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10 Free SEO Tools

Get Your SEO Campaign Moving Using These 10 Free SEO Tools

Is your SEO strategy not going as smoothly as you had hoped? Sometimes, all it takes is a little nudge and some useful SEO tools to get you back in the game and climbing the Google ladder. 

Today we’ll tell you about some of our favorite SEO tools to ensure your business gets noticed on Google and by your audience.

Answer the Public

We love this tool because it offers more insight than Google’s Keyword Planner (still a great tool, however). Answer the Public searches the internet to see how people ask questions on social media, blog posts, and forums. Then, they tell you the best keywords to use. 

CanIRank 

Wondering if you’ll rank for a specific keyword? Wonder no longer. This crafty tool will tell you exactly how your keywords will perform and what actions you can take to ensure they do their best. 

Exploding Topics 

This one is great for those who want to be the first to jump on what’s trending and providing content that’s unique using topics that are blowing up but in their infancy. Want to be a trailblazer when it comes to content (who doesn’t?)? This guy is for you. 

Seobility 

This free tool has tools within tools that give you fresh, reliable data on how your site is performing so you can adjust as needed. Wanna know your analytics? How your keywords are ranking? Need an audit? Grab yourself this little number, and you’ll get in the know fast and have the processes to fix the site and get your SEO running correctly. 

Ubersuggest 

If you want a top-of-the-line tool without the top-of-the-line price tag (it’s freeeee!), then Ubersuggest has what you’re looking for. This is a user-friendly keyword tool that provides you with the keyword data you want, keyword suggestions, and comparison keywords. You can’t beat it. 

Detailed.com 

Into spying on your competition? This tool will fulfill your voyeuristic side by giving you the best-of-the-best in your industry and allowing you to review their sites so you can do a bit of mimicking and bettering. They’ll also let you know who’s interacting with these sites through links or tweets. 

Screaming Frog 

Raise your hand if you hate the technical side of SEO? *Hand is up. Don’t let it get you down. Screaming Frog is here to help, and they do an excellent job at it. Your audit will be detailed and specific, advising on how to fix it, where to fix it, and the importance of fixing it. 

Reddit Keyword Research Tool 

You’ll get some stellar keyword ideas with this tool because it searches Reddit for intel on where and how keywords are being used, giving you more, better, and different keywords than you can find elsewhere. If you’re hoping to find new content ideas, you’ll find them here. 

Penguin Tool 

Okay, this one is super-duper because it tells you where to and how to fix the issues that will undoubtedly arise on your website after Google does one of its many, many, many, many, many algorithm updates. It’s not glamorous, but it’s necessary, so get it and use it. 

Siteliner 

Siteliner will give you all the details on your SEO problems for free. From broken links to bad redirects, you’ll get a breakdown of where and what to improve upon. You’ll also get to compare your site to others within the Siteliner database, which is great for learning where you stand. 

Use Free Tools, Improve Your SEO

It’s not that we don’t think you can do it on your own; maybe you can. But you don’t have to, and with free SEO tools, you really have no excuse not to push your SEO into high gear. Don’t let your competition get the best of you; grab your business some tried and true SEO support, and you won’t be disappointed.

Optimizing Your YouTube Channel

Optimizing Your YouTube Channel

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YouTube is taking the world by storm with over 5 billion (with a ‘b’) video views per day. So, how do you get your videos viewed? By optimizing. Today we’ll tell you what it takes to get to your YouTube audience through successful channel optimization tactics. 

Design a Creative Homepage 

While we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, many of us often do. Your channel’s homepage is the first thing your viewers see; make it count. You want to give them a reason to watch your videos, and the homepage is where you can capture their attention with creative design and appealing content. 

