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A White Hat Guide to Content Marketing
There are plenty of tips out there about “white hat link building”, and many can be found right here on this blog. However, the face of link building has drastically changed over the years. In fact, we’d even say that “link building” isn’t even the correct term for generating inbound lin...
Questions to Ask an SEO Firm before Signing a Contract
Before signing on the dotted line and committing to pay an SEO firm for a specified period of time it’s necessary to have an understanding of the type of work that the firm does and what exactly is included in the proposed rate. An SEO program involves many moving parts and you don’t w...
Beyond the Visitor Report: Ways to Measure SEO Success
In order to determine how your website and SEO campaign is performing, it’s necessary to add analytics code to the site. There are plenty of website analytics tools to choose from, both free and paid. What we recommend is Google Analytics. It’s a free tool that really provides a wealth of inform...
Required Elements of a Modern SEO Campaign
SEO has undergone multiple transformations through the years. During the early days, the focus was on building links to your website. At one point, nearly any link would help. However, that’s no longer the case. The only way a link is going to help your SEO efforts today is if it generates traffic...
Characteristics of Content That Gets Shared
Online content is only worthwhile if people are actually finding it and reading it. The first step is to optimize the content so that it will appear organically in the search engines for related search terms over time. However, in order to create content that is “share worthy” and generates inbo...
Are You Expecting the Impossible from Your SEO Program?
One of our full-service SEO clients has experienced tremendous SEO success this year, with a 210.27% growth in organic traffic. I wish we could deliver such incredible reports to all of our clients because I know as a site owner if I saw that kind of YoY organic growth I’d be jumping for joy. But ...
How to Make Your Blog Work for SEO
One of the most important components of a search engine optimization campaign is content since it’s what can be optimized using keywords and is what generates natural links. That’s why a blog should be incorporated onto your website. However, just adding a blog to the site isn’t going to magic...
How to Measure SEO Campaign Success with Analytics
SEO is an online marketing function that is built for the long term. If you start SEO one month, there’s a very small chance that you are going to see much improvement the next month. However, as the SEO campaign moves along and you are producing SEO content and generating quality inbound links yo...
Why Blogging Matters for SEO
When considering whether a new potential SEO client is a good fit there are a number of things that we take a look at. When reviewing the site one of the first things that we do is check the navigation to see if the site has a blog. If the site already has an active blog up and running, that’s a p...
Business Changes That Your SEO Firm Needs to Know About
Many companies choose to outsource SEO work because they don’t have the resources to handle all of the work that needs to be done in house. However, it’s imperative that an SEO firm still be viewed as a part of the team. A successful SEO firm/SEO client relationship is like a partnership and one...
Trade Shows As a Source of B2B SEO Content
Perhaps the most difficult part of delivering B2B SEO content on a regular basis isn’t the actual writing itself; it’s mostly deciding what to write about. B2B SEO clients often over think the content marketing component of SEO. What it really comes down to is simply creating content that your t...
3 Types of Posts to Share to Keep Your Blog Active
There are numerous benefits to operating a business blog. It’s an avenue to share your expertise with target audience members and be viewed as a trusted source of information. It helps SEO efforts by adding an additional page of content to the site each time a blog post is published that can be c...
Content is the Most Important Component of B2B SEO Today
With all of the SEO rules changing as often as they do, and SEO tactics that were once beneficial now on the “bad” list, website owners that want to improve their search engine presence are now left wondering, “what can we do?” What we always tell our clients is that the most important thing...
SEO Won’t Guarantee Conversions
The purpose of a search engine optimization campaign is to conduct activities that will capture the attention of the search engine spiders, and in turn get your website content to rank prominently in the search engines for related keyword search terms. If you are able to improve your search engine p...
The Benefits of Evergreen Blog Posts
Whenever clients ask what kind of content they should be writing to share in their blog, we always recommend that the content be evergreen, meaning that it will be just as relevant in the future as it is now. This is something that website owners sometimes struggle with. It’s much easier to write ...
Why SEO Success Won’t Happen Overnight
If you’re looking for a marketing solution that is going to generate a quick response and result in an uptick in sales, leads, conversions, etc. in the short term- SEO isn’t it. What’s frustrating to most website owners about SEO is that it is a necessary evil. It’s necessary because people ...
