8 Ways To Drive Local Business In Competitive Markets With Search
Local search marketing is key for any location but when faced with a competitive market, it’s essential that you have strategies to help you stand out. The closer the user…
Google Search Analytics API Can Finally Pull Discover Data
Google’s Search Analytics API is getting updated with the ability to pull data from Google News & Discover, one of the most highly requested new features. Search Console already reports…
Search Analytics API now supports Discover, Google News, and Regex
Monday, October 25, 2021 The Google Search Console Performance reports already show data about Search, Discover, and Google News to site owners that have this type of traffic. Since we…
Daily SEO Fix: SEO Reporting Basics
A crucial aspect of improving your SEO performance is reporting. By reporting on what you’ve done, you can analyze the data you’ve collected, and learn from it. In this…
What to Do When Competitors Buy Your Brand Keyword
So you’re using paid search to promote your brand online? I’m sure you have spent a fair amount of money trying to generate more quality leads. The use of your…
Is It A Google Ranking Factor?
Building a diverse portfolio of links, including deep links, is part of a successful link building strategy. But can your deep link ratio affect your organic search rankings? Read on…
Is Co-Citation A Google Ranking Factor?
What on earth is co-citation, and is it a Google search ranking factor? You may have heard the term co-citation in your SEO wanderings, often in discussions on link building…
Why Is TikTok So Popular?
With one billion monthly active users, TikTok is in the upper echelon of social media apps. Not sure why TikTok is so popular? A Neilsen study attempts to explain why.…
300,00+ Installations of Catch Themes WordPress Plugins Vulnerable
Security researchers at WPScan and Wordfence have identified seventeen plugins published Catch Plugins (a division of Catch Themes, LLC) that have vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities are rated as high and can…
Auto Chapters Now A Source Of Metadata For Search
YouTube is now using automatically generated chapters as a source of metadata in search. Previously only manually defined chapters were used when ranking search results. This is an important update…
10 Ingredients for a Successful Content Marketing Mix
Content marketing is a lot like baking. While one ingredient – say a blog post, or chocolate chips – might be what a customer or snacker notices first, it’s hardly…
How to Use Snapchat In Your Marketing Campaigns [Podcast]
Have you ever thought of using Snapchat for marketing? Snapchat is more than a camera tool and social media network – it’s also a keyword discovery engine! Matt McGowan, Director…
Did YouTube Change Its Algorithm? No, It’s Seasonal Decline
Is your YouTube viewership down? You’re not alone. It’s normal for watch patterns to change around this time of year. The company explains why. In a new video from project…
Multi-Channel B2B Lead Generation: 8 Steps to Success
Looking for a full-funnel strategy to generate more B2B leads? You’ll need to target your ideal customer with precision, maintaining a consistent multi-channel messaging strategy from the top of the…
Conversions API Gateway & AEM for iOS14 Users
Facebook announced a series of improvements this week that are designed to help advertisers with performance and measurement. “In advance of the busy holiday shopping season and amidst all of…
Find Which Product Categories Rank Best
We know that in search, not all things are created equal. Not every tactic will yield the same results. Not every link has the same value. Not every keyword you…
Free AI Content Optimization Tool by MarketMuse
MarketMuse recently released a free version of their sophisticated AI powered content writing tool. This tool automates the content creation process so that the team can focus on the content…
Shopify & Microsoft Team Up To Help Merchants Reach More Shoppers
Microsoft announced a new Shopify partnership today that gives merchants access to more customers via the updated Microsoft Channel app in Shopify. Currently available to merchants in the U.S. and…
Facebook Launches Audio & Video Calls For Businesses
Facebook is rolling out a series of updates targeted at small businesses, including audio & video calls in Messenger, live audio rooms, and more. These updates are coming just in…
Top 5 Reasons Why You Need a Social Media Manager
There are currently over 3 million businesses actively advertising just on Facebook alone. These numbers are pretty daunting if you’re trying to compete for visibility in social. But it clearly…
Busting 10 of the Biggest Misconceptions
E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness) is a concept Google first published in its 2014 edition of the Search Quality Guidelines. These guidelines are used during Google’s search quality evaluations, in…
15 SMS Marketing Trends Every Local Business Marketer Needs to Know
Is driving local traffic your number one goal? How about getting a 97% open rate and transforming your relationship with customers for the better? On October 13, I moderated a…
Google’s Quality Raters Guidelines Demystified for SEOs
Every SEO guide ventures to solve the mystery of Google’s algorithm. But what if Google had a document telling you how it wants its algorithm to behave? Google’s Quality Rater…
5 Essential Content Considerations For Holiday Shopping SEO Success
Analysts predict a strong holiday shopping season for retailers, with anticipated revenue increases of 7% to 9% over last year. According to Deloitte, holiday sales could top $1.3 trillion between…
5 Reasons Why SEO Matters for Your Startup Online Business
SEO is extremely crucial for any business, regardless of its size, sector or objective, for so many reasons. Firstly, your reputation and the size of your audience are strongly related.…
Top 10 Business Benefits Of Content Marketing
There is no disputing the popularity of content marketing among B2C and B2B marketers alike. Every day, consumers are inundated with text, image, audio, and video content via email, social…
WordPress Cache Plugin Exploit Affects +1 Million Websites
Popular WordPress plugin WP Fastest Cache plugin was discovered by Jetpack security researchers to have multiple vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to assume full administrator privileges. The exploits affect…
How Google Analyzes Web Page Content and Weights It
Martin Splitt in a Duda webinar explained a concept called Centerpiece Annotation that discusses how Google analyzes content on a web page. I won’t reproduce the question because it’s somewhat…
Why Search Agencies Should Embrace the Adjacency of Email Marketing [Updated 2021]
The author’s views are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz. I originally made this case back…
What Google’s Indexing Looks like From Discovery to Ranking
How a website renders is a part of the indexing queue and like the other parts has an impact on SEO and ranking. Google’s Martin Splitt explained in a webinar…