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When Facebook Ads is NOT a Viable Strategy for Clients
It’s only human nature to try things that other people are doing because it feels like a good idea and/or the right thing to do. In many instances, the outcome is either neutral or positive. However, in today’s online marketing world, just because someone is doing it, doesn’t make the outcome “good”. In contrast, it could actually backfire (both financially and reputation-wise). Let me explain.
When Facebook rolled out their advertising platform, everyone wanted to get in on the action. After a few years of “trial and error” trying to figure out the algorithm, it became clear that this was a potential money-making machine for advertisers. However, it didn’t take long for these same advertisers to see that their Ad dollars increasing while their Cost/Conversion skyrocket. It was this outcome, that started everyone to second-guess the benefit of this new PPC alternative to Google Adwords (now Google Ads)
Personally, many of my clients over the years wanted to try Facebook ads and frankly who wouldn’t? It was an amazing feeling where an advertiser could target pretty much anything they wanted. (Men 55+, Divorced, like Fine Scotch, NY Yankees and watches CNN). However, that honeymoon didn’t last very long. It was not based on strategy or setting inaccurate expectations, it was simply not cost effective and actually started to hurt their reputation. Clients would take a hit based simply on comments given by competitors and/or disgruntled people. It was this experience that quickly changed the minds of not only myself, but also the client. It was this combination of poor performance along with reputation issues that made them feel even more skeptical this new platform. However, over the years there’s been (1) one silver-lining and that is identifying which clients could benefit the most from this hyper-targeting platform.
In conclusion, as an Agency or Freelancer it is entirely OK to say to a client NO to Facebook Ads or at the very least say we should do a “test” to evaluate it’s potential. In candor, it all depends on the advertiser’s audience along with sensible strategies and agreed upon success metrics.
Ways to get the most out of your Google Adwords PPC strategy
30-second summary:
- PPC advertising is a highly effective way to drive targeted prospects to websites, sales pages, or blogs.
- Even though PPC can take up some parts of your budget, there are important benefits attached to this practice.
- Did you know, 92% of all keywords that people type into search engines are long tails?
- This article gives you a brief on the benefits of having a PPC strategy, must-haves for PPC advertising through Google Adwords, elements of attractive and effective PPC Ads, and more on optimizing your Google Adwords PPC strategy.
Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising is an important component of online marketing. Specific strategies can be used by advertisers to maximize the return from their PPC marketing. PPC advertising is a highly effective way to drive targeted prospects to websites, sales pages, or blogs. Digital marketers can choose between Google AdWords, Facebook Ads, or Bing Ads. However, most online marketers prefer using Google AdWords for their PPC strategy since it displays their ads on Google SERPs.
A. Benefits of Google Ads PPC advertising
Though PPC marketing costs money, it has five important benefits:
1. Convenience and speed
Advertisers can set up their PPC ad campaigns easily and quickly. They can use PPC ads to target their prospects with precision and get results almost immediately. According to Neil Patel, SEO expert and co-founder of both Crazy Egg and Hello Bar:
“With PPC, you can drive visitors to your website in hours, not months”
2. Adaptability
Ad text, keywords, and other elements of PPC ads can be constantly tweaked to optimize and so maximize their effectiveness.
3. Cost-effectiveness
Google Adwords charges advertisers only when there are clicks on their ads and not merely when ads are displayed.
4. Budget flexibility
Advertisers can decide on the budget of their PPC campaign since Google Adwords does not have any minimum spending limits. For instance, they can set a maximum daily budget of twenty dollars and a maximum cost of twenty cents for each click on their ad, which they can change whenever they want.
5. Predictability
With a PPC campaign, digital marketers can easily predict the number of their visitors based on how much they spend. The search engine algorithm is less of a factor. In one of his PPC related articles, Neil Patel stated,
“Spend more, get more visitors. If you want exactly 10,000 visitors, you can get exactly 10,000 visitors”,
Despite all these benefits of Google Ads PPC advertising, first-time digital marketers should be attentive as they may lose a lot on their invested money if they ever fail to properly set up their PPC marketing campaigns.
B. Preparation before starting a Google Ads PPC campaign
The first thing new marketers should do is to read thoroughly the Google Adwords Getting Started Guide, which has a large amount of useful information. Next, they should use the Google Adwords Keyword Suggestion Tool and create a comprehensive list of relevant keywords for their products or services.