Your YouTube channel’s homepage should consist of five important elements:

  • Profile picture. This is the icon that shows up when you leave a comment anywhere or wherever you are when you’re within the YouTube universe. It should be easy to see and understand; it’s a small space to make a big impact. A nice image of your face is always a crowd-pleaser.
  • About page. Here you can tell potential viewers about who you are and why you’ve created this channel. Be creative and convincing. 
  • Channel trailer. Like with the movies, your trailer needs to be interesting and compelling so your viewers stay, watch, and subscribe. Tell them what they’ll be getting when they watch your channel. Make it short and sweet, relevant, and honest; if it serves your image, have fun with it. People like fun.
  • Create great playlists. On your homepage, you can show off your finest work, so take full advantage of that. You have 10 sections to work with. 
  • Add featured channels. These channels appear on the right side of your homepage, and they align you with other members of the YouTube community. Add your friends’ videos or videos of those you have a relationship with or just videos you enjoy. 

Do your keyword research 

Just like with Google, keywords will really pay off when it comes to optimizing your YouTube channel. Keywords will help bring in new viewers, so do some research so you can implement them in your tags, titles, descriptions, and on the channel itself.

The right keywords will help improve your videos, playlists, and channel rankings, which will lead to subscribers. 

If you haven’t started using keyword tools, now is a great time to start. Check out Google AdWords Keyword Planner and Google Trends for some great insight. And don’t forget the tried and true, easy way of merely starting a search in the Google and YouTube search bars to see what automatically populates. 

YouTube algorithms are a big fan of long-tail keywords. So, when you create your tags, titles, and descriptions, think about how users are searching and use the long-tail keywords throughout the channel. 

Let your playlists do the work

Your playlists tell viewers who you are, use them to organize and categorize on your homepage, and this explains to viewers what your channel is about. However, you can also use them to keep your audience viewing for longer periods. Something YouTube will reward you for. 

Set up your playlists so they go from one video to the next automatically and use keywords that support your users finding you easily. Offering the right playlists for your audience will make your channel more desirable, benefiting you, your viewers, and the search engines. 

Update your playlists so your viewers find new, valuable information regularly and keep returning to your channel. Add new playlists consisting of three to 10 videos at least twice a week for maximum results. 

The takeaway

YouTube is the second biggest search engine behind Google, and optimizing for views and subscribers is going to help get you the audience you want. Think big-picture here. Yes, you may create great videos, but if your channel isn’t optimized well, your audience may never make it to your homepage. The channel is what gets the subscribers, so make sure it generates the buzz it needs to secure the conversion.

If you have any questions about your YouTube page or your SEO campaign, we’d love the chance to talk with you. Our digital marketing team can get you more subscribers through quality YouTube channel optimization. Contact us today to learn more. 

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What is Anchor Text? How Does It Affect My SEO?

SEO is full of moving parts with a bunch of useful strategies that can pull in big wins for your search engine rankings. One of these moving parts is writing effective, optimized anchor text. But what is anchor text and how will it affect your SEO campaign? Today we’ll tell you. 

The Anchor Text Basics

Anchor text is the clickable copy that takes you from your current webpage to another webpage (usually within the same website, but not always), a PDF, or a file. Your anchor text should tell the user where they’re going when they click it, so it’s important to write an accurate, honest description. 

However, your anchor text is also read by Google, allowing it to understand where you’re sending your users. And, as we all know, Google likes to understand what you’re doing, if it’s relative, and if it’s high-quality. 

Kinds of Anchor Text

There are six kinds of anchor text we’re going to discuss and all will support your SEO efforts, some more than others. 

Branded Anchor Text

Everyone loves using branded anchor text because it displays your business’s name and that furthers your brand awareness goals. 

For example: If you’re looking for more insight on The Great Online’s digital marketing services, we’d be happy to help.

Exact-Match Anchor Text 

These links exactly match the keyword target of the page you’re linking to. 

For example: Is your engagement strategy paying off? 

Which would link to a page about engagement strategy.

Partial-Match Anchor Text 

These links use part of the keyword phrase, along with other relevant words to your content. 

For example: Find out more about the rules of link building. 

Which would then link to a page about link building. 

Generic Anchor Text

This is commonly used when a preceding statement discusses a topic, followed by something like, “click here” or “find out more”, etc.

For example: You hear a lot about how H1 tags can affect your SEO. 

