Introduction If you are looking to do better on your local SEO, you probably realize you need content. However, you may not realize that you need specific types of content, such as local content. Local content can make a huge difference on how well your page ranks. In this article, we will focus on the …
Why you Must Understand Intent When Working with SEO
SEO is exciting because it never stops changing. Google’s algorithm updates, new search innovations, and changes in user behavior means we must be adaptable to be successful. This doesn’t mean we should forego the basics while chasing after new strategies. Instead, there’s a process you must undertake here. Optimizing for Intent The foundation of a …
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Facebook Advertising’s List of Best Practices
When you want to quickly burn through your marketing budget, turn to Facebook advertising. At first you may think these ads are performing well because they’re receiving so many clicks, but ultimately your ROI isn’t worthwhile. Of course, if you know what you’re doing, this doesn’t have to happen – you can even improve your …
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Important SEO Maintenance Tasks to Never Forget About
Regardless of how well you optimize your website, it will require continual maintenance. This is because it has a lot of moving parts and each of them will impact every other part. One of the most important pieces here is search engine optimization (SEO). While some parts of SEO only need to be done once …
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How you can Monitor Negative SEO
Oftentimes it’s more of a challenge to get on top than it is to stay there, regardless of whether you’re talking about sports or SEO. When it comes to the search engines, this is what every business wants but not every business can get it. Unfortunately, some businesses will resort to unscrupulous means when this …
Why Your Bottom Line Can’t Afford for you to Ignore SEO
When you try to make a case for SEO, you’ll often encounter common objections like it’s unpredictable, takes too long, or PPC is better. Many people also believe that its financial benefits aren’t as good as what you’d reap with social media or PPC. However, the truth is it’s very measurable and typically a better …
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Why You Want to be Ranking #0 in SEO
Google launched their Featured Snippets over two years ago but today many search engine marketers still see them as a novelty. These programmed organic results listed above the #1 ranking position contain an extracted answer, display title, and URL. Sometimes they also have an image, bulleted list, or simplistic table. Why Featured Snippets are Important …
SEO Isn’t Really Dead After All
At least once a year we hear that SEO is dead. Each time it keeps coming back. This is because it’s never really died in the first place. Why Reports of SEO’s Death are Greatly Exaggerated People think it’s dead for many different reasons. In 2007 Facebook was launched in a world quite unlike the …
Important Steps not to Overlook Prior to Keyword Research
Although many people base their SEO strategies on researching SEO keywords, it’s a mistake to do so. While this will lead to measurable results, you won’t run a very efficient website this way. Instead, you need to learn to conduct pre-research – gathering information about your topic, including keywords, so you have a solid understanding …
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Understanding What Negative SEO is Not
Negative SEO is defined as any tactic whose intention is to positively impact rankings by manipulating a variable within a website’s links, content or user signals. Google says this isn’t real, but they’re not being entirely honest here because if you can accidentally hurt your rankings by shifting a variable, it only makes sense that …