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SEO Education and News
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Sweep Away The Competition By Spring Cleaning Your Backlinks
So you want to do link building the white-hat way, but it seems these days most link building practices are pretty sketchy. One Google-friendly way to do link building is through identifying and fixing broken backlinks to redirect to pages on your site. Spring backlink cleaning, here we come! While …
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Social + SEO: Better When They’re Working Together
Modern search engine optimization has become inextricably linked with content marketing. Yet in many companies, social media strategies are developed separately from the SEO and content marketing plan. This can work—but you’ll realize optimal results by aligning social media with SEO for an overall strategy that boosts brand awareness, improves …
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Don’t Celebrate Too Soon: What to Know About Disappearing Manual Actions
The topic of manual actions disappearing from Google Webmaster Tools is not a new issue, but it has come up a few times in the last week, which automatically deems the topic worthy to write about. Do manual actions have expiration dates? Manual actions do expire, and when they expire, …
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Pick up the Phone: Google is Calling With A Mobile-Friendly Update
With Google’s recent announcement that mobile-friendliness will be a ranking signal, we have been fielding impressive numbers of emails and phone calls from website owners asking how this affects them. Google has been moving toward rewarding websites that are addressing consumer demand with mobile-friendliness. In the official announcement published on February …
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4 Internet Marketing Mistakes You Might Be Making
There is nothing more frustrating than putting all your money and effort into your site’s content only to see a conflicting ROI. Many companies and businesses rely on Internet marketing to increase their profits, but some make simple and even unpredictable mistakes as they go about it. Feeling frustrated or …
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Search Tools, Edit Wars, and More: Get the Gist of Wikipedia for Businesses
What is the Loch Ness Monster? Who is Monty Python? What is the history of Starbucks? Every time you do a Google search for practically any event, business, person, phrase, song, or obscure piece of trivia, Wikipedia seems to be right there at the top of the search results. Wikipedia, …
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SEO for 2015: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
The world of SEO is constantly changing. Google, the big prize for search engine ranking, may change its search algorithms from 500 to 600 times a year, and major updates like Panda, Penguin, and Pigeon are rolled out on a fairly regular basis. And while your business can’t shift SEO …
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I’m So Trendy. You Already Know… Using Google Trends on YouTube
The last time I wrote about Google Trends, I explained how it could be useful in your keyword research process. I am now going to explore how this tool can be used to create a strategically optimized YouTube video. Note: As mentioned in my previous blog, keep in mind that …
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Big Results Can Come in Small (SEO) Packages
Many small businesses fear that because they don’t have millions of marketing dollars at their disposal to build their SEO campaign, they simply won’t be able to compete with large corporations. However, there are many SEO tactics small businesses can employ to level the playing field and compete against large …
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Law & Order SEO: Finding The Culprit Behind Your Decreased Organic Traffic
As digital marketers, we regularly analyze site traffic to ensure that our efforts are producing positive results. But what happens when you’re doing all the right things in your SEO campaign (high-quality website content, blogging, link-building, etc.) and your Google organic website traffic is consistently going down? 1) Traffic Deep-Dive …
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