Category Archives: Content Creation

Overall traffic means nothing with a low conversion rate. That's the one key number your analytics need to revolve around. It may mean slightly different things depending on your business model. Traditionally, the conversion rate refers to how many people come to your site and then make a purchase. In today's world, it starts with product purchases or service purchases, but conversions may also include completing forms, providing contact information, interacting with your website on a meaningful level, sharing information on social media or downloading content, whether that content is free or sold as a product itself.

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As the digital marketplace becomes an increasingly competitive space, it is difficult for many startups and SMBs to determine the best strategies to attract new customers and boost growth opportunities. Fortunately, the recent results from Moz’s 2018 Local Search Ranking Factors survey delivered important data revealing which online marketing elements currently impact search results most heavily. Moz’s study, based on input from experts in the SEO and marketing communities, determined that the three resources below may be the most effective ways for businesses to generate higher rankings and outperform the competition.

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Although it is hard to believe, the holidays, and the associated massive uptick in online shopping, are just around the corner. Is your startup, e-commerce site or SMB well poised to capitalize on this period of surging consumer interest and spending? If not, one of the most effective ways to posture your business to take advantage of these unique growth opportunities is through targeted enhancements to help boost your SEO. With a balanced and thorough SEO campaign incorporating some of the strategies below, your business may be able to generate additional traffic and conversions this holiday season.

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When deciding what content to put on your site, you always want to have fresh, unique content that does not appear anywhere else on the internet. Duplicate content can result in your site getting penalized by Google, which can lead to indexing and ranking issues. This can impact your SEO and the visibility of your site. On top of the direct impact to SEO, it can make users trust your site less and not think of it as a primary source, which can push traffic elsewhere and compromise your perceived authority among your audience. Users have many options. You must set yourself apart very clearly with unique content.

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Google recently announced an expansion of ongoing campaigns to craft a safer, more reliable and, ultimately, more satisfying online user experience. The latest iteration of this campaign focuses on protecting users’ abilities to interact with content without encountering misleading or malicious content.

These misleading activities, termed “abusive experiences” by Google, range from phishing campaigns to automatic site redirection and much more. Site owners only have a 30-day window, through December 2018, to take corrective action or face an automatic block of all site content from the latest Chrome update.

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