As I’m sure you’ve noticed, using generic anchor text provides no details to Google about where the page is going to land, but it may be a more active way to get your reader to participate.

Related Anchor Text

This is done when you use keyword variations in your link and it will help Google better understand what your linked-to page(s) are about. It also creates a more natural, conversational, less-spammy tone. 

If used the keywords “website traffic” several times within your content, you may want to change it up some.

For example: Getting people to visit your website has never been easier. 

Naked Link Anchor Text

When a plain URL is used as the link text, it’s a naked link. 

For example: Check out www.thegreatonline.com to find out more. 

How Anchor Text Will Affect Your SEO

Google likes anchor text because when done correctly it provides information about where you’re sending your readers. But it also provides Google with some details on what kind of content you provide. 

Google likes authoritative, knowledgeable content, and offering relevant links to your audience is a great way to show your page’s value to both users and Google. When your users find your pages to be truthful and engaging, they generally come back for more, and the better your odds of getting new, loyal users. 

All of these things are great (and necessary) for your successful SEO strategy.

The Takeaway 

Your anchor text matters to your audience and your search engines, so make them count, without being spammy. Check out how trusted industry leaders use anchor text throughout their content for some ideas. 

Creating smart anchor text may take a bit of practice, but once you’re utilizing them correctly, it’ll come second nature. 

If you have any questions or comments about your digital marketing needs, contact The Great Online, we’d love to talk with you. 

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6 Free Digital Tools You’ll Want to Use

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Building and managing your SEO campaign can take a lot of work and even more time. And while there’s no way to add more hours to your week, we can offer you some pretty great SEO tools to help alleviate some of that time crunch as it helps support your SEO goals. 

Today we’re going to tell you about 6 SEO and digital marketing tools that you’ll want to use.

Google Analytics 

This free tool will tell you all about your audience and that’s some pretty valuable insight. 

Google Analytics will track your website data and give you a slew of intel: conversion rate, user behavior, target audience, website traffic, and it will even work in real-time. 

Arming yourself with the data this tool provides will allow you to make smart decisions regarding the direction of your digital marketing strategy.

Google PageSpeed Insights

If you didn’t know that site speed mattered to your SEO campaign, now you do. Research has proven that users will leave a webpage if it doesn’t fully populate within three seconds. This is bad for your brand, for your SEO, and for your user. Google PageSpeed Insights will help you determine if slow site speed is wreaking havoc on your ranking and your conversions. 

Also, it’s free. 

Google Search Console

A great free tool for understanding how your website is performing overall. The dashboard is super easy to read and comprehend detailing the stability and health of your site. Find out important data such as links to your site, targeting, mobile-friendliness, internal links, and so much more. 

Searching for the data you want is easily controlled and Googe Search Console is as reliable as it gets. Be prepared to get addicted to checking this data daily or more!

SpyFu

This free tool brings out the inner voyeur in all of us. It allows you to spy on your competitors and gain some insight into how they’re running their digital marketing strategies and how those strategies are paying off. 

You will have access to things like:

  • Ranking history
  • Inbound links
  • Keywords (shared and top)

With SpyFu, feel free to compare whose keywords and links are performing better and then feel free to snag any up that could benefit you, too.

Social Mention

Wondering what’s trending on social media? Want to know if any of your users are reposting your stuff or mentioning your brand? Well, now you can. Social Mention is another free tool that gives you an edge when it comes to your social media strategy. 

You will have access to the top hashtags and keywords, as well when and where your audience is talking about you. This is a great way to engage immediately with your people. You can also use this tool to get more details on your competition and learn how you can out-perform them on these channels. 

Google Keyword Planner

Keywords. Keywords. Keywords. These are the big guns when it comes to a successful search engine optimization campaign. If you’re not using the right keywords no one will find you, Google won’t like it, and your brand and business will pay the consequences. 

Google Keyword Planner will help – for free. And since this is another Google tool, you know it’s gonna work for you. It’s super easy to use and gives great ideas. If you’re just building your website, this is the perfect place to start to ensure the right words are going into the right places.

