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5 Ways a Blog Can Help Your Business Right Now

5 Ways a Blog Can Help Your Business Right Now

There are many benefits of blogging for business today. In fact, blogging is critical. However, bland, run-of-the-mill blog posts won’t cut it. These are lazy and ineffective. So what is effective? Publishing informative, well-written articles that

7 of the Best Mood-Boosting Websites We Could Find

7 of the Best Mood-Boosting Websites We Could Find

I will never forget the day I learned that watching cat videos is proven to enhance your mood. Even to a bonafide dog person, the news was good. In a study conducted at Indiana University Bloomington, participants reported “fewer negative emotions, such

12 Ridiculously Simple Ways to Make Your Content Better - Search Engine Journal

12 Ridiculously Simple Ways to Make Your Content Better - Search Engine Journal

Content marketers are struggling to produce engaging content, according to the Content Marketing Institute’s 2015 B2B Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends study. The struggle is real for 54 percent of B2B content marketers and 50 percent of

Google Answer Box Strategy: The Dos and Don’ts

Google Answer Box Strategy: The Dos and Don’ts

There is significant evolution occurring, on an almost daily basis, when it comes to Google’s search engine results page (SERP). Recently, Google’s SERP has gone through yet another evolution, with the addition of a rich featured snippet known as

Emoji SEO: Can You Rank For Emoji-Based Searches? - Search Engine Journal

Emoji SEO: Can You Rank For Emoji-Based Searches? - Search Engine Journal

It may seem silly now, but at the rate millennials and Generation Z is using emojis, the rise of emoji SEO is coming sometime within the next 10 years. Think back to when website domains first started coming on the market. The smart people bought common word

How to Become a Content Machine for Local SEO | SEJ

How to Become a Content Machine for Local SEO | SEJ

Bill Hartzer In 52 Local SEO Strategies for SMBs , one strategy I mentioned was being a local content machine. (I also mentioned that if you aren’t necessarily someone who can create a lot of content, one option is to buy an existing website or blog.) This

Relevance vs. authority: Which link has more value? (Part 2)

Relevance vs. authority: Which link has more value? (Part 2)

Welcome to Part 2 of my series on relevance versus authority in link building. In this series, I’m sharing expert opinions from around the SEO industry. The question I asked these experts was: “All other metrics being equal, would you rather have a

Is Interactive Video the Next Big Thing? 3 Creative Examples from Brands

Is Interactive Video the Next Big Thing? 3 Creative Examples from Brands

It's hardly a revelation to say that online video content is phenomenally popular. Millions of words have been written on the subject, and millions more will no doubt follow. But one of the great things about marketers is that we're always looking for what's

The best-kept AdWords secret: AMP your landing pages

The best-kept AdWords secret: AMP your landing pages

The best experiences are those where we don’t have to wait for stuff: receiving a one-hour delivery from Instacart, skipping the lines at Disney World with a FastPass, getting a response from our digital assistants like Alexa in less than a second. Big,