Getting Started with SEO for Small Businesses: A Beginner’s Guide

Getting Started with SEO for Small Businesses: A Beginner’s Guide

If you’re a small business owner, you know that effective marketing is crucial for attracting and retaining customers. One aspect of marketing that is often overlooked, but incredibly important, is search engine optimization (SEO). SEO is the process of optimizing your website and online presence to rank higher in search engine results, resulting in more traffic and ultimately, more sales.

Getting Started with Content Marketing – The 5-yard Out Pattern
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Getting Started with Content Marketing – The 5-yard Out Pattern

I was speaking with a customer this afternoon and the topic of getting started came up. They have a number of priorities pulling them in various directions. They know content marketing is critical to their long-term customer acquisition. But they also know the ROI won’t be obvious for months from their efforts.   It brought…

How to Verify your Domain with Google Search Console

How to Verify your Domain with Google Search Console

Getting your website verified with Google Search Console is an important first step to understanding and measuring how your SEO efforts are performing. Without proper data and tracking, you’ll often be left wondering if you’re making any progress at all with your content marketing strategy. Is it working? Are you getting visitors? Why aren’t you…

How important are meta descriptions in your Google SEO ranking factors?
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How important are meta descriptions in your Google SEO ranking factors?

Search Engine Journal posted an article about this topic recently that I believe gets it wrong. Their basic premise is that meta descriptions are not a ranking factor when it comes to Google’s search algorithm. Many of the conclusions the writer of this article comes to are to validate existing SEO theories — mainly, that…

What is a Sitemap.xml file and how does it improve my SEO rankings? (2021)

What is a Sitemap.xml file and how does it improve my SEO rankings? (2021)

If you’re embarking on a digital marketing strategy that includes content marketing and a blog to attract website visitors, you’ll need to take a few critical steps to ensure your website is crawlable by all the major search engines (Google, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo!, Bing, etc.) Sitemaps are one of the first and most important steps you…

3 Critical SEO Rules That Founders Can’t Ignore

3 Critical SEO Rules That Founders Can’t Ignore

More what you’d call guidelines than actual rules You’re a founder who wants to drive organic traffic to your website through optimization. But you need affordable SEO – you aren’t looking to spend the big money demanded by digital marketing agencies. Where do you start? How do you create quality content that Google, Bing, and…