Use of long-tail keyword phrases
Since the price per click of PPC ads is determined by competitive bidding of search terms, popular search terms such as “insurance”, “stop smoking”, and “weight-loss” cost several dollars for the top three positions on the search results. On the other hand, long-tail keywords are phrases that are not searched very often but are more likely to be used by people who are willing to buy.
Ahrefs, in fact, reports that 92% of all keywords get 10 or fewer searches per month. In other words, 92% of all keywords that people type into search engines are long tails.
C. Elements of attractive and effective PPC ads
Well written ads are decisive to the success of a Google Ads PPC strategy. They should highlight the key benefit of the product or service so that potential clients click on them.
Marketers should also include these elements in their ads:
1. The price of the product
Users who see the price of the product and still click the ad are more likely to buy the product. If they think the price is too high, they may not click on the ad and save the cost of that click.
2. A strong call-to-action
Specific call-to-action phrases such as “purchase”, “buy”, “call today”, “sign up”, and “order ensures” the prospects understand what they are expected to do after they clicking the ad.
3. The best performing keyword preferably in the title of the ad
Whenever users type that keyword and the ad is displayed, the keyword phrase appears “in bold font” within the ad on the Google search page. This will draw their attention to the ad.
4. The URL of the specific page on the website that has the product
If people who click the ad do not find the product on that page, they are likely to exit and click some other ad.
D. Fine-tuning PPC management to boost its profitability
Advertisers can experiment with different offers and call-to-action phrases and test multiple ads. Google Adwords rotates ads automatically within the ad group and displays, more often, the better-performing one. They can remove keywords that are not getting enough clicks and replace them with others. Also, they can decrease or increase the maximum cost-per-click and check the effect on the performance of their ads.
E. Additional strategies to increase the cost-effectiveness of your Google Ads PPC marketing
Submit negative keywords
Advertisers should make a list of keywords that cause their ads to be displayed but are not related to their product. After that, they should submit them as negative keywords by putting a negative sign in front of those keywords. By doing this, they will ensure that anyone using those keywords won’t have their ad displayed to them. For instance, if the product is about “how to stop smoking”, advertisers should exclude anything like “smoking chimneys” or any other sources of smoke!
“Some keywords might have far different user intent and bring in clicks that are an immediate bounce but won’t turn into a conversion”.
Explained SEO expert Rinko de Jong, in an email interview.
“This could also lead to ad impressions that result in no clicks. Both can weaken the quality score of your ad resulting in negatively impacting your ad placement and cost per click”, he added.
Disallow ads to be displayed in Google’s content network partner sites
Clicks originating from these websites are usually of a lower quality than those from search results because they come from people who are browsing that website, not people who are actively searching for the product of the advertiser. So, these clicks might result in fewer sales but will cost definitely just the same.
Pay-Per-Click marketing has the potential to drive a steady stream of visitors to affiliate sites, sales pages, or websites resulting in increased sales and profits if it is properly set up and constantly monitored.
Jacob M. is a copywriter, marketing blogger, and inbound marketing consultant.
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How to use XPath expressions to enhance your SEO and content strategy
30-second summary:
- As Google increasingly favors sites with content that exudes expertise, authority, and trustworthiness (E-A-T), it is imperative that SEOs and marketers produce content that is not just well written, but that also demonstrates expertise.
- How do you understand what topics and concerns matter most to your customer base?
- Can you use Q&As to inform content strategies?
- XPath notations can be your treasure trove.
- Catalyst’s Organic Search Manager, Brad McCourt shares a detailed guide on using XPath notations and your favorite crawler to quickly obtain the Q&As in a straightforward and digestible format.
As Google increasingly favors sites with content that exudes expertise, authority, and trustworthiness (E-A-T), it is imperative that SEOs and marketers produce content that is not just well written, but that also demonstrates expertise. One way to demonstrate expertise on a subject or product is to answer common customer questions directly in your content.
But, how do you identify what those questions are? How do you understand what topics and concerns matter most?
The good news is that they are hiding in plain sight. Chances are, your consumers have been shouting at the top of their keyboards in the Q&A sections of sites like Amazon.
These sections are a treasure trove of (mostly) serious questions that real customers have about the products you are selling.
