Tag Archives: search engine optimization

Amazon Alexa Updates: Third-Party Apps are Added to Alexa Routines

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Remember the days when we had to walk outside to know what the weather was like, walk into a restaurant to order coffee, and turn on the radio to hear some music? Well, most of these things can now be done by touching a few buttons on your smartphone or by speaking to your voice […]

SEMrush Study Delivers SEO Community Valuable Insights on Voice Search

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Voice search continues to rise and is something that cannot be overlooked. According to Search Engine Land, 50 percent of all searches will be voice searches by 2020. With half of searches accounted for being voice, it is important for businesses to begin optimizing their websites for voice search, or else they will be left […]

10 Reasons SEO Is Harder for Small Businesses

“Why is SEO harder for small businesses?” This question has popped up a couple of times in our organic keyword referrers. We’ve been saying for months that SEO is getting harder, and that it’s especially difficult for SMBs to excel at. But why? Why is SEO easier for the big dogs? Make no mistake, it is – even if it’s getting harder for them too.

5 Ways to Beat Your Competitors at SEO

As anyone who’s ever struggled to achieve and maintain high search results rankings can attest to, search engine optimization (SEO) is a constant race to stay one move ahead of your competitors. To win that race, you need to continually improve your own website and monitor your competitors’ SEO activity. If you’ve watched rivals usurp […]

5 Basic SEO Tips For Beginners

Most people tend to start their own blog or website for different reasons. Some of them might want to sell stuff, earn some money blogging, build their online portfolio and others just want to share their personal thoughts. In order for their sites to be successful they need to have visitors or readers. These readers […]

Common SEO Mistakes

SEO Mistakes You Should Avoid SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. This is an online marketing strategy that aims at ensuring websites rank high in search results of search engines. Internet users tend to trust the information they find on the first pages of search engines. Unless they are specifically looking for a particular business, […]

Leveraging The Brand-Building Powers Of SEO

When marketers consider branding, search engine optimization typically doesn’t come to mind. SEO has long been used as a vehicle for driving highly qualified visitors to brands’ Web sites. But SEO is no longer just about driving traffic; it’s about building brand value and customer affinity. There is often a power struggle within organizations as […]

Shift in SEO Knowledge & Experience: Priorities in a Post-Penguin and Post …

The SEO False Mentality Probably most of us are aware that Google is the predominant search engine in the industry based on market share and year after year, month after month, when Comscore announces their market share statistics, Google has consistently maintained about 60 to 70 percent of the total market share for many years. […]

How the New Google+ Local Tab Could Influence Local SEO

For local-business owners, the results of Google’s new Google+ Local tab will go well beyond the social network‘s increased social features. All the data compiled under the new tab — which is dedicated to providing information and ratings on local businesses — will be indexed by Google. The new Google+ Local pages will give businesses […]

Link-Building and SEO are NOT Dead: Interview with Arnie Kuenn

With so many people proclaiming the death of search engine optimization, I can almost hear that collective sigh of relief from you, dear SEJ readers, after reading the title of this post. Yes, link-building and SEO are NOT dead (or, your days as a search engine optimizer are far from over). Take it from Vertical […]

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