If you still think Facebook and Twitter are the be-all and end-all of social media marketing tools, think again. Say “Hi” to your business’s new best friend: business Pinterest accounts. Eighty percent of Pinterest pins are repins, which means this is a platform that values sharable content. The average lifespan […]
Social Media
Social media is a collection of online platforms and tools that people use to share content, profiles, opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives. Moreover, the media itself, facilitating conversations and interactions online between groups of people.
First, let me pull up the best seat in the house for you: the local business owner or marketer who has weathered so much in the past two years. For your work of serving the public, you deserve the comfy chair by the fire, the celebratory cup of hot chocolate, […]
In the first post in this series, I talked about how relatively few URLs on the web are currently clearing the double-hurdle required for a maximum CWV (Core Web Vitals) ranking boost: Passing the threshold for all three CWV metrics Actually having CrUX data available so Google knows you’ve passed […]
It’s common to hear SEOs discuss the “increasing dominance” of big brands in SEO, and how smaller companies just can’t break into the rankings like they used to. Google even put out a “domain diversity” algorithm update a couple of years ago to address the issue, and people like me […]
Note: This article was written with the help of Tina Irizarry & RJ Wilson. A fundamental truth of working in SEO is that link building has become more difficult. As more and more people have devised questionable methods of link building, Google has become much more strict about what constitutes a […]
Competitive research is a common and necessary task in any marketing landscape. This practice is particularly crucial in digital marketing because the ecosystem rapidly changes and brands constantly battle against each other for users across multiple platforms. In the ideal scenario, performing competitive content research illuminates where your brand’s online […]
Did you ever turn in a school paper full of vague ramblings, hoping your teacher wouldn’t notice that you’d failed to read the assigned book? I admit, I once helped my little sister fulfill a required word count with analogies about “waves crashing against the rocks of adversity” when she, […]
If you know me, you know I love Instagram. Why? Because it is one of the only social networks left that is truly “personable” and the engagement is still decent because of it. But just like any social network, it requires a lot of time and work. Here’s the thing […]
The number of worldwide social media users will surpass 3 billion by 2021. That’s more than a third of the Earth’s population! That creates an incredible opportunity to reach online users, and you shouldn’t pass it up. However, not every platform works the same for every business. That’s why it’s […]
Having a website that doesn’t convert is a little like having a bucket with a hole in it. Do you keep filling it up while the water’s pouring out — or do you fix the hole then add water? In other words, do you channel your budget into attracting people […]