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Content
Debunking SEO Myths
Search Engine Optimization and Digital Marketing are industries that have spawned their fair share of misinterpretations and myths. Years of interacting with esoteric rules, invisible algorithms, and surface explanations for website ranking phenomena… it has led to various beliefs and answers for.
September 28, 2023 · 9 min read · Staff Writer
Social Media
5 Tips for Advertising on LinkedIn
LinkedIn, known for its professional and business-oriented users, provides a unique opportunity for businesses and brands to target a niche audience. As with any platform, however, success on LinkedIn requires a hyper-focused strategy tailored to a specific audience. Here are five key tips for.
August 24, 2023 · 3 min read · Staff Writer
Branding
Design Tips for PPC Ads and Landing Pages in 2023
Designing PPC ads and landing pages can significantly impact your business, influencing the quantity and quality of leads. Your landing pages and PPC ads form the first impression potential clients have of your company. Creating designs that inspire confidence and comfort is essential, encouraging.
August 10, 2023 · 2 min read · Staff Writer
SEO
Google Changes E.A.T. to E.E.A.T.
In SEO, E.A.T. isn’t about food. It’s Google’s guidelines for quality content and website ranking factors. However, Google recently updated its guidelines and the name so now its “E.E.A.T.”. Besides making the term more distinctive, it’s also adding additional considerations and nuance to how.
May 25, 2023 · 4 min read · Staff Writer
SEO
Guaranteed Rankings: Why It Is a Red Flag and What to Ask Instead
Nobody controls Google, so nobody can guarantee a position in it. The useful question is not whether a guarantee is real. It is what a company promises when it cannot promise rankings.
May 11, 2023 · 2 min read · Staff Writer
Social Media
Top 5 Social Media Platforms for Businesses
Having a presence on the most popular and effective social media platforms has become crucial for companies to promote their products and services and connect with their customers. With an overwhelming number of choices available today, you may be asking yourself, “which social media platforms do I.
March 30, 2023 · 5 min read · Staff Writer
SEO
Duplicate Content on a Service Area Website
The duplicate content problem that actually costs local service businesses money is not plagiarism. It is fifteen town pages that differ by one word, and it is self-inflicted.
March 16, 2023 · 3 min read · Staff Writer
Paid Media
Why Do You Need Google Ads?
You want to promote your business… but with ads everywhere, it’s hard to decide what to use. Not only are there Google Ads, Facebook ads, and conventional print and TV ads – but you can also find ads inside apps of all kinds and even at the pump while getting gas. With all of these
February 23, 2023 · 3 min read · Staff Writer
SEO
Navigating the Google Business Profile Dashboard
One of Google’s best-known tools for businesses across the world and local marketing efforts is Google Business Profiles. But you might better remember this as “Google My Business.” Though, in actuality, this tool has changed its name numerous times… starting out as Google Local Business Center.
December 1, 2022 · 4 min read · Staff Writer
Social Media
How to Use Dynamic Creative in Your Facebook Ads
As many social media advertisers know, finding the most successful combinations of creative and messaging is essential to running an optimal Facebook campaign. Questions you might ask yourself include: which ad creative size will bring in the most video views? What headline will help increase.
November 24, 2022 · 3 min read · Staff Writer
Paid Media
Google Loosens Restrictions for Some Medical Ads
In recent months, Google Ads has implemented substantial changes to its platform and policies. The advertising juggernaut eliminated Expanded Text Ads, updated Smart Shopping campaigns to Performance Max, updated ad accounts to data-driven attribution, and announced that the much-feared, often.
October 13, 2022 · 4 min read · Staff Writer
SEO
Dental Practice Marketing: What Actually Fills the Schedule
Most dental marketing advice optimizes for new patient volume. The practices that grow optimize for chair time, case acceptance and the patients who come back. Here is the difference, and what to change first.
August 11, 2022 · 3 min read · Staff Writer
Marketing
HIPAA and Before & After Photos
If you have a hair restoration, dermatology, medispa, dental, or weight loss medical practice; before-and-after photos are crucial to your marketing plans. However, you are also legally required to follow HIPAA regulations… which affects your marketing. HIPAA is the acronym for Health Insurance.
June 16, 2022 · 4 min read · Staff Writer
Websites
The Pros and Cons of Plugins
Over the years, WordPress has evolved from a structure for blogging websites to a full-blown content management system (CMS) that can be used for virtually any type of website – including ecommerce websites. Plugins are a key component that improve the functionality of WordPress websites and.
May 26, 2022 · 3 min read · Staff Writer
SEO
Featured Snippets: 3 Things that Digital Marketers Need to Know
Featured snippets have become an essential SEO factor in increasing traffic to your website without having to pay for ads. This helps businesses stand out as an authority and leader in their industry. If you’ve never heard of a featured snippet, don’t worry. We’ll dive into this more for you below.
March 10, 2022 · 3 min read · Staff Writer

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