Welcome to the IMG Weekly Chat Digest #41

IMG Weekly Chat Digest #41.

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SEO Fight Club | Episode 75 | Google Says These Things Don’t Affect Your Rankings

In this episode, Ted Kubaitis along with Kyle Roof, Lee Witcher, Clint Butler & Lauren Proctor talk through the remaining list of items that Google says don’t affect your rankings.

How to Present a $1,900 SEO Site Audit, Part II (Premium)

This is Part 2 of 5 of IMG’s latest SEO audit. In this five-part series we take a slightly different approach by giving you an over the shoulder look at a $1,900 audit presentation.

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Now, This Week’s IMG Community Chat Digest!

1. Creating an SEO Business

Members: Conor Duggan, Kyle Roof, Vishal SEO and Todd Weeks

Topic – General SEO

Summary: How to create an SEO business composed of myself which brings in $5000 in profit every month and requires less than 30 hours of work per month…

Kyle: You should operate with 50% margins so you’d need 10K of business. That’s doable.
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2. How do you know a backlink is a GOOD backlink?

Members: Alex Guemez, Kyle Roof, Ted Kubaitis, Jason Miller and Todd Weeks

Topic: General SEO

Summary: How can I know something is a good backlink or not. For example, I could say that it’s from a .edu domain, … but, is that a good or bad backlink? What are your “metrics” or “indicators” when choosing a backlink…
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Kyle: Traffic might be the best indicator…

3. Users Bounce from SERP. Good for the Snippet?

4.Google Analytics Bug

Members: James Goldsmith, Lee Witcher and Carolyn Holzman
Topic: General SEO
Summary: Anyone else experiencing an analytics bug at the moment ?

Lee: What’s the bug?…

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5. Entities in Footer Tag. …

Members: Dave L, Vishal SEO and Alex Guemez

Tags: Cora SEO Software

Summary: Entities in footer tag… Is this already a factor in Cora?

Vishal: It’s not a factor assuming you mean html5 <footer> tag….

6. New Content Brief

Members: Carol Bell and Kyle Roof

Topic: Page Optimizer PRO

Summary: Is the new content brief more for help writing content than for optimizing an existing page? Confused about what to use in order to optimize a page that is already written.

Kyle: It can help with either. The content brief takes the signal by signal concept and then makes the tougher choices for you. It’s like having a high-level SEO giving you over the shoulder suggestions on the actual words you should put into each section.

7. Finding Content Issues Using the Search Trick.

Topic: Premium | Pro Tips & Tricks

Tutorial: How to Discover Content Issues with this Little Known Search Trick

That’s it for now. Hope you enjoyed the read. See you in the community over the weekend!