7 simple tips to optimize your keyword list
Tweaking your keyword lists is like regular car maintenance: you have to do it, or else things stop running properly. Evaluating and optimizing your lists on a regular basis keeps your content high up in search engine rankings. However, keyword optimization is not always straightforward. Google’s algorithms grow more sophisticated constantly, and your old bag of keyword tricks becomes less and...
How to be really good at Digital Marketing in 2020?
With digital trends growing YoY and newer technologies and experiments being tested out in the industry, Digital marketing is bound to take up a larger share in the coming years. With the search engine giant, Google testing out new approaches such as shopping tab to increase customer experience and leveraging buying intent, E-commerce players like Amazon increasing priority to marketplace,...
What brands can do to improve ecommerce performance
Tip #1: optimize your product display pages (PDPs) across non-Amazon retailers. 38% of consumers said they’d leave a site from lack of product content. When asked what they saw as the number one opportunity in ecommerce marketing today, 30% of brands said ‘More accurate consumer targeting across retailers.’ Brands also cited three other key opportunities: ‘Improved user experience’...
How using a VPN can benefit SEO
The SEO industry is growing rapidly—estimated to balloon to $79 billion by 2020. Even though you may already be doing great with SEO marketing, you should not ignore the potential benefit of a virtual private network (VPN) on SEO strategies. A VPN is a solution that helps connect two parties on the internet anonymously and using an encrypted network that is private. It is mainly used to...
How to determine if you’ve been hit by negative SEO
Knowing you’ve been hit by a negative SEO campaign is crucial to fighting it. Contributor Joe Sinkwitz outlines the tools and steps you can take to figure out if you’ve been targeted. Have you ever experienced a rankings decline and suspected it was due to something a competitor was doing? For this second article, we are going to focus on the process of diagnosing whether or not...
Best practices for international SEO
Let’s talk about hreflang attributes. If you haven’t already navigated away from this page then you’ve already completed the most important step of this journey: starting it. Optimizing your SEO efforts for international clients requires a lot more technical granularity and entirely different strategy from trying to rank your local HVAC firm. Everything – from link building to URL structures –...
How to become a digital marketing wizard in five easy steps
The times they are a-changin’, especially in the online world. Grab yourself this digital marketing course if you want to step into the 21st century. From Facebook ads to YouTube, digital marketers need to be able to do it all in this day and age. Lucky for you, through eight courses and 25 hours of content, you’ll quickly get up to speed. Starting with the basics, you’ll blast through courses...
Good SEO habits: Turning over a new leaf in 2018
Join a gym, start that diet, call your parents more and turn over a new leaf for your SEO strategy. Whether you’re a stickler for New Year’s resolutions, or the very thought makes you roll your eyes, reviewing your SEO habits for 2018 should be a priority for every business and digital marketer. You don’t need me to tell you how fast-paced the digital world can be, with the pressures of...
3 ways to build your brand identity using content marketing
Can your company’s content pass the “no-logo test”? When I work with digital strategy clients who are struggling with content marketing, I always ask them to take the logo test, inspired by this excellent Content Marketing Institute article. You should try it, too. To do that, copy and paste articles you’ve written, along with articles from your competitors, into Word...