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Competitor Analysis
A comprehensive overview of a company’s major competitors, specifically as it relates to their brand identity, website, advertising and other marketing efforts. Any communication channel could be considered during a competitor analysis, including paid ads, blogs and videos, print ads, website design, social media presence and more.
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Backlink
A backlink is linked text on a website that sends the user to another website. You’ll often see sources cited in articles via backlinks to another source.
Backlinks are extremely important for website authority, because you are aligning yourself with related websites and sources within your industry. It’s just as important to work toward obtaining links from other sites to yours, which signals to search engines that your website is useful and trustworthy. Many strategies exist for maximizing a site’s backlink profile.
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Breadcrumbs
Breadcrumbs provide a navigation trail for users on a website. If they’re in a particular sub-section of the website, breadcrumbs allow them to see how they got there and what previous, high-level topic pages they could view as well that link to their current page.
Having a clear breadcrumb structure for a website is important, since it relates to user experience and avoids confusing visitors to your site.
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CPM
An acronym that stands for Cost Per Thousand. The number most often refers to the number of impressions an ad receives. This could be on a video channel (television or streaming), social media, banner display ad, or other marketing channel.
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