Author Archives: The Web Guys
Ready to Upgrade Your SEO Status? Google Has Free Stuff
While you can spend a whole lot on your SEO tools – and some of these gems are worth every penny – you don’t always have to drop a lot of cash to update your SEO toolbox. In fact, Google has five tools that are worth checking out right now. Google tools are generally powerful tools, so give them a look and make sure that you aren’t missing out.
Optimizing Your Videos for Maximum Impact
You may understand that video is important to your SEO, but gauging how yours is doing may feel out of reach for you. One of the inroads into handling your videos’ ad performance on YouTube is by setting Moments in Google Ads that capture online performance related to the specific moments you mark, which leads to an accumulation of data surrounding those Moments and to informative attendant metrics. Once you have a feel for the factors that are working for you – and those that are not – you’ll be well on your way to mastering your video offerings.
SEO Hygiene Can Keep Your Site Healthy
SEO Hygiene, you say? It’s nothing to be afraid of – just a helping hand from Google that can up your SEO game. SEO hygiene is all about taking purposeful strides to help keep your site running as smooth as silk (before problems arise). Think of SEO hygiene as a means of proactively supporting your site’s goals, including your marketing aspirations.
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.
