Let's Talk About Links: Our "Quality Over Quantity" SEO Strategy As a member of our community, we know you're focused on building your brand and authority. A key part of that is search engine optimization (SEO), and a big part of SEO is backlinks. You may have noticed that our platform has a specific linking policy: Each member profile receives one powerful do-follow backlink on their profile page. All other links in member-generated content are set to no-follow. This isn't a

What if you plan a party and nobody shows up? That is how I feel about planning a webinar. When you put all the work into preparing the presentation, it is only effective if people know about it. You want to use all possible avenues to drive awareness and registration. As a group blog member, here are a few things you can take advantage of: 1) List your event on our event calendar. Instructions here . 2) Publish a blog post to promote the session. As always, use SEO best pra

We have added a new Call To Action (CTA) feature on the group blog sites to help you automatically add a CTA box to your blog posts. We hope this will help you increase conversions and traffic to your website. The new feature is available on all of our blogs on the Post Edit page. Please watch this video for complete instructions What is a Call to Action (CTA) A Call to Action (CTA) is a marketing tool that encourages readers to take a specific action, usually communicate

To prove the ROI of blogging we recommend that you use Google Analytics on your own website to track these key metrics: 1) Increase in site traffic 2) Referral links from the blog to your site. ( Tips for Google Analytics ). This will always be the most accurate. We do our best to track the traffic to your group blog posts in our “Post Stats” widget. However, we will be honest and say that this is not as reliable as Google Analytics. So the numbers are not set in stone. Ins

You can choose to add a customized widget (box) on your own website that will display titles and links to your blog posts you publish on the group blogs. This is a great way to always keep fresh content on your website (which is good for SEO). On your dashboard (first screen when you log into the blog site) you will see a section called “My Articles” and a link to “Click here to put customized copy of the widget on your website.” Hint: If you don’t see that on your screen,

Each member can choose where they want to be listed in our Industry Directories on each group blog to show prospects the vertical industries you focus on. You can view the directories here: ERP Software Blog Industry Directory CRM Software Blog Industry Directory ERP Cloud Blog Industry Directory Note: The site only shows pages for industry categories that have at least one listing. More choices are available. Each membership level can submit a different number of listings

Case studies are a great way to attract prospects. We invite you to submit links to case studies on your own website which will be listed on a case study directory page on the blog site. View the directories: ERP Software Blog Case Study Directory CRM Software Blog Case Study Directory ERP Cloud Blog Case Study Directory *Note: Please submit a maximum of 5 case studies per company. Need more case studies? We can write them for you. Get details here. By Anya Ciecierski, Co-

We have a section on the site for you to promote your events. Log in to the blog dashboard. On the very top bar click on “Events” and “Add Events.” Click on “ Paste as Text ” Icon (if you can’t see that click “Toggle Toolbar” icon on the far right of the top toolbar. Copy and Paste Title and Text) Add Tags . Choose applicable categories Add Time & Date Add Location (for Webinars-Choose “Webinar” at the end of the venue list) Choose or Add Organizer (This would be your co

The more traffic that comes to the blog sites the higher they are ranked giving your posts more strength too. Here are a few ways you can help: Add a link to your profile page on your LinkedIn Profile (and twitter and anywhere else you have a profile). Read posts on the site and leave your comments (comments are a sign of an active blog site). Send blog link to friends, colleagues, customers and ask them to comment on their favorite posts. Refer new members. More content + mo

We promote all of your posts and events on LinkedIn and X and make an effort to engage with your content. We invite you to connect with us. PLEASE follow our LinkedIn pages (the more followers we get the more options LinkedIn opens to us): ERP Software Blog CRM Software Blog ERP Cloud Blog Subscribe to our LinkedIn newsletters: Trending Dynamics ERP Topics Trending Dynamics CRM Topics X: ERP Software Blog: https://twitter.com/erpsoftwareblog CRM Software Blog: ...

To drive more traffic to the sites, which helps everyone, we encourage you to put links from your company website to pages on the blog site. We suggest one link to the home page (i.e., www.erpsoftwareblog.com or www.crmsoftwareblog.com or www.erpsoftwareblog.com/cloud ) and a second link to your company profile page. The best pages to link from are the “About Us” page and/or a dedicated ERP/CRM product page on your site. Ideally, put links on 2 separate pages within you