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The 4 daily habits of the most successful SEOs

Want to be great at search engine optimization? Columnist John Lincoln believes that this requires more than just deep SEO knowledge -- it's about building good habits, too.

John Lincoln on August 12, 2016 at 1:45 pm

If you want to be a successful SEO, it’s a great idea to imitate your peers who are ranking sites and making their clients happy. After all, the reason that many SEOs are successful is that they’ve cultivated professional habits that other SEOs haven’t.

So what are those habits? Here are a few of them.

1. They study the news and strategy like crazy

Few things change more than SEO. It seems as though every week, we read about a new algorithm update or a change that Google is testing.

That’s why it’s important that you keep up with the latest news in SEO. Otherwise, you’re going to miss important tidbits of information that will help you rank your clients’ sites.

Fortunately, there are plenty of channels online where you can get the info you need to keep up with all that’s happening in search engine optimization.

[Read the full article on Search Engine Land.]

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About The Author

John Lincoln

John Lincoln is CEO of Ignite Visibility, a digital marketing teacher at the University of California San Diego and author of the book Digital Influencer, A Guide to Achieving Influencer Status Online. Throughout his career, Lincoln has worked with hundreds of websites, ranging from start-ups to household names, and has won awards in SEO, CRO, analytics and Social Media. In the media, Lincoln has been featured on sites such as Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc. Magazine, CIO magazine and more.