Our team had a very detailed and informative conversation in last week‘s SEMrushchat, and the information shared could help small business owners, marketers, and agencies. Our guest, Nichole Elizabeth DeMeré, and our community shared insights about what makes them engage with online communities, and the strategies that have helped them build a community through social media.

In this week‘s Weekly Wisdom, I will be going into all the tools and processes you can use if you are absolutely broke.

We had a very informative SEMrushchat last week with guest Robbie Richards and our community about website monetization. Every site is focused on revenue streams, but those streams obviously differ based on the type of website you have. So we asked our community ways they have utilized monetization, common fails, strategies, and opinions on affiliate networks vs. Google AdSense.

In any job, taking a vacation can be hard, but with SEOs, the idea of leaving and something going wrong can be a bit scary. Decisions have to be made — Do you want to be in complete control of everything while you are gone? Do you want to just check in quickly once a day? Or are you going for a complete digital detox?

In this Q&A, we are focusing on SEO questions from our webinar team. They get a ton of questions before, during, and after webinars, and unfortunately, our guests can‘t answer them all. So, we reviewed questions, chose some questions that were similar to others, and asked experts to provide useful answers for our community.

A data-powered guide for ad publishers and content creators wanting to turn their website, blog or any other online medium into a monetization powerhouse. Learn the magic formula of monetization, combine the trinity force of SEO, CPC and CTR and make the most out of your domain‘s advertising potential with SEMrush tools!

Who is searching for your brand? Prospects, clients, investors, journalists, job candidates, and many others. They are searching for your brand name because they are ready to do business with you. What they see on brand SERP is phenomenally important to whether or not they take that final step. Google Ads is the easiest place to start because you control what it shows and it‘s right at the top.

Our social team had a great conversation in last week‘s SEMrushchat, with guest Kevin Gibbons and our community. They discussed strategies for building an online reputation that will help businesses win new clients. Topics discussed included common ORM issues, platforms to use, strategies for building a new reputations, ways to incentivize customers, and techniques for demonstrating expertise.

We at SEMrush are obsessed with constantly tuning our tools and improving the user experience. Dive into this article to stay on top of SEMrush product updates we rolled out in August. The vast majority of them are available within your account at no extra cost! You‘ll learn how to use these new tools and features to improve your marketing campaigns.

Numbers (and people) can definitely misrepresent the truth. In the content marketing world, we see a lot of misleading statistics attempting to build trust with audiences. Even scarier, a lot of content producers don’t even realize they’re doing it. In this post, I use Google Trends to illustrate why critical thinking should be applied before you “trust“ data.

In this post, we’ll give you the templates and instruction for a fully-automated data dashboard that lets you interpret, transport, and reorganize marketing data for Facebook and Instagram campaigns, in a way that is actually productive.

We have summarized different tests and changes the SEO community has found and documented, as well as the updates Google has announced over the last two weeks. There have been some major changes in Google Ads and some updates in Google tools all marketers should know about.

In today‘s Weekly Wisdom, I am going to show you exactly how to decide if a website is a good place to get a link from or not. And then I will show you some tricks to kind of bulk analyze this, so if you get lots and lots of them, you can very quickly put it into your workflow.

Aristotle once wrote, “to be a master of metaphor is a sign of genius.” And the best way to master the metaphor? Devour lots of good metaphor examples! So, we’ve compiled a giant list of metaphors from content marketing, literature, famous speeches, and pop culture to give you a go-to resource. You’ll also learn: How(...)

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You want in. The idea of making money with the Amazon Associates program sounds enticing. And when you buy products on Amazon, you’re always amazed at the pure volume of stuff they sell. But your understanding of how it all works is, well, fuzzy. Let’s bring it into sharp focus. I’ll walk you through the(...)

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The worst nightmare for a webmaster happens when they find a sudden drop in their site rankings and all their hard work is gone! Are you one of those? Well, take a deep breath! You are not the only one. Every website has faced or will face a drop in rankings in the future. You can’t avoid it, but you can certainly minimize the impacts of it. Find out how in this post.

Which of your competitors‘ products, services, and blog articles receive the most traffic? Analyze top landing pages with this tool to reveal valuable insights and hack your rivals‘ strategies. Add SEMrush Traffic Analytics to your subscription and benefit from this new and valuable feature.

Google My Business Product Expert provides step by step instructions on how to deal with and properly document and report fake negative reviews. Learn how to go past flagging and properly report and remove fake reviews.

This video talks about search query mapping and the importance of it. Search query mapping goes by several different names. I have also heard it called “search queries sculpting“ or “keyword sculpting.“ Essentially the premise of it is making sure that you are being very intentional about which search terms are mapping to which keywords in which ad groups.

Many think social media marketing is easy, but in reality, it takes a lot of work, effort, research, planning, and strategy. Last week, the SEMrushchat was about social media strategies that should apply to all brands. Our guest, Bitly, and our community discussed strategies, things to avoid, actionable tips, and respected brands.

Voice search may have started as a small concept, but it is now one of the most important topics in the search industry. The ease to search with voice is second to none, and people cannot get enough of it. Today we are experiencing a voice search revolution with almost every generation welcoming voice search with open arms.

It has been a busy time for Google, with issues affecting search indexing and a number search and ad updates. Read on to see the latest news about Google, from its website indexing and Search Console to the latest in advertising and tools.

Create Once, Publish Everywhere is a content distribution concept that helps you maximize the output of your content for more traffic and leads. Find out how you can use COPE to distribute content in different ways that will help you reach your goals.

We had an in-depth conversation in last week‘s SEMrushchat and the information shared could help small business owners, marketers, and agencies. Our guest, Tim Capper, and our community shared recommendations on tools to find marketing gaps, marketing advantages small businesses have, local search strategies, schema, and keywords that small brands can target that big brands can‘t.

Let’s cut to the chase: If you want to nurture leads and turn them into raving fans who will shout your virtues from rooftops (as well as buy whatever you’re selling), you need to learn the ins and outs of email marketing. In this simple, easy-to-digest guide, you’ll learn: The two things you need to(...)

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Want to learn how to write an ebook like a pro? It’s not just what you do, but what you DON’T do that can make or break your work.   Admit it. You’ve thought about writing an ebook. In fact, you’ve already imagined the front cover. You can see the main title and, underneath, your(...)

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There were some notable changes in Google‘s SERP experiments over the past two weeks, foremost among them being its unannounced and to date, unexplained, “Maverick Update.“ Find out what has changed in the SERPs, Google Ads, and Google tools. Also, ever dreamed of your own YouTube Masthead ad? Now you can...find out how in the digest.

Content Marketing specialists face more than their fair share of challenges: strategic analysis, ideation, content creation, optimization and distribution, measuring performance…

In this week‘s Weekly Wisdom, Jason Barnard breaks down the five Ps for your ongoing content strategy, to build an audience. He explains what they are and what you need to know about each. What are the five Ps? Platform, public, personality, promotion, and perseverance.

In last week‘s SEMrushchat, our guests Kelly Hungerford and Mack Collier, and the SEMrush community discussed ways to diversify content strategy affordably. Topics included identifying content to update / repurpose / reuse, strategies for creating content, ways to repurpose content, user-generated content, and tools for visual content.