Google Offering Searching Tips When It Can’t Find Search Results
The folks at SEMRush spotted Google offering searches tips and tricks for searching when Google has no results to offer the searcher. We spotted Google doing something similar but not without giving that searcher any tips, instead just saying “Hmm… t…
Google November Core Algorithm Updates Probably Not Just Links
The past couple of weeks have been pretty volatile in terms of Google organic search results rankings and now we are running into Thanksgiving – where we generally see a lot of of changes – even though Google has said in the past they won’t make change…
Vlog #28: Andrea Cruz Lopez On Google Ads Match Types & Tips
Andrea Cruz Lopez (@andreacruz92) works at KoMarketing as a digital marketing manager. KoMarketing was her first job in the SEM space, which she started back in 2015. Andrea is multilingual and speaks three different languages, Spanish…
6 Characteristics of Ideas that Stick
The Curse of Knowledge 
In 1990, psychologist Elizabeth Newton played a game with students at Stanford University. Two students sat at a desk. One student tapped the rhythm to the song “Happy Birthday To You” on the desk between them. The other student was tasked with the song.…
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Attitude of Gratitude: 15 Things We’re Grateful for This Year
Here at Seer, we send Know-Your-Company emails to learn more about our team members. Some are business-oriented, where we share what we’ve accomplished, thought leadership, or a difficult situation or experience that may help another team member. Some of these emails are on the lighter side, where we ask for opinions, fun facts, or recommendations.…
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Why Are Title Tags Still Important for SEO?
A title tag is an HTML element expressing the title of a web page. Title tags appear within the search results for each result and helps users and search engines understand the content of the page.
Are Title Tags Important for SEO?…The post Wh…
An introduction to Google Ads Video Ad Sequencing (VAS)
Video Ad Sequencing helps you dodge YouTube’s “Skip Ad”. Tips to take your target audience on a video journey, drive deeper awareness, engagement, and more.
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Creating content that doesn’t compete with your eCommerce pages
For eCommerce sites, editorial content can be a fantastic way to attract new customers, build loyalty and showcase your product offerings in exciting ways. One common challenge that can quickly crop up though, is that of duplicate content where blog posts and product pages start targeting the same terms. Planning and creating well thought out, […]
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Types of LinkedIn Ads & How to Use Them
LinkedIn… home to a social network of over 500 million active professionals. That’s a LOT of users, and more importantly, a lot of potential professionals that you can directly target!
If you are a B2B company, it’s really a no brainer that you should be advertising on LinkedIn.…
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It’s not enough to ‘write content’. You have to publish resources.
Sometimes, having a great website with great content isn’t enough. Even if you’re doing everything right, you might still fall behind a stronger, faster, better-resourced competitor. In almost every niche, SEO is about more than just improving your site — it’s about beating every other site. If you want to win, you have to do […]
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How to Get a Content Idea Signed Off
High-quality content marketing will always be in demand, and good content can hit every stage of the sales funnel. Whilst many in-house teams have invested in their content marketing capabilities, most digital marketing agencies are still at the forefront of helping brands reach their audiences.
Creative marketers often learn quickly that coming up with a top idea is only half the battle. The other, and much harder battle, is gaining approval from the client, and to gain their buy-in on how great your idea is and why it will work.
Post from Alex Jones
Google cleans up [Christmas]
Some surprising ads are no longer appearing on the search result.
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Video: Andrea Cruz Lopez on Google Ads expanding match types
Learn from a PPC expert on how to control your spend with the constant Google Ads changes.
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Don’t Panic: A Traffic Decline Analysis Checklist & Toolbox
Has there been a shift in your site’s organic performance that’s got your wheels spinning? Did rankings inexplicably drop from Page 1? Are conversions slowing to a crawl? Is the three-month traffic bleed suddenly alarmingly apparent? As Google’s algorithms become less announced and more nebulous, it can be easy to allow paranoia and chaos to take hold.…
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XPath Cheat Sheet for SEO
When I’m working on an analysis I like having more data than I probably need in front of me. Like, ALL the data. That’s why I like scraping stuff.
I’ve found tons of uses for using custom extraction in Screaming Frog or scraping data with tools like Data Miner, Outwit, or Python – collecting skus or product numbers from pages while running a crawl, pulling local SEO data, scraping communities or forums for user questions, or even grabbing open graph tags or schema.…
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How To Write Impactful Alt Text For Images
There are many contributing factors that apply to ranking on search engines. Another way to signal to Google to influence ranking is through implementing alt text on the back-end of images.
At its most basic form, alt text is a grouping of descriptive …
Google Tests Arrows By Titles In Search Result Snippets
Google is testing a small search results experiment where it is showing an arrow by the title of the snippets in the search results. Sergey Alakov spotted this and shared a screen shot of it on Twitter. Here is that screen shot:
Most SEOs Say Awareness Of The Science Information Retrieval Is Important
Dawn Anderson, an SEO who likes to listen to professors and PhDs give lectures about how search works, posted a poll asking if the SEO community thinks awareness of IR (information retrieval) is important or not for SEOs. Most SEOs said it is importan…
Google: We Don’t Generally Make Up URLs On Your Web Site
Google’s John Mueller said on Twitter that generally Google will not make up URLs to index on your web site. So if you find weird parameters at the end of the URLs showing up in the Google index for your web site, Google probably found someone linking …