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Turning Links Into Lemonade: Your Guide to Juicy Internal Linking
You’ve likely heard of internal links. In terms of SEO jargon (which there’s a lot to sift through), they’re pretty straightforward. Internal links are just the hyperlinks on your site that point to other pages within the same domain. For example, your homepage content probably has internal links pointing readers …
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The Small(er) Screen: How Smart Businesses Attract Customers on YouTube
Remember those cheesy local ads that used to be on TV all the time? Here’s a New Orleans classic. It’s memorable and fun to watch, but TV ads have their shortcomings, specifically cost and targeting. TV is also starting to lose its biggest advantage: the ability to reach a wide …
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How to Spiel Like Spielberg: Using Videos to Showcase Your Business
YouTube changed history when it was created in 2005, allowing businesses and individuals to upload personal videos that had the potential to impact the world. Today, video dominates with four times as many customers preferring to watch a video about a business than reading content about it. If video has …
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Rookie Website Mistakes, Part 4: You Have a Single Page Website
Single page websites are very popular right now with web designers. With so many new ways to develop websites, they’ve become a unique and scroll-friendly way for users to interact with a company in a way that they’re used to (cue the token image of people scrolling through phones). And, …
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Nine Brands Who Have Mastered Instagram
Each social media has its distinct character, but Instagram is a beast that many small businesses aren’t familiar with. Twitter is quick and to the point, Facebook friendly, and Linkedin professional. But what about Insta? We can look at these nine companies that are effectively using Instagram to uncover the …
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How to Write Clear CTAs That Convert
According to Small Business Trends, “70% of most B2B websites lack a call to action.” With millions of websites in existence, the odds are slim that a user will visit your site and miraculously remember your URL or bookmark it for later viewing. Without a continued, personal connection through an …
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Security! This Site Isn’t Safe! What Will Google Do About It?
Business is booming, leads are pouring in from your homepage form, and it seems that the direction of your company couldn’t be brighter. Then your leads seem to stop in the tracks and business slows down considerably. What could’ve happened? Your landing pages and main site call to action are …
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SI Is Ending Summer With a BANG — Welcome Our New Influencers!
This month, Search Influence welcomed a lot of new faces to the office! Meet the newest members of our team. Jenna Mire – Account Coordinator Jenna recently moved to New Orleans from Atlanta, GA after the horrific fall of the Falcons in the 2017 Super Bowl. Jenna graduated from Centre …
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Rookie Website Mistakes, Part 3: Your Site Isn’t Mobile-Friendly
Now that you have learned how to get your website found in Google searches, Part 3 of our Rookie Website Mistakes blog series will explore how to get mobile visitors to stay. It’s no secret that the current generation is keen on the combination of mobility and technology. We are …
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Paid Search, SEO, and the Evolution of Google
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. –Heraclitus One thing that’s certain in the world of search is that technology and user habits are always evolving. David Mihm recently wrote an excellent blog on the ever-changing …
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