30-second summary: 2020 set the stage for one of the most disruptive and fluid years search has ever seen. Local search and Google My Business (GMB) set to be key focal areas for search advertisers and marketers amid shifts in COVID era …
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30-second summary: Google plans to roll out the new Core Web Vitals update in early 2021. The overall size, dimensions, load order, and format of your images will drastically affect your PageSpeed score. Loading critical CSS and JS inline can improve the perceived load …
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30-second summary: If you’re focusing solely on growth, you may not be seeing the huge impact that customer churn has on your agency. Acquiring a new client costs 5X more than retaining an existing one. Service Provider Pro uses their expertise of …
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30-second summary: The debate still continues in the SEO community on the variation of value from backlinks. Google has shifted their position on these links. What do we get for our efforts? Are nofollow links worth the pain? Are nofollow links a …
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30-second summary: As Google increasingly favors sites with content that exudes expertise, authority, and trustworthiness (E-A-T), it is imperative that SEOs and marketers produce content that is not just well written, but that also demonstrates expertise. How do you understand what topics …
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30-second summary: Virtual experiences like test drives, makeup tutorials, and open houses have become essential as shoppers move their business online. The same digital assets for virtual test-runs and try-ons, once built, can be repurposed in marketing ads, social media, personalized sales …
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30-second summary: Google launched over 4,000 search improvements and new features throughout 2020. Baidu continued to crack down on poor quality sites with its 2020 updates its StrongWind algorithm was introduced to control aggregator content from malicious sites. Bing attempted to build …
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30-second summary: Content quality is key to high rankings in Google organic but it is not easy to tell what a search crawler may deem high quality. High-quality content is most surely one that is semantically relevant to a target query and …
30-second summary: A recent survey by UNCTAD shows customer behavior will not change after the pandemic. COVID-19 pandemic has sped up the digitalization of businesses by several years. AI writers can allow companies to curate quality content within a short time. Innovative …
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30-second summary: In early November, Google made a UI update to its Disavow Links tool. The core functionality hasn’t changed, meaning that some SEO practitioners will continue to use it incorrectly. Disavow continues to have no impact on fixing negative SEO and …
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30-second summary: In 2020, we saw a vast increase in the usage of email marketing as the volume of senders skyrocketed. Will this trend continue into 2021? Or should we expect a different kind of disruption in the coming year? Based on …
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