Before 2011, keyword inclusion in your content and meta tags was a nearly surefire way to ensure that a page of your site ranked for that specific keyword. This is where the concept of “keyword density” came in, with some sources recommending a density of two or three percent on any given page (meaning two [...]
Local search visibility grows increasingly important as “near me” searches on Google continue to rise. Your future customers may be looking for you at home on their desktops, or they may be using a mobile device on the go, such as a cell phone or a tablet. In fact, Google confirmed earlier this year that [...]
This post will give chief marketing officers the understanding and vocabulary to ask the right questions of their teams when it comes to search engine optimization (SEO). As a CMO you simply don’t have the time to micromanage digital marketing. You know SEO is important, perhaps critical, for your business, but you’ve got 100 other things [...]
Marketing a startup in today’s Internet is a whole different ball game from ten years ago. Even as recently as two years ago, SEO was a horse of a different color, one that made it easy to slip past the search engine censors and be a success without truly considering the intricate details of SEO [...]
In the beginning, there was light. Chances are, as the first signs of SEO emerged alongside the dawn of the Internet, few would have predicted the vast impact it would have on daily life such a short time later. After only a quarter century, SEO has evolved from the simplicity of a single-celled organism into [...]
Local search engine optimization isn’t just about local mom-and-pop shops anymore. Practically any business can take advantage of local SEO’s benefits. Since Google’s fan-named “Pigeon” update in 2014, the importance of local SEO has grown, leading many entrepreneurs to focus on their strategy despite going years without considering a local tangent to their inbound marketing campaign. [...]
Otto Marx, a renowned psychoanalyst who worked side by side with Sigmund Freud once said: "Never before has there been such an overabundance of truth". When it comes to how to do SEO, the same is true. There has never been so much information about how to do it correctly. The problem is that much [...]
Depending on your company, it might be once a year, some companies do it once a quarter, and I sincerely hope there aren't any companies that force marketers to do it on a monthly basis. But at some point we all have to justify investment in our channel. This is simultaneously a point of dread [...]
Big sites like Amazon.com can teach us a lot about SEO...or can they? Contributor Tom Schmitz gives us the lowdown. Should your SEO emulate the same optimization found on top websites? To answer this question, look at Amazon.com. Amazon.com is in the business of SEO. It may employ more SEO professionals than any other company; if [...]
While it’s usually possible to effectively optimize an existing website, it’s generally most efficient to build the necessary SEO components into the site design and architecture right from the get-go. Whether you’re hiring a designer, using a pre-built template or building your site from scratch, it’s important to understand the basics of how to build [...]
