In the old days, back when Ask Jeeves had all the answers and Yahoo was the search engine of choice, SEO was a one-dimensional tool that involved plugging in keywords virtually anywhere. It didn’t have to flow seamlessly or even be coherent. You probably remember the days when the items that showed up in your search [...]
With the holiday season coming just around the corner, companies are jockeying for position across the web. With B2C and B2B customers sales more profitable than ever, you don’t want to miss out on your slice of the more than 100 million consumers that will be looking to buy online this holiday season. This quick guide [...]
Getting your customers to buy starts with actually driving them to your site. The main goal of SEO is increasing your visibility and bringing more visitors to your company’s page. But not all traffic is created equal, and what good are visitors if they don’t end up buying? In this blog, we will cover why targeting [...]
Contrary to some of the negativity floating around the web from people who’ve done it wrong, or from companies who didn’t get the results they expected, SEO is not dead; in fact, it is alive and thriving. With total SEO-related spend to reach $80 billion by 2020, there’s a major reason why so many companies are [...]
With all of the focus on paid ads, keywords, link building, and local listings, it’s sometimes easy to forget that there’s one thing that truly drives the trends behind anything and everything search engine related: the searchers themselves. Much like athletes giving a shout-out to all of their fans at the end of a gruelling season, [...]
A mysterious update has sent shockwaves throughout the web over the last few days, but Google isn’t ready to comment yet. Find out how it could affect your site in this blog. Google updates its algorithm hundreds, even thousands of times per year, but most of the tweaks they make have very little effect on anyone. [...]
After the wild ride that was 2016 in terms of marketing trends, many business owners have since wondered what changes or new movements would start to bubble up and become the norm in 2017. Some remarkable statistics are in that will change the way you think about SEO, and, if you haven’t already done so, change [...]
So you’re ready to take the search engine results page over and start growing your business. You’ve written great copy that perfectly describes your products and their benefits, tagged everything from your H1s to your images like you were having a going-out-of-business sale, and started brainstorming great content ideas that will have customers coming back for [...]
User experience. Those two words hold a tremendous amount of importance to e-commerce professionals. User experience (or UX) is how the user interacts with a website, with major factors being page speed, layout, colour scheme and text spacing - among others. Despite being such a powerful force in the online the world, a page’s loading speed [...]
Anyone involved in local SEO can rattle off a number of well-researched statistics straight off the top of their head. The most important of those being: “50% of local searches lead to in-store visits within one day.” Local search is much more in-the-moment, and it’s obviously easier to get to a brick-and-mortar location that’s right down [...]
