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10 Best Marketing Trends Tools to Use for Keyword Research

Josh Robert Nay

Let’s face it, SEO Keyword Research takes a lot of time. It can be a daunting task to know keywords and more importantly keyword intent, especially if you are new to SEO and you are unfamiliar with some of the tools at your disposal. Now we can discuss all of the best tools to use for keyword research itself (and this will likely be a future entry in this blog), but for today, I’m going to stick to a simple list of tools you can use to discover marketing trends — beyond the standard SEO keyword research tools that you

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What Are External Website Links and Why Are They Important to an SEO Strategy?

Josh Robert Nay

When it comes to SEO and search engine marketing in general, there are a number of metrics website administrators and owners need to be aware of. We’ve covered a few SEO topics before, but questions always seem to arise when it comes to external links. What are External Links To put it in as simple a definition as possible, external links are a hyperlinks that point to any domain outside of the current domain on which the content exists. The link itself is known as the target and the site being linked to is called the source. Major search engines

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Getting Your Personal Website Designed With You in Mind

Josh Robert Nay

Starting a personal blog or website can be tasking, particularly during the early design phase. This is a time when you’re just getting started, trying to find your niche, and just starting to place the building blocks that will hopefully turn into a successful website someday soon. Relying on do it yourself (DIY) website builder that sometimes fall short can add to some of the stress. After all, you just want to sit down and start typing that blog entry or sharing your site with others. Good websites take time, but great websites take a lot of time and effort.

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Getting Started in SEO: Building a Brand Worth Searching For

Josh Robert Nay

Even in today’s digital age, many companies and executives don’t know about that three-letter acronymn that makes all websites discoverable in search engines. Yes, SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. If you’re not familiar with SEO, then it’s recommended that you read some SEO frequently asked questions to help shed some light on the subject. Now, it’s true that SEO can and does increase sales overall. But that’s not — and shouldn’t be — its primary purpose. Instead, there are some important attributes of SEO that help businesses large or small become successful. Brand Identity Brand Identity has become a vastly

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Getting Your Small Business Website Professionally Designed

Josh Robert Nay

Small business website design is important but difficult, and let’s face it, starting your own small business can be stressful enough (though, of course, but it can also be rewarding). One of the biggest stresses that seem to pop up, particularly in E-Commerce websites during the early design phase, is actually how to go about getting a website built in the first place, since most successful businesses today have their own websites. It’s true, there are various do it yourself (DIY) website builders that you can utilize yourself, but many fall short of providing the intuitive services that your small

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Frequently Asked Questions

Josh Robert Nay

People who are just getting started online tend to have more questions, but even those of us who are experienced might find ourselves pondering about why things are done the way they are, and how we might do things differently with each individual website. Listed below are some of the most common questions asked regarding SEO and marketing via search engines. We try to keep these answers short and simple. If you have a question, please send it here and it’ll be added below. What is SEO? SEO is an acronym for Search Engine Optimization. In a nutshell, it’s a

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Making the Web Faster: Upcoming Google Search Update Will Target Slow Mobile Sites

Josh Robert Nay

If you’re hoping to get your mobile website in front of more eyeballs in Google Search, you’d better start with increasing your website’s speed, and you should do it before July 2018. A recent announcement by the search giant revealed the lengths it’s going to integrate site speed into its latest search algorithm change coming this summer. According to Google: The “Speed Update,” as we’re calling it, will only affect pages that deliver the slowest experience to users and will only affect a small percentage of queries. It applies the same standard to all pages, regardless of the technology used

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Does Google Search PageRank Still Matter?

Josh Robert Nay

PageRank, that is, Google’s first — but not only — algorithm for ranking content in search results, is well-known throughout the ranks of web designers and SEO experts everywhere. It was established during the early days of the Google search engine and continues to play a part to this day. However, the part it plays has steadily become less important over the last few years. Since at least 2009, PageRank has steadily been deprecated from public view as the end-all, be-all important way to rank websites. In that year, Google decided to remove the metric from its Google Webmaster Tools

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SEO is NOT Dead… Far, Far From It

Josh Robert Nay

I recently read a post on social media from a person who (while remaining nameless) was supposed to be an expert in his field. This post, however, got under my skin because he essentially called SEO (Search Engine Optimization) a fruitless endeavor, saying it was “dead” and calling on companies to make their investments elsewhere. I truly hope this person is not an advisor for companies in his spare time. Here’s the truth. SEO is not dead. Backlinks? Yes, it’s true that backlinks are now one of the least important parts of SEO nowadays. While still somewhat relevant, they’ve taken a

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The New iPad … I Hate the Name

Josh Robert Nay

There is no doubt, Apple’s New iPad is an SEO, originality, good-name nightmare. Sure, the device itself is great, especially if you’re the strange type of person who wants to carry their HDTV x 2 at 1/7 the size with them everywhere they go. That 1/7 is generous for probably 90% of people. If you’re one of those who have a 70+ inch TV screen, well, you do the math. I don’t want to. I don’t even care if the 1/7 is accurate. Lawsuit-happy Apple never ceases to amaze with some of the crazy things they do. The New iPad?

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