Why Social Signals Are Important To Search Engine Ranking
Does Google search factor in our social media activity? Currently, their algorithm does not directly measure your networks. But it does pick up on social signals, which are generated from conversations, shares, retweets, and content. Any links that are included with your marketing have the potential to be clicked on and shared. Thus, they create…
The Future of Augmented Reality With Search Engine Optimization
Augmented Reality (AR) is not new. It has actually been around for years. But it’s true potential wasn’t fully utilized until relatively recently, with Pokemon GO. Although the game was a victim of momentary success, it showed us what AR can do. Pokemon GO helped businesses envision their future with AR, compelling them to use…
A Comprehensive Guide to Broken Link Building
Link Building has always been necessary for building authority in your website. SEO’s are always trying to find new ways to streamline the process to make it cheaper and more effective. Outreach can sometimes seem pointless. Not to mention that it can be disheartening at how few results you receive from your hours of research…
How to Optimize Your Website for Voice Searches
You know something has crossed over from early adopters to the mainstream when you hear your parents shout (because they cannot use a smartphone in a normal speaking voice), “Hey Siri” (or Alexa or Cortana). It’s a clear indicator that voice search is increasing in use. Did you know that 20% of all mobile searches…
A Beginner’s Guide to Optimizing Your Business Blog for Search Engines
Almost every business with an online presence has a blog. However, many business owners seem to jump on this bandwagon simply because they are expected to provide one. They do it without giving the promotion, content, and development of the business blog much thought. At best, they assign some hapless subordinate to post random facts…
How To Combine SEO and UX to Improve Your Website
Remember the good old days when all you needed to do to be ranked as number one in search engines is to stuff your page with keywords? Now those search engines consider hundreds of factors when deciding which pages will have the highest rank. This is where UX, user experience, comes into play. So many…
E-commerce Smarts: Driving Long-Tail SEO
In the competitive world of e-commerce and online marketing, every brand wants to get in front of as many eyeballs as possible. But what about getting in front of the right eyeballs? You know, the ones that will actually convert. While any e-commerce SEO strategy should include plenty of keywords with large search volumes, it’s…
Don’t Just Rank Better, Standout in Google Using Schema Markup
Google rarely makes direct announcements about their search algorithm. When they do, everyone pays attention! Recently John Mueller, Webmaster Trends Analyst at Google, answered some questions on Reddit. There he mentioned that Google uses schema as a ranking factor. Before we go any further, for those of you who are wondering about what schema is, you…
How Artificial Intelligence Will Impact SEO and Search
Artificial Intelligence is changing SEO and therefore search. Shelly Kramer details how these changes are taking shape. It is another in our “Great Articles You may have missed” series. The AI Impact on Search There is no shortage of topics to discuss when we’re talking about artificial intelligence (AI). It’s hot for a good reason: AI changes the…
Why Small Businesses Must Never Compromise on SEO
Many small business owners have a misapprehension about the importance of SEO and the development of an effective digital presence. About 93% of online experiences are initiated from search engines. And you are probably aware that 75% of those users do not scroll past the first search engine results page. Considering this, every time you…
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