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02/04/2019

Great checklist for the do-it-yourselfers!

In this expert checklist, Britney Muller shares her best tips for doing effective on-page SEO in 2019.

02/01/2019

Facebook's head of News Feed Adam Mosseri gave a new presentation on the platform's infamous algorithm at this week's F8 conference.

01/28/2019

Yikes, that's a lotta screen time!

Once you do some simple math, you learn that it's completely doable to read 200 books in a year.

01/25/2019

We did the sentiment analysis of 750,000+ Facebook ads to find out what kind of words are used most in the headline, ad text and link description. Alternative hacks to improve Facebook Ad copy have also been discussed.

01/21/2019

An interesting take on the future of search involving "smart audio" predictions.

Find out what Seth Godin, Mitch Joel, Mari Smith, Michael Stelzner, and other marketers think about the future of our industry.

01/18/2019

It's 2019 and your followers are not in the dark ages anymore. These old tricks not only don't work anymore, they downright annoy your followers.

Clickbait, engagement bait, non-apologies, boring content...the list of things you might be doing to annoy your followers is long.

01/14/2019

In a world where everyone just thinks "Google" when thinking about marketing, it's important to get back to basics sometimes. Many companies have an active email list of all past and current clients/customers but do not take advantage of perhaps the single most cost-effective marketing method available to them - email newsletters.

You might be thinking that 2019 is a few months away, why we supposed to know about the next year’s trends now? However, if you ask that I can assume that you are one of that person who prepares the Christmas decorations in early September but I can tell you that I am not that person... So, let me...

01/11/2019

If your company is not making a concerted effort to obtain online reviews from customers, you should be. Why? Because your competitors are.

Check out this new study on Google local reviews from the BrightLocal team.

01/07/2019

Yelp is a double edged sword in our opinion. We've seen companies try to get positive reviews there the "right" way and Yelp filters the vast majority of them. Have one unhappy customer? Yelp gladly showcases 1-star reviews from pretty much anyone.

I recently heard a story of a business that got caught with fake reviews on Yelp. They were also an advertiser spending thousands of dollars a month on ads. When they got caught, Yelp canceled their ad account and told them they would be demoting the listing’s ranking for 6 months. After that time...

01/04/2019

If your website was not designed with mobile in mind, it may be time to consider an upgrade!

Google issued an update on the status of its mobile-first indexing initiative.

01/03/2019

Every brand has a story (or at least, it SHOULD). What's yours?

Logos, colors, graphics, and taglines are vestiges of your brand, but finding the right brand story is so much bigger than that. Just ask Charlie Jones.