How do you use these Q&As to inform content strategies? XPath notation is your answer.
You can use XPath notations and your favorite crawler to quickly obtain the Q&As in a straightforward and digestible format. XPath spares you from clicking through endless screens of questions by automating the collection of important insights for your content strategy.
What is XPath?
XML Path (XPath) is a query language developed by W3 to navigate XML documents and select specified nodes of data.
The notation XPath uses is called “expressions”. Using these expressions, you can effectively pull any data that you need from a website as long as there is a consistent structure between webpages.
This means you can use this language to pull any publicly available data in the source code, including questions from a selection of Amazon Q&A pages.
This article is not meant to be a comprehensive tutorial on XPath. For that, there are plenty of resources from W3. However, XPath is easy enough to learn with only knowing the structure of XML and HTML documents. This is what makes it such a powerful tool for SEOs regardless of coding prowess.
Let’s walk through an example to show you how…
Using XPath to pull customer questions from Amazon
Pre-req: Pick your web crawler
While most of the big names in web crawling – Botify, DeepCrawl, OnCrawl – all offer the ability to extract data from the source code, I will be using ScreamingFrog in the example below.
ScreamingFrog is by far the most cost-effective option, allowing you to crawl up to 500 URLs without buying a license. For larger projects you can buy a license. This will allow you to crawl as many URLs as your RAM can handle.
Step one: Collect the URLs to crawl
For our example, let’s pretend we’re doing research on the topics we should include in our product pages and listings for microspikes. For those unaware, microspikes are an accessory for your boots or shoes. They give you extra grip in wintry conditions, so they are particularly popular among cold-weather hikers and runners.
Source: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=microspikes
Here we have a list of 13 questions and answer pages for the top microspike pages on Amazon.com. Unfortunately, there is some manual work required to create the list.
The easiest way is to search for the topic (that is, microspikes) and pull links to the top products listed. If you have the product’s ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number) handy, you can also generate the URLs using the above format, but switching out the ASIN.
Step two: Determine the XPath
From here, we need to determine the XPath.
In order to figure out the proper XPath notation to use to pull in the desired text, we have two main options:
- View the Source-Code
- View the rendered source code and copy the XPath directly from Chrome’s Inspect Element tool
You’ll find that the expression needed to locate all questions in an Amazon Q&A page is:
//span[@class=”a-declarative”]
Here is XPath notation broken down:
- // is used to locate all instances of the following expression.
- Span is the specific tag we’re trying to locate. //span will locate every single <span> tag in the source code. There are over 300 of these, so we’ll need to be more specific.
- @class specifies that //span[@class] will ensure all <span> tags with an assigned class attribute will be located.
- @class=”a-declarative” dictates that //span[@class=”a-declarative”] only locates <span> tags where the class attribute is set to “a-declarative” – that is, <span class=”a-declarative”>
There is an extra step in order to return the inner text of the specified tag that is located, but ScreamingFrog does the heavy lifting for us.
It’s important to note that this will only work for Amazon Question and Answer pages. If you wanted to pull questions from, say, Quora, TripAdvisor, or any other site, the expression would have to be adjusted to locate the specific entity you desire to collect on a crawl.
Step three: Configure your crawler
Once you have this all set, you can then go into ScreamingFrog.
Configuration -> Custom -> Extraction
This will then take you to the Custom Extraction screen.
This is where you can:
- Give the extraction a name to make it easier to find after the crawl, especially if you’re extracting more than one entity. ScreamingFrog allows you to extract multiple entities during a single crawl.
- You can then choose the extraction method. In this article, it is all about XPath, but you also have the option of extracting data via CSSPath and REGEX notation as well.
- Place the desired XPath expression in the “Enter XPath” field. ScreamingFrog will even check your syntax for you, providing a green checkmark if everything checks out.
- You then have the option to select what you want extracted, be it the full HTML element or the HTML found within the located tag. For our example, we want to extract the text in between any <span> tags with a class attribute set to “a-declarative” so we select “extract text.”
We can then click OK.
Step four: Crawl the desired URLs
Now it’s time to crawl our list of Amazon Q&A pages for microspikes.
First, we’ll need to switch the Mode in ScreamingFrog from “Spider” to “List.”
Then, we can either add our set of URLs manually or upload them from an Excel or other supported format.
