What’s the Difference Between On-page and Off-page SEO?
Did you know that small businesses should allocate about 8% of their revenues to marketing? That’s right, according to the SBA, a small business with under $5 million in yearly revenue should have a marketing budget consisting of around 7-8% of their yearly revenue. The SBA points out that in certain industries, a small business may even […]
3 Keys to Writing Compelling Content for People & Search Engines
This is a sponsored post written by SEMrush. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. According to recent SEMrush research, finding the balance between the creative element and search optimization is the most challenging task for copywriters. Some even believe there’s a clash between SEO and human-centered content creation. It stands to reason that […]
How to align SEO and sales teams so everyone benefitsÂ
If your sales and SEO team need a refresher on how to work together, Columnist Casie Gillette has the answer with five communication tips that will get them talking in no time. It’s no secret that marketing and sales don’t always see eye to eye. The sales team gets mad at the marketing team for […]
Starting From Scratch: The Simple Guide To Social Media And SEO Success
Viral marketing and building a social media following are common initiatives among startups and established businesses alike. Every executive and entrepreneur thinks they need to create a viral piece of content and get extremely lucky to win viral publicity. But if that’s your strategy, you have little chance of success. Instead, ride an already existing […]
7 User Engagement Metrics That Influence SEO
Would you like more traffic to your website? Of course you do. I have yet to meet a business owner who doesn’t. And yet, most small business owners aren’t doing any search engine optimization for their websites. Only 28% of them – about one out of every four – do any search engine optimizationat all. Wasp […]
8 of the Worst SEO Mistakes Even the Experts Make
Digital marketing is like playing the drums; everyone thinks they can do it. Inevitably, the layman writes content stuffed to the brim with a target keyword and cannibalizes his/her own webpages by using the same five keywords across all of their webpages. As infallible as we sometimes think we are, even the best of our […]
3 Critical PPC Tasks You Should Do Every Day
Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising remains an effective way to grab the attention of your target audience and drive them back to your site so they can engage with your products and services. Obviously, the higher your ads appear to the top, the more likely that someone will click on that ad. That said, just getting the click […]
7 marketing and promotion tactics to get your content discoveredÂ
Contributor Kristopher Jones outlines seven tried-and-true content promotion strategies that will drive traffic to your content and website. It’s no secret a well-executed content marketing campaign can deliver a solid return on investment. According to Demand Metric, content marketing generates three times more leads than most outbound marketing strategies at 62 percent less cost. As […]
4 concrete ways to use images to build links – Search Engine Land
Every picture tells a story and also may help you build links. Contributor Pratik Dholakiya shares four solid ways to use images to attract links. “Create visual content and the links will follow†is a nice sentiment, but in reality, it’s a prerequisite, not a guarantee of the fulfillment of a promise. If you want […]
AdWords Attribution: Give Your Clicks Some Credit!
The new attribution model for AdWords was the talk of the town when it was first announced in 2016. But since then, it hasn’t received as much attention. Even so, I was surprised recently when a colleague in the pay-per-click industry confessed that he wasn’t aware of it. I can understand how he missed it. […]