Q&A: How do you find Search Volume for Keywords without the Google Keyword Tool?
With Google Adwords showing search volumes only in ranges, and only a few paid tools out there to help you find search volume data, Mondovo is your best bet. Here’s why
4 typical excuses I hear about NOT tracking keyword rankings. And why they’re terrible excuses
First. A Confession…
I’m not an SEO guy, never was, never will be. Even though I work for a company that makes an SEO & Social Media Toolset, I’m more of a marketing sort with an eye for the consumer. This means that when things get complicated, I’m the first person to raise his hand and say: “Hey! I don’t think this is simple to do. How can you expect our users to get this?” My personal attitude towards SEO is looking at it like Algebra – lots of doubt and suspicion but tempered with the grudging acceptance that it is useful once you understand it.
So that’s why when we were planning to revamp our existing Rank Tracker, I thought it’s a perfect time to poll our target audience and get their thoughts on rank tracking. And boy, was I in for a shock. Close to 35% of the businesses we polled didn’t track their rankings regularly or have a clue why they should. Another 25% said that they’ve attempted it – since everyone they’d spoken to said it’s terribly important – but didn’t really understand what to do with the data. The remaining 40% understood the importance of rank tracking but didn’t have time to do it themselves so hired agencies or SEO professionals to do it for them.
What it Takes to be a SaaS Copywriter – Interview with Josh Garofalo
Summary:
Josh Garofalo is a SaaS copywriter and conversion optimizer — a specialist in a sea of generalists. Before starting Sway Copy, he led marketing at a VC-funded B2B SaaS startup that went through AngelPad, the #1 accelerator (Forbes, 2015).
Today, he writes copy for SaaS companies and digital agencies with SaaS clients.
Lessons from a Marketing Agency Entrepreneur serving 120+ clients globally
It’s no easy task running a successful marketing agency and doing so for 18+ years can take some genius.We spoke to Johan Hedin, the Founder of Marketing Ignite who has been a successful agency entrepreneur from 1998. He shares his perspective on marketing to clients & how to understand and deal with customers.
Have a listen to the podcast interview by clicking “Play” below. Read More
How to effectively deliver bad news to your SEO clients and yet keep them happy?
This is the second post in a two-part blog series. If you haven’t already done so, do read the first part about how you can use the Rank Drop Quadrant to analyze why rankings have fallen.
If you are an SEO consultant or professional, it is an unfortunate but ultimately unavoidable situation: something goes wrong, the client’s search rankings drop and you then need to communicate the bad news to your client. After all, it is part of your job to manage your SEO clients expectations and to keep them happy. Retaining your client can be hard at such times, especially when you would be the first person they would blame for any sudden drop in their rankings/traffic. So it’s important and necessary that you deal with such situations tactfully and communicate such bad news carefully.
As we covered in the first part, if you are dealing with lost google rankings for your SEO client, you may first want to use the Rank Drop Quadrant to analyze what could’ve gone wrong. It’s good to be able to map the situation out in your head and know how bad (or not bad) the situation is before communicating such news to your client.
So, now that you have gone through the Quadrant and understood the possible reasons for the drop, it’s time we communicate this information to our client/boss in the right way. After all, the cost of losing a client is much higher than acquiring new ones.
1. Skip the Denial Stage
Imagine the situation: you go into the office on a Monday morning only to find that your client’s website has dropped for all keywords in the SERPs. What do you do?
The inclination is probably to tell everyone that if anyone calls, you’re not in the office. In truth, that’s the absolute worst thing you can do. You need to call the client before they call you. Yes, they might get very vocal about their level of disappointment and unhappiness but they will also appreciate the fact that you noticed straight away when things went wrong. Communicating bad news is always better when done as soon as possible, you then have enough time to deal with recovering from the situation instead of wasting time denying the situation. Read More
Mondovo – 10 minutes setup for 10 times more insight!
In the early 2000’s the market for portable music players was virtually untapped. People, me included, were quite content with early versions of ‘MP3’ players and quite frankly we didn’t give an alternative much thought. Not surprisingly, we, I, the world were just not ready for the bombshell that was October 23, 2001 which was when Apple launched the first generation of its music Goliath – the Ipod.
