How to use purchase intent for more effective keyword search
If you think the lowly keyword is dead, think again. Good research can help a business position itself with the the right content to engage the audience at different points of the consumer purchase journey.
How to find copyright free images with Google Image Search and other resources
Whether maintaining a blog or a beloved long-running website, you will have likely run into problems with accidentally using copyrighted images.
Will Pokémon GO become a marketing platform for local businesses?
Nintendo’s Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality (AR) mobile game, is on fire.
Five reasons why you should invest in social customer service
If you’re a business in 2016, chances are that you’ve invested time and resources into maintaining a social media presence, to promote your brand and engage with consumers.
14 influencer marketing essentials for SEO success
The following 14 points should hopefully help you to capitalise more on the valuable SEO that is so often left behind when working with an influencer.
Seven ways to make your boring product page sizzle
I have some bad news: you are probably missing out on a lot of sales. Why? Because your product page is not effective enough.
Six ways Pinterest is becoming serious about visual search
Pinterest is slowly transforming into a powerful visual search engine and its latest features hint of a promising future.
Is an internal linking strategy paying off for Mail Online?
Combining hub pages for key topics with well-planned internal linking can be a very effective strategy to secure consistent search rankings for target keywords.
Five most interesting search marketing news stories of the week
Welcome to our weekly round-up of all the latest news and research from around the world of search marketing and beyond.
Eight key improvements from an ecommerce site relaunch
Ecommerce site Simply Hammocks relaunched a few months ago, and has so far achieved some impressive results.
Imitating search algorithms for a successful link building strategy
When doing a link building strategy – or any other type of SEO-related strategy, for that matter – you might find the sheer amount of data that we have available to us, at a relatively low cost, quite staggering.
HTTPS websites account for 30% of all Google search results
As of late June, 32.5% of page one Google results now use the https: protocol, according to a new study from Moz.
How the future of advertising is in servicing the ‘moment’
Great advertising starts when a brand delivers a service to the consumer – rather than an ad, says Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur, Brian Wong.
Nine considerations for movie-based SEO outreach campaigns
Movie based outreach ideas, designed to boost SEO with some earned links, seem like a good idea but there are plenty issues to get your head around.
What do content marketers need to know about SEO?
Content creation and SEO used to be very separate disciplines in the past, but now it’s hard to see how either can be practiced effectively without at least some knowledge of the other.
Is Google AMP a ranking signal?
So I’ve been working my butt off trying to implement Google’s Accelerated Pages, with limited amounts of success and bucket-loads of frustration and I’ve come to the point now where I have to ask… is it really worth it?
How to increase your content’s viral potential
Viral content is sort of the holy grail of internet marketing; everyone wants it, but almost no-one knows how to get it.
How paid and organic SEO results overlap in 2016
For the first time ever, mobile searches on Google exceeded desktop. To account for this massive shift, Google has made some of the most drastic changes to search results in years.
The ABC of Google Quick Answers
The number of results that had an answer box went from just over 20% in December 2014 to more than 30% in May 2016Google is increasing the number of queries that receive a Google Quick Answer box. The number of results that had an answer box went from just over 20% in December 2014 to more than 30% in May 2016.
What can Medium’s Creative Exchange bring to native advertising?
Last week, social publishing company Medium announced the launch of a programme that will allow its writers to partner with brands to create dedicated sponsored content: the Creative Exchange.