The Takeaway 

SEO is a really powerful and necessary strategy for your online success. It can be a difficult task to wrap your head around and even more difficult to keep up the proper management. Don’t do it on your own. Use some handy tools that are designed to promote your success. 

If you don’t have the time or patience, let The Great Online help you out. We’re SEO experts and we want to see you reach your SEO goals. 

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Engagement Through Marketing: Does it Really Matter?

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You hear a lot about engaging your customer or user and the importance of this as a marketing technique. The better your engagement, the better your sales. However, the exact meaning of engagement is a bit convoluted, and measuring its success proves difficult, if not impossible. 

So does engagement really play a role in your marketing strategy? Today we’re going to try to wrap our heads around it. 

What is Engagement?

When your brand is being engaged by your many followers or readers or users, you may feel like you’re nailing your whole engagement project. But what do you consider to be engagement and is that really getting you sales?

The problem is that engaging with your customer means different things to different marketing strategists. Some believe it’s simply getting the attention of your audience and inspiring interaction. Others believe it’s getting brand awareness. And still more base it on how many likes they receive.  

The real issue is that brand engagement should be intended to drive sales, but along the way, engagement has become more about getting shares or followers, and while that undoubtedly does bring sales in, shares and followers are not the end goal, just the means to the end goal. 

How Do I Know if My Engagement Strategy is Working? 

Herein lies the problem. Sure, if we’re talking about looking at shares and likes and impressions and comments we can see data, numbers that give us reason to believe our engagement strategy is working. 

But, how often have you engaged with a brand just for information and not bought whatever they were selling? Or how many likes have you given a brand that never materialized sales? These are examples of vanity analytics and don’t have anything to do with actual sale metrics. 

The fact is, if we’re discussing engagement’s real purpose, its intent to drive sales, there are no reliable metrics to analyze its effect. 

Don’t get too disappointed though. The social media platforms recognize this problem and are going to adapt. This will come in the form of follow-up questions about ads after they’ve been seen on a feed, tracking page scrolling, and tools specific to the social media platform that will provide data to the brand.

Should I Keep My Engagement Strategy Going? 

Yes. Engagement still works. Likes, shares, comments, vanity engagement, that’s all great for your brand. Getting in front of new and more faces certainly won’t harm you. Just be sure you understand that because a user hearted your picture, doesn’t mean they’ve bought your product- or ever will. 

Understand who, when, and where your buyers are and be there too and then compel them to take the action you want them to. Interactive content is a tried and true way of getting customers, so are real-life and online events. Think about what your audience would like and go for it. 

The point is, engagement does still matter and it can still work, but for now, don’t invest so much in your engagement strategy that other marketing techniques suffer. We’ve all been blinded by the flashy likes and while that’s a great feeling, likes don’t equate to sales. 

If you have any questions about your engagement strategy or digital marketing campaign, The Great Online would love to help. Give us a call and let’s get you the likes that matter. 

The Ultimate Free Keyword Tools and Content Tools

The Ultimate Free Keyword Tools and Content Tools

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If there’s one thing keywords and content have a lot of, it’s tools. If you’re just starting to work on your SEO game, you may feel overwhelmed by the number of tools out there to help in your endeavor. 


Today, we’d like to give you the best FREE keyword tools and content tools this side of the Mississippi (in no particular order).

Google Keyword Planner

This is a great place to start your keyword strategy. Since it’s Google’s own tool, you know you’ll be getting a stellar list of keywords that Google users know and like, albeit pretty basic.

If you enter some keywords, you’ll be rewarded with a list of similar keyword suggestions, as well as their metrics. There’s a filtering option to help narrow your results down and you can exclude negative keywords, so that’s a big win. 

Don’t let the huge list of keywords fool you, they most likely won’t give you the creative edge you’re looking for, but it’s a great way to get a handful of good keywords to start you off.

Google Trends 

This guy is great for learning what keywords are the most popular over time and through differing regions. Compare a slew of keywords within one graph for easy valuation and you can quickly put together some content ideas around your chosen and proven keywords. Knowing seasonal keywords can help plan out your content calendar, too. 

