7 Local Business Incentives to Offer Instead of Amazon Gift Cards

If you sell software, marketing services, or other goods to local business owners, it’s time to reconsider offering Amazon gift cards as incentives. According to ILSR’s 2022 survey of independent business owners: 65% of your customer base views Amazon’s market dominance as a challenge to the existence of their business 70% want the government to …

Title Rewrites: 3 Patterns to Avoid

Whiteboard Friday is back for another season of SEO tips, tricks, and insights!  First up, Dr. Pete takes you through some of the new data we’ve collected on the ways in which Google rewrites title tags. In addition, he shares three titling patterns to avoid if you don’t want them rewritten. Enjoy!  Click on the whiteboard …

How to Identify Whether Your Increased Traffic Is Spam

Traffic has spiked — hallelujah! This is what you’ve been working towards! Pause: before you start celebrating, it’s good to do your due diligence and make sure that glorious, spiked blue line under “All Users” is in fact genuine users visiting the site, and not spam. The checklist to determine whether or not increased traffic …

You Can Go Your Own Way: How to Get Things Done When You’re the Only SEO

If you’re an SEO like me, you probably spent at least a year or two at an agency where you worked with other experienced SEOs. On large teams, there’s always someone to learn from, bounce ideas off of, or to help finish projects on time. But what happens when the SEO team is just you? …

Core Web Vitals: Finding Common Ground Between SEOs and Developers

Working with developers to align on technical and SEO priorities is a challenge faced by many in-house SEOs, and by SEO agencies offering recommendations. How do we start conversations and support initiatives that get developers and SEOs all working towards the same goal? Is Core Web Vitals the common ground we need? In this conversation …

8 Q1 Local Search Developments You Need to Know About

A constant stream of developments and issues are the simple building blocks that shape our dynamic local search environment but the task of keeping up with the ongoing news can be complex when you’ve already got plenty to do. The first quarter of 2022 brought us some new opportunities (and a few problems) which you …

Announcing Our MozCon 2022 Community Speakers!

High fives and fist bumps for each and every person who took the time to submit pitches for this years’ community speaker spots! Our selection committee read, watched, and researched, whittling things down to a shortlist of top contenders and then read, watched, and researched some more to determine if a potential speaker and their …

Navigating through Departments: The Key to Making Impactful Changes in SEO

SEO is unlike any other digital channel. It does not and cannot live in a silo, while something like a paid search program can be run by a single person with minimal help. From our experience, the biggest deficiency in SEO campaigns is not a lack of understanding of the craft, rather, it’s the roadblocks …

Title Tag Rewrites: 7 Months Later

Back in August, we analyzed 10,000 SERPs and found that Google was rewriting 58% of the title tags we were able to track. In September, after some serious objections from the SEO community, Google released the following statement: Based on your feedback, we made changes to our system which means that title elements are now …

How Social Media Trends Can Influence Your SEO

Whether it’s participating in the latest challenge, using a trending TikTok sound, or putting your own spin on a viral recipe, we all know social media trends provide a great opportunity to spread brand awareness and grow your brand’s social media following. But they can also be utilized to boost search engine results, driving traffic …

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