As Facebook’s algorithm changes SEO becomes crucial
If you promote your website on Facebook, perhaps you’ve noticed some changes in the last few weeks. Or maybe you read about it online. Facebook changed its algorithm; messages of businesses and news outlets will become less important. In this post, I want to explain the consequences of the changes in Facebook’s algorithm. On top […]
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Creating an effective influencer marketing strategy
Influencer marketing is a topic we all love to discuss, both in the press and on social media and especially if you’re working in digital PR and SEO. In my experience, many of these conversations are referring to the relatively recent boom in YouTubers, Instagrammers and Bloggers who seem to be taking over our social […]
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Ask Yoast case study: Appealing content for a real estate site
In our Ask Yoast case studies, we generally give SEO advise to clients who sign up for this series. This time, however, we’ve had a look at the website of Ryan Hoffman: leverageny.com. He didn’t sign up for the case study, but commented on our Ultimate guide to Content SEO. He told us nobody in his […]
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The Real Story in the Decline of Organic Facebook Reach
Recent Facebook announcements about upcoming News Feed changes have been underscored by widespread sharing of the story that publishers are seeing declines of 20-something% in organic Facebook reach already over the last year.
Types of LinkedIn Ads & How to Use Them
LinkedIn… home to a social network of over 500 million active professionals. That’s a LOT of users, and more importantly, a lot of potential professionals that you can directly target! But which of the various types of LinkedIn ads offered are best for your business?…
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How to perform an SEO audit. Part 3: Site speed & Engagement
This week, we’ve been showing you how to perform an SEO audit on your website. By regularly auditing your – or your client’s – sites, you can get a good feel for what you still need to do to improve SEO. In part 1, I talked about user experience and content SEO and in part […]
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What are the SEO benefits of social media?
Social media has a host of benefits in a marketing context, including brand recognition and presence, advertising, customer service, content marketing and more. But does it have any benefits for SEO? We delve into the relationship between social and SEO and whether social media has any direct benefits for SEO. In short: “It’s complicated”.
Facebook News Feed Experiments: Threat or Opportunity?
As Adam Mosseri, Head of News Feed at Facebook noted in a post on Monday “There have been a number of reports about a test we’re running in Sri Lanka, Bolivia, Slovakia, Serbia, Guatemala, and Cambodia.” The test he is referring to is that of moving all content posted by brand pages (not content shared by friends) from the main user News Feed into a separate tab named “Explore”.
Ranking your local business part 7: Social Signals
This is the seventh post in an 8-part series on how to rank your business for local searches at Google. Previously, I’ve listed the most important aspects that influence your local ranking, discussed how to get the most out of Google My Business, covered best practices for on-site optimization. I’ve also given you some ideas […]
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4 Steps to Performing a Social Media Content Audit
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Conducting a social media content audit is an important part of a social media marketing plan, as it reveals strengths and weaknesses of the activity you are carrying out across your marketing channels.
How to escape Google’s filter bubble
Over the years, Google has greatly increased the extent to which it tailors results to the user, with the aim of improving accuracy and relevance. While this can be helpful and convenient, many users find it disturbing – or unhelpful to their efforts in getting their site found by a wider audience. Here, we look at how, as a user, you can escape Google’s filter bubble – and as an SEO, how you can penetrate it.
Social media for small business owners
You are a small business owner with a local target audience. Of course, your local audience needs to find your shop or office, and you want to use social media for that. But, in the plethora of platforms, you just have no clue where to start. So you post something on Facebook, try a tweet now […]
Ultimate guide to small business SEO
SEO isn’t just for large companies. As a small business or local business, there is actually a lot you can do to achieve local goals yourself. Many of these things relate to focus. In this ultimate guide for local and small business SEO, we’ll tell you about finding your niche, optimizing pages and social media efforts. Way back in […]
How to achieve off the charts off-page SEO that will boost traffic
If you want to rank better and get more traffic, you need to think about more than just optimizing your site. There is a whole range of opportunities out there for “off-page SEO” – SEO elsewhere around the web, and even offline. Here’s how to get started.
How to use Twitter Cards
Back in 2012, Twitter introduced a system called Twitter Cards which allows site owners to display enhanced tweets on their websites using a syntax very similar to that of OpenGraph. Thanks to this new system, Twitter can show nicer looking tweets, including ones containing media such as images, audio and video. How does it work? […]
Stop All Social Media Activity (Organic) | Solve For A Profitable Reality
Life is short. It is time to point out an ugly truth, and to be the brave person that you are, the intelligent rational assessor of reality that you are, and kill all the organic social media activity by your company. All of it. Seems radical, but let’s take it one step at a time. […]
Stop All Social Media Activity (Organic) | Solve For A Profitable Reality is a post from: Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik
Getting Started with Visual Search
What is Visual Search and how can it help your business? Pete Campbell runs you through who’s already using Visual Search and how you can get started to bolster your brand’s conversion rate.
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Video Content: The Future of Social Media Marketing
In the digital marketing world, trends are constantly emerging. To stay competitive, brands need to stand out and adapt to evolving trends or else they risk falling behind and loosing the interest of their target audiences.
My recommendation? Expand yo…
Interview: Why marketers shouldn’t waste their time with Google Posts
Michael Bertini, Online Marketing Consultant and Search Strategist at iQuanti, told Search Engine Watch why he thinks that Google has gone off half-cocked with Posts, and why marketers would be better off expending their energies elsewhere.
Ask Yoast: Video on YouTube or on my own site?
Adding videos to your pages or posts can enrich the experience a user has on your site. In our case, for instance, when we want to explain how a certain feature of Yoast SEO works, adding a video or screencast showing you how to use it, will most likely contribute to the understanding of the use […]