Online Marketing
How to Increase Organic Traffic to Your Website
There is no quick way to increase organic traffic to your website that will stick. You can cut corners with shady, manipulative practices to see some quick gains, but that traffic increase will disappear just as quickly and then some when Google penalizes your website. Some businesses couldn’t care less and do them anyways, but…
Read MoreBest Ways to Spend Your Online Marketing Budget
What’s the Best Use of my Marketing Budget? We all know that if you want to have a successful business in today’s marketplace, you need a website, but not only that, you need great inbound marketing to drive potential customers from a variety of different channels. However, breaking into the space for the first time…
Read MoreBest Must-Have WordPress Plugins for Your Website
This will not be your typical “top 5” or “10 best” list of WordPress plugins. Instead, I want to take you through the list of plugins we actually use on websites we build for clients, from small single page sites to huge e-commerce projects. There will be a few exceptions, but, for the most part, we…
Read MoreOld Online Marketing & On-Page SEO Tactics to Avoid
Even though Google has handed down warning after warning and penalty after penalty, we still see an enormous amount of these outdated, and frankly harmful, SEO tactics circulating out there. The days where these once “best practices” worked are long gone and if you’re still using these for new pages / campaigns, you’re doing more…
Read MoreRecovering From a Google Algorithm Penalty
Let’s be honest for a second, you’re here because either you or your company engaged in some shady marketing practices in the past in order to game the system and rank higher in Google. If that offends you, I’m sorry, but you don’t get hit with an algorithm penalty unless you’ve done something to deserve…
Read MoreBest Analytics Tools to Help Improve Your Website
Get a Handle on Your Data to Better Prioritize Your Marketing Efforts Data is king in today’s online marketing landscape and if you don’t have a handle on your website’s performance, you’re most likely not going to grow as fast as you’d like. How visitors are interacting with your website, the number of daily /…
Read MoreInvest in SEO to fuel your company’s long-term growth path
There really isn’t another type of online marketing that is as polarizing, derided, praised, and flat-out ignored as much as search engine optimization. Depending on who you ask, you’ll either see their face light up with passion, see it twist into a spiteful snarl, or watch an empty thought bubble coalesce beside their head. It…
Read More4 Google Search Algorithm Updates You May Have Missed
Google Search Algorithm Updates You Need to Know The online search landscape has changed drastically over the last 5 years with a whirlwind of Google search algorithm updates that have left thousands of businesses reeling from their effects. These updates quite literally changed the face of the internet overnight with many former familiar faces being…
Read MoreHow to Know if You Have a Google Algorithm Filter or Penalty
Whether you know it or not, Google is in the service industry and their service is delivering the best results for their customers’ search queries. To achieve this mission, they have a fairly strict set of guidelines on what they believe is a quality website and it’s these guidelines that make up the meat of…
Read MoreHow to Rank Higher in Google
Lock in those Top SERPs With These Marketing Tactics If you want your business to be a big player in the online market, you have to rank highly in Google. There are no ifs, ands, or buts about it. You can shout and beat your fists on the ground as much as you want, but…
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