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Reviewing Website Redesign Notes
SEO

10 Common SEO Mistakes in a Website Redesign

Updated: Aug 29, 2017 A rebranding strategy often involves radical changes to a brand’s logo, name, image, and advertising themes with the intention of developing a new identity in the minds of consumers. Rebranding is common when a company wants to differentiate from competitors, eliminate negative image, or enter into

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Mockup of star ratings in a Google search result
Popular

How to Get Star Ratings in Google Search Results

In this post, you will learn: Benefits of Google Star ratings How to install star ratings schema code How to collect reviews Troubleshooting How to improve star ratings Note: Originally published in 2017, this post has been updated regularly with additional information, most recently in June 2022. Adding star ratings

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Better Classification of Paid Search Queries
PPC

How to Distinguish Branded and Generic Paid Search Queries in Google Analytics

This post features information for the current Google Analytics platform configuration, Universal Analytics. Check out our recently-published Google Analytics 4 Guide to learn more about the latest version of Google Analytics. Measuring how effective your Branded and Non-Branded keywords are performing is important in optimizing any paid search campaign. Many

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Setting up Site Tracking
SEO

How to Set Up Site Search Tracking and Gain Actionable insights

Updated: Aug 14, 2017 Back in the heyday of SEO, Google gave us bountiful keyword data, rich with information and insights into users search patterns both on and off websites. But in 2013, Google changed to secure search, meaning keyword data is no longer passed along to site owners or

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Google and Bing Logomarks
SEO

Bing vs Google: SEO Strategy Across Search Engines

Updated: Apr 26, 2019 When designing an SEO strategy, it is common to either consider all search engines the same or only focus on one. It is easy to disregard Bing and other Google competitors since Google is the most-used search engine in the US with 64.0% market share, but

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A look at HTML Source Code
SEO

A Brief Guide to Heading Tags

Updated: Jun 26, 2017 If you asked a room full of SEO professionals what their advice would be to improve the quality of their site, you would probably hear some of the following: “…high-quality backlinks…” “…well-written content…” “…meta-data, alt tags, consistent file naming structure…” One of the fundamentals of SEO

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On Page SEO Mistakes
SEO

10 On-Page SEO Mistakes to Avoid When Crafting New Content

Updated: Apr 26, 2019 Content marketing professionals routinely miss important website search optimization steps. These on-page SEO mistakes can make a big difference in a site’s search rankings. As new to SEO as I am, I’ve quickly learned that optimizing web content is a bit of a paradox. Writing content

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Near Me Search Illustration
SEO

‘Near Me’ Searches: Best Ways to Optimize for Local SEO

Updated: Apr 26, 2019 We live in a time when people need answers, NOW. With a rise in people needing information on the fly, local SEO becomes even more important. Websites need to be optimized to answer questions quickly and efficiently. Consumers are starting to search in different ways in

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Concatenation with SEO
SEO

Using Concatenation to Excel at Technical SEO

Updated: Jun 05, 2019 One of the arguably most exciting aspects of technical SEO is researching URLs that return 404 errors and writing 301 redirects for as many of these rogue broken links as possible. Some 404s cannot and shouldn’t be redirected. These are items in your store that have

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