Keyword Surfer

We’re loving the Keyword Surfer extension for Chrome because it just hangs out in the background and offers up keyword intel. It will tell you the keyword’s statistics right there in the search bar next to the keyword, plus you’ll get the top 10 keywords similar to the one in the search bar on the side of the SERPs. Talk about convenience. 

Answer the Public

The best free tool for long-tail keyword research, enter your keyword in the search bar and Answer the Public will give you a bunch of examples of queries from the most popular to the least, and you can have them for your very own. 

Use this knowledge to help you create ideas for relevant articles, e-guides, whitepapers, etc. for your specific audience and get some super user-friendly content out there. 

Rank Tracker

Wanna know what your competitor is doing? Now you can. Rank Tracker will tell you the highest-ranking keywords on your competition’s site and then it’ll tell you where you should be utilizing those terms on your own site. 

Not only that but if you enter a keyword, Rank Tracker will list out related searches and questions for you that you can use within your content. 

Not only THAT but it also works right alongside Google’s SEO tools so you can see all the supporting data, too.

Google Search Console

Wanting to get the most out of the keywords already in your content? This is the tool for you. It will give you a list of keywords you’re ranking for, but tell you how to optimize them and get a better CTR (click-through-rate). This may be through adjusting your snippets, title, meta description, schema markup, or content rewrites. 

The Takeaway

There are way too many awesome keyword and content tools out there to support you through content creation for you not to be utilizing them. Don’t get overwhelmed with the selection. Check out the free tools first to see if you can reap the benefits. Start with the basics and move on to the more niche tools for the best results.

If you’re looking for some quality advice on your content strategy, let the experienced team at The Great Online help. Call us today and we’ll talk about creating content that gets you business. 

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H1 Tags and Search Engine Optimization

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H1 (or header) tags are used to indicate the heading or title of an article or page online.  They should offer the reader insight into what a page is about, but they do more than that for your SEO strategy.  

When you see a page or a post, you often see several different sizes of headers, that’s because there are 4 header styles to choose from (h1, h2, h3, h4).  All of these are important to the user experience and impact your SEO.  Today we’re going to tell you why your h1 is the most important. 

What is an H1 Tag? 

The h1 tag is the first thing your reader will notice about your page in most cases.  When it’s used, it offers a different size and/or style of text to ensure it’s impactful and stands out from the rest of the tags and content on the page. 

You will often see other headers throughout the page, those generally represent the points that are made to enforce the reason behind the page and support the h1 tag.  So, if h1 is your page’s title, the h2 will be the main points, and h3 and h4 will be used as sub-points headers.

It’s important to note that there is also a title tag and that’s different from the h1.  Your title tag is what the user sees on the search engine result pages (SERPs), it’s the bolded heading in your snippet, and not seen on your actual page.  That said, your title tag and h1 tag may be the exact same in wording, but the code behind them differs.  The title tag is also important for SEO because it tells the search engines what your page is about.

Why do Search Engines Care About H1 Tags?

Because webpages use crawlers (also called spiders) and not actual humans to “read” the pages found on the internet there needs to be specific code that tells them how to understand each page.  The code is essentially a signal that provides the crawlers intel.  

The H tags are HTML code and when the spiders crawl the page they can read that data and it tells them about the content of the page, providing insight into what your page is about.  This is important because if the crawlers don’t understand your page, they won’t know when to push you on the SERPs.

Helping the crawlers helps your SEO.

User experience is also great for SEO.  When pages are easy to navigate and read, the user likes it, which means the search engines like it.    

How to Best Optimize Your H1 Tag

Now that you have an understanding of what the h1 tag is and its importance to SEO, let’s talk about how you can make it a good one:

  • As stated above, the title tag and h1 tag should be the same or close to the same, Google likes it
  • You should always use your main keywords in your h1 tag and throughout your headers (don’t stuff)
  • Make your headline descriptive, but as short as you can, under 65 characters
  • We mentioned being sure you use the h1, h2, h3, h4 throughout your page, but when doing this, be sure you do it correctly (don’t use the same style throughout the page, keep it in order of importance), your h1 tag is only used once- for the heading
  • Your h1 tag is there to provide information to the user, so be sure whatever you create matches what your users are looking for and provide what they’re expecting in the body

The Takeaway

H1 tags are an easy way to help your on-page SEO strategy.  By following a few simple steps, you have the power to further your SERPs ranking and give your audience readable content that supports your SEO efforts through a better user experience.

