Ashley Kingsey
Ashley is a SEO specialist at Ning.
Ashley Kingsey
Ashley Kingsey

What Is Domain Authority?

Optimizing your website for search engines is hardly possible without following a broad array of metrics allowing you to identify how well your site ranks against the competitors and whether your online presence is visible enough to your potential clients.

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Ashley Kingsey
Ashley Kingsey

Newbie’s Guide to LinkedIn Analytics

Being the largest professional social network, LinkedIn boasts more than 590 million registered users worldwide, including high-ranking specialists, industry experts, chief-level employees, entrepreneurs, etc. This makes LinkedIn a paradise for resourceful content marketers! Why? Because if you manage to attract at least some of these audiences, consider you’ve got endless opportunities for promotion.

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Ashley Kingsey
Ashley Kingsey

NING IN EDUCATION: SOCIAL MEDIA TODAY

Eventually, social media communities will transform the educational system forever. There is no doubt that online communities are our future. And talking about social media, we mean not only the biggest networks like Facebook and Twitter. There are actually many ways to use social networking in education.

Ning is the perfect social media builder for universities, colleges and other educational institutions to establish quality community that will completely change and enrich communication with the students.

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Ashley Kingsey
Ashley Kingsey

SEO Guide: 18 Basic Things to Consider When Optimizing Your Website

It might seem you know everything about keywords, links, and metadata, but there’s always an insight you can get in the most unexpected place. For instance, do you know how to SEO your site content-wise?

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Ashley Kingsey
Ashley Kingsey

What Is SEO?

Questions like “What is this?” or “What is that?” are similar to the eternal questions of how the universe started or what the meaning of life is. No one knows the answer, but everyone struggles to find it over their lifetime. The same can be said of the question of what SEO is. You can open Wikipedia (or the paper versions, like encyclopedias or web marketing textbooks) that provide the most obvious answer. The definition of search engine optimization isthe process of affecting the visibility of a website or a webpage in a web search engine‘s unpaid results—often referred to as ‘natural,’ ‘organic,’ or ‘earned’ results.” That definition is dry, logical, and non-thrilling.

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