Digital Marketing Ideas & SEO Trends

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 …

Digital Marketing SEO

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 …

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

Digital Marketing SEO

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

The Best Keyword Research Tools You May Not Know

Note: This post reviews web-based keyword tools. It doesn’t cover desktop tools or plugins. Keyword research is extremely important when conceiving new content ideas or optimizing existing content for search engines. You likely have a favorite keyword research tool –…
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Digital Marketing SEO

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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Case Studies

PPC Account Restructure Increased Search Leads by 80%, Lowered CPL by 18% in Less Than 4 Months

A Google Ads account restructure led to improved relevancy and engagement for this Online University, allowing lead submissions to soar!

Case Studies

PPC Restructure Yields 55%+ YoY traffic and 45%+ YoY Conversion

How our Paid Search expertise and account clean-up process brought our client immediate results.

Case Studies

SEO & Content Strategy efforts lead to 77% MoM Pageview Increase

Dog Health Guide boosted incremental session, pageview, and ranking growth for leader in online pet health information.

Digital Marketing PPC

Why You Should Stop Using Broad Match

For The Sake Of Your Account…Stop Using Broad Match! If you are still using Broad Match keywords in your PPC account, STOP! Have you compared the performance of Broad Match keywords to the other match types in your account lately?…
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Digital Marketing SEO

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.