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How to Optimize a Small Website: On-Page & Mobile Factors

How to Optimize a Small Website: On-Page & Mobile Factors

Optimizing a small website with a small budget or on no budget can be tricky. But that’s no excuse for brushing off SEO completely. Organic search is a great source of high-quality traffic that keeps your lead and sales pipelines from drying up. Traffic

Google warns against misusing links in syndication & large-scale article campaigns

Google warns against misusing links in syndication & large-scale article campaigns

Google’s out today with a warning for anyone who is distributing or publishing content through syndication or other large-scale means: Watch your links. Google’s post reminds those who produce content published in multiple places that, without care,

How to compare paid search and organic search without sounding foolish

How to compare paid search and organic search without sounding foolish

Last week, I had the misfortune of encountering perhaps the most misguided thread on digital marketing I’ve ever seen on Twitter (which is saying something), in which an SEO declared unequivocally that “organic search traffic beats paid traffic for every

Crafting a successful holistic search approach

Crafting a successful holistic search approach

Now more than ever, brands are looking to maximize ROI for their marketing spend. Yet when discussing holistic search strategy and planning, I often get: “Everyone talks about holistic search, but no one’s doing it.” This always surprises me for three

Which HTML5 Elements Are Important for WordPress SEO?

Which HTML5 Elements Are Important for WordPress SEO?

Convince and Convert: Social Media Consulting and Content Marketing Consulting by Andy Beohar HTML5, the most recent HTML version, has been around for a few years now (though it was the first major HTML update in 14 years). However, there are still some

9 Reasons Your Marketing Agency's Retainers Aren't Bigger

9 Reasons Your Marketing Agency's Retainers Aren't Bigger

I've seen the inside of hundreds of marketing agencies over more than a decade, including my own.    Most marketing agencies struggle to generate recurring revenue. Many suffer through the ups and downs of the cash-flow roller-coaster because they never

The Ultimate SEO Audit Checklist - Search Engine Journal

The Ultimate SEO Audit Checklist - Search Engine Journal

The Ultimate SEO Audit Checklist Brian Harnish If you want the Ultimate SEO Audit Checklist, you’ve come to the right place. Did you know that Google has approximately 200 ranking factors ? For SEOs, Google has always maintained that chasing after the

How to Develop an Effective Content Strategy

How to Develop an Effective Content Strategy

Many experts will tell you that all you need for a successful online marketing strategy is to simply create high-quality content and the rest, like traffic and leads, will come. Unfortunately, nowadays, things don’t always work out that easily. Take a

How You Can Rise Above the Social Media Noise

How You Can Rise Above the Social Media Noise

Whether you’re building a brand on social media, marketing a business event, or campaigning for a cause, you’re fighting everyone else for space — not just your immediate competitors. In today’s market, social media noise is a serious problem,