3 Social Media Trends Brands Are Adopting In the past year, a lot has happened in the social media world. For brands, some of those changes have been great. Others, not so much.On the bad side, ad blocker usage continues its meteoric rise, increasing 30% year over year, making it tough for brands to break through in paid channels. It’s …
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Does Your Link Acquisition Strategy Need a Refresh? Links are one of the top 3 ranking factors for SEO, and that’s coming straight from the folks at Google. If you want your site to perform well in the search engines, you need a solid link acquisition strategy. Like many elements of SEO, building your backlink profile is a constant process. …
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Why You Should Adopt Accelerated Mobile Pages If you spend any time in the SEO world, chances are you’ve heard of Accelerated Mobile Pages, or AMP for short. Even if you’re not in SEO, you’ve likely already encountered AMP in your own Google searches, whether you realized it or not. AMP pages commonly appear in the “Top Stories” news carousel …
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How to Use Google Analytics Data to Improve Your SEO Strategy When it comes to SEO, it’s pretty typical for keywords to dominate the conversation. Everyone’s worried about what keywords they’re ranking for and how many. Keywords are undoubtedly important for SEO, but they’re just one part of a holistic SEO strategy. What’s more important is that your SEO strategy …
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UX and SEO: 3 Ways User Experience Improves Your SEO Over the past few years, Google has placed more emphasis on providing an excellent user experience (UX) to your website visitors. It makes sense: Google is all about helping people find what they need online. With each website they feature on page one of their search result pages (SERPs), they’re …
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3 Keys to Improving Your Lead Conversion Rate Conversions are the ultimate goal to any business — it’s where the money comes from, after all. What’s the point in spending your marketing dollars if they don’t convert? With the right strategy in place, you’ll be generating quality leads in no time. Follow these tips to increase your lead conversion rate …
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How to Launch Your New Site, with SEO Intact: A 12-Step Checklist Website launches and redesigns are a big endeavor, but sometimes a very necessary one for brands. Maybe you’ve changed your brand name, and you need the website to match. Or maybe your name’s the same, but you’ve completely overhauled your look and branding. Whatever your reason, you don’t …
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7 Steps to Prepare Your Business for the New Year Ah, December. A time for gift-giving, celebrating, eating, and at last, resting. For business owners, December is also a time for planning. Things naturally slow down this month as people huddle up inside with family and friends. Your customers aren’t concerned about connecting with your business, which is probably a …
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Facebook Advertising – Why You Need this Channel in Your Marketing Strategy Facebook is for socializing, not for buying. Facebook advertising is too expensive. My customers aren’t on Facebook. Every excuse in the book – We’ve heard them all. And we’re not buying them. It’s a harsh reality, but your brand needs to be on Facebook, and you need to …
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Does Your Paid Search Strategy Need an Update? As a business owner, it can be tough to tell if your PPC efforts are working. Google AdWords is a challenging program to learn, and if you don’t have a professional search marketer on your team, it feels risky – scary even – to throw money at keyword clicks. Even if you …
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