Everyone, and every business, has a story to tell. Your personal stories help you reflect and understand your life. Furthermore, your company’s story can do the same for your business. Starting a blog that shares your company’s story means you have a willingness to overcome the hurdles in your way: time, learning curve, and fear […]
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Coming up in the search results is one thing. Getting people to click over to your website is another. Here’s where the title and meta tags come in. Search engine optimization’s (SEO) job is to get your website to show in the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) when a human searcher is looking for what
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Endeavoring to market local brick-and-mortar businesses organically (non-paid) is actually fairly simple when you take advantage of these free tools: Instagram, Google Business Profile, and Facebook. Case Study: How one local business managed to increase Facebook reach when others were losing theirs… Due to the many algorithm changes that social networks constantly make, it is
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Google’s Core Web Vitals are still vitally important to a website’s performance! Have you tested your site recently? A lot of factors could affect it. Learn what you can to improve your score and SEO. Before I started this business in 2011, I remember Google’s major “Panda” and “Penguin” updates. That changed how websites ranked
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It’s extremely frustrating when you have what you think is a great website, yet you’re not getting conversions. That is, visitors aren’t staying, they aren’t clicking on your offer, and worse yet, they aren’t buying. Whatever you’re doing to attract and drive visitors to your website is working, but they’re not doing anything once they
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When you think of an “evergreen”, you think of pine trees. They are called evergreens because they are green all year long. They don’t lose their leaves in the fall. I grew up in Upstate New York, and my mom loved them. What is Evergreen Content? Evergreen content is blog articles or videos that are
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Just when you think you’ve figured out how Google and search engine optimization (SEO) work, Google goes and makes some changes. Besides that, now, you’ve got the AI search engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity! The challenge for the small business owner is… “The future of organic search will be shaped by LLMs [Large Language
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You need to keep Google happy as well as attract new visitors to your website. Blogging regularly will do this.
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There is a new challenge in Local SEO: the AI Chatbot. For a long time, the advice for getting found online was simple: write a ton of stuff on your website. To illustrate, if you sold coffee, you’d write 50 articles about “history of coffee beans” or “best mugs.” The idea was to trick search
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No matter what you think of social media, it’s still a powerful, low- to no-cost marketing tool available to every small business owner. The challenge is knowing how to do social media marketing effectively. This video covers the basics of social media networks and how they work together with your website, content marketing, and search
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