A comprehensive guide on using Google Trends for keyword research
Google Trends can be a powerful tool for digital marketers. The 11 best ways you can use Google Trends to find relevant, trending, and related keywords that boost traffic.
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The future of Google and what it means for search
Croud’s Organic Strategy Director looks discusses the future of Google, right from Google’s antitrust lawsuit to Apple as a future rival, and more.
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Guide: How to effectively incorporate customer journey mapping into your marketing strategy
A comprehensive customer journey mapping guide that helps you understand the role of digital transformation and customer experience in your company’s success.
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UX matters for search: Here are two reasons why
Your search engine marketing success hinges upon your site’s UX. Two elements of UX that are particularly relevant to SEO.
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Conversation mapping: The new rules to win in search and content marketing
How do we create a content strategy that aligns with search growth, consistently? A 2000 word answer to that single, overriding question for content.
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Google Activity Cards: Inviting users to be better connected with their past search activity
Google activity cards, released Jan 9, are the next step in the company’s journey toward making the SERPs even more intuitive, tailored, and useful.
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What were Google’s biggest search algorithm updates of 2018?
A visual representation of Google’s biggest search algorithm updates 2018. This infographic highlights each major update, its date, and its implications.
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Year in Search: the top Google Search trends for 2018
A closer look at the top Google Search trends for 2018 shows that queries are more direct, specific, personal and even conversational.
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The Page Speed update: what SEOs need to know
Google now uses real user measurements to assess mobile page speed. Aleh Barysevich performed an experiment to measure what impact this change, and the Speed Update in general, has on mobile SERPs.
Search trends 2018: what can marketers learn?
Jason Tabeling has spent 9 years monitoring 50 search terms across five verticals to monitor to see how many times the same brand appears in paid and organic listings. Here’s what he found.
How to invest in your SEO for the highest ROI
Investing in SEO takes time, patience, and a healthy bit of trust in the person managing your initiatives. Tom Casano explains.
Laying the foundations of good SEO: the most important tasks (part 2)
It is imperative to lay the foundations of good SEO by accomplishing time-tested tasks that both beginner and advanced SEOs usually follow in their daily routines. Sergey Grybniak shares his SEO priorities.
Keyword stuffing is terrible for your SEO. Here’s what to do instead
Once-upon-a-time, keyword stuffing was a relatively successful SEO strategy. However, today stuffing a keyword into your content too many times can actually knock the stuffing out of your search rankings, or even cause your content to be removed from search listings entirely. Kim Kosaka explains.
How to organize your keyword lists
Keyword research is a fundamental tactic that can completely transform the overall marketing strategies of those who take it seriously. Ann Smarty explains
Video and search: YouTube, Google, the alternatives and the future
When it comes to being visible online, video content is increasingly proving its worth as a way to grab attention and – crucially – to engage meaningfully with internet users. Luke Richards takes a look at the rise of video, alternatives to YouTube, social and what it all means for search marketers.
Rise in voice search for local businesses brings new opportunities and challenges
Voice search is growing exponentially, and when something becomes this prominent it behoves the major search engines to make changes to the ways they work to make these experiences more fluid and enjoyable for the end user. Jamie Pitman reviews consumers’ current use of voice search with regard to local search and how you can optimize for future growth
Laying the foundations of good SEO: the most important tasks (part 1)
Nobody ever said SEO was easy, and with constant algorithm updates and new technologies to consider, it’s a continuous work in progress. Sergey Grybniak shares his SEO priorities to lay the foundations of success.
How to transfer insights from search to social campaigns
Sana Ansari shares some of the easiest ways to gather learnings from search engine marketing and leverage them in paid social.
Eight steps for a bulletproof local search strategy
Local search takes a lot of hard work and is competitive, but get it right and the pay-off can be huge. Manish Dudharejia shares his eight fundamental actions to get you started.
Google’s ‘More Results’ button: a search marketer’s POV
Google is continually making its SERPs richer, more feature-led, and increasingly intuitive on desktop, but how the SERPs are being displayed across mobile devices deserves special attention from marketers. It’s a space that presents its own challenges and opportunities, writes Luke Richards.