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We all know how SEO is an ever-evolving field. Google and the other search engines regularly launch algorithm updates that will translate into changes in ranking factors. So, it can be hard for us digital marketers to keep up with the latest developments. However, not being in the know of the latest ranking factors won’t only put you at a disadvantage of getting your site ranked higher. In a worst-case scenario, our site might be penalized or even banned if there’s a sudden change in algorithms that can be addressed if only......
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Building a startup company is both fun and challenging activity. There are definitely a lot of things to focus on when building a startup, from developing your products to planning a killer marketing strategy to kickstart your sales. Yet, more often than not, startups don’t recognize SEO as an important part of their early marketing strategy. There are many reasons for this: SEO is a long-term game, SEO is difficult to apply or simply not believing that SEO is a valid strategy in 2021. SEO can be a really effective way to......
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What Actually is B2B SEO? Most people know that SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, and most also understood the basic concept that SEO is about optimizing your website to rank higher on Google’s—and other search engines’ — SERP. However, there are still many misconceptions surrounding B2B SEO, especially regarding the technicalities and purpose. First, SEO is not a secret method to cheat the search engine’s algorithm so you can rank quickly. Instead, it’s a series of optimizations so your site—and your content— aligns better with Google’s goal, which in their own......
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For the past half-decade or so, inbound marketing has been a popular buzzword in the digital marketing world, both for B2B and B2C businesses. However, many marketers and business owners still often mistake inbound marketing for something else, and so the execution might not be as effective as desired. So, what actually is inbound marketing? To really define the concept of inbound marketing, we have to first take a look at the concept of traditional marketing which we now understand as ‘outbound’ marketing. Traditional marketing efforts like advertising, the billboard we see......
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Starting a new startup is certainly a challenging task, and arguably the biggest challenge at the beginning is how we can get our brand known by our target audience – building awareness. This is why implementing inbound marketing as early as possible is very important. Instead of pushing our message to the customer like in traditional marketing (or outbound marketing), inbound marketing focuses on attracting our target audience to come to us. The idea is, since your audience is already attracted to what you are offering, the conversion rate would be higher.......
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Lead generation is the most important, and also often the most challenging aspect of any SaaS business. If you don’t generate leads, you won’t get new customers, and thus, your SaaS business won’t grow. SaaS lead generation is also quite unique due to the nature of the business: in SaaS, you are not selling any physical product, and so your audience has more time to compare your product with other alternatives online. Also, the length of the SaaS life cycle can vary a lot, some can be very short, and some can......
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Link building—the process of getting more high-quality backlinks— is still the most important aspect of SEO, with backlinks still being the most important ranking factor. So, link building should be a very important focus of any SEO strategy, including for startups. Link building by itself is already a very challenging process, but for startups and lesser-known websites, the challenge of getting high-quality backlinks can be multiplied: it’s obviously more difficult to outreach to authoritative sites and influencers when your brand isn’t (yet) well-known. Also, link building is a very demanding process that......
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Your startup simply won’t grow if you can’t generate new customers, period. So, without a proper customer acquisition strategy for your startup, you are going to run into various problems along the way, and it’s going to be very difficult if not downright impossible to grow your business both B2B and B2C. On the other hand, figuring out which channel is the most effective and sustainable to use in generating new customers is often the biggest challenge for any business. In this guide, we will discuss all you need to know about how......
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There are generally three different types of how startups approached their content marketing: some thought of content marketing as secondary and so it’s not the focus of the early days of the startup. Some others, know that content marketing is important and implements it, but doesn’t really have a strategy and so it’s not fruitful. Only a select few startups properly plan their content marketing strategy, executes it well and so they can reap the long-term, sustainable benefits. In this guide, we will learn how we can become the third group. After......
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In 2020 as the start of the new decade, it is a great time for us to re-evaluate our marketing and lead generation strategies we’ve used in the past decade. As we all know, the market has rapidly changed especially in the past three years or so. Thus, it’s necessary to adapt our strategy to meet the new demands of the market. In this guide, we will discuss all you need to know about B2B lead generation in 2020. Let us begin by discussing the most important factors to consider when planning......
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