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Why Fixating on Rank is a Waste of Time
Search engine rank hasn’t been a top SEO measurement for years now, but no matter how often we say it or talk about it here on the blog, we continue to get questions from prospects and clients about how we report on it. While we do pull keyword reports from Google Search Console regularly, it’s ...
Importance of Consistency with Your Digital Marketing
Having potential or current customers perceive your company in a certain way is essential. But what happens if there are situations out of your control that halt your business operations? What do you do if the economy starts to downturn? Is your first instinct to cut back so that you can save money?...
Use Content to Keep Customers Engaged With Your Brand
Once a potential customer finds your brand, they don't necessarily make a purchase right away. Unless you find a way to keep them engaged, you might lose them. It's your content that will help them stick with you. When you publish content geared towards their needs, they will keep coming back for mo...
The Buyer’s Journey Should Impact B2B Keyword Research
It stands to reason that you want to target the right keywords when formulating your SEO plan. Getting to know what your ideal customer looks like will go a long way to help you find the best keywords. In order to really find the best keywords, you should take some time to also understand the buyer'...
Claim Your Brand in the SERPs
When it comes to marketing your business online, it stands to reason that you'll want to have a strong presence. The greater the exposure you can have, the more likely it will be that you'll attract new customers. This means that you'll need to have an extensive web presence that extends beyond havi...
Have Realistic Expectations for SEO Success
It's true that when you're involved with SEO, you need to make sure that the expectations are realistic. Part of being an SEO agency means educating our clients and making sure that they understand the rules of SEO, see the big picture of what SEO actually entails AND ensure they understand that SEO...
Why Security Is Important for SEO
There are many factors at play in search engine optimization. Some may depend on the search engine you use. There are various factors that impact SEO such as keyword optimization, technical considerations such as the URL structure of each link, site content, and also other factors such as the qualit...
How Much Content is Enough
It's a well known fact that content forms the base of a good digital marketing plan. Visitors love to see great content on your site, and this will draw visitors in from all over the internet, including the search engines, from advertising efforts, and from social media. We do know that not havin...
Avoid Unwanted Sources of Traffic
When it comes to digital marketing, website traffic is one of the main objectives. Activities such as online advertising, social media, and content are all designed to increase engagement with your brand and to attract new visitors to the business website. However, not all traffic will achieve ex...
Don’t Overthink Your Video Marketing Campaigns
Video marketing is a valuable part of any digital marketing campaign. Videos are a nice way to get people to engage with your brand, but they only work if the videos are done well. It is a misconception that videos need to be perfect before being launched. Perfection can be difficult to achieve, and...
How to Set Yourself Up for SEO Success
How do you know if your SEO program is up to par? How effective your SEO program is depends largely on how you prepare. In other words, there is a right way to do things and then there's a wrong way. There is also a bit of an in-between where your actions could be effective, but your SEO program cou...
Create a Quality User Experience On Your Website
It doesn't matter what your business goals are, your main priority when creating a website should be to create an amazing user experience. You want to make sure that every aspect of your website addresses the needs of your audience. What these needs are will depend on several factors, including your...
Don’t Forget to Address the Technical Aspects of SEO
Most of us understand that SEO helps improve your presence in the search engines. Executing a solid SEO program can help increase traffic over time, and this is something that requires consistent effort in order to reap the rewards. It's true that excellent content, social media, building natural li...
Have Realistic Goals for Your SEO Program
It's true that search engine optimization is an important component of digital marketing. When done correctly, it helps attract people to your website via organic results in the search engines. SEO enables your site to get noticed in search results. It can even result in your website holding the top...
Are Customer Reviews Important for eCommerce?
Just because there might be a lot of competition online when it comes to doing business, that doesn't mean you can't be successful. You just need a way to stand apart! Maintaining a good digital presence is about more than just going through the motions, there has to be something personal attached t...
B2B Social Media Guidelines to Follow
It’s advisable for businesses of all sizes and industries to be involved in social media. After all, social media is where the people are. It’s a misunderstanding that social media is better suited for B2C marketers, because B2B decision makers are still consumers too- aren’t they? B2Bs can fi...
Does Guest Posting Still Work?
Guest posting is a tactic that has worked in the past as a tool for developing quality backlinks. When Google cracked down on this practice because of their rules about "link schemes", many people stopped guest posting. However, as it turns out, they didn't need to do that. Guest blog posting is sti...
