We’ve all heard not to judge a book by its cover and, while that’s great for people and pets, it doesn’t necessarily apply to choosing a wedding dress or even a dozen eggs. I’m pretty sure that the outside of a greenish-black egg will give you impressions of what is inside. The same goes for driving views to your website. A flat, text-heavy page is about as inviting as a toaster instruction manual. Despite how much you know, people will resist reading it without a visual break, so why not try to make things a bit more visually pleasing with an infographic.
A Guide to Mobile User Experience
Having valuable content and a good page design is great, but if your forms aren’t easy to fill in on mobile, you’re wasting your time. The same goes for your calls to action (CTAs). They need to be easy to see and click.
Using Web Analytics for Data-Driven Marketing Decisions
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. Statistics, or data to keep the term more general, are taking over many aspects of modern life from your fitness tracking app, to NFL analysis and now your marketing department.
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Best SEO Plugin Just Got Better – Yoast 7.8
If you’ve followed our blog for a while you’ll already know that Yoast is one of our favorite Wordpress plugins. So, we’re happy to talk about the newest SEO offering from the Dutch company. Yoast 7.8 is now here and ready to plug into your website.
Dealing With Negative Reviews
In many ways, the Internet has been an equalizer for businesses. It has allowed one person’s voice to be heard and shared around the world. If you stay at a hotel and your bed has bedbugs, you can publish a bad review on TripAdvisor in 10 minutes. On the positive side, immediate feedback helps keep companies honest, encouraging them to provide efficient and quality services.
Call Tracking Tips for SEO & SEM (Without Using Paid Tools)
There’s a saying in traditional marketing: “We know that half of my marketing works; we just don’t know which half.” Fortunately SEO and Search Engine Marketing (SEM also known as AdWords or Pay-Per-Click) offers better data. In this post I’ll share what it is as well as our best call tracking tips so you know which marketing dollars are earning their keep.
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Don’t Get Lost With Keyword Mapping
There are multiple ways to approach White Hat SEO for a website. Keyword mapping is a powerful way to identify and leverage search terms that are getting your site organically visible. In this post, I’ll explain what it is, who needs it and where to mine for this powerful SEO data.
How to Fix 404 Crawl Errors
If you have ever migrated a WordPress website from one server to another, there’s a chance that you checked your inbox a week or two later and found an email from the Search Console team warning you about an increase in 404 error pages. When you migrate a website it’s important to ensure that all of your old links still work. You don’t want a customer, or someone who has visited your site before, thinking your site has disappeared if they follow a link they used to use. The same principal can also damage your SEO, losing hard won equity for pages that are getting good organic search visibility.
Eight SEO Chrome Extensions
Boost Your Browser If you use Google Chrome like us (and almost 75% of all internet browsing public) then you’ll probably have a few extensions. For example, you might have a Chromecast plugin so you can stream YouTube from your laptop onto your TV. Or, you may have a VPN so you can watch BBC …
Who’s Calling? – Call Extensions
If you’re running an AdWords account then you need to make sure that all of your Ad Extensions are running to maximize your chances of getting clicks. From Callouts to Structured Snippets your arsenal of extensions should be fully loaded at all times. Call extensions are no different. If your business can receive phone calls, you need to be using, and tracking, call extensions.