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Our top SEOs, analysts, strategists, developers, and digital marketers share advice, how-tos, industry changes, best practices and their own realizations and success stories. Check back often to stay up to date on the latest and greatest in the SEO, PPC and online marketing world.

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How Long Should It Take for SEO to Work and Show Results

Inevitably, every client wants to know how long does SEO take to work. Everyone wants instant gratification. We live in a time where nobody really wants to wait too long for anything. We’ve been conditioned to believe that faster often…
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Quality SEO Content Checklist & Best Practices

On-Page SEO Guidelines In this 1st on the List blog post, our 22-point SEO content checklist will highlight many of the SEO best practices and techniques for creating high-quality web content in a post-Google Panda world. The whole purpose…
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5 Questions You Must Ask Before You Hire a SEO Company

Reading Time: 13 minutes Do you know what questions to ask an SEO company before you hire them? First, let’s talk about what’s at stake so you know the importance of vetting your next potential SEO company. What do you stand to…
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Web Design SEO Best Practices

How To Incorporate SEO Into Your Web Design Incorporating web design SEO best practices during the build stage truly is a partnership between web design and Search Engine Optimization (SEO). More so, it is a philosophy that includes the…
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7 Secrets to Create the Best SEO Evergreen Content

Reading Time: 5 minutes At its core, SEO evergreen content is just what it implies, content which remains relevant and applicable throughout the seasons in much the same way evergreen trees do not lose their leaves in the fall. In…
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Bad Yelp Reviews and Low Star Ratings

Reading Time: 2 minutes Bad Yelp reviews is every business owner’s worst nightmare. You wake up to find that a disgruntled customer has written a terrible Google or Yelp review of their recent experience at your restaurant, salon, office…
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5 SEO Tweaks You Can Make When Updating Your Website

Reading Time: 5 minutes Every day we work with bloggers, marketing coordinators, and receptionists, providing effective SEO tweaks they can do themselves when tasked with the job of keeping their company’s website current and updated. Companies…
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23 Benefits of Using Videos on Websites

A recent study released by Animoto states that online product videos boost purchase likelihood. This had us asking the question “Does the average business and website owner know all the benefits of putting videos on their website?” In…
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