Should You Keep Dates On Evergreen Content?
When it comes to writing content for digital marketing and SEO, there is a lot that goes into it. Not only do you need to have the right content mix for your audience, but there are also other, smaller details that can make a significant difference. Some of these details may not need to matter much ...
SEO Content Marketing Can Help With B2B Sales
When it comes to SEO, content plays a big role. It has many purposes, such boosting organic presence in the search engines, branding, and developing ways to engage with your audience. Another item that content can help with is that it can absolutely be part of the sales process, especially if you cr...
Keep Your Relationship With Your Digital Marketing Firm in Balance
When it comes to working with your digital marketing firm, it is all about building a great relationship. The goal is to understand that this is a partnership, and one that both sides should value. Just like with every relationship, however, it needs to be nurtured. Steps should be taken in the begi...
Need a Blog Topic? Here’s Where to Look
Blogging is an important component of an SEO campaign. Updating a blog with high-quality content on a regular basis keeps the website “fresh” which ensures that the search spiders continue to come back and crawl it, provides opportunities to target long-tail keywords or questions that people are...
Do Web Developers Need to Know SEO?
When it comes to creating a website, there is a lot that goes into it. From planning the website's content, designing the page layout, and making sure it runs properly, the developer is in charge of making sure the end result is one that will best represent the company. What does this mean exactly? ...
Determining the Preferred Domain for Business
Business in all industries are often faced with a choice, and this voice can have positive or negative repercussions for years. Choosing a domain name is even more important than actually naming the business since it will form the cornerstone of your business and marketing dealings, especially onlin...
Marketing Message Needs to Match Expectations
The main goal of digital marketing is to spread the word about a business. There are other goals that can come about from this desire, such as getting new leads, boosting traffic to a website, or branding. Besides that, marketing is all about messaging. Everything that is done concerning digital ...
Hiring a SEO Firm in India is a Bad Idea
When looking for a digital marketing or SEO firm, a business has many options. Outsourcing oversees to firm in a country like India is one of the possibilities. These firms claim to handle most forms of digital marketing, such as content marketing, social media, PPC, and even search engine optimizat...
3 SEO Ranking Signals to Improve with a Blog
The Google search engine algorithm has hundreds, if not thousands, of ranking signals. Google notoriously keeps all of these signals and how they affect each other a secret but there are some things that we’ve been able to figure out over the years (or Google has come right out and addressed). And...
Do Keyword Rich Domains Still Work?
There is some debate as to whether or not keyword rich domains can help with search engine optimization or whether overall, they can cause more harm than good. We have seen this on many occasions. Every now and then, a website that has a keyword rich domain will experience great rankings in the sear...
Don’t Let Your SEO Process Define You
It's true that SEO is a valuable part of any digital marketing strategy. It's a long term strategy and one that is effective at eventually bringing in a steady stream of targeted, organic traffic. Since success through SEO is something that needs to be earned over the long term, it can be tough to s...
Should You Still Write Guest Posts?
There was a time when guest posting was an incredibly popular marketing tool, particularly for SEO. Those days are long behind us, thanks to Google cracking down on how websites obtain backlinks. These days, backlinks should be natural and not forced. Back when this was a viable tool for backlinks,...
Keep Your Blog With New Content
It's true that a blog is one of your greatest tools for digital marketing because it is one of those activities that has countless benefits. Businesses should maintain a blog, or a regular channel for publishing new articles, for a variety of reasons. These include giving your audience reasons to ...
3 Easy Ways to Elevate the Quality of Your SEO Content
You might not think that there’s anything easy about writing SEO content. And to some extent, that’s true. Writing SEO content certainly requires an investment of time and resources to ensure that what you’re publishing is high quality and will actually generate traffic, clicks, and links to b...
How Your SEO Program Can Add Value
When it comes to search engine optimization, we tend to go through the motions. There are certain elements that need to be executed - such as checking the technical aspects of the site that can impact SEO, researching and optimizing for keywords, posting regular articles to the blog, and making post...
Is Search Engine Rank Important for B2B?
When it comes to marketing your B2B business, there are many strategies available. For those wanting to promote their businesses online, having a website will be at the core of the strategy. From there, other digital marketing strategies, such as content marketing and social media marketing will be ...
Can You Prove That SEO Works?
