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The Clique Hunter from Majestic just helped me find 125 new link opportunities that I have somehow managed to miss in a tight niche.

I have been working for this client for around 18 months and our link building has been very successful and their traffic has grown significantly over the period but this was a stark reminder that it is necessary to diversify the tools that we use for linkbuilding.

I have heard lots of great things about MajesticSEO over the years but never really given them a proper try. I actually went to use the site explorer tool today to run some more general checks on a few specific domains and stumbled upon the Clique Hunter.

Here are a few ways that the Clique Hunter is useful:
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Adwords Script to track Quality Score on Account, campaign & Ad Group Level

Warning: this post is a bit more technical than most of our posts as we go into some depth on Adwords scripts. BUT – do not worry – if you follow the post through you will hopefully be able to just follow the instructions and achieve what you need to achieve with no coding at all. It is aimed at getting ALL PPC marketers using a basic Adwords script to track quality score. About 6 weeks ago I read this [...]

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Do you ever forget your manners online?

I would be lying if I said that my behaviour online was completely reflective of my offline behaviour. To be honest I do not think it is possible to behave in the same way online and offline effectively as the circumstances are so different. But manners remain incredibly important and I think that it is something which is frequently overlooked. I try to always speak my mind but at the same time remain respectful in all situations. But for some reason, when I am [...]

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Interview with an Adwords Quality Score junkie

I spend a lot of time studying and obsessing over the quality score of our clients in their Adwords account as I know what a difference it can make to performance. Here and here are some previous posts on Quality Score. Over the past month or so I have become acquainted with someone who is perhaps even more of a quality score geek than I am, which is kind of reaffirming to discover.

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Why is my CTR so damn low?

With Google Adwords (or SEO for that matter) when you find a keyword that converts well and that gives you good orders/leads at a great cost per conversion you want more from it. You want to squeeze as much traffic out of it as possible as you know that the more traffic you get the more sales you will get. Unfortunately this can sometimes be tricky – sometimes you can bid up a keyword into position 1 but even once [...]

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White hat SEO Linkbuilding – 14 step process infographic

There still seems to be a lot of confusion about what is a reliable link building process that can be trusted not to fall foul of Google and also that will improve traffic. I have given a basic outline of our process in the following, and epically long infographic. I am not really sure that it can be classed as an infographic as it is really just a blog post split up into easy bite sized chunks. I read a post about [...]

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Crudely reverse engineering Google Adwords Quality Score Formula

This has given me a headache – there are a lot of spreadsheets coming up so brace yourself. I set up a new clients account last week and was taking them through it when a question that they asked gave me an idea. Just take a moment to check the QS of the keywords below:

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Getting your head around Google Adwords Enhanced Campaigns

Google Adwords is a highly intelligent and well built marketing tool. But because it has evolved over a number of years with layer upon layer of new functions, a well constructed campaign is usually pretty complex. Some of the considerations we have to go through when we start working on a new account are: Geographic targeting – should we split out campaigns for different regions/countries and target differently/bid differently? How do we handle different devices – do users search for this companies products/services differently [...]

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