A common challenge for most startups is finding great technical talent. Having great business ideas are a dime a dozen, but finding team members who can build the great new “unicorns” is the challenge of most entrepreneurs. Stack Overflow, a prominent...
If you haven’t already experienced the 60+ degree weather, the blue skies and the wonderful Seattle Spring weather, you need to get off your desktops or smartphones and look outside! In order to help you all out there get a little “jump” to the week...
The Explosive Growth in Digital Marketing It’s clear that Digital Marketing is growing. You can look up the sea of information in websites like Smart Insights, Digital Marketing Institute or even well established media brands like Forbes or Gartner. ...
SEO has been a part of my life for more than 10 years now. After initially getting into “how to optimize my real estate in 2004, I continued to monitor and learn from everyone from Moz to small and huge clients to my current set of clients who frankly need...
Google is constantly looking for “brand signals.” One of the biggest ones is (you guessed it!): Facebook.com and I’m going to assume you have this. If not, you better add this to your other 3 steps you’ll be needing to do RIGHT AWAY! So,...
SEO is becoming more about CRO If you haven’t caught on yet, but google wants to know how well your website converts. And when we say “convert,” we’re not talking about just turning a website visitor into a dollar figure. We are talking...
Top Professionals Searched Online Scanning through all the services and jobs throughout the United States, we’ve discovered what people are searching for in late 2017 (and most likely going into 2018) in terms of professions. Some of the jobs or professionals...
93% of online experiences begin with a search engine. Source If more than 9 out of 10 people are starting with a search engine, why are so many marketers and even businesses challenged by SEO here in the 2nd decade of true search as a marketing engine? Well, some are...
Google’s Suggested Top Medical Searches In a entertaining write up by XaquÃn G.V., in collaboration with Google News Lab, a few topics were analyzed in terms of searches. The piece titled: “How To Fix a Toilet And Other Things We Couldn’t Do...
Failing on the Internet In the golden times of the Internet, there used to be flaming wars where people would attack one another without repercussions. With the advent of Twitter, however, you had some battles get decided by the majority. For example, Cher recently...
Have you ever wondered? Can I save my searches in Google’s Keyword Planner? Answer: No While Google allows you to find: Historic Data For example: Avg. monthly search volume Monthly search volume by mobile or desktop Search volume by country, state (region),...
What is the ideal length for a title or meta description in terms of SEO? If you’re an SEO, one of your primary duties (IMHO) is to optimize the homepage of any website. It is typically the most trafficked website (organically) for any web property. As a...
SEMRush just came out today (6/14/2017) with their SEO Ranking Factors study, it was also posted at Page 1 Rankings if you want to check it out. However, despite the chatter from my friends offline, it wasn’t easy to find it online. That’s why is...
If you’ve been trying to learn or compare your websites to the top search engine friendly websites in the world, this is a great list to check out. Â SEMRush provides their top 466,008 search engine friendly websites to subscribers of their service. Â They offer...
As any good SEO knows, this is one of the most impossible questions to answer when asked this “million dollar question.” Nevertheless, the people want to know! (Check out Answer #1!!!) So, the answer is… OK, we need to keep you waiting just a...
You ever wonder who’s the most popular celebrity whenever you see the carousel at the top of searches like “most popular celebrities” ??? Back in 2015, we drew up a list of the Top 25 Celebrities searched on google. It was about high time we updated...
Taking the top 50 photography websites, we thought we would analyze how much organic traffic they generate (and reap the benefits from). Their web design was an important factor for their ranking position, you can take a closer look at it visiting...
Many of you have have probably seen the little 3 pack of listings on a search results page on Google like this: And some of you have even claimed your business by going through the process. If you’re like us, who’s done this a number of times, you’ve...
There are many paid solutions out there to keep track of your website’s rankings. There are also many free ones as well, but it always requires some catch like signing up, providing your credit card and being promised it won’t be charged (I’ve been...
Hint: it looks like this… It’s taken 2+ years, but we’ve finally finished our analysis of the MOST sought after things on the Internet. Our latest “2019’s Most Searched Keywords on Google” is out. Check it out for the latest...
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