What services/reports to try during my free trial period?
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Hi all - I am just starting the 2nd month of a two month free trial.
So far I have run advanced reports snooping at the dofollow backlinks of other bloggers in my niche to get an idea of where they're getting their backlinks from.
I have also been looking at top pages of lots of blogs in my niche to get an idea of what the most popular content is.
What else should I be trying out during my free trial period?
Note, I'm not selling anything directly on the site. I'm looking to increase visitors, comments etc.
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The thing that initially got me hooked to SEOmoz was the Crawl Diagnostics page. It immediately became apparent that there were a huge number of errors (duplicate titles, long URL’s etc) which while not really visible to the end user were hurting our rankings.
These errors were easy to sort out but the fact SEOMoz only recrawls every week meant we stayed well over our free month. That having been said, I’m glad we stuck around
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If you are trying to increase # of visits, then use SEOmoz tools to help guide you in the right way. You don't have to do "spray and pray" marketing and hope that something sticks. The way to get more visitors to your site is to get higher rankings for the right keyword phrases.
Start building links and diversify your anchor text. This is what I would do if I were in your situation. Use OSE (Open Site Explorer) and check out were your competitors are getting links from. Just study your competitors for a couple hours. Find out what the websites that are linking to them and what anchor text is pointing to certain pages. Look for opportunities to make some guest blog posts.
Use Followerwonk to build relationships with bloggers. It's included with your SEOMOZ subscription. Here is a White Board Friday on how to use followerwonk.
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yes - sorry that was so dopey not to make that clearer! thanks!
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Hi Alice,
Just so I'm clear, is this a free trial of SEOMoz Pro?
Dana
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