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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Troubleshooting Failures in Local Ranking
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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Why Hiring Local SEO Has Advantages
In order to be seen on the search engines, your website needs search engine optimization, commonly referred to as SEO. There are many advantages to having local SEO done for your website. Here we will explore the various advantages there are. When using local SEO, you often find that you are able to have excellent …
Explaining What SEO Is To Small Business Owners
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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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 …
Understanding Forensic SEO
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 …
Today’s Challenges for Small Businesses
Simply opening a small business is a big achievement. However, once this achieved, there’s an even bigger challenge: maintaining that business. This is because there are several small business challenges every business must face (e.g. hiring the correct employees, building the brand). These are things that most of the larger companies have long outgrown. Depending …
How The Ranking Change In Google Nofollow Links Affects Your SEO
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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