Generating leads is crucial to boosting your sales – but if your landing pages aren’t effective, you’re going to struggle to turn visitors into customers. Landing pages play a key role in elevating the effectiveness of your marketing efforts and differentiating, refining, and enhancing the user experience. In this article, we’ll explore how to choose…
StatCounter Reassessing April Data We have an important update regarding the April Google search engine market share numbers previously reported and corrected. StatCounter is now reassessing and finalizing those April figures. Our latest information is that StatCounter has not yet settled on a definitive April U.S. market share number for Google. The figure that was…
Software makes the SEO world go round. From analyzing your website data to performing research, effective SEO relies on a series of tools to assist humans in decision-making. Paid subscription tools can be highly effective and usually come with support. But if you don’t have a large monthly budget, they might be out of the…
OpenAI content deal will enhance ChatGPT with the ability to show real-time content with links in response to queries. OpenAI quietly took steps to gaining more search engine type functionality as part of a content licensing deal that may have positive implications for publishers and SEO. Content Licensing Deal OpenAI agreed to content licensing with…
Appeasing the advertising algorithms on social media and Google has always been a mix of art and science – but there are plenty of rewards, not only in terms of active engagement but also in terms of lowered ad costs. So far, AI tools have proved useful as an algorithm-cracker for the biggest digital marketing…
Crawlers. In the ever-evolving landscape of SEO, they’re a necessary evil. A critical component in ensuring that your content is discovered, indexed, and ranked by search engines. However, the traditional approach to SEO often involves a passive stance – waiting for search engines like Google to crawl your site on their own schedule. This can…
Google updated their guidance with five changes on how to debug ranking drops. The new version contains over 400 more words that address small and large ranking drops. There’s room to quibble about some of the changes but overall the revised version is a step up from what it replaced. Change# 1: Downplays Fixing Traffic…
Examples Of Personal Branding That Work Now that you understand the advantages of developing a personal brand, let’s look at a couple of real-life examples of professionals who have nailed their branding and reaped the rewards from it. David Perell Known as “The Writing Guy,” David Perell has built a strong personal brand around his…
Google ads extensions, now called “assets,” are an integral part of campaign success. They’re a great way to boost performance and gain the attention of potential customers. Not only can they help produce more clicks on an ad, but they may also be considered more high-quality clicks from users who are ready to take action…
E-A-T (Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness) has been a cornerstone of Google’s Search Quality Rater Guidelines for years. Recently, Google added a new “E” to the mix – Experience. Understanding and optimizing for E-E-A-T strongly correlates with SEO success. In this article, you’ll learn what the E-E-A-T criteria mean, why Google values first-hand experience, and, most importantly,…