Proving ROI for SEO isn’t easy. It’s one of the main reasons people are not as bought into SEO as they are with other marketing channels. It’s not like paid search where you can easily attribute a click on an ad to a keyword and measure the conversions against your […]
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In SEO, you have access to so much data. But what good is all that data if you aren’t turning it into actionable strategies that have a clear and measurable impact? Used correctly, you can do many things with Google Analytics combined with Data Studio: pulling data, turning it into […]
Franchises, like all local businesses, require local SEO to rank in the search engines and reach new potential customers. That includes SEO best practices such as optimizing the websites of individual franchise locations and creating business listings in national and local directories. However, SEO for franchises differs from regular local […]
Technical SEO requires technical and analytical skills together with a good understanding of how Google and other search engines work. A technical SEO must be familiar with the most popular CMS systems and know at least the basics of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In addition to that, a good technical […]
A recent survey of 600 U.S. and Canadian small to medium-sized business owners and their employees has revealed that 57% do not have an SEO strategy – and 23% have no plans to create one this year. The Pollfish survey commissioned by UpCity found that just 44% of businesses currently […]
Google’s John Mueller answered a question on Reddit about ranking benefits of using the keywords in the domain name. Mueller confirmed that there’s no SEO bonus for keywords in the domain and listed reasons why not to use keyword-based domains. Mueller lists valid reasons why keywords in domains don’t provide […]
Redirects are a critically important part of running a successful website, but too often there is little care given to the process of managing them. Without redirect management, you may see important redirects removed, users redirected to the wrong place, or a loss of link equity for a site’s SEO. […]
Google’s Search Advocate John Mueller addresses whether including publishing dates in webpage title tags has any impact as far as SEO is concerned. This topic is discussed during a recent Google Search Central SEO office-hours hangout. An SEO professional, who’s working on a website that reports on currencies, asks Mueller […]
