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 …
SEO Trends For 2020
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 …
Local SEO Strategies to Help You be Seen in Searches
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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How to Give Your GMB Profile a Boost
It’s in your best interest to leverage your responses to the Google reviews you receive. You should also be using the Google My Business listing (GMB) tools to help ensure that you’re listed above your competition. There are a few things you can do to make sure you’re using local SEO to your advantage here. …
How To Explain SEO To Your Clients
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 …
Ways of Approaching Holiday SEO
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 …
How Email Marketing Gives Your SEO a Boost
Unfortunately, the connection between email marketing and SEO isn’t obvious. After all, Google doesn’t crawl through and rank each of your emails nor does having a large list of email subscribers help you rank higher for your keywords of choice. This doesn’t mean that it isn’t a helpful tool though. In fact, it’s able to …
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SEO Mistakes That’ll Hurt Your Rankings
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 …
Google Says Responding to Reviews Improves Local SEO
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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Why It Takes So Long To Be Successful With SEO
It’s really frustrating to work hard at SEO but see no results from doing so. Of course, you must understand that this is a long process whose results don’t appear overnight. Just how long it’ll take, nobody really knows for sure as different websites seemingly get results at different times. With this in mind, here’s …
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