If you have any questions or comments about creating better webpages that will improve your position on Google, feel free to call us and let’s get you more traffic, more business, and a great SEO campaign.  

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The Rules of Link Building

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In order to have an excellent SEO campaign, you need a few things that Google loves (other than stellar copy and keywords) and one of those things is excellent link building.  However, through working with our clients, we’ve realized that a lot of businesses don’t really understand much about link building.  

To help with that lack of understanding, today we’re going to run down some of the best rules to follow for a successful link building campaign.  

Best Rules for Link Building 

  • Is the link of value?  What will it do for you?  Is it authoritative (does Google like it)?  You need to have a reason for the link (more traffic, it’s relevant and relatable, etc.) and the link needs to come from a trusted source.
  • Get your details in online local listings (inclusive of a link to your website, of course).
  • When others mention your business, your blog, your products, etc. be sure they’re linking to your website and if they aren’t, just give them the ask, they’ll do it.  
  • Be sure all of your pages are linked so no one is pushing traffic to 404s (dead pages).  It’s easy to redirect by giving the old link a 301 and giving the authority to the new page.
  • Be a stellar business and get stellar attention.  Give to charities?  Host events?  Involved in the community?  These are smart ways to get your link out there.  
  • Give the WWW some super unique, truthful, and interesting content and people will share it, comment on it, review it, and all of that generates more views and more opportunity for links to get out there. This is how to create shareable content.
  • Just ask.  Asking strangers may be hard, generally, no one responds to that, but ask influencers or others with authority that you already know.

Worst Rules for Link Building

  • Buying or selling links is bad unless you’re attaching a no-follow (which does nothing for your link building).
  • Linking wherever you want, whether it’s relative or not.  Only link where it makes sense or you’ll become spam immediately.
  • Leaving comments with your link attached.  Again, spam, unless it’s truly beneficial for the readers.
  • Using tools that create links for you.  These links end up all over the place and Google knows what you’re doing. 
  • Link schemes and link exchanges are a thing of the past.  They corrupt the authority of any website and any link involved.  

Okay, link builders, get to it.  Follow the best rules, avoid the worst rules and you’re off to a good link building start.  

Have some more questions or want some advice on creating a link building strategy? TGO is here for you.  Give us a call.

SEO Strategies to Start Working on Now

SEO Strategies to Start Working on Now

To say we’re working in confusing times would probably be an understatement, but with the right instruction and insight, we can get through it, and in some places, be better off on the other side, even if it doesn’t look like it right now.

Today we’re going to tell you some search engine optimization (SEO) strategies that you can start working on right now, so after COVID-19, your business is in a good spot.  

Watch Google Trends

Do you know what people do during a pandemic?  They search for stuff online.  Here’s your chance to watch Google Trends and figure out all the new queries and search words for your industry.  Once you know how your users are searching, you can create the content they’re looking for.  Great for your SEO and getting you visitors.

Watch Those Keyword Rankings

Use the tools in your SEO toolbox to find out how your keywords are doing and if you should be adjusting them.  Maybe your business is in high demand right now, maybe it isn’t, either way, you’ll want to know what words your users are using in their searches and take note, so you can stay on top of any shifts.

Create High-Quality, Helpful Content

You know how you always said you’d up your content game when you have time?  Wellllll, here’s your chance.  Start writing some relative, useful, smart, reliable content.  Maybe it won’t benefit you during COVID-19, but it will be there post-COVID and that’s a great way to get your business some love quickly.  

