If you are a business that is selling your product or service to a local audience, appearing in the top-3 spots of Google Maps listing can significantly improve visitations, phone calls, sign-ups, or any other desirable conversions. For example, if you are a restaurant in New York, specifically on Broadway, you would want to rank on the top-3 spots when people in Broadway is searching for “restaurants near me”. In the past, Google shows 7 results when people are searching for Google Maps-related queries (queries with specific location and “near me” queries),......
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Here’s the catch: it’s only natural that it’s now harder than ever to get website traffic. More websites and blogs are being published every single day, people spend more time on social media and Youtube than going to websites, and Google with its featured snippets and infrastructure tend to hoard traffic to its own platforms. On the other hand, website traffic is very important. We can’t convert visitors and prospects unless we actually have a steady—or preferably, growing—website traffic to convert. Too often, we put too much emphasis on maximizing the conversion......
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SEO is, after all, a very important marketing investment. Before we decide to invest on a channel, we have to answer two very basic questions: How much is it going to cost me? And What is the ROI of SEO campaigns? However, calculating both the cost of SEO and the generated ROI can be quite complicated. On the one hand, there can be many variable costs tied to content creation, link building, site optimization, and so on. On the other hand, the actual revenue generated from organic search engine—as the result of......
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is vital for any online business or blog that wants high rankings in search engines. It not only gives you a strong online presence but also helps you generate a lot of traffic to your website. The challenge with SEO is the fact that it is not black and white. Different people have different opinions on SEO and how it should be done. This can be very confusing for newcomers. It makes it very hard to know which steps to take to achieve the best SEO results and......
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Growth Everywhere is one of my favorite podcasts where Eric interviews successful entrepreneurs, founders, CEO, marketing leaders and venture capitalists. There is a lot of valuable information and insights on how those companies achieved customer and revenue growth and what marketing strategies and tactics they used to get there. I often hear that founders emphasize the importance of content marketing and SEO and how those channels played the main role in company success and growth. In one of the interviews, Eric Siu chatted with Ian Blair who is the CEO of BuildFire. BuildFire is the mobile app......
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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 believe that SEO is a valid strategy in 2023. SEO can be a really effective way to......
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Is ranking on the first page of Google and SEO all that important for SaaS and technology companies? Wouldn’t it be easier if I just pay for ads? What’s the value, is it worth the investment and will it help increase the revenue? Those are the questions I’ve been always asked by marketing leaders, company executives, founders and investors all the time. Like it or not, the search engines and especially Google are now very important in so many aspects of our lives and when we are looking for products and services......
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Why SEO For IT and Technology Companies Is Unique? Let’s carefully consider three factors: The number of people using search engines is increasing at a rapid rate, each and every year. There are over 3.5 billion searches being made daily. The search engine results page (SERP) has significantly improved since the early days of the internet. In the past, we only get website results, but now we can get various “rich” and interactive results from featured snippets to embedded results from Google Maps, The search engines—and especially Google—is now a very important......
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I’ve recently listed another great interview with Tim Matthews, who was a VP of marketing at Incapsula (now Imperva). Incapsula/Imperva is a cloud service that accelerates and secures websites of any kind and had $1.5 billion market capitalization at the time of the interview. Incapsula accelerates all the good content and block all the attack traffic and keep websites safe, so they can do what they’re meant to do. Tim emphasized the importance of SEO and content marketing in their customer acquisition strategy and shared some numbers they were able to achieve: Market Capitalization: $1.5 billion Protects: 5,000,000+ websites Number #1 customer acquisition channel: Content Marketing......
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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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