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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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 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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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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It’s a fairly known secret that SEO is a long term game. The real question, then, is how long? In fact, as a digital marketing agency, “How long will it take me to get ranked #1 for X keyword?”, “How long will it take for my site to get on the first page of Google?”, or similar ones are among the most common questions we get asked for. The answer, however, is not that simple, and there is not a one-size-fits-all answer due to the many different variables involved in SEO. In......
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How should we plan an enterprise SEO strategy? SEO as a marketing channel consists of many different tactics and activities, and on the other hand, it is a very flexible channel where different businesses might require different strategic implementations. Thus, planning an SEO strategy for an enterprise company can be easier said than done, as we’ll need to consider many different variables to plan many different elements. With that being said, in this guide, we will discuss a step-by-step guide in planning an SEO strategy, and by the end of this guide,......
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Landing pages are a very important aspect of today’s digital marketing, especially as a lead generation and conversion device. Your website as a business element, has two main purposes: to attract your ideal audience and to convert them into actual prospects. A landing page is your main weapon in achieving both purposes. In this guide, we will learn how we can use SEO to maximize the landing page’s performance, and especially to generate more organic traffic to these landing pages. First, however, let us learn about the concept behind the landing pages.......
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Do I actually need to outsource to an SEO agency? Can I just learn everything by myself? How much I considered okay to spend? Would working with a “full” digital marketing agency be a better bet? Those are some of the common questions to ask when considering an SEO expert or consultant—and all of them are valid ones—. A professional SEO company—as opposed to a generic (digital) marketing agency, has several unique and crucial roles. To really understand these roles, however, it’s important to first understand the right concept of SEO: ......
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Is ranking on the first page of Google SERP and SEO all that important? Wouldn’t it be easier if I just pay for the paid search ads? Like it or not, the search engines and especially Google are now very important in so many aspects of our lives: don’t know the movies currently playing on the theaters? We Google it. Feeling suddenly unwell? We Google the symptoms. Looking for a new product or service? We also Google it. There are more than 3.2 billion searches conducted daily on Google, not counting the......
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