problem:

  1. Change your location in browser using Google Location
  2. Create a customized Google Location search engine in Advanced Web Ranking

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How To Improve Your Company Workflow With Advanced Web Ranking Server

When Advanced Web Ranking was released, about 8 years ago, the application addressed mostly free lancers and small businesses in the industry of SEO. All you needed was one computer and an Internet connection, and you could very well do all the work from home.

In time these small businesses have grown into big SEO companies. The need for more resources grew as well. Fluffy slippers turned into elegant shoes and home desks turned into nice offices downtown. Soon, the need arose for managing search engine results across all the company` s clients and share all the Advanced Web Ranking projects  between users.

That is why we’ve built the Advanced Web Ranking Server,  which allows you to connect multiple AWR clients, installed on different machines, to a centralized database.

Co-workers get to share AWR projects

With the Server edition, co-workers have the ability to share the workload in Advanced Web Ranking and access each other` s projects.

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4 Tips to Customize Printable Reports in Advanced Web Ranking

Whether you are an experienced SEO Marketer or just decided to enter this business and optimize your own websites, surely you could use some help in gathering, analyzing and displaying ranking data.

Of course, there is the old fashion way of doing things: search in browser and manually compile excel reports, column by column and row by row. But we are in the automation age now, and everything is at hand with SEO tools. Advanced Web Ranking is one of them, and it covers all the gathering, analysis and automatic reporting.

Reports generated with the application will further reflect your efforts to improve positions in the SERPs. The key to easily customize and manage them is flexibility. Changing the rankings sorting and orientation, emailing reports automatically and editing their header and footer are just some of the actions you can perform to make the whole reports generation process more efficient.

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When Guest Posting Seems Impossible…

Every task seems difficult at first and slowly becomes easier after repeating it a few times. You learn, you practice and as the adage says, you get closer and closer to perfection.

But the struggle of the first attempt is many times too harsh and you could use a helping hand to come to the rescue.

When I first considered starting to do some guest posting, I hit a brick wall. I had a post written and I didn’t know what to do with it. Where to turn and who to ask to publish my post?

Finding a suited home for my post and someone to trust me enough to let me guest post on their blog was a torment.

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7 Don’ts To Do Well On Social Networks

More and more online businesses are using social networks to increase their online exposure, to increase sales or to increase their rankings (now that it’s confirmed the fact that social sharing is also correlated with search engine rankings).

But, are these businesses getting any results?

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Can Words Unblock Your Funnels?

Conversion rate optimization is about making your visitors interact more with your website and perfecting the process of converting them into customers or subscribers.

It’s about emulating your website on your visitors behavior.

It’s about anticipating what they think, what they need and what they desire, and give them just that.

The first and the most important tool you have for achieving that are your WORDS.

All the other methods are useless if your message is wrong.

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If Those Happy Days Are Gone…

When I first started as a seo, my colleagues were telling me how awesome this job is and how fast I will be falling in love with it.

And they where right about both things.

I did fell quickly in love with my job and I can honestly say, it is the best job in the world!

All of you seos out there, probably know what I am talking about!

You know that great feeling of a new job that you just can’t wait to start?

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7 Quick & Easy On-Page Optimization Tips

Have you ever landed on a website and just couldn’t figure out what to read first?

Not because you can’t decide which from all the interesting things you should read first, but because you can’t focus on anything?

I’m talking about those seas of letters and colors splashed over your computer screen.

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5 Questions You Shouldn’t Ask Yourself

Work is an important part of our lives.

It gives us fulfillment, it makes us push our limits and sometimes work makes us angry. But in the end, it actually makes us happy.

And, of course, we shouldn’t forget that work, gets paid!

So, it is important !$!$!$  :D

When you are relying on a software to do your job with, that piece of software becomes important and choosing it is a serious task. You can’t be foolish and risk your job, because you didn’t had the patience or the determination to choose the proper software to use for your work. Continue reading