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Sidra Condron

Sidra Condron

Sidra writes for SpyFu, sharing ideas that connect with real-life marketers at all skill levels. We're all just trying to raise our game one more notch, right?

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Brilliant Uses for Google Alerts in Your Marketing
Content Marketing

Brilliant Uses for Google Alerts in Your Marketing

Imagine a completely free tool that could help you build traffic and search for marketing opportunities. You might even be using it in a basic sense, because these are Google Alerts. By using

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
15 min read
An SEO Keyword Tool with Clear Direction
SEO

An SEO Keyword Tool with Clear Direction

The best part of knowing a competitor's SEO Keywords is using that information to gain traction in your own rankings. In this new update to SpyFu's SEO Keyword results, we track twice as

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
16 min read
Change the way you find backlink ideas
Backlink Builder

Change the way you find backlink ideas

There are hundreds of factors that go into Google’s ranking algorithm, but many agree that backlink-related factors count for dozens of those. Simply put, your site won’t rank well without them.

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
6 min read
Competitor Analysis: Research Their Marketing Strategy
Competitive Research

Competitor Analysis: Research Their Marketing Strategy

Conducting a high-level competitive analysis is crucial to your online success. Often, your most significant opportunities come from your competitors’ data.  Keeping up with your competitors’ marketing strategies is a great way to

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
  • Patrick McGrane
7 min read
Proven Competition analysis: Who are my biggest competitors?
Competitive Research

Proven Competition analysis: Who are my biggest competitors?

Competitive research is the foundation of any strong marketing strategy.  It’s important to identify your competitors and their marketing tactics to help you differentiate your offering.There’s reason to dive deep

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
13 min read
Why a Keyword Density Calculator Might Actually Hurt Your Content
SEO Best Practices

Why a Keyword Density Calculator Might Actually Hurt Your Content

There was once a time, early in the days of search engines, where keyword density calculators and keyword stuffing helped SEO. Those days have been gone a long, long time, but like a

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
10 min read
4 Steps to Find (and Beat) Your Organic Competitors
Competitive Research

4 Steps to Find (and Beat) Your Organic Competitors

Although we often like to think of SERP rankings as a meritocracy, the sad reality is that they are not. Often, it’s not the best written or most informative pieces that reach

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
13 min read
Google Advanced Search Operators: 50+ Google Search Commands
SEO

Google Advanced Search Operators: 50+ Google Search Commands

Google search operators are like secret cheat codes that help you get more relevant search results. You still type your search into the Google search bar, but with search operators, you add a

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
  • Patrick McGrane
  • Zac Harris
    Zac Harris
14 min read
Google's Page Experience Update is Coming. Here's What You Need to Know.
SEO

Google's Page Experience Update is Coming. Here's What You Need to Know.

Recently, Google stated that its Search ranking algorithm will take user experience (UX) into consideration starting in May 2021. It’s rare that Google gives us advance warning about updates. In the statement,

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
9 min read
Create a Content Calendar in 3 Easy Steps
Content Marketing

Create a Content Calendar in 3 Easy Steps

Lots of websites are looking for that viral moment. The one post that strikes a chord in readers and sends their website into the stratosphere.The reality of successful content marketing is much

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
10 min read
5 Sources of New Content Ideas For Your Next Great Article
SEO

5 Sources of New Content Ideas For Your Next Great Article

Jack London once said, "Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club."Translation for content marketers? New content ideas don’t just come to us—we need to

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
11 min read
Google Images Advanced Search
SEO Best Practices

Google Images Advanced Search

Compelling images make your social media more likely to be noticed. They can raise click rates in your emails. They set the tone for your articles and help make them memorable. Finding the

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
5 min read
Find Your Competitors' Affiliates
Competitive Research

Find Your Competitors' Affiliates

How can I find my competitors’ affiliates?Your competitor's affiliates make money by pushing traffic to their site and getting a commission from any sales. Since they link to your competitor's landing page

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
4 min read
Run a Content Gap Analysis to Create Content People Crave
SEO

Run a Content Gap Analysis to Create Content People Crave

Content gaps are exactly that—gaps in content where desired information doesn’t exist (or isn't easily found). For users, these gaps are annoying. But for content creators, they represent a golden opportunity.

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
11 min read
How Are Negative Keywords Different?
PPC

How Are Negative Keywords Different?

Their name sounds like the worst parts of your campaign, but negative keywords can save your budget and your quality score. Negative keywords focus your ad spend by telling companies like Google and

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
10 min read
Bing SEO vs Google SEO: Optimizing Your Site for Both
Bing

Bing SEO vs Google SEO: Optimizing Your Site for Both

With 5.6 billion searches per day, Google may seem like the only search engine worth optimizing for—but it's not the only one in town. Microsoft's Bing is Google's noisiest neighbor. It

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
7 min read
Build a Competitive Analysis Template
Competitive Research

Build a Competitive Analysis Template

Sun Tzu once said, “In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.” And in SEO, there is no bigger opportunity than the chaos of the SERP rankings. Competitive analysis is how we find these

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
14 min read
A Clear Google Ads Tutorial for Beginners
PPC

A Clear Google Ads Tutorial for Beginners

Businesses have seen big success with Google Ads (Adwords). Taking that first step seems like an easy choice, but many stop short when they see the requirements. You have to bid on keywords,

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
26 min read
How to Write Meta Tags (Titles and Descriptions) for SEO
SEO

How to Write Meta Tags (Titles and Descriptions) for SEO

Meta tags are a part of the HTML code (HTML tags) for your website and describe any page's content to the search engine crawlers.  Meta tags are essential to all search engines such

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
7 min read
The Types of Backlinks You Need to Know for SEO
Backlinks

The Types of Backlinks You Need to Know for SEO

When Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin wrote their first search algorithm in 1996, it was built on the idea that when websites link to one particular website, that website must be

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
13 min read
How to Determine Search Intent: A Step-by-Step Guide
SEO

How to Determine Search Intent: A Step-by-Step Guide

Even with the best marketing magic, we can't read minds. (It only seems that way at times.) That's because content marketers are doing their best to determine search intent in what they create.

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
12 min read
Keyword Density: 5 Assumptions We Put to the Test
Content Marketing

Keyword Density: 5 Assumptions We Put to the Test

For at least a decade, Google has told us to stop worrying about how many times a keyword appears in our content. They’ve said their algorithms and natural language processing have become

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
8 min read
Google Ads vs. Bing Ads: the $175,672 question
PPC

Google Ads vs. Bing Ads: the $175,672 question

It doesn’t seem like there should even be a Google ads vs. Bing ads debate. Google processes almost 9x more search queries than Bing, er, Microsoft Bing. That’s nearly 3 billion

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
10 min read
How to Use Google’s Keyword Planner to Create Epic Content
Keyword Research

How to Use Google’s Keyword Planner to Create Epic Content

When it comes to creating epic content, sitting down and just writing something isn’t enough. It needs to be helpful, well-thought-out, and easy to find when people need it most. When someone

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
20 min read
Google Ads Best Practices and Tips for 2021
Google Ads

Google Ads Best Practices and Tips for 2021

It's easy to underestimate how much work goes into making a single, humble little Google Ad. Each one has been precision-tooled to capture that front-page top spot and drive conversions from there. It

  • Sidra Condron
    Sidra Condron
10 min read
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