After we confirm the list, ScreamingFrog will crawl each URL we provided, extracting the text between all <span> tags containing the class attribute set to “a-declarative.”
In order to see the data collected, you just need to select “Custom Extraction” in ScreamingFrog.
At first glance, the output might not look that exciting.
However, this is only because a lot of unneeded space is included with the data, so you might see some columns that appear blank if they are not expanded to fully display the contents.
Once you copy and paste the data into Excel or your spreadsheet program of choice, you can finally see the data that has been extracted. After some clean-up, you get the final result:
The result is 118 questions that real customers have asked about microspikes in an easily accessible format. With this data at your fingertips, you’re now ready to incorporate this research into your content strategy.
Content strategies
Before diving into content strategies, a quick word to the wise: you can’t just crawl, scrape and publish content from another site, even if it is publicly accessible.
First, that would be plagiarism and expect to be hit with an DMCA notice. Second, you’re not fooling Google. Google knows the original source of the content, and it is extremely unlikely your content is going to rank well – defeating the purpose of this entire strategy.
Instead, this data can be used to inform your strategy and help you produce high quality, unique content that users are searching for.
Now, how do you get started with your analysis?
I recommend first categorizing the questions. For our example there were many questions about:
- Sizing: What size microspikes are needed for specific shoe/boot sizes?
- Proper Use – Whether or not microspikes could be used in stores, on slippery roofs, while fishing, mowing lawns, or for walking on plaster?
- Features: Are they adjustable, type of material, do they come with a carrying case?
- Concerns: Are they comfortable, do they damage your footwear, do they damage the type of flooring/ground you’re on, durability?
This is an amazing insight into the potential concerns customers might have before purchasing microspikes.
From here, you can use this information to:
1. Enhance existing content on your product and category pages
Incorporate the topics into the product or category descriptions, answering questions shoppers might have pre-emptively.
For our example, we might want to make it abundantly clear how sizing works – including a sizing chart and specifically mentioning types of footwear the product may or may not be compatible with.
2. Build out a short on-page FAQ section featuring original content, answering commonly asked questions
Make sure to implement FAQPage Schema.org markup for a better chance to appear for listings like People Also Ask sections, which are increasingly taking up real estate in the search results.
For our example, we can answer commonly asked questions about comfort, damage to footwear, durability, and adjustability. We could also address if the product comes with a carrying case and how to best store the product for travel.
3. Produce a product guide, incorporating answers to popular questions surrounding a product or category
Another strategy is to produce an extensive one-stop product guide showcasing specific use cases, sizing, limitations, and features. For our example, we could create specific content for each use case like hiking, running in icy conditions, and more.
Even better, incorporate videos, images, charts, and featured products with a clear path to purchase.
Using this approach your end product will be content that shows expertise, the authority on a subject, and most importantly, addresses customer concerns and questions before they even think to ask. This will help prevent your customers from having to do additional research or contact customer service. Thanks to your informative and helpful content, they will be more ready to make a purchase.
Furthermore, this approach also has the potential to lower product return rates. Informed customers are less likely to purchase the wrong product based upon assumed or incomplete knowledge.
Conclusion
Amazon is just the tip of the iceberg here. You can realistically apply this strategy to any site that has publicly accessible data to extract, be that questions from Quora about a product category, Trip Advisor reviews about hotels, music venues, and attractions, or even discussions on Reddit.
The more informed you are about what your customers are expecting when visiting your site, the better you can serve those expectations, motivate purchases, decrease bounces, and improve organic search performance.
Brad McCourt is an Organic Search Manager at Catalyst’s Boston office.
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Social media techniques to integrate into your digital PR strategy
30-second summary:
- Social media can provide a personable avenue for starting a connection.
- Keeping connections on social media and emails consistent allows for a solid flow through the construction of a relationship.
- Compliments and details are valuable if used in the correct context in conjunction with a relevant pitch.
- Media Relations Lead Nicole Franco shares personalization tips and tricks on sending both professional and personalized media pitches.
Marketers who strive to build backlinks and brand awareness often engage in digital PR.
But creating amazing content and then pitching that content to writers is not an easy earned media strategy. The outreach alone can cause many marketers to struggle and eventually give up on the tactic.
However, although easier said than done, appealing to the writer away from a regular pitch email can set any market apart from the wave of emails a journalist receives daily.
