Local search is all around us.
There are seven billion people on this planet, and one in every five own a smartphone.
It’s safe to say the world is now connected by our collective fingertips, but as a local business, how can you cut through the clutter and reach people? I previously posted a case study in how to boost website traffic organically, with no advertising whatsoever. But how …
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In the digital marketing world there’s an annoyingly persistent myth which undermines the work of marketers all across the world.
That myth is that great content is enough.
This all stems from that often repeated marketing mantra that content is king. The idea that if you write good content, readers will flock to your website, consume all your blogs and shower you with comments, shares and backlinks.
Sadly, it’s …
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Editor’s Note: Matt and I had great success with our last Marvel team-up over on MOZ, so we decided to do it again. Thanks again Mr. Gratt for lending your superb process skills to this post. Cheers!
We often think of search as a direct marketing channel (and it’s a great one) but it’s so much more than that.
A Search Engine is a database of intentions – and …
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Since mobile search surpassed desktop earlier this year, digital marketing experts have been putting a LOT of effort into mobile optimization.
In fact, a single search for ‘mobile-friendliness’ or ‘responsive web design’ will generate thousands of results. Although more and more businesses are switching to Responsive Web Design (RWD), it has now created a new problem: focusing too much on mobile.
Although responsive web design can be an effective …
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Forrester Research projects U.S. consumers will spend $327 Billion online in 2016. With Google seeing approximately 7.1 Billion searches per day globally* (between mobile, desktop, and tablets) we can approximate that every single query in the U.S. is worth $1.26 (based on U.S. representing 10% of world’s internet users).
*Update: thank you Rand Fishkin for pointing out the original stat was outdated.
In a recent study by …
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This is a case study on how I doubled organic traffic to an existing website from 100,000 visits per month to over 200,000 visitors per month, overnight, using technical SEO and the osmosis technique.
This was done using a strategy that involves absorbing another operating website’s content, rankings, and ultimately traffic.
Here’s the website’s traffic the week before, from July 25, 2014 to July 31, 2014:
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Colloquial keywords… Purchase Journey… seriously?
If you’re rolling your eyes, just chill for a second. I promise I’m not here to promote annoying new marketing terms. So before we proceed let’s align on my intent for sharing this strategy and process, which is:
To inspire you to take a transformative action that will give you an advantage over your competitors by enhancing your desire to understand, on a deeper …
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