In the past header tags were a critical part of SEO but not anymore. This doesn’t mean they’re unimportant though. Indirectly they’re able to influence your rankings since they make it easier and more enjoyable for your readers. They also provide keyword-rich content for the search engines themselves. As such, you should still be maintaining …
Many online marketing trends come and go but there are some that stick around to help businesses find new ways of reaching their target audiences. With the new year quickly approaching, it’s time to think about implementing some new things that’ll help you turn your internet marketing strategies up a notch. Voice Search Over the …
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It feels like just yesterday people were turning to their local Yellow Pages phone book to find businesses near them offering the goods and services they wished to purchase. Today’s technology has rendered these books practically useless. Instead internet searches have replaced them. However, this isn’t static either as people’s online shopping habits are continually …
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Search engine optimization (SEO) is defined as directing non-paid (a.k.a. organic) traffic to your website by having keywords that are relevant to your website rank high in the search engine results pages (SERPs). You can see these rankings on popular search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo. These rankings are based on what they deem …
There are many articles about Google “SEO trends” but all of them say basically the same thing: Things will continue to change. This is why it’s so difficult to find a definitive list. Nevertheless, here are some trends for 2020 that have been seen starting to form throughout 2019. Google is Highly Focused on Intent …
One of the most enduring, yet elusive business principles is finding your target market. Today this has more to do with finding your “geographic” market since most people are using mobile devices to find businesses. The What and Why of Local SEO Many strategies now exist allowing businesses to tap into a person’s local search …
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There are some search engine ranking puzzles that are so complex that they require a formal competitive audit. However, many of these puzzles simply require a few minutes of your time to run through a checklist of the 10 most common issues that cause your business to rank lower than you believe it should. Once …
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When you’re selling small business SEO services to someone it can be easy if they can for a basic answer to the question: “What is SEO?” However, if your prospect has no idea how to answer this question, things can become more challenging. This shouldn’t dissuade you from helping this business achieve a first-page ranking. …
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As a website owner your goal is to get as many people as possible from the search engines to visit your website. This is what’s known as search engine optimization (SEO). There are some people (known as SEO specialists) who find it easy to sell this process to website owners. However, they’ll occasionally encounter someone …
Many people think of the end of August through mid-September as the unofficial start to the holiday season. This is something businesses know which is why they’re having decent holiday sales already. As an online business, you realize that effective SEO is something that takes patience and time so you must be proactive if you …
