Digital Marketing Ideas & SEO Trends

Don’t Care About Zero-Click SERPs? Trade Search Volume for Click Potential when Planning SEO Projects

Monthly search volume has long been the reigning metric to determine SEO opportunities for page creation and optimization. But given that only 50% of searches result in a click, how do you determine what searches are best to target for…
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Not Ranking Organically For Your Target Queries? Google’s SERP Intent Might Be Working Against You

We all know the keywords we want to rank for, but that doesn’t mean Google actually wants to rank your content for those queries. Google’s algorithm may have already decided the intent of a query directly conflicts with the page…
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Digital Marketing SEO

SEO is an Experiment

The complexities of SEO are exacerbated by the limited visibility we have into Google’s algorithm. Google claims more than 200 signals make up the main web search algorithms. When Google told us content, links, and RankBrain are the biggest contributor, it didn’t exactly unravel any mysteries of how to improve …

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4 Tools for Getting Ahead of SEO Disasters

We recently had a client launch a new site in Wordpress. It was appropriately in a staging area before launch. Instinctively upon hearing the news of the launch, we decided to look for a robots tag. Sure enough, every page was marked as "noindex, nofollow". The client was able …

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Technical

Using Google Search Console Tools To Clean Up Your (404) Act

This article is an entire rewrite from its original 2012 version. When Google launched the new Search Console (thus killing the legacy 404 report), it rendered the old version of this post useless. The bad news – the new URL…
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Content Strategy Digital Marketing SEO

What Is The Best Google Suggest Keyword Tool

A rose by any other name may smell just as sweet, but good luck trying to find good results for “thorny red flower” on the first page of the SERPs! Until Google gets even better with their relationship-mapping (thanks Hummingbird, you're a great start!), long-tail optimization will be a huge …

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What Google’s Featured Snippet Deduplication Means for Your Site

On January 22, 2020, Google announced via Twitter that featured snippets will now be counted as one of the main organic search results, meaning that the same URL can no longer hold both the featured snippet and another organic listing…
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Digital Marketing PPC SEO

Google’s Current Desktop Design

Update as of January 24, 2020: After Google received negative feedback about favicons in organic search results, they have rolled back the favicon portion of this update. The other changes including updates to the Ad symbol and breadcrumb placement remain…
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How Google’s BERT Works In SEO

Every few years, Google announces a significant update to its organic search system. From the inclusion of semantic search in Hummingbird to the announcement of machine-learning (RankBrain). Google is trying to get better at two things: understanding the intent behind…
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Analytics Digital Marketing SEO

SEO Reporting: How to Build Meaningful Analytics Reports

The SEO report. It's a calling card for some agencies. These reports can be ornate or no-frills (everyone has their own style). Smart companies use APIs to compile reports without spending manual hours. Some rely on automatic SEO reporting tools. For other companies, it's a time-intensive and considerably low-value exercise.

Case Studies

Revenue Growth YOY Improved via Local SEO Strategy

A localized florist based in southern Australia wanted to substantially increase sales from organic traffic in order to become less reliant on pay-per-click (PPC), while building its brand and establishing itself as an authority in their local market.

Digital Marketing SEO

Improve SEO by Auditing and Fixing Canonical Tags (and How to Do It)

The reason Google doesn't accept the canonical tag as a directive is probably because they know many webmasters will screw it up. If you have a massive database-driven eCommerce site, and you've tried to get a developer team to implement, you've seen how it can ultimately launch with a ton …