The term SEO (Search Engine Optimization) has been a part of the digital marketing world forever now. An SEO company uses this to improve your site’s visibility in Google’s search results, so you generate what’s known as organic (a.k.a. natural) traffic. Other important aspects of digital marketing include social media marketing, email marketing, and pay-per-click …
When you own a business, whether it is a dentist’s office or a shoe store, it is imperative to have reviews. You may wonder why your business does not have very many business reviews when other locals have many. It is a matter of doing local SEO, as well as performing it correctly. Reviews are …
Search Engine Optimization is something that companies and businesses almost cannot live without in the current day and age. That being the case, it is very much a place of contention for these businesses and companies as they vie to be at the top of the list of search engine results pages or SERP. While …
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Negative SEO occurs when someone purposefully harms another website’s organic search traffic. Typically, this occurs when a spammy website (e.g. scraper site, porn, a site infected with malware) links to the negatively impacted website. Unfortunately, as a webmaster there isn’t anything you can do to stop this from happening. This is why so many ecommerce …
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Forensic SEO is one of the main areas in which SEO has truly evolved over the past 10 years. Now it seems like everyone knows about this practice. Unfortunately, there’s still some confusion about it though. Understanding the Basics Although nobody knows where the term started, this form of SEO is about dealing with a …
There’s been a major change to how Google counts nofollow links. In the past the nofollow was strictly followed, but today Google as using them as a hint for ranking your site – something that’ll impact your on-page SEO, content marketing, link building, and link spam. Understanding Nofollow Links Nofollow is an HTML attribute that’s …
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As a business owner you probably spend a lot of time looking for ways to make your website more visible, generate leads, improve your website’s rankings in the SERPs, and boost your ROI. There’s lots of competition here from other local businesses but if you want to drive organic traffic to your website you can’t …
Today, about 90% of consumers say they trust online reviews just as much as they trust personal recommendations. This plays a huge role in your brand’s success, which is why review management should be one of your top priorities. It also plays an important role in how Google ranks your business, accounting for about 15.44% …
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In the past all it took to bring in local customers was word of mouth and vibrant signage to catch people’s attention. Living in the digital age has changed all that though. Now it is essential for businesses to rank for local SEO so they can remain competitive in their field. This is something that …
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John Mueller from Google recently answered a question about a suspected negative SEO attack. This question was based on a website’s owner’s belief that they were getting a lot of spammy links because their competition was attempting to lower their rankings. The website owner wanted to know whether they should continue to disavow these links …
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