by Amy Hoglund When it comes to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), you may hear industry jargon get tossed around, but have no idea what actually goes into it. We’re here to help clear the muddle. Today I’m focusing on the significance of Off-Page SEO- specifically...
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Long-Tail Keywords Are Key to Customer Conversion
By: Jacob Robinson Increasing Conversion Rates With Long-Tail Keywords A key metric to any business’s online performance is website conversion rate (the percentage of people who come to your website take some sort of action). There are various ways to increase...
Local vs. National SEO Strategies: Which Does Your Business Need?
For many business owners, there's confusion about the differences between national SEO and local SEO. What are they, exactly? What strategy do you need? You might be asking yourself these questions. It's hard enough to understand all of the technical aspects of search...
One Easy Step to Figure Out if Your Website Is Mobile Friendly
By: Holly Czuba This is big news in our industry right now. Google is going to stop showing non-mobile-friendly websites in their mobile search results. Business owners stand to lose half of their visibility on the web if they're not ready. I say "half their...
Local SEO Trends You Need to Know
Updated April 12, 2017 With Google’s constant algorithm updates, local search has been taken to a whole new level. Basic SEO practices like keyword research, meta tags, indexing, and penalty recovery are still in place. However, content, directory listings, and mobile...
Google Using Mobile Friendliness As a Ranking Factor
By: Holly Czuba Google rarely gives us explicit information about how they rank websites in their search results. SEOs make educated guesses and experiment and extrapolate from what Google does reveal. We know what works and what doesn't, but Google never lays out...
The Importance of Setting Reasonable SEO Expectations
By Ryan Dearth “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” -Albert Einstein Every SEO professional knows the tactics and strategies required to improve rankings and search visibility for a client's business or organization. We have a...
Small Business Guide to Negative Reviews
By Kala Halbert Okay business owners – you’re sitting on your couch on a Sunday evening, thinking about the week ahead and you decide to pull up Yelp to see if there are any new reviews from the busy past weekend. First one's good, next is better and then BAM - punch...
Top 3 Reasons Your Business Can’t Afford to Be Offline
By Carissa Foley As businesses prepare to move into 2015, an online presence needs to be the #1 area to invest advertising dollars. When evaluating advertising dollar allocation small business owners have a tendency to look at their website as a cost rather than an...