It’s human to make mistakes, right? But does that also apply to your marketing efforts or is there a preconceived need to be perfect right from the start? While it’s natural for new businesses to test out their surroundings in every aspect, it is good to bear in mind that everything you do is public […]
Continue ReadingHow Can Good UX Design Help Your Small Business?
No matter the business you are in, if you have a company website, it’s there for the purpose of making you approachable to your customers (or at least people who could be that one day), so you should make it as easy as possible for them to use it. That is where UX, short for […]
Continue ReadingHow to Set up SEO for Your Local Business in 4 Steps
You have decided you want to open your own local business, but cannot figure out the technical side of getting it visible online? What do you do? One of the things you could do is getting your cousin do your SEO for free. But is that a good choice? If you’re tight with money, as […]
Continue ReadingThe Role of Humans in the Age of Robots
“If you’ve created a conscious machine, it’s not the history of man. That’s the history of gods.” – Domhnall Gleeson (Caleb), Ex Machina When it comes to Artificial Intelligence slowly infiltrating and eventually taking over our lives, movie buffs everywhere seem to be in the unique position of knowing what to expect in the times […]
Continue ReadingPersonalized Approach to Content Marketing
Unless you live like a hermit on a secluded island, avoiding all human contact, we will go on and assume you have friends. Be it a large group of people that you rely on always being there to crack a cold one or a tight clique you’ve known since your diaper days, there is that […]
Continue ReadingIs Search Engine Submission Necessary?
The simple answer is no – search engine submission isn’t necessary. The majority of search engines nowadays (most notably Google) crawl and index pages by following links. Using that logic, a single inbound link from any already-indexed page will identify your page to the engine. Subsequently, if that page links to other pages within your […]
Continue ReadingThe Importance of Anchor Text in Back-Links
The importance of anchor text with respect to a linking strategy cannot be overstated. Anchor text is the blue, underlined, clickable text which takes you from the search engine page to the web page you want to go to (and it points to). There have been many controversies over the importance of this little blue […]
Continue ReadingAbsolute Links vs. Relative Links – SEO Value
The debate between absolute links and relative links continues to live on in the SEO world. The individual significance of each has been contested, but it is widely regarded that absolute links provide better overall SEO value than relative links. Here is why: Much less chance of having broken links when moving documents or pages […]
Continue ReadingStrategic Use of Images in Search Engine Optimization
When assessing page structure and layout, there is a subtle, yet strategic way to use images in an SEO-friendly manner (beyond ALT tags) which improves your search rank while allowing you to integrate the necessary marketing message(s). Confused? Let’s look at an example: Suppose you operate a travel site and you want to optimize […]
Continue ReadingGoogle Now Discounts All Reciprocal Links
For a long time, reciprocal links have remained at the forefront of most inbound linking strategies. It was a regular practice to extend the offer of backing up another webmaster if they back you up. That way you both get what you want and no one is the wiser that what you actually did was a skilled […]
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