Mid-Year Checkup: Your 2019 SEO Efforts So Far

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Remember back on New Year’s Eve, when you made all those promises to yourself about how you’d hyper-focus on growing your business? Well, since you’re sitting at the pool right now, waiting for the fireworks show to start, today is a good day to do a mid-year checkup of those goals. Let’s assume that one […]

Image SEO is everything. And So Are Images.

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You spent a lot of time thinking (and probably overthinking) which images to add to your website. But the work isn’t done once you load them. You need to add ‘alt text’ (shorthand for alternative text) to them so that search engines, such as Google, will know what the pictures are about. And you want […]

Advantages of Outsourcing your SEO (search engine optimization) Efforts

Every business owner’s conundrum: time vs. money. Time is a commodity, just as money is. There is only a finite amount of it in every work week. If you had to assign a dollar amount to every hour of your time, how much would it cost? You started your business because you have a passion […]

How to Use SEO to Generate More Leads

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Almost every wise company or site uses SEO to boost their lead generation. It’s a long-term investment into your business that can give you great results and turn your site into a successful web page. But before we dive deeper into SEO and better lead generation, let us first define what those terms are and […]

How to Differentiate Between a Good and a Bad SEO Company

Just like how there are bad and good cosmetic companies in the industry, SEO-related companies are no exemption to this. Even though SEO is pretty much linear with its function, there are still companies that provide better services as compared to others. If you choose poorly, it might affect the success rate of your site. […]

SEO Strategies and Keyword Rankings: Mobile Versus Desktop

As if we didn’t already have enough to think about in any given SEO campaign, it is now imperative to separate and refine your approaches to mobile and desktop search. While mobile has become hugely significant over the last couple of years, this shouldn’t be to the neglect of desktop. Although SEO for mobile and […]

The continuing rise of voice search and how you can adapt to it | Search Engine Watch

Google’s I/O developer conference brought several huge announcements about Google’s future direction and projects, including two new technologies which demonstrate just how importantvoice search and natural language processing are to the company’s future development. The first, Google Assistant, is a voice-activated digital assistant which builds on “all [Google’s] years of investment in deeply understanding users’ […]

7 e-commerce SEO trends we’re seeing in 2016

Few types of online business can benefit from SEO more than e-commerce websites that allow for direct consumer transactions. Not only can you secure more web traffic (and a larger stream of revenue), you can also optimize specific product pages to funnel traffic to your most profitable or popular pages. But SEO (and e-commerce in general) […]

Google AdWords Switching to 4 Ads on Top, None on Sidebar

It seems that Google is rolling out a change to Google AdWords that sees 4 ads at the top of the search results, none on the sidebar at all, and an additional 3 ads at the bottom of the search results.  This replaces the usual mix of top, bottom and sidebar-heavy AdWords ads, depending on […]

App Store SEO: The Inbound Marketer’s Guide to Mobile – Moz

As the app ecosystem grows, many marketers are turning their sights towards mobile app marketing. Today’s post provides a high-level view of App Store Optimization, and gives tips on how to break into the rapidly expanding world of apps. How to Optimize for App Store Search Engines Let’s dive into search in the app stores, […]