Google My Business: How to Rock Your Listing

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Recently, we published a blog post on how to claim your Google My Business listing to ensure it displayed accurate information to share with potential customers. In this post, we’re going to dive into a few advanced options to help your listing work harder for you and deliver the information users want, faster.

How to Use HARO for a Backlink Development Boost

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We know that backlinks are one of the most important indicators to Google that your site is the best for users queries. Gaining these links is a slow and tedious problem that is complicated by the time and money it can involve. You need backlinks to boost your SEO, but if you aren’t sure how to reach out and ask for them? It’s easier than you think, especially when you let the links come to you with HARO.

How to Start SEO on a Time and Money Budget

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SEO is one of the most important strategies for boosting your brand, no matter how large or small your company is. If you don’t have a dedicated SEO specialist on your team, however, you may not be able to allocate enough time to outdo your competition in search results. But don’t worry. We’re going to walk you through some of the most important strategies for beginning SEO. These are things you can do in just a few hours per month to give your pages a fighting chance.

Where and How to Get Ideas for Blog Content

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Feeling drained of ideas? Writer’s block can hit even the most experienced writers, but don’t let it get you down. Your blog readers crave new content, and so do your SEO rankings. So instead of letting a lack of inspiration interrupt your posting schedule, check out these potential sources of great blog topics. They’re sure to light a fire inside your mind, even if you feel like you’ve already written about everything.

Analytics: The Hero of Finding Growth Opportunity

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By 2020, trillions of gigabytes of data will have been created at nearly two megabytes per second, per human on Earth. You probably already know you can harness that data for tasks like targeting the right audience in Facebook ads or to improve your customer satisfaction ratings. But with more and more technologies coming out to both capture and aggregate all that data, you can do more than improve your current business strategies. You could use it to steer the ship and grow your business. Let’s take a look at how one department store did exactly that earlier this year.

How to Create Great PPC Content in a Small Space

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A headline, description, and a few ad extensions. That’s all you get to turn searches into clicks with PPC ads. While writing less than 100 words of copy might sound easy, many entrepreneurs have trouble getting the most out of their ads. Here’s how to create great PPC content in that tiny bit of ad space.

How to Meet Your Neighbors Without Baking a Casserole

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As a small, local business, you may often feel like the little guy trying to compete with national giant companies in your industry. Without an enterprise level budget or workforce, it might seem like an unwinnable battle, especially when it comes to getting found on the web. But guess what? It’s not. Your business is local, and that means you’re already a step ahead of the big guys when it comes to bringing in local customers. You just have to know how to get found on Google and the other search engines.

In Praise of the Quarterly Marketing Plan Evaluation

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When was the last time you updated your marketing plan? For small and medium size businesses, it can be hard to find the time to take a pause and reevaluate our progress toward any goal. Unfortunately, marketing isn’t one of those documents you can write once and forget for a few years. Business in the digital age moves at the speed of social – that is to say, really fast. Changing technologies, social trends, and markets can turn a well-thought-out plan obsolete in a matter of weeks. If you’re not updating your strategy at least quarterly, you could be wasting you efforts and budget on marketing that won’t work.