Proper (and continuous!) research should yield insights into motivation/cause, and locations.
You should be able to utilise "personas" (or demo-/firmo- and psycho-graphics) to locate additional locations, probable channels/sources.
Failing that, use Search for questions!
Search for the same things your consumers do,
and you'll likely find where they go for info ... and where you should be!
(providing answers, running ads, providing sponsorships etc.)
Do searches for Product/Service -brand, and see what comes up. Or +Comp. brand!
If needs be - go fishing!
Okay, so it's not 100% "legitimate",
but creating a profile or two, joining a site/forum/community/channel - and asking for some help on an issue your product/service is meant to handle,
and see what comes back ... can pay dividends!
(And yes ... if you are up for it, you can switch bait and fish for info on competitors ... just remember not to lead/ask bias questions, cast dispersions etc.!!!)
It's also worth keeping a little spreadsheet or doc of common queries, and resulting Domains.
This allows you to expand your searches over time, and exclude more and more domains/sites, getting broader results.
It can be tedious - but can turn up some gems!
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Originally, Keywords were THE thing.
Meta Keywords and string matching.
Other SEs came along, things evolved, Meta-Keywords basically died.
Yet the term remained.
Though how they are used has evolved,
the way they are used for research hasn’t really.
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As competition for “keywords” got harder,
new terms came to the fore:
* Head term
* Longtail
* And then Mid-tail joined in
As more businesses went online, and more sites, pages and content appeared - it became harder to rank for the shorter “keywords”.
+ When looking at TLDs for Domain Names, check for confusion points (same name, different TLD etc.)
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+ Sort the HTTP > HTTPS out, and pick either www or non-www - then get the 301s sorted out from day one.
+ Own your Name! Make sure you own a domain with your Brand, and you have social profiles for it (same for unique product names etc.).
Same for Directories.
* GA BR (Google Analytics Bounce Rate)
* GA ToP (Google Analytics Time on Page)
* GA ToS (Google Analytics Time on Site)
* SERP CTR (Search Engine Result Page Click Through Rate)
are NOT (direct/indirect) ranking factors!
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For starters, only a % of sites use Google Analytics,
so there'd be a Huge data hole.
And each of them are ambiguous/noisy,
with various reasons for whatever value,
(a page with the weather - quick visit, leave - does not mean the page sucks or is irrelevant!)
Definition:
Internal links are links between your own pages,
within the same “site”,
(this may be the same subdomain, or across subdomains, depending on structure/organisation).
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:: Features ::
Links often consist of:
* Location
* Content
* Attributes
Location:
The location may be a URL (different page),
a Fragment (specific point in the current page, or specific text (Fragment Directive)),
or both URL+Fragment (a part/text on a different page).
Heads up, Thread about Internal Links incoming,
(Which I'm grateful for the 3% lead, as I've half written it already :) (and my eldest tried to spike it towards Keywords, knowing I've not touched that topic yet- sod!))
24 tweets in ...
... maybe I should split it?
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Erm - apparently, I have to stop there!
Did you know ...
Twitter has a 24 tweets in series limit?
(Did anyone?)
I can add more tweets once I've posted the rest!
So I think I may split it into 2 threads,
(as reading through 20+ tweets has to be painful for most people)