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Every business needs a marketing plan. It helps guide your marketing efforts and keeps you on track to hit your marketing objectives. The problem is that creating one can get…

SEO is one of the most multidisciplinary marketing fields. It’s intertwined with many other aspects: marketing channels, product, and development. SEO managers are here to make it all work like…

A penalty from Google is every webmaster’s worst nightmare. But even if you get one, all is not lost. In this post, you will learn the following: Thankfully, we have…

Every customer is different. They are at different stages of the buying journey and, therefore, respond to different messages. Having only one message—and shouting that at all of them—will not…

Google alternatives are everywhere, but are they any good? To answer this question, I poked around a few popular alternative search engines for a day or two and used them…

What makes one marketing podcast better than the next? Its ability to get me thinking—and when its hosts are equal parts entertaining and knowledgeable. To choose my favorites, I unearthed…

Pogo-sticking is an SEO term used to describe a situation where a searcher quickly navigates back and forth between pages in search results. It’s a situation dreaded by some SEOs.…

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People rarely just search for whatever you sell, click on your website, and buy right away. In fact, 71% of them start their research with a generic search. They’re reading…

You can’t control it, and its results depend on your overall marketing strategy and execution. If done right, it could become one of your most powerful marketing channels. Let me…

Core Web Vitals (CWV) are the speed metrics part of Google’s Page Experience signals used to measure user experience. The metrics measure visual load with Largest Contentful Paint (LCP), visual…

I have serious commitment issues when it comes to podcasts (and books and TV series, for that matter). That’s because I’m a firm believer in being fussy about what I…

What makes a good Facebook marketing group? To find out, I vetted over 35 of them based on the volume of activity in the group, the quality and relevance of…

Looking for some simple yet effective digital marketing tips? You’re in the right place. Get ready to implement the tips below, which will improve your business: Set SMART marketing objectives…

In Google Analytics, when you see “(not provided)” instead of the queries that led searchers to your website, this means Google is covering organic keywords data in the interest of…

At Ahrefs, we sell SEO tools. These tools are mostly used by other businesses. So, in order to reach them, we engage in B2B marketing. In this guide, you’ll learn…

Long-form content isn’t necessarily better for SEO than short-form content. As with many things in SEO, it depends. Sometimes, long-form content is overkill and a waste of resources. Other times,…

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HTTP status codes are server responses to client (typically browser) requests. The status codes are found in the server response. They include a three-digit number and usually have a description…

It probably feels as if you need tens of marketing tools to get a complete picture of the competitor landscape. I’ve certainly tried too many of them throughout my career.…

Googlebot is the web crawler used by Google to gather the information needed and build a searchable index of the web. Googlebot has mobile and desktop crawlers, as well as…

Want to give your small business a marketing boost? Try one of the ideas below. They’re inexpensive, and they work. Here’s the list: Set up your Google Business Profile Get…

A well-crafted press release can help relationship-building, manage a brand’s image, and improve SEO. Here’s everything you need to know about press releases, including a step-by-step guide to writing a…

A marketing campaign is a series of organized, strategized efforts used to achieve a marketing goal. Planning a campaign instead of firing ad hoc messages at your audience helps you…

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Marketing goals can be defined as broad, long-term outcomes that a company wants to achieve via marketing efforts. Setting clear marketing goals is important, as this can effectively focus your…

According to a recent study, only 10% of marketers don’t use content marketing (spoiler alert). So for the remaining majority of marketers, and perhaps the unconvinced minority, we’ve curated, vetted,…

Startups experience a never-ending stream of problems and challenges. Survival in such a scenario is an art of choosing between what to focus on, put on hold, or simply ignore.…