Read on to discover several ways to not only compose an exceptional media relations email but also how-to create organic, personalized relationships with writers by utilizing social media.
Technique #1: Complimenting via Instagram
One natural way to start a relationship with an editor or journalist is to start the connection via Instagram.
First, add them and maybe like their most recent post. Read the situation, maybe leave a witty comment or compliment on a relevant post relating to the content of a potential pitch.
After a minor connection has been made, send them a message or email regarding their Instagram post while mentioning your content and ideas for a collaboration.
Below is an example of a potential way to reach out to an editor. Keep in mind the content you are pitching and if it’s a serious topic. Editors covering lifestyle topics would be keener on receiving these kinds of requests.
1. Instagram DM
Pitch email
Keeping in mind the kind of journalist you are reaching out to is important. In the example above, the writer had posted about Disney and had consistently covered witty travel content.
Analyzing their coverage and writing style can provide valuable insight into how to properly reach out. Also, noting something that happens in everyday life or mentioning some seasonal holiday plans are great examples of how to personalize a pitch. In the example above, I chose to connect about Halloween costumes via Instagram.
Technique #2: Asking for contact info via Twitter
Similar to Instagram, a great way to connect with journalists is by starting a conversation on Twitter. Instead of liking a photo or leaving a compliment, try retweeting or liking a relatable post.
Twitter DMs are also a great way to ask a publisher for their preferred form of contact. Many publishers have open DMs and are willing to accept a news tip right in their Twitter inbox!
Twitter DM
Pitch email
Pitch Response
One of the most important things to note when reaching out on social media is making sure the content you’re pitching is relevant. This connection worked because the marketer did their research and took the writer’s beat into consideration and referenced a recent article they had covered in the pitch email.
If your content is not relevant or doesn’t align with the writer’s coverage, don’t expect a response.
Technique #3: Get acquainted on LinkedIn
LinkedIn is considered by some to be the most formal way to go. But in order to send a message via LinkedIn, you must be connected to the person, making this a longer connection process.
When reaching out on LinkedIn, it’s important to note that witty or informal comments might not be taken well on this platform. Keep in mind LinkedIn is used in regards to making professional connections, so keep a PR message short, concise, and professional.
LinkedIn DMs
In both examples, the message was to mention their beat and simply ask for an email to best contact them at. Although it seems simple, the writer will expect your email in their inbox and most likely remember your name. Additionally, as mentioned above, personalize your subject line so the writer knows exactly which email is yours. I’ve provided an example below.
Pitch Email
Aside from just asking for an email, try and connect with them by starting a conversation about the college they went to or an experience they had. Any fellow Gator is always welcome in my inbox!
Technique #4: Reference social to get relatable
Although we are reaching out to journalists in hopes of creating a professional relationship, appealing to their personal likes can go a long way. One way to do so is by reading their bios on their social media or personal website. Some might be writing a book or might express something they really enjoy.
Do those things relate to you as well? If so, let them know! Yes, the human on the other side of the email loves coffee or dogs just as much as you; who knew?
Pitch email
Pitch response
Some say people love dogs more than humans, and this pitch is no exception. Here I decided to take a leap and mention the journalists’ pup in their email. I included a picture of their own pup, mentioned their dog in my email subject line, and shared similar experiences.
Although this may not always be successful, in this case, it was because of the marketer’s research and analysis. Again, always do your research. Most journalists already mention how they would like to be pitched in places like Muckrack, their personal website, and just by reading their articles (example included below). Marketers can get a feel about how to personalize an email.
Final tips and tricks for your digital PR strategy
Some things to remember when starting a connection on social media: always do the research, don’t be too invasive and keep it simple. None of us need an elaborate summary of what we tweeted in the summer of 2016. Keep it short, sweet, and relevant.
Consequently, all journalists are different. Although some prefer basic intros, using some sort of external connection can increase a marketer’s chance of building a long-lasting connection.
Whether it’s referencing dog pictures from Twitter or referencing a line from a recent article they wrote, paying attention to those minor details may be the difference between an email ignored and a new digital PR connection.
So when in doubt, turn to social. Happy pitching!
Nicole Franco is a Media Relations Lead at Fractl. She’s an extrovert with a passion for building connections with entrepreneurs and working with aspiring businesses to tell their stories. Aside from loving content development; traveling, volunteering, and seeking adventure is what she lives for.
