For anyone with a business that depends on the internet for a sizable share of their customer base, the instability of their search ranking can be maddening. They’re first one day, next time they look they’re down to number 7, the next time up to 3 and the next time off the first page completely. […]
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Keyword Research: 5 Common Mistakes Local Businesses Should Avoid
Keyword research is one of the essential building blocks of effective SEO. If you seek organic traffic or even if you want your PPC ads to work, you need to be spot on with the choice of keywords, it’s that simple. You’re going to need to weave those keywords into the content, and possibly weave […]
Are You Missing Out on These Online Free Advertising Opportunities?
I’ve found that a lot of small business owners don’t know that they have free advertising credits on sites like Google, Bing, Yahoo, the various social media platforms, and Amazon waiting to be cashed in. This usually happens for one of two reasons: Someone else developed their site and took care of hosting, or The […]
How to Do Keyword Research in 2018: A Quick Guide
SEO’s regularly emphasize the importance of keyword research, and for good reasons. Keyword research is quite possibly the most important stage in SEO, and I’ll explain why. On the Internet, people do not just magically stumble across your content, products or website. Instead, there is a much more logical reason as to why and how they found […]
10 Steps to Better Rankings in Google
Having a good ranking in Google is one of the best ways to ensure that your website or blog gets a steady stream of traffic. This means that you ultimately have more sales and a bigger income. Achieving a better ranking on search engines is not something that you achieve overnight, however, and you should […]
Why You Should Bid on Your Own Brand Terms
It’s a challenge for a business to achieve the performance and reach the goals you set for yourself in such a competitive PPC space. Who doesn’t want to increase ad performance and see the most value possible for the money spent on paid search? There are so many different strategies your business can use to […]
Choosing the Right Domain for Your Business: Things You Should Do
Choosing the right name for your business is very important. It practically defines who you are and what your brand is about. It’s not impossible to change a name, but if you’ve built a brand around it, this could effectively be associated with you for life. Just as your business name identifies you amongst customers […]
How to Audit Your Client’s Website for SEO
As an SEO consultant, it is your responsibility to grow your client’s website rankings for their targeted keywords on Google. To accomplish this however, you will need to know where your client stands today in terms of the various ranking factors and where they should ideally be seen. This process is known as SEO auditing […]
SEO’s Long Tail Keyword Problem
So often when we think about the long tail of search, we think of the prevalence of phrases with three, four, five or more words. Today I’m asking you to think of long tail keywords differently. That long tail is affecting another long tail that I have yet to hear a lot of people talking […]
How Learning SEO Can Improve Your Writing
Search engine optimization (SEO) is a vital skill to learn if you have a website. SEO helps search engines find your site and helps you rank in the SERPs for your target keywords. If your site doesn’t follow SEO best practices, searchers can’t find your content and your traffic will remain stagnant. While SEO is important from a […]