Think About the Rest of 2020

Yes, Q1 and Q2 may take a big hit for you this year, but that doesn’t mean you throw in the towel.  Think about what you can do to offset the low numbers in Q3 and Q4.  What initiatives can you put in place?  How can you get your business more business?  Think blowouts, VIP deals, holiday, Black Friday, Cyber Monday.  How are you going to turn this year into a successful one?  

Create a Video or 10

Everyone’s watching videos right now- they’re watching tutorials, cats, courses, movies.  This is a great time for you to jump on the video bandwagon and make some killer pieces of content.  You can use your very own phone, no lighting equipment needed.  Check out past content that resonated with your audience and turn those pieces into video magic, you’ve got the time.  

It’s Not All About Content

Content is the father of search engine optimization, but there’s more to it than that.  Now is a great time to check how your website is functioning.  Are your pages loading quickly enough?  Can you create a better user experience?  Maybe you can update some images or add some videos?  And don’t forget about your linking strategy.  Maybe you can reach out to some other businesses, influencers, or bloggers and get some excellent new resources to work with now and in the future.  

Stay Smart, Keep Safe

Use this downtime to your advantage.  Take some free online courses (about digital marketing or not).  Get your SEO strategy for the rest of 2020 in place, there’s literally no time like the present for this task.  Don’t let your SEO campaign fall behind because when this over, you’re gonna want her up and running.

Be safe in your homes and we’re rooting for all of us to recover from this quickly and as painlessly as possible.  

If you have any questions about SEO during or after COVID-19, TGO is here for you.  We’re able to connect via phone, email, or video calls.  Let’s keep your SEO going strong.  

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Getting Quality Website Traffic

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There’s a lot that goes into your digital marketing campaign, we know this.  Yes, it can be daunting and overwhelming.  You gotta be thinking about SEO, Ads, social media, email, offline SEO (yeah, that’s a thing), all of it.

And what exactly do all of these things have in common?  They all lead to your website traffic. So, when you do ‘em correctly, you’re targeting the people you want to be targeting.  That makes for satisfied customers and excellent ROI.  

Today we’ll tell you the best way to get quality website traffic.  

Meet your audience where they are

Being productive means being proactive.  So don’t wait for your ideal prospects to find you, go find them.  With so many ways to optimize for your target audience on every digital marketing channel out there, you gotta be taking advantage of this.

Determine your audience, first and foremost.  There’s a handful of tools that can help you do this, a go-to is Google Analytics.  It works and it’s free.  

Ask yourself:

  • How old is my target?
  • Where does my target live?
  • What does my target do?
  • How much does my target make?
  • What gender is my target?
  • Is my target married, single, with a family?

All of these questions are great for finding out who exactly you want to be selling to, which will help you find out where exactly they are online.

Are they on Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, LinkedIn, YouTube?  Where are they getting their news?  Their music? Their games? What would you do in order to find your service or product?

The reason you want to know this is because of time, energy, and money.  Not every person out there is going to be a smart lead. If you’re a business that caters to working moms, you don’t want frat boys bouncing off your website and diminishing your SEO efforts.  So, don’t put yourself in front of them.  

Find out where your true prospects are and meet them there with the goal of getting the quality leads to your website.  Everyone benefits from this strategy.  

Offer your prospects what they want 

This sounds easy, but sometimes we get so caught up with giving, we give the wrong stuff to the wrong people.  Don’t fall into this trap.

If your audience loves mobster history, give them unique and informative mobster history details.  Maybe through a podcast or a blog or mobster events in the area. But don’t give them generic history details that will have war history buffs headed to your website and leaving immediately because it’s not what they’re looking for.  

Be specific with your offers, your content, your keywords, so you get those prospects that are really going to contribute to your SEO campaign through purchasing, liking, following, sharing, etc.  Create a brand that garners the loyalty you want from the users you want.  

The takeaway 

In order to get the business, you first have to know the audience. The goal is to get that audience to your website. It’s here where they learn about you, your brand, your voice, your offers, all the things that will make them your loyal customer.  

Not sure you have the time to put into finding and relating to your best prospects. That’s okay- we do. Let us get you in front of the faces that matter and the hands that click.  Give us a call for some serious SEO talks.  

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