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Crowd marketing is the forum link building strategy you need to know in 2020
30-second summary:
- Link building is still one of the best tactics to boost your Google rankings
- Forum link building can help you tap into niche communities
- Crowd marketing is the concept of setting up a strategy for forum link building
- There’s no need to be discouraged if you’re just getting started
- Quality is important both in your content and the forum that you decide to join
SEO is evolving through the years and it’s still more important than ever in your digital strategy.
It takes time to rank high in Google’s search results and one of the best ways to improve your success is to aim for credible backlinks to your content.
Backlinks can prove that the content is trustworthy and useful enough for the users to get you higher in SERPs.
Through the years, link building is still one of the most effective methods to build your SEO. It helps you improve your search visibility and work towards reaching higher in the SERPs in a consistent and efficient way.
The question is, how can you make the most out of it in 2020?
Forum link building can be your secret weapon. Crowdo has released ‘The Ultimate Guide to Forum Link Building in 2020’ sharing tactics and examples to make it work.
Here are the key takeaways:
Content created in partnership with Crowdo.
Embracing crowd marketing
One of the most common tactics in link building is guest posting. It’s the process of featuring your content on another blog to get a link back to your site.
Although it’s a popular method, there are still more options to consider.
For example, ‘crowd marketing’, involves link building through communities and forums.
Crowdo is listing the benefits of ‘crowd marketing’ on their latest report:
- Forums can be relevant for every niche industry. You can get links back to your site even when trying to reach a very specific group of people
- It can be easier to get a link on a forum compared to getting a guest post published.
- A lot of forums have been around for many years, which increases their credibility as a source of a link
It’s relatively easy to get a backlink from a forum. Your research can help you find the best way to reach your target audience to maximise the value.
It’s important though to avoid spamming or automated link generators. Crowd marketing should be a white hat technique rather than a quick win with no tangible results.
Focusing on the right links
You don’t want to gather as many links as you can if they don’t add value to your site and your ranking.
The quality of backlinks is crucial. If you’re unsure how to define the quality of the backlink, here are the key factors to consider:
- Website traffic. Examine the traffic of the website to understand its popularity and it value it can bring
- Relevance. Pick the forums and threads that are relevant to your site’s content. Don’t waste your time on links that are useless.
- Authority. Look at the domain authority (DA) of the website. Tools like Ahrefs/ Moz / Semrush can help you discover a site’s DA. Aim for a DA that’s at least 50.
- Context. Make sure your link is naturally placed in a sentence. Don’t just add the link on its own but rather link it to the right context.
- Quality of forum. Analyse the forum’s quality. Too many spam posts are not a good indication of its quality. Aim for forums that are highly moderated as this may indicate the increase in the quality and the trust.
Best practices for scaling up link building
If you’re just getting started with link building, it might feel challenging to scale up your efforts.
There’s no need to quit though.
Here are Crowdo’s tips on how to address your challenges:
- Don’t skip research. Research is crucial. Find the communities that are more relevant to your target audience. Look at their metrics. Read the latest threads to explore the topics that you want to be featured on.
- Build trust. When you’re just getting started in a community, it’s important to take the time to build trust. If you need to register, fill all the details on your profile, join additional conversations, and aim for the long-term relationship.
- Confirm that the threads are indexed by Google. Make sure that the forum threads that you’re about to post are indexed by Google. You don’t want to waste your time without seeing the content indexed.
- Treat link building as an investment. Link building takes time. If your niche forum requires a registration fee, work on your end goal and what you want to get out of it. If it justifies the investment, do not hesitate to invest more time and resources on it.
Practical examples
If you want to see what forum building looks like, here is an example from Crowdo’s report.
In this example, the target niche is insurance providers. The community has more than 80k visitors, 93 DA, 48 TF. Thus, it makes the perfect source to add value to a conversation along with a dofollow backlink.
It’s a great example of how your research can lead you to the right source to make your link both useful and relevant.
Next steps
If you need additional help with your forum building, agencies like Crowdo can help you with on-demand link building services.
They are offering an exclusive offer to our readers with a 10% discount. You can find out more here and make the most of the offer using the coupon code provided in the link.
If you want to find out more about forum link building, make sure you read their latest report here.
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