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Internet Marketing Blog Posts by Michelle Neuhoff Boyd 
Hailing from Nashville, Tennessee, Michelle attended Loyola University New Orleans where she received bachelor’s degree in graphic design. She previously worked for Ingram Content Group in Nashville as a Production Artist before moving back to New Orleans.
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UPCEA Webinar Recap: Top Higher Education SEO Trends for 2025
Key Insights With enrollment trends shifting, target learners evolving, and search habits changing, your 2025 higher ed SEO strategy may need a refresh. In a webinar with UPCEA, Search Influence shared tips and tricks for accommodating new search trends such as AI Overviews and social search to ensure your institution …
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SEO In-House vs. Outsourced: Should You Hire an Agency?
Key Insights SEO is crucial for online visibility, increased website traffic, brand recognition, and revenue growth. While it may be tempting to handle SEO in-house, it’s essential to recognize that effective SEO requires meticulous attention to detail, constant monitoring, and adaptation to evolving search engine algorithms. When deciding between in-house …
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Top 5 SEO Skills Necessary to Drive Results
Key Insights Proper search engine optimization (SEO) increases the chances your website will rank highly in search engine results, which could introduce more people to your brand. Keyword research, content writing, SEO-focused web development, link building, and analytics are all key SEO skills that work together to give you greater …
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What Happened to Facebook’s 20% Text Grid Tool? (Updated 2020)
Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on March 25th, 2016, and has been updated to provide you with the latest information. Update (October 1, 2020): Back in 2016, we were all so very excited to see the Facebook Grid Tool disappear. Unfortunately, it was replaced with similar restrictions of …
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How to Optimize Existing Content for Your Holiday Marketing Campaign
All of a sudden you realize that the holidays are here and you’re not ready. You have your holiday merchandise in stock, but you haven’t promoted it or even thought about updating your site to include it. It kind of feels like it’s Christmas Eve and you still haven’t gotten …
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How to Develop a Strong Content Strategy
You’ve heard it time and time again, “Creating a strong content marketing strategy is essential.” Is it really that important? Well, according to the Content Marketing Institute, content marketing produces three times as many leads as outbound marketing yet costs about 62 percent less. You might still be wondering, what …
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Four Smart Ways to Market Your Tourism Business in the Off-season
Seasonality is a major marketing challenge for the tourism industry. Considering the struggle to turn a profit during the low season, and the rush of overtime work during the high season, this challenge should come as no surprise. The good news, however, is that we have solutions! With these four …
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12 Things You May Not Know About Online Marketing
While some aspects of online marketing may seem straightforward, some things might surprise you. Here are 12 things that surprised some of our team members when they started working at Search Influence. 1. When listing your business location anywhere online, you should use the USPS verified address. “I worked at …
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Insta-Update: Direct Messages Just Got Easier on Instagram
Back in 2013, Instagram launched Instagram Direct, which gave users a way to share with one person or a smaller group of people. Last week, they announced the rollout of a couple of exciting improvements, including sending posts in your newsfeed as direct messages and threaded messages. Direct Messages Improved …
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Five For Friday: Amazon Gets Physical, Tinder Cleans Up, & G+ Asks, Am I Pretty?
1. Google Testing New Local Interface In Web Search Results – Search Engine Roundtable Google is testing a new interface for showing the local web search results. Back in August, we saw that Google was showing the local carousel within the results, but this new interface is simply a list of …
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