Since then, Apple has launched over 20 versions of the Ipod in varying degrees of memory capacity, colors and user interactions. What this tells us is that Apple clearly knew back then, as we do now, that there is no guaranteed formula for product success – you need to constantly innovate, tweak and critique.
Although I cringe at calling our most recent update Mondovo 2.0 (oh the cliches), it is as apt as it is significant because it puts even greater emphasis on time being spent on analyzing the data vs merely collecting.
We achieved this by turning the campaign set up on its head and really taking a good long look at the user experience. Hard questions were asked and hard answers given; is this step really necessary? Can we make the overall process simpler? The result of our efforts is the new campaign setup process that’s in place today. Here are the reports that can be generated within 10 minutes of Signing up for Mondovo through the new campaign set up process:
Site Audit Report, Comprehensive Competitor Back-Link Analysis, Keyword Research, Ranking Monitor, Overall Metrics Comparison (You vs Competitors), and comparison of Social Accounts Performance on Facebook and Twitter
In this blog article, we’ll outline the new process and clarify any doubts that might exist.
Lets get started. You can login to your account here if you would like to follow along:
If you’re a new user or an existing user looking at setting up a new campaign, here is the first screen that you will encounter. Winston Churchill once said “You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks” – valid point. We have a similar approach and ask users to focus on their most critical requirement first – Improve Rankings or Manage Social Media Read More
Why Should I Use Mondovo?
For digital marketers and business owners trying to carve a niche for themselves in the digital marketplace, there can be no resource more precious than time. The unfortunate hallmark of many digital marketing tools available today are that very few, if not none, actually offer you the ‘all in one’ convenience without sacrificing data depth and accuracy. Although we might be a little biased, we believe we’ve created something special in Mondovo because: Read More
2-Minute Overview Videos on each of our Tools
Rankings Monitor
Track your search rankings on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. Measure and analyze your rankings for important keywords and keep tabs on the competition. Get alerts on major ranking changes.
Identify issues that plague your website and take corrective actions that can improve your rankings. The audit tool can spot missing title tags, broken links, duplicate content, and many other on-site SEO related issues.
Link Research
Analyze the backlinks of your competitors. Understand their linking strategy and identify possible Read More
How Not Checking My Site’s Metrics Cost Me $70,000+ in Lost Business
I’ve chosen to keep the website url anonymous because it could affect the brand image of the site but I thought it’s important to share this lesson.
They say, ‘ignorance is bliss’. You can’t be stressed by something you don’t know or don’t think about. So here I was, living this wonderful stress-free life, happy and content with everything going on with my real estate website because I had a few sign ups here and there and things “seemed” to be going alright. When you’re in such a state, there will come a time, and hopefully reading this article will be that time, when you realize that this ignorance of not tracking or measuring key metrics can be the cause of many a pain in the future…
Even though I would consider myself to be quite tech savvy and also aware that keeping a tab on your stats is important, I never really got down to looking at any of my site’s stats for a long, long time. I was only looking at sign ups, sales and enquiries and the numbers always used to be volatile, so nothing struck me as being abnormal. I was not aware that the traffic to my site had actually been on a steady decline. I was slowly losing rankings for my key terms. A few of my older articles had links to sites that did not exist anymore (I later realized there were 14 broken links spread across 173 of my blog posts).. In short, things were not going well and what’s worse, I didn’t realize any of this.
Then, doomsday struck. Read More
Getting Started with the Keyword Research Tool
Mondovo’s Keyword Research tool allows you to generate a list of relevant keywords from a set of keywords or URLs you enter. It consists of 2 sub-tools viz Keyword Research & Content Ideas. The Keyword Research tool helps with the following:
- Researching and discovering new and effective keyword opportunities for your marketing campaigns
- Fine-tuning your SEO on-page strategy
- Coming up with new content ideas
- Monitor trending keywords
We will discuss in detail about “Content Ideas” in the later part of this tutorial. For now let’s focus on “Keyword Research”. Getting started with the Keyword Research tool is an easy task and is explained in detail in the following steps:
Step 1:
Login to your Mondovo account and select Keyword Research (under SEO Tools) from the left menu. In case you’re a new user, you can create a new Mondovo account in less than 2 mins.
