If you only want backlinks to improve your SEO metrics (Domain Authority, Trust Flow, etc) to rank higher in Google results, by participating actively on Quora, won’t actually help , as Quora only gives nofollow backlinks. Having said that there are benefits in SEO to nofollow links, and one of the main ones is to direct traffic to your website. This helps in creating awareness of your website/ blog. Google analyzes all of your backlinks individually and as a whole profile. So, when they see that you only have dofollow links, this is like a warning sign of manipulative SEO practices. This could in turn lead to penalties for your website. So it is much better that every natural backlink profile should have a balanced ratio of dofollow to nofollow links. Therefore, backlinks from Quora, although nofollow, still help balance out your backlink profile. Now how do you use Quora to get Dofollow backlinks? Here some ways to do it and get you the targeted referral traffic.
After you have found these questions that cover all of these points, then click on the three dots, you see at the right hand corner and select “Answer Later.” This gives you the opportunity to devote time to answering them later on. Follow your niche topics.
When tackling these questions, give genuine useful answers.
Provide Value Within Your Answers with Backlinks.
How should you introduce it?
In conclusion, taking the steps above and then placing the suggested backlinks in your Quora answers is a great way to build awareness of your website or brand. This will balance out your backlink profile with healthy nofollow links, generate new dofollow backlinks, boost referral traffic and encourage conversions.
When you focus on genuinely answering questions first and then placing backlinks second, then these benefits will result. Crafting truly valuable answers will build trust in your expertise, which will lead to higher CTRs. Therefore the more you post, the better this gets. “Whether paid or organic, when it comes to search marketing, keywords are king.” Jacob Baadsgaard. Keyword research is still important because search is based on keywords. The thing to do is to anticipate the intent in the keywords. Long tail keywords help to narrow this down. (An intent – a need or want – whether it be for a product, service, solution, or simply more information.) Keyword research is usually the first step you undertake when planning how to bring in customers to your website – because the terms they’re searching for will determine the kind of content you will create and the way you will optimize it. Whether you’re trying to pick SEM keywords, SEO keywords or both, the key to successful search marketing is picking keywords with the right intent. No matter how much search volume a keyword might have, if those searches aren’t relevant to your business, they aren’t worth your time and/or money. Here are some examples of keywords and their intent:
rganic visibility would be what most businesses will aim for from almost all of these searcher intents. You can use a grouping of keywords from each of these categories as a seed list and expand upon them using your favorite keyword tool eg. SEMrush Keyword Magic Tool That will give you a better idea of the search volume, click volume, cost per click, difficulty, trends, SERP features, and other variables, which you can use to estimate how many opportunities you have to interact with the customer (and what that will cost you) as they move along their purchase journey. The hypothesis was that the farther away a person is from buying something, the more abstract their queries, and the more likely they are to use “why” questions. As they get closer to their goal, they use more concrete, contextual terms with verbs (action words) like “shop” or “buy.” (based on A study by Northwestern University) Users searching with a browsing intent are 20% more likely to click on a result that stresses abstract words like “best,” while those searching with a buying intent are 180% more likely to click on a result that emphasizes concrete words like “shop.” Aligning keywords such as these, matching them to the mindset of your prospects allow for more relevant brand messaging, targeted ad or landing page copy, and improve personalized user experiences that drive more conversions. Google is laser-focused on whether your content matches the intent of the searcher; so no matter how “smartly” you insert keywords in your titles, subheadings, meta descriptions, or copy, they will detect it. Because of their focus on giving good user experience, they are moving into being more than a search engine and into an answer engine. This is quite evident from how the SERPs show up with snippets - a single answer box (the click-less version of “I’m Feeling Lucky”) along with options such as “People also ask” and “Related search” to further gauge – and meet – searcher intent. It means that Google is looking to:
To better fit such criteria, you can use insights from keyword research to structure your content to appear for evolving search features such as instant answers. You then need to make sure that you can truly provide the best answer. Ask yourself:
For different sets of keywords you could analyze Google SERPs to help you make the right crucial decisions on whether to use SEO or PPC to target the right intent. In SEO, to achieve high rankings through keyword targeting is a long, drawn-out, complex process, extremely competitive and prone to errors along the way. More importantly is to stay relevant and trying to understand searcher intent and context, and providing best-match content.
The variables and factors that influence intent matching differ from those that you take into account while doing keyword research. Intent matching takes the guessing game out of keyword targeting. To really get better at search marketing, you need much more than technical SEO, high quality content, and links. Just like what Google aims to achieve, you need to optimize or redesign your website for better user experience at every point in the customer journey, and encourage them to take the right actions that eventually result in conversions. (information excerpts sourced from Rohan Ayyar Reg.Mktg Manager at SEMRush.) Shopify Alternatives To Check Out By Darren Demattas
If after weighing the pros and cons of using Shopify, it sounds like it’s not your thing, there are plenty of online store builders to choose from. Weigh each carefully based on the ecommerce features discussed above, and find the ecommerce platform that works for your online business. Volusion The tradeoff with Volusion is more features than Shopify, but lower performance. Site loading time and mobile performance are markedly lower. Volusion’s pricing plans start at $25/month for small businesses, but if you want to test the waters, a 14-day free trial is also available. Like Shopify Payments, Volusion Payments is an additional service you can pay for that lowers monthly credit card transaction fees. 3dcart Priced affordably and feature-loaded, 3D-Cart is a solid Shopify alternative. It loads faster than Shopify, but the themes are not designed as well. For example, the mobile UX score is much higher on Shopify than 3D Cart. This shopping cart offers a 15-day free trial if you want to give it a test drive. A big plus for 3D-Cart is the number of payment gateways they work with: more than 100. The big drawbacks? Notoriously bad customer service and limited support from outside developers and marketers. PrestaShop Ideal for bare bones, low budget stores, PrestaShop is a good choice for entrepreneurs who want a ‘starter store’. Another open source solution, users can choose from cloud or self-hosted PrestaShop software. If you want to manage multiple storefronts from a single admin panel, PrestaShop does support this feature. Although some free support can be obtained through the cart and its large user community, paid support is more effective and pays PrestaShop’s bills. Oh, and it’s free. BigCommerce Feature packed and ready for the big leagues, a quick search for Shopify vs. BigCommerce will show that BigCommerce is very similar to Shopify in most respects. The $29 and $79 plans for BigCommerce offer more bang for your buck than Shopify’s equivalent plans. Premium features like gift cards and real-time shipping rates and tracking are included in all BigCommerce plans out-of-the-box. There’s a catch, though. Credit card fees for BigCommerce are marginally higher and there are limits to the number of sales transactions you can make each month before needing to upgrade to a more expensive plan. |
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