What Lazy SEO Looks Like
There are many SEO industry professionals and it’s likely that nobody takes exactly the same approach to an SEO campaign. However, if your business website is in the market to hire an in house SEO professional, an SEO consultant, or an SEO firm the one thing that you want to make sure of is that t...
Recognizing the Small B2B SEO Successes
Depending on what B2B niche your company operates in there might be a ceiling when it comes to how much new organic traffic you can pull to your site for certain keywords. For instance, “live chat software” has a monthly search volume of 5,400. If your website is already pulling in 3,500 visitor...
How to Start SEO for Your New Website
If you’re a start up and you’ve just launched a business website, it’s smart of you to already be thinking about SEO. After all, SEO is a slow moving process and the earlier you get started at it, the better off your site will be. However, we don’t recommend that new website owners hire an S...
Is My Social Media Campaign Working?
Unless you have been living under a rock over the last few years, you know how important social media has become to our everyday lives. People are constantly connected to others through numerous social networks on many devices including their desktop, laptop, smartphone, tablet, etc. It’s not just...
Consider the Competition in an SEO Campaign
An SEO campaign is like any other kind of marketing campaign in that it involves conducting research before getting started. It’s necessary to research the market online, which includes target audience behavior as well as a competitive analysis. If your business and/or website is relatively new to...
3 Common SEO Misconceptions
Even though search engine optimization has been around for years, it’s still a marketing tactic that many website owners don’t quite understand. This is partially due to the fact that the industry is always changing. What was an acceptable SEO practice even just 6 months ago might no longer be v...
SEO Writing Requires an Additional Skill Set
Not everybody has the skills required to be a good writer. You need to be able to understand what people want to read and convey it in a proper manner. Of course there are different kinds of writing. Formal writing requires citations and research while less formal writing can be written just as if y...
Using Your Blog to Create B2B Demand
Many B2B companies rely heavily on their content marketing and SEO campaigns to generate new leads. After all, content marketing and SEO help a B2B brand connect with potential customers at the exact moment those customers need them. Unlike traditional advertising, which relies on interruptive tacti...
Protect Your SEO While Redesigning Your Site!
A lot of our clients have undergone site redesigns this year in some way, shape, or form. Some just reworked a chunk of their content while others completed changed the entire design, URL structure, content and messaging and more. And while websites need to be redesigned every few years in order to ...
Common Enterprise SEO Challenges to Overcome
The SEO process is mostly similar for any website, regardless of size. It begins with conducting industry and target audience behavior research before selecting the proper keywords to target on every page. Keywords are then implemented naturally into on site content including meta information and on...
3 Common B2B Blogging Mistakes
Content is an essential component of an online marketing strategy, specifically in the B2B sector. One of the best content outlets for a B2B is a business blog hosted on the business website which will help to improve both SEO and social media efforts. Each post is an opportunity to target relevant ...
How to Improve the Visibility of Blog Posts
If you want to be found online, you need to be creating content. It’s really that simple. Well, the concept is simple. Actually creating the content and publishing it on a regular basis can be quite tough! But it’s all the more reason to do it. It will give you an edge over the competition that ...
Common Reasons Why SEO Success Isn’t Happening
What SEO clients need to understand about SEO is that it’s a process. It takes time to begin to see the results of your efforts. However, if after six months of SEO work you still don’t see any kind of improvement, it could be because you are making common mistakes that are limiting the amount o...
Tips to Ensure that Content Marketing Gets Done
The most crucial component of marketing your business online today, and more specifically with SEO, is the content that is being created and published on behalf of your business or organization. Content is at the foundation of all online marketing activities. Without quality content, it’s difficul...
4 Important SEO Reports to Measure Success
While it’s true that SEO is a long-term process and you aren’t going to see an immediate ROI, that doesn’t mean that there is no way track the success of the campaign. Throughout the duration of the campaign, it’s important to check on your Analytics to make sure that things are trending the...
Consider Unlocking Your Gated B2B Content
Many B2B companies use their long-form content, such as white papers and on-demand webinars, as a form of lead generation. Readers simply give their email address in exchange for access to this gated content and they get great (hopefully!) information and the B2B website gets a new email address to ...
Why Your Content Marketing Isn’t Successful
SEO has changed a great deal in even just the relatively short time period that it has existed as a beneficial way to market your business. Originally the focus was on gaining backlinks and utilizing keyword anchor text to tell the search engine spiders what a page was about. Now, these SEO tactics ...