There's no way to avoid this - receiving organic traffic from the search engines is something that has to be earned over time. When executing an SEO program, it could take months, if not a year or more, to really see that the consistent efforts of the program are paying off over time. However, when ...
Handling Multiple Cities and Locations with SEO
When it comes to search engine optimization, several factors need to be taken into account. One of them is the question of whether or not you need to optimize on the national or local level. We believe that optimization should happen on both a national and local level, but the strategies should chan...
Established Brands Should Invest More Into SEO
We get asked the following question from time to time: If we're a solid brand in a thriving industry, is it worth it to invest money into an SEO program to rank for other keywords in the search engines? In other words, they're asking if it is worthwhile to invest money into an SEO program so t...
Technical SEO Audit – Check Your Website for Problems
SEO is an important piece of digital marketing because it is responsible for increasing organic traffic over time. The technical SEO audit is always the first thing that occurs when it comes to SEO because you need to check that the technical elements of your site are best poised to optimize results...
Deliver Content Your Audience Wants to Read
When it comes to creating content for your business, it is only natural that you will want to create content that your audience will be eager to read. There is a lot that goes into this, especially if you also consider that content needs to also serve the purpose of enhancing your brand and even hel...
Effective Communications Between Partner and Client
When it comes to hiring a marketing partner, it is important to develop a strong line of communication between them and your team. Ensuring that everyone is on the same page requires commitment and organization from both teams. This is the best way to ensure that the marketing efforts are as effecti...
Know When to Really Use PPC
Pay per click advertising is a digital marketing strategy that allows you to spread the word about your business in a calculating way. It enables you to specify target audiences, which enables you to showcase your ads only to the most relevant of situations. This type of advertising is keyword drive...
Match SEO Keywords to User Intent
When doing the keyword research for your site, it’s tempting to simply choose the ones that get the most searches and leave out the rest. Though this is the general idea, there has to be a little more thought that goes into it. Factoring in user intent while assembling your keyword list will not o...
Social Media Doesn’t Always Need to Drive Revenue
When people post on social media, there is a lot of variety as to the types of posts they can make. However, it seems that many believe that the main focus of social media should simply be to drive revenue, but this couldn't be further from the truth. Although this could represent a small percentage...
Create Content for Every Phase of the Buying Cycle
When it comes to creating content for your business website, there are a few approaches that can be taken. First of all, the copy on your pages may read a little bit differently than the articles you may place on the blog. You also might have different pages on the site, such as FAQ content, videos,...
You Get What You Pay for With Digital Marketing Firms
There is a popular adage in our culture that states, "You get what you pay for." Webster's Dictionary defines this sentiment by explaining that it is, "used to say that a thing that can be bought for a very low price probably isn't very good." This could pertain to just about everything, such as a ...
SEO Can’t Stand Alone – Diversify Your Digital Marketing
When it comes to digital marketing, it is so important not to rely on any one strategy. Many believe that it is okay to pick a strategy, like SEO, and then completely rely on it while ignoring the rest. The truth is, all the methods for marketing digitally work in tandem with each other, and it is n...
Turn Broken Links into SEO Wins
Inbound links remain one of the top search engine ranking factors, which is why it’s in the best interest of website owners to continue to seek out relevant inbound link opportunities over time. While it’s important to create entirely new links from a diverse profile of relevant websites, perhap...
Email Newsletter Marketing Helps Your SEO
When it comes to search engine marketing, there are two items at play, and both factors need to be considered when developing an SEO strategy. The first is that there are direct factor that impact rankings. Although Google hasn't publicly released statements about what these ranking factors are, the...
Social Media Should Be About Sharing Information
When it comes to social media, many businesses make the mistake of thinking that they need to be flashy or clever in order to really gain momentum. As a result, they end up developing campaigns designed to get attention and maybe even "go viral". Either that, or there are some who believe the main p...
Analyze Page Load Time As Part of Your SEO Audit
Like any service provider, the search engines want to create a service that will keep customers happy. This means that they want to rank the best possible pages that are relevant to keyword search terms. If the websites that the search engines suggest to users aren’t relevant or are poorly develo...
Digital Marketing Consistency Is Important During Uncertain Times
When business go through tough times, it could be very tempting to run a lean operation. No matter what's going on, whether it's a struggling economy, threats of a global virus hurting business, or a shift in the business's market, it could be tempting to take drastic action. One of the areas tha...