Seo
Delve into our comprehensive library of SEO articles, written by industry experts and designed to equip you with the knowledge and strategies needed to boost your website’s search engine visibility. From technical SEO tips to content optimization guides, we have everything you need to succeed in the ever-evolving world of search.
Articles Tagged seo:
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
How A Rogue, Hacked Subdomain Got My Primary Domain In Trouble with Google!
When a new service hits the market that I want to test out, I typically sign up and give it a test run. For many platforms, part of the onboarding is to point a subdomain to their server so you can run the platform on your subdomain. Over the years, I’ve added dozens of subdomains that pointed to different services.…
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Marketing Infographics
How Long Does It Take To Rank In Google Search Results?
Whenever I describe ranking to my customers, I use the analogy of a boat race where Google is the ocean and all of your competitors are other boats. Some boats are bigger and better, some old and barely staying afloat. Meanwhile, the ocean is moving as well… with storms (algorithm changes), waves (search popularity crests and troughs), and of course…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
Why Keyword Ranking Should Never Be Your Primary Performance Metric
Not too long ago, SEO strategies majorly comprised of getting ranking on keywords. Keywords were the primary factor to gauge the performance of a campaign. Website builders would stuff the sites with keywords, and the clients would love to see the results. The results, however, showed a different picture. If your SEO tutorial for beginners included using Google tools to…
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Marketing Infographics
The Inbound Marketing Checklist: 21 Strategies for Growth
As you can imagine, we get a lot of requests to publish infographics on Martech Zone. It’s why we share infographics every week. We also ignore requests when we find infographics that simply show that the company hasn’t made a great investment to build out an infographic of value. When I clicked through on this infographic from Brian Downard, Co-Founder…
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Content Marketing
How Your Hosting Can Affect Your SEO
Yes, your hosting can have an impact on your SEO. Surprised? So are most people when they learn that their hosting plan can impact their potential for reaching high SERPs. But why? And how? Turns out, your hosting plan affects three major areas which all affect your rankings: Security, Location, and Speed. We’ll give you a thorough breakdown not just…
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E-commerce and Retail
5 Design Elements that Work Well for Mobile Conversion
Despite a rise in mobile usage, many websites deliver a poor mobile experience, forcing potential customers off-site. Business owners who have only just learned to navigate the desktop space are finding it difficult to make the transition to mobile. Finding the right aesthetic alone can be problematic. Business owners have to work hard to understand their target audience and build…
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Content Marketing
How to Optimize a Knowledge-Base Article
While an article or blog post might flow like a short story, visitors seeking information love to see that information optimized in a consistent format. A reader of an article may carefully read through each word, each line, and each paragraph. However, a visitor seeking knowledge may wish to quickly scan the page and jump directly to the information they’re…
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Marketing Infographics
What are the Benefits and ROI on Search Engine Optimization?
As I was reviewing old articles I had written on search engine optimization; I discovered that it was now over a decade that I’ve been providing direction. Search engine optimization rose to its peak a few years ago, a multi-billion industry that skyrocketed but then fell from grace. While SEO consultants were everywhere, many were leading their clients down a…
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Paid and Organic Search Marketing
5 Questions to Ask Your SEO Consultant
A client for whom we’ve developed an annual infographic strategy was in our office this week. Like many businesses, they had gone through the roller coaster of having a underpeforming SEO consultant and now hired a new SEO consulting firm to assist them in fixing the damage. And there was damage. Backlighting on many risky sites was central to the…
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Content Marketing
Why We Rebranded to Martech Zone and Changed Our Domain
The term blog is an interesting one. Years ago, when I wrote Corporate Blogging for Dummies, I loved the term blog because it denoted a sense of personality and transparency. Companies no longer had to depend on pitching the news to reveal their culture, news, or advancements. They could broadcast those out via their corporate blog and build a community…
