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We've seen and heard many people just throwing their business online, many times with great products, and failed at it. One of the reasons they failed was a lack of a well-structured marketing plan before they started the journey and as well as of competitive intelligence data. In today's article, we wish to address that issue by presenting the tools made available by Google and going through some concepts and ideas that can be extracted with their use. Let's talk about the fr [...]
When it comes to digital marketing, especially if you're just starting out, there's always the question about SEO vs. PPC. What are the advantages and disadvantages of both? And, more importantly, which one is better for you? The general consensus is that PPC costs money and it brings immediate results, while SEO is free, but takes time. So it's a simple trade, time for money. Well, the truth is that it's more to that than you might expect. I'll clarify everything below. &nbs [...]
In the office, in the online world, on social media, on the phone, in the chat, everywhere people talk about SEO. Everybody who has a business has heard about SEO. But also anyone who has a business probably said at least once: Do I really need SEO? What can SEO do for me? Since the moment SEO appeared in our lives, everybody in the field started talking about it. It became a never-ending discussion. We want to know all the facets of SEO. Why is SEO important? And this is what you're [...]
Content syndication can be a great way to drive traffic to your site, get exposure and maybe even improve you rankings. But, on the other side, it can also turn out to be devastating, if played wrong. The main concern when it comes to syndication is duplicate content. Will Google penalize you if you take other people's content and place it on your own website? Will it hurt your SEO? Then, there's also a concern regarding rankings. If you have a small website, will you be able to rank ab [...]
Enjoy a brand new cognitiveSEO Talks - On Search and Traffic with Dawn Anderson, an all-in-one professional that will make you take out a pen and a sheet and note everything she has to say. There’s a lot to say about Dawn. She is a skillful digital marketer and SEO consultant with over 11 years of experience, Lecturer at Manchester University. She is also a speaker and trainer, contributing in international conferences and she also founded Move It Marketing Agency back in 2012. &nbs [...]
We all keep hearing that any publicity is good publicity. But is it really so? And, more importantly, is it the same for SEO? We've all heard about the link building technique using unlinked Brand Mentions It's a good method and, as far as we know, it works very well. But what if the unlinked brand mention that you're so excited about turns out to be a RipoffReport post? What if it's a blogger complaining about your services, or a news publisher reporting on some incident regarding y [...]
Since the last Penguin 4.0 (Real-time) update, lots of things have changed in terms of quality backlinks. Bad backlinks have remained the same, though, even if they were created some time ago with no intent to harm a website, or there was an arranged negative SEO attack or maybe a spammy link building campaign, with the purpose to rank high & fast. We've tackled this matter before, yet, we felt the need of updating this topic for 2018. Toxic links have a higher effect on a [...]
One of the first things that beginner SEOs get in contact with is link building, often far before they even hear about content quality or even basic things like proper keyword research or title optimization. Link building is the most controversial topic in SEO and I believe that we should encourage people on not focusing too much on links alone . And in years of doing link building campaigns, I've learned a thing or two. So here they are: 12 lessons I've learned from dozens of lin [...]
I wish I knew earlier about this Google update! is something many site owners or marketers say on a daily basis. Moreover, it would be heaven on earth if we also knew how all those Google algorithm changes, be they official or unnamed updates, should be dealt with. Most times, we get to see how rankings fluctuate, traffic drops, and still, we don't know what to do. What's more, we always think it's us who made a mistake and, therefore, got downgraded. This blog post will both prove you [...]
Everybody is talking about high-quality content but what does it even mean these days? That’s what we are going to find out today. There’s no content marketing inception. The truth is that high-quality content is contextual and for maximum results, it requires three steps: keyword research, good content writing, and on-page search engine optimization. Let's find out how to perform top-notch keyword research, how to measure results and optimize pages up front for astonishing on-pag [...]
