SEO, or Search Engine Optimization, improves your website’s ranking and by doing so can increase traffic to your site. It’s an extremely important part of your web content and any business or digital marketer needs to be aware of it and focus on optimizing their SEO strategy. If businesses want their clients to be able to locate their online content, keep a good online reputation, and create new leads, attention must be given to SEO. In fact, it is especially important for small local businesses to optimize for SEO for new leads......
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Getting backlinks has been and still is one of the most important ranking factors in determining a website’s ranking on the SERP (search engine results page). Thus, link building is still one of the most important tactics in SEO and should be the core focus of a high-performing B2B SEO strategy. However, link building can be easier said than done and can involve several different skillsets from content creation to relationship building to sales and general marketing knowledge. That is why in this guide, we will discuss all you need to know......
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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 SEO 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 SEO 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......
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While we can over-analyze SEO and make it as complex as possible, in its purest essence there are only two core aspects of SEO: Optimizing your content for SEO to provide more value to the human audience. Optimizing the technical SEO of your site so Google and the other search engines can properly index it. Thus, in performing an SEO audit, we actually only need to focus on these two areas. It’s a very common mistake to perform a too technical SEO audit, that can take weeks to complete—and even by then, due to......
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The world of sales and marketing is getting more complicated than ever. The lines between the two are now (very) blurred, and with all the available channels, new tactics, and the increasing number of personnel, the need to streamline all these marketing and sales processes in one single app/solution is now more important than ever. This is where HubSpot gained its popularity as a platform that simplifies and takes care of the whole business process in one single dashboard. More About HubSpot Let us first discuss HubSpot as the benchmark in this......
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The trend of working from home is one that is a force to be reckoned with, especially when you consider the sheer number of people who enter the gig economy in exchange for their full-time, regular desk jobs. There are many reasons why workers may like to take on a freelancing job, either full time or on the side. Some of the more common reasons include the option to bolster their income, to help them make ends meet, or because they want a more flexible schedule. In fact, about 50% of the......
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Millennials are driving marketing strategies and decisions. In fact, over 70% of the millennials are the ones making corporate buying decisions. Plus, researchers report they are doing twelve searches online before actively engaging with a website. Why do those twelve searches make a difference to a marketing strategy? Because the twelve online searches are done by people hoping to receive the same high-quality digital experience as when they make a B2C purchase. Since most of the environment is online, trying to figure out what lead generation strategy will work, has now become of utmost importance to......
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Digital marketing is constantly evolving, and we have seen many significant changes—both positive and negative—throughout 2018 and 2019. In late 2019, we have seen huge changes due to big data and AI implementation, as well as Google’s increasing use of featured snippets, among other platforms. In 2021, however, we can almost expect bigger—and ‘weirder’ — changes to hit the digital marketing world, some might be very relevant to change the digital marketing ecosystem as a whole. What are they? Below, we will outline 7 of the most prominent ones. 9 Top Digital......
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The technology industry is rapidly evolving with each and every passing year. The needs of the customers are always changing, and so their behaviors. We should also consider the fact that there will always be a new influx of competitors. So, there is not one single marketing tactic that can fit every situation, and most likely you will need to experiment with all the different ones. However, here we will discuss five of the most effective marketing tactics and strategies for technology companies in 2020. All of them are relatively future-proof and......
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SEO as a marketing channel is fairly unique compared to other channels like advertising or PR campaigns: SEO is mainly done in your own medium, so there isn’t any publishing cost associated with it. Compare it to, say, advertising, where you need to pay a certain fee to the ad publisher (i.e. Google Ads or Facebook Ads). With that being said, SEO can be 100% free if you are willing to do everything by yourself—and if you have the time—. This is simply not possible with most other marketing channels (again, for......
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