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How Blogs Can Be a Great SEO Tool—If You Know Keywords

As a content writer who has worked for a marketing agency for years, I can tell you that blogs drive traffic to a business’s websites. SEO—search engine optimization—can be a finicky beast, and hacks and shortcuts often fail in the long term as Google changes its algorithms. But good content from blogs? That will bring […]
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What the Heck is Google Search Console and How Do I Use It?

For your business, the Alphabet company has many tools, especially when marketing your company on – let’s face it – the only important search engine. Making sure your business is present on Google Maps with your Business Listing, monitoring Google Reviews, tracking website traffic with Google Analytics, and even spending money on Google Ads to […]
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Is It a Marketing Problem or a Website Problem? 3 Ways to Tell

Many of our website and SEO consultations start with “There’s a problem with my website.” Sometimes the client has analytics tracking clicks and traffic or is looking at their page ranking – but even more often is that they do not see leads generated from their site. Getting to that root cause opens up questions […]
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Overhauling Your SEO (Part 2 of 2): Content Re-Creation

Once you’ve determined the sources of your website’s issues, it’s time to overhaul your SEO before the problems proliferate. You want to apply measures that will boost your rankings on search engines. Fortunately, there are several ways you can resurrect your website from the depths of obscurity. It can take a fair amount of work […]
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What are Your Best Options for Website SEO Content?

Even with a completed website, your search engine marketing (SEM) shouldn’t end there. Updating existing content by providing a steady stream of blogs, building out your website pages to help with your website SEO content. From there, it’s about finding out your best options, which should be guided by three factors: relevance of content, ease […]
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The 7 Signs That You Need a New Website

There can be a wide gap between the website your business currently has and the website it needs. This isn’t just personal preference: depending on the age, functionality, and content on your website, you could be missing out on more visits, actions, and purchases. While age is the biggest contributing factor (older websites simply don’t […]
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Active Marketing: Why Set-It-and-Forget-It Marketing Doesn’t Work

There a lot of options when it comes to marketing your company, from the necessary (having a website) to the advanced (proper brand reputation management). There are many ways you can do this marketing, depending on how much time and money you have. One thing we’ve seen that universally fails (and can in fact even […]