One of the most enduring, yet elusive business principles is finding your target market. Today this has more to do with finding your “geographic” market since most people are using mobile devices to find businesses. The What and Why of Local SEO Many strategies now exist allowing businesses to tap into a person’s local search …
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It’s in your best interest to leverage your responses to the Google reviews you receive. You should also be using the Google My Business listing (GMB) tools to help ensure that you’re listed above your competition. There are a few things you can do to make sure you’re using local SEO to your advantage here. …
There are some search engine ranking puzzles that are so complex that they require a formal competitive audit. However, many of these puzzles simply require a few minutes of your time to run through a checklist of the 10 most common issues that cause your business to rank lower than you believe it should. Once …
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When you’re selling small business SEO services to someone it can be easy if they can for a basic answer to the question: “What is SEO?” However, if your prospect has no idea how to answer this question, things can become more challenging. This shouldn’t dissuade you from helping this business achieve a first-page ranking. …
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As a website owner your goal is to get as many people as possible from the search engines to visit your website. This is what’s known as search engine optimization (SEO). There are some people (known as SEO specialists) who find it easy to sell this process to website owners. However, they’ll occasionally encounter someone …
Many people think of the end of August through mid-September as the unofficial start to the holiday season. This is something businesses know which is why they’re having decent holiday sales already. As an online business, you realize that effective SEO is something that takes patience and time so you must be proactive if you …
Forensic SEO is one of the main areas in which SEO has truly evolved over the past 10 years. Now it seems like everyone knows about this practice. Unfortunately, there’s still some confusion about it though. Understanding the Basics Although nobody knows where the term started, this form of SEO is about dealing with a …
There’s been a major change to how Google counts nofollow links. In the past the nofollow was strictly followed, but today Google as using them as a hint for ranking your site – something that’ll impact your on-page SEO, content marketing, link building, and link spam. Understanding Nofollow Links Nofollow is an HTML attribute that’s …
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Unfortunately, the connection between email marketing and SEO isn’t obvious. After all, Google doesn’t crawl through and rank each of your emails nor does having a large list of email subscribers help you rank higher for your keywords of choice. This doesn’t mean that it isn’t a helpful tool though. In fact, it’s able to …
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About 33% of all the mobile searches conducted on Google are local. Searching for things “near me” is fueled by mobile technology. When people are out doing things they want to know the best places to do other things. As a contractor you may wonder if this affects you, but as mobile search continues growing …
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