SEO

It’s no secret: content has long reigned king on the frontier of search engine optimization. To get organic traffic, you need web pages. Those pages need to rank for a diverse set of voluminous keywords. If you can solicit (or naturally earn) authoritative inbound links to those pages, all the better. You’re well on your way to setting your site up for organic success.

But what about...

For any small or local business looking to stay afloat, search engine visibility is a must. Running paid ads is a great way to get immediate visibility and highly targeted traffic, but it's crucial that you're working on your long-term organic visibility as well. The problem is, search engine optimization (SEO) is a complex marketing strategy that requires consistent effort over time.

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How do your customers find you?

For modern-day businesses, the answer is simple: they go online. In particular, they go on search engines like Google.

While paid search ads are a great way to gain immediate exposure on this go-to search engine, you should also be working to build up your organic rankings as well. With a strong presence in both paid and organic search...

Gone are the days when marketers were obsessed over a single keyword in an effort to get good rankings. Today, the key to crafting amazing content is context. And for good reason: over 15% of Google’s daily searches are new terms that users have never searched before...

For those in the business of trying to drive organic traffic, Google is the all-powerful. It crawls the web, determining which pages are the most useful and relevant for its users for virtually any topic. We don’t just trust Google’s results, we rely on them.

With such immense power and influence, getting your small business on the first page of Google might seem...

If there is a tool that could make your life easier would you use it? Yes—the answer is always yes!

As a marketer, you already have enough on your plate. Managing multiple campaigns across various platforms, keeping up to date on partnerships, ensuring your budget is being properly allocated, tracking and reporting statistics to higher-ups to confirm an ROI is being made—I am exhausted...

It’s no secret that our friends over at Google like to tweak their search algorithm. And although this model of constant improvement is certainly cause for celebration among everyday users, it can give SEOs and copywriters a fair bit of anxiety. After all, if the rules of the game are constantly changing, how are you...

Keeping track of Google’s algorithm updates is a full-time job—especially considering the fact that Google doesn’t always explain why frequent fluctuations in the SERP (Search Engine Results Page) occur. Mostly, these updates occur in the name of increasing relevance in the SERP. They benefit sites that produce quality, fresh, relevant content. The song remains the same. 

In May 2018, Google rolled out Lighthouse 3.0, an updated version of their open source tool for auditing the quality and speed of web pages. Lighthouse 3.0 brings new output options for reports, but also a number of changes to the way that it measures site speed and performance, such as the introduction...

Everybody wants to rank for high-volume keywords. Who wouldn't want a huge amount of traffic, conversions, and sales from organic search? But not every business can rank for high-volume keywords. Those super popular keywords are way more competitive, which means many more sites are competing for the limited number of spots on...

Last year, Google began mobile-first indexing of all new domains by default. This was good news for advertisers and new website administrators, but what about domains already in existence? Those with a responsive, mobile-friendly design were okay. Those without might not be.

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I used to think SEO case studies with titles like this were written by snake oil salesmen. After all, saying you increased someone’s organic traffic―especially someone who’s a multiple time New York Times best-selling author and already had a bunch of traffic―by 600% can’t be true, right?

I certainly didn’t think it could be several years ago.

Back then, I was...

All too often, keyword research is seen as only useful for SEO and, therefore, only useful when driving growth for an existing business. People see keyword research as something that comes into play only once your business has already created its products, brand positioning, and market strategy. You put a campaign or site together, then...

On-page SEO, off-page SEO, and technical SEO can be thought of as three pillars of organic search engine optimization.

Technical SEO vs. on-page SEO vs. off-page SEO

Out of the three, technical SEO is most often ignored, most likely because it’s the trickiest to master....

SEO, or search engine optimization, might seem complicated, but at a fundamental level, you can think about it this way:

Everything on the internet is either a piece of content or a link (between pieces of content).

Traditionally, the pieces of content that have the most inbound links from the highest-quality site have the best ability to rank in the...

When we asked marketers what tools they were planning to use in 2019, we received more than 70 responses with nearly as many tools. They run the gamut from keyword research, site audits, backlink analysis, and content ideation to scheduling, testing, editing, link-building, outreach, and email marketing. And that’s just to name a few.

While there is no universal tool that serves every...