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3 Key Differences Between Google AdWords and Facebook

3 Key Differences Between Google AdWords and Facebook

Google is the unquestioned king of search engines, and Facebook is the most popular social media platform in the world. While it’s important to invest in your marketing efforts wisely, don’t conflate how these two giants operate. People generally use

How to Vet An SEO Agency (and Prevent Failure)

How to Vet An SEO Agency (and Prevent Failure)

How to Vet An SEO Agency (and Prevent Failure) Finding the right SEO provider is important. It also can be a lot of hard work. This is why vetting SEO agencies is so important. You want to make sure your SEO agency is: Easy to work with. Going to

Quality Score and other leverage points

Quality Score and other leverage points

As you are no doubt aware, Google recently added additional reporting and transparency to the Quality Score (QS) metric that’s all-important in terms of calculating Ad Rank. (If you’ve never watched the updated Ad Rank explanation video by Hal Varian,

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