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The Psychology of Purchases

Our brains are constantly on the lookout for shortcuts. All that cognitive functioning is a lot, but when you break matters down into bite-size chunks, things become more manageable. When decision-making time is here, we don’t start at zero and go through the whole decision-making process every single time. Instead, we rely on past experiences and implement shortcuts to get where we need to be. It’s one of the reasons you’ve probably been buying the same toothpaste from Target for the past 20 years. In the end, there’s a psychology of purchases – with seven foolproof tactics – that you can use to your business’s advantage, and because you offer excellent products and services, these tactics are also to your customers’ advantage.

YMYL Websites: It’s Time to E-A-T

Website content is critical to search engine optimization (SEO), but according to Search Engine Journal (SEJ), when it comes to ranking content related to health, finance, and other YMYL (your money or your life) topics, John Mueller – a Search Advocate over there at Google – shares that the most important factors are expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (E-A-T). These so-called YMYL sites are held to higher standards, and if you count yourself among them, you should maintain a laser-like focus on ensuring that your content is steeped in expert authority that inspires your users’ confidence and trust.

6 Surefire Tips for Helping Your Site Bounce Back

Bounce rate is a buzzword that gets its share of attention, but you may not know what it means for your business. Your site’s bounce rate isn’t a black-and-white proposition. While it’s generally something that you want to reduce, that isn’t the end of the story. Fortunately, there are six hot-as-heck tips that can help you handle your bounce rate – rather than letting it handle you.

Gearing up for Google Ads Remarketing

It’s a new day, so Google has to have something complicated in mind for us, right? If this is how you feel, you are not alone. In fact, remarketing in Google Ads is no exception to this mantra, and it can be daunting. When you break remarketing down into bite-sized chunks, however, it becomes far more doable. Ultimately – as with all things Google – Google Ads remarketing has much to offer, which makes putting your shoulder into it worth the effort.

A Deep Dive into On-Page SEO

The best way to grow your website is with organic traffic from the big search engines out there. The only way to garner the necessary clicks, however, is to rank high enough in the first place. Unfortunately, finding a balance between the two is where too many websites spin out of control. The surest search engine optimization (SEO) strategies incorporate both on-site and off-site planning. While the building blocks of your off-site efforts are all about honing your backlink portfolio, which you likely have a fairly solid handle on, your on-site or on-page plans involve SEO elements that are more content-driven, including meta tags and keywords. This is the stuff that speaks both to your target audience and to the search engines, and it deserves closer attention.

The Best and the Brightest of SEO Weigh in on What to Expect in 2021

We made it all the way through 2020, and all the SEO bigwigs out there have had a minute to reflect and to offer their predictions for 2021. It’s true that 2020 was a doozy, but SEO experts are optimistic about trends for 2021. While spam reduction was on everyone’s wish list for 2020, the global pandemic had other ideas, and Google had bigger fish to fry.

Who Knew that 129 Million Calls Could Tell Us So Much about Inbound Marketing?

When HubSpot introduced the revolutionary concept of inbound marketing in 2005, our eyes were opened. Instead of resorting to labor-intensive and tired approaches like cold calls and to extremely costly approaches like commercials, inbound marketing comes at us from a different angle, and suddenly, we find ourselves drawing customers through online content platforms, including social media, blogs, videos, and more.

What You Need To Know About On-Page SEO

If you think SEO is complicated enough without having to break it down into both off-page and on-page SEO, take heart – a digital marketing pro can help you get to the bottom of the matter and help you master that on-page SEO. When it comes to on-page SEO (also called on-site SEO), it’s all about content, and that content must attract your target audience while ranking in the process. The fact is that improving your rank is not beyond your capabilities, and with some focused guidance, you’ll be well on your way to dominating that on-page SEO in no time.

Digital Marketing Lessons from 2020

2020 was a year for the books that none of us will forget anytime soon. There were, however, some important lessons peppered throughout that we – as an industry – are wise to heed. While 2020 was all about putting distance between ourselves, many businesses were able to chart new territory in their efforts to help keep us connected. Because real life is often the best teacher, let’s get cracking and learn a few digital marketing lessons that 2020 taught us.

Google’s December Core Update May Have Been Bigger than May’s

Google rolled out a core update on December 3 that is so broad in scope it may rival the massive core update the goliath debuted in May (a mere seven months – and many lifetimes – ago). Googles’ December offerings are sure to reverberate throughout most (if not all) vertical markets, so let’s take a closer look and make sure to contact our digital marketing experts with any questions you may have.