30-second summary: Google page experience metric goes live in 2021. Rewarding pages that offer a better user experience. The signal measures a site’s performance, security, and mobile-friendliness. To prepare for 2021, get a fast web hosting service, optimize your content for mobile users, and install security measures (firewall, SSL, etc.). Avoid pop-ups and whole screen […]
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The anatomy of a negative SEO attack
30-second summary: SEO can just as easily destroy websites’ rankings as it can build them up. Newer websites or startups with smaller backlink profiles are the most vulnerable to negative SEO attacks. Webmasters need to regularly monitor their backlink profile to make sure their site is not keeping company with any questionable web properties. Negative […]
Five great ways responsive web design benefits your SEO
30-second summary: COVID-19 pandemic emphasizing the practicality of internet mobile for all-around daily tasks. Mobile web browsing skyrocketing fuelled by consumer shopping intent. Half the world’s population browsing the internet on a mobile device, with 61 million UK mobile internet users by 2021. Google’s webmasters announcing the mobile-first index launch in March 2021, with a […]
Five SEO tips to dominate local search this holiday season
30-second summary: 60% of consumers have been shopping online more often since COVID-19. Making your local SEO strategy a top priority for small retailers and those with multiple locations. Shoppers are browsing more frequently and making more purchases, although they are smaller in value. Local retailers should focus on creating in-store experiences online and pick […]
Get the data that puts you ahead of the competition
What you will read in this post: Understand holiday season traffic trends Optimize for strong SEO and PPC keywords Analyzing keyword-driven traffic for seasonal marketing Which sites won the most keyword traffic? Black Friday marketing: November 2019 Christmas marketing strategy: December 2019 Build strong display and referral partnerships Analyze historic conversion data The biggest display […]
Customer experience optimization (CXO) for online stores: Three proven SEO tactics
30-second summary: Once you have the right product and pricing, succeeding with your online store essentially boils down to effective digital marketing and delivering a top-notch customer experience. For ecommerce, in particular, SEO — or ranking on the first page of Google — plays a huge role in effective marketing and online branding, as it […]
Four ways to test your marketing ideas instead of trusting blogs
30-second summary: Blogs are a valuable and insightful arm of any brands’ marketing strategy. The drawback to that, of course, is that industry blogs are filled with untested theories and can start to resemble echo chambers if relied upon solely. Marketing innovation comes not by reading the work of others, but by continually testing and […]
How to immediately profit from your next piece of content
30-second summary: Most content marketers focus on creating blog posts and writing guest posts to improve SEO rankings. This approach overlooks the value of insightful content as a sales resource, especially for B2B firms. What type of content works best for sales prospecting. Examples of content and an overview of how to create your outreach […]
How to get more from your links
30-second summary: SEO strategists focused on link building often forget that it’s much easier to optimize their existing link equity than it is to build more. Large enterprise and ecommerce websites with thousands of landing pages often spread PageRank too thin, sending link equity to pages that are unlikely to ever rank. SEO strategists can […]
Optimizing the browser long tail across platforms, devices, and countries
30-second summary: If a company or brand wants to go global, it must understand the intricacies of where and how consumers browse, realizing that true optimization must consider content consumption trends and regional device or browser differences. Better user experiences and higher engagement levels depend on it. There is no such thing as “mobile vs. […]
