How A Strong Website Helps Your Business

The web is a company’s first presence to a lot of people. And, as the old marketing adage goes, it’s all in the presentation. Think about it. How would Apple look if it handed you their iPhone in a ziplock bag? What if the storefronts were all ramshackle and daub? Yes, image matters – it’s …

Six Reasons Your Website Needs Video

Micheal shooting Brooks & Dunn video Sorry about that, my Luddite friend. I too, am a reader, not a watcher, but times have changed. Today’s websites need video and here are the top six reasons why: #1. Search engines love video. For the last few years, Google has rewarded sites that include video, presumably because …

How To Write Killer Copy (For Reals)

Copywriting has long been the black sheep of the marketing world. It’s a crucial part of the marketing process, but it’s tricky, and therefore many overlook copywriting as something that will take care of itself. Big mistake. Numerous studies have shown that small tweaks to your copy result in huge returns. Still, most don’t want to pay …

How Socrates and Science Can Make You a Better Marketer

Here’s how you can take the teachings of a guy who’s been dead for centuries, combine that with some modern-day science, and walk away with a foundation for marketing mastery. Check it out: As a marketer and blogger, your visuals and your text are going to matter a lot. You have, on average, 8 seconds to persuade your audience …

What should you pay for SEO services?

For most businesses today, SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the marketing investment that yields the highest return on investment (ROI). The benefits SEO provides far exceed the value of other marketing approaches – print or broadcast advertising, online ads, direct mailing, etc. Businesses no longer decide whether they need SEO services; rather, it’s how much they’re going …

How To Add Geo-Location To Your Photos For SEO

Geo-location tagging is one of the best ways to help your site be found locally. Local search is a nuanced subset of SEO, but it’s becoming increasingly important for businesses that want to rank well at the local level. Why Geo-tag? Geo-tagging may seem like one more hiccup on the road to search engine optimization, but in reality, it …

How To Find Your Ideal Client And Rock Them

Let me present a situation to you: You’re blogging away, creating all this great content, and you’ve been at it for months yet nobody has seemed to turn into a regular follower. Your email #’s remain low, as does your traffic. What gives? If your content is good and your capture forms are in place, chances …

How to A/B Test for SEO

A/B testing (or multivariate testing) is good practice to determine which aspects of your site need tweaking. But running multiple versions of a website can get you out of Google’s good graces (mainly because serving up different versions of the same page to different users has, in years past, been used for nefarious SEO purposes). …

The Better Way To Blog

Blogging is tough! The hours are long, the information is difficult to come by, and your work isn’t panning out like you’ve hoped. Still, blogging is important. You probably already know that Google and other search engines rank longer, in-depth content higher than others. This study done by Neil Patel shows that the content length for a web …

How to Write a Block-Rocking SEO Press Release

You know what a press release is: A press release is the #1 tool in the publicist’s bag of tricks. A press release is what publicists send to media to let the public know what their clients are up to. But what you may not know is that business owners (a.k.a. Those do-it-yourself publicists) rely …