You’ve taken the plunge. No, no, you’re not getting married. But you’ve decided to create a blog – which means you’re just as deserving of our congratulations! The question is, how can you make sure that people find it? After all, whether you’re blogging about your globe trotting adventures or the spring sale at your boutique, you want readers – and lots of them…
Peter Hughes, Senior Manager of Search Marketing for Constant Contact If you’re like most small business owners, figuring out how to make search engine optimization (SEO) work for your business can seem like a daunting task. Just the term “search engine optimization” can be enough to make your head spin. But what if SEO didn’t have to be so complicated? What if there…
While search engine optimization is a highly technical and intricate science, there are a lot of great, simple SEO tips out there which can help boost your digital marketing efforts at little to no cost. Regardless of what your business is or does, SEO remains critically important, and for SEO to work, you need your business to appear on the first page of relevant…
Sam_ding/Getty Images In order to obtain traffic from keyword searches on the major search engines like Google and Yahoo!, you need to be writing about a topic that people want to read about and are actively looking for information about. One of the easiest ways to get a basic idea of what people are looking for online is to check the popularity of keyword searches…
Recently I spoke with Content Strategist, Margot Bloomstein, who was conducting research for an upcoming publication about Content Strategy intended for a variety of audiences. In particular, we discussed productive interactions and exchanges between Search Engine Optimization professionals and Content Strategists. Organizations advance their reach and engagement…
Who doesn t want to know what their competitors are up to? This course shows how to use SEO tools and techniques to research the competition online. Learn what keywords your competitors are optimizing for—and then outrank them on search engine results pages. Author Anson Alexander explains what to look for when researching a competitor s SEO presence and website traffic…
Keeping up with Google is one of the most difficult aspects of SEO, as the algorithms are constantly changing and becoming more sophisticated. Google RankBrain is one of the newest and most important players in the suite of Google algorithm updates, and understanding how it works can help you create content that is tailored to appeal to RankBrain’s artificial intelligence…
We have been told that SEO is dead and buried. There is nothing we can do about it, trying to optimize your site with keyword stuffing, backlinks, and questionable wizardry no longer works. The SERPs are against us, the robots are learning, and our jobs are the first to go. So why do we care about SEO strategies now? It’s a whole new world of SEO! The SERPs have caught…
Get Discovered with Search Engine Marketing Potential customers go to search engines when looking for a new product or service. Optimizing your site for search engines ensures that they find you fast, and they find you first. Adventure Web can ensure that your website consistently ranks high above the competition in search engine results. We achieve this by adhering…
Why You Need an Expert SEO Agency Like Straight North SEO has always been a rapidly changing industry, but never more so than now. When companies try to manage local or national SEO campaigns in-house, they run a great risk of using outdated techniques that sabotage results and waste precious marketing dollars. Because Straight North s core business is SEO, our priority…
Great SEO strategy it is about more than just what is on a webpage. Many SEO companies stick to optimizing HTML tags and metadescriptions to boost rankings. But at MacRAE’S, our comprehensive SEO strategy goes beyond the web page to improve page authority and boost rankings. By boosting your brand’s rankings in search engines, MacRAE’S helps you curate a more compelling…
Our series on SEO is coming to a close at the end of this week. In our final article, we’ll share some interesting stats about SEO. Today, though, we’re going to provide you with some tools for your toolkit. These are our favorite SEO tools and when we say “our” we mean it: you will find Digital Firefly Marketing Staff using these tools on a daily basis. Here are…
Where did we come from? In 2012 the suggested ideal length of a blog article was 500-700 Words This was from leading content expert Constant Contact. Saying that it depends on reader loyalty, and overall format this article reflected the generally accepted idea that you just wanted to say what really needed to be said, the main point, and then get out. Nowadays, the…
In online marketing, like in many other fields, the first steps are always the most challenging. While you can rely on Wix to give you everything you need to create a website, once you launch a new website you must grapple with the task of promoting your site to bring in traffic. The good news is that we’re here to help you with that as well. Here’s an overview of…
