Before we jump into the meat of this article, let's start with some essential but straightforward definitions. What is a brand? The traditional interpretation of a brand is a non-generic name of a product produced by a private or public company. ... Read More
Few if any were prepared for the advent of COVID-19. That's certainly true for business owners as well as those involved with non-profit entities. The idea of having to curtail operations or close them altogether due to a pandemic is something that no one has had to face for decades. This has led some business owners and others to trim expenses in any way possible, including their online marketing and advertising efforts. ... Read More
When many people think of search engine optimization, they tend to associate SEO with the text used on websites, blogs, landing pages, and even social media posts. They may even go as far as to consider SEO while naming website pages or coming up with searchable titles for blog posts. One element that sometimes gets overlooked is the images used along with the text. ... Read More
Search engine optimization is not a static discipline. As time goes on, shifts on the Internet demand that the process of SEO change. In many ways, those advances are great. At other times, they require that we address issues that we never considered before, including the matter of ethics. ... Read More
Today's search engine optimization has evolved, and for those of us that are lucky enough to operate within this growing and often challenging field, the keys to a successful project are all balanced on 3 pillars. These pillars have changed over the years, and with these changes have come to a new generation of specialists that have bought in and leverage the importance of link building. ... Read More
SEO works, and startups should look to include it in either their blended marketing campaigns or as a standalone tool! ... Read More
You may not think that search engine optimization matters on e-commerce platforms. That can pave the way for some serious mistakes that prevent the platform from being effective as possible. While the approach is a little different, SEO does play an important role in the world of online marketplaces. Here are a few examples of the SEO mistakes that must be avoided if you want your e-commerce site to reach its full potential. ... Read More
How's your paid ad campaign working? Are you getting the results you hoped to generate? If this is your first time launching such a campaign, the results may seem thin and the cost more than you expected. What you are experiencing points out why search engine optimization is so important and how it is essential if you ever hope to get much of anything from those ads. Here are some of the reasons why you need strong SEO before you spend money on ads. ... Read More
If you maintain any type of presence online, then you have heard about the updates that the major search engines do from time to time. What you may not realize is that the nature of those changes makes some things that used to be very important to placement in search engine results no longer relevant. ... Read More
Once upon a time, your attempt to reach and engage potential readers and clients was based on search engine optimization. The goal was to provide information that readers were seeking and make sure your site was showing up on the first page of search engine results. About the time you got a handle on that process, this thing called social media came along. ... Read More
As the time of Google PageRank comes to an end, secondary metrics are fast becoming the ranking factors in Google and hold a much greater relevance. Sites that measure flow like Moz and MajesticSEO are updated daily, can’t be tricked as easily as PageRank could and are more effective for ranking and determining sites. ... Read More