3 Tips for Selecting The Right SEO Firm
There are hundreds of SEO firms, consultants, experts and agencies out there to choose from. Some specialize in local SEO, others prefer to work with B2B firms, and still others do nothing but international SEO. With so many options all-clamoring for your business, how is a site owner to know they a...
What SEO Clients Need to Understand
SEO is an important component of an online marketing strategy. After all, when people are looking for the products or services that you provide the first place that they go online is to the search engines. While the large corporations may be able to hire an in house SEO team, that’s typically not ...
4 Common B2B SEO Mistakes
Being a B2B business owner myself, I understand first-hand what it takes to create, launch, and maintain a successful B2B SEO campaign. And even though I’ve been in the SEO industry for over 13 years I still don’t “know it all,” simply because SEO is still a very young industry and tactics a...
Items to Measure after One Year of SEO
The goal of an SEO campaign is to improve a search engine presence as well as the number of relevant visitors to the website over the long-term. Due to the complexities of the search engine algorithms and the number of websites that are competing for target audience member attention, it’s nearly i...
How to Improve Your Social Signals for SEO
One of the biggest factors that contribute to your organic search ranking is the trust that your website and brand has established across the web. There are a number of ways that the search engines identify how trusted a website is. The domain age of the website and the quality of inbound links poin...
5 Components of Successful SEO Today
What’s both exciting and frustrating about the SEO industry is that it’s always changing. We are at the mercy of the search engine algorithms which are constantly being tweaked. That’s why it’s so important for SEOs to stay up to date by reading the search engine Webmaster Guidelines and SEO...
User Friendly Content Improves SEO
While inserting keywords into SEO content is important, there’s a lot more to it than that. In order for SEO content to be successful it needs to be user friendly, or have good “readability”. User friendly content improves SEO efforts because the more “readable” the content is, the more it...
Forget These Old School SEO Thoughts
What’s both exciting and challenging about SEO is that it’s an industry that is constantly evolving. What was considered best practice even just a few years ago might no longer be relevant. This is why it’s so important for those of us in the industry to stay informed by reading the search eng...
Where Can I Post Content?
Content is a necessary component of SEO and online marketing overall, and we’re not just talking about the content that exists on your website. In order to be successful with SEO (to generate inbound links) and to improve your online visibility in places where target audience members will find you...
Get the Most SEO Value Out of Blog Posts
Blogging is a great way to attract the attention of target audience members. Consumers are looking for information online and the more information that you can give them, the better. Informational blog posts help to establish a business as a trusted source. When it comes time to buy a product or hir...
Why Clients Should Learn the SEO Basics
There’s a reason why so many successful SEO firms exist today- there’s a huge need for them! Businesses understand that an online presence today is everything, and more specifically, a positive search engine presence. This is why they are willing to invest in online marketing and SEO. If an orga...
SEO Questions an SEO Company Can’t Answer
If we’re an SEO company, we should be able to answer all of the hard hitting SEO questions- right? Unfortunately that’s not always the case. There are plenty of SEO variables that are simply out of our control so that we can’t give definite answers to certain questions. This can be frustrating...
Tips for a B2B SEO Content Strategy That Works
Perhaps the most important tip that an SEO provider will give to a B2B looking to improve their search engine presence is to get involved with online content marketing. Content is what ranks in the search engines for targeted keywords and generates inbound links from other sites. A B2B SEO strategy ...
Utilize Existing B2B Content for SEO
Content creation is one of the most difficult aspects of B2B SEO, but it’s also the most necessary. An SEO campaign that has a strong content foundation is going to perform much better than one that doesn’t. Optimized content is what will rank in the search engines for specific keywords over tim...
What Does B2B SEO Success Look Like?
What frustrates many clients about B2B SEO is the long term nature of the strategy. It’s just not realistic to think that a brand new SEO campaign is going to yield quick results, even though that’s what clients obviously want. There are many outside factors that control SEO success, which is wh...
How to Improve a Blog Post for SEO
There are many reasons to create and maintain an active blog on your business website. It serves as an additional resource and source of information for website visitors. It helps to display the authority and knowledge that you have on a specific topic. It also is beneficial for SEO reasons. The sea...
Ways to Incorporate Video into a B2B SEO Campaign
A B2B SEO strategy relies on content. This is nothing new. Content is what informs target audience members and encourages B2B decision makers to select the product or service that you provide. It’s also what attracts the attention of the search engine spiders, improving your overall footprint onli...