SEJ Wrap-Up: Build Great Links Using Data & Top #SEO Ranking Factors

This is the wrap-up of the most popular posts and announcements on SEJ over the past week. Newsletter subscribers are the first to receive this and other updates. 

How to Build Links Using Data and Blogger Outreach

Getting links to our content, developing content that people want to share, or simply finding the time to build links to our content are perpetual challenges of any online marketing campaign.

Here’s the thing: If you have a plan to reach out to the right people, you will earn links. It will take time and effort, but if you put the work in you will reap the benefits.

It’s time to get smarter about how you go about link building, learn how in this week’s top post.

Popular Search Marketing Posts

Here is a rundown of the most popular posts on SEJ from last week:

1. 8 Actionable Takeaways from the 2015 SEO Ranking Factors, by Neil Patel
2. How to Build Links Using Data-Driven Content and Blogger Outreach, by Loren Baker
3. The Fundamentals of Ethical Reddit Marketing, by David DiGiovanni
4. 18 Plugins to Speed Up Your Google Analytics Implementation, byBoni Santani
5. How a Social Media Audit Can Improve Web Traffic by 300%, by Sujan Patel
6. Google AdWords to Introduce Ad Targeting by E-mail Address, byMatt Southern
7. Video Machine Learning: A Content Marketing Revolution, by Chase McMichael 
8. Social Content: Where Are Some Entrepreneurs Going Wrong, byMichael Georgiou
9. Avoid These 8 Common Mistake When Buying a Website, by Mark Daoust
10. Facebook Updates Notes For Long-Form Content Publishing, by Matt Southern

Download This Week’s Episode of Marketing Nerds

In this week’s episode of the Marketing Nerds podcast, we spoke with Will Reynolds, who is the Founder and currently Director of Strategy at Seer Interactive. Together we cover a number of topics, including how to create content that stands the test of time, and how you can repurpose that content to use it over again in unique ways.  Listen to the full episode, or download the MP3 here.

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Actionable Takeaways from the 2015 SEO Ranking Factors

The biggest thing to come out of the 2015 SMX Advances was, perhaps, the SMX Periodic Table of Ranking Factors, updated and revised. It covered the most relevant and data-driven ranking factors affecting search marketing today.

This week’s top post goes over the most important things you need to know about SEO right now, as released in the 2015 SEO Ranking Factors. Read the full post here.

Source:http://www.searchenginejournal.com/sej-wrap-build-great-links-using-data-top-seo-ranking-factors/142427/