On Page SEO
One of the best marketing strategies to invest in when looking to connect with your target audience is search engine optimization (or SEO for short). Although it may seem insignificant to some small business owners, it’s a crucial part of any inbound marketing campaign and can set aside your brand from the competition. Below you’ll […]...
Off Page SEO
UPDATE: According to Google the last manual update of Google Penguin started on Friday 23rd September 2016. So far, I have not seen any effect in any Irish websites or SERPs that I am tracking, it may take a few weeks for the full roll-out of the integrated algorithm. After many years of waiting for […]...
Accountants
Exactly 50 years ago, a technology that will disrupt the way we communicate was invented. Apart from being convenient, email marketing has a very strong return on investment – for every pound you invest in it, you can expect to earn £42, which makes it one of the most cost-effective marketing strategies. And while it […]...
AccountantsBusiness Marketing
Imagine an accountancy firm, or professional services company, that keeps growing steadily. A company whose website keeps generating new business calls and leads every week. Right now, where do most of your new business come from? I have two main sources – referrals and Google search....
Marketing
There’s a lot that goes into SEO. Some suggest there are 200+ Google ranking factors. You’ll see some of the famous names in the industry talking about all kinds of fancy techniques and strategies (like language models using ngrams or biometric parameters while viewing results.) This is all well and good, but it’s advanced stuff. […]...
Blogging
Growing your business and attracting new customers heavily depends on how strong your online presence is. People have started spending a significant amount of time – 6 hours and 42 minutes, to be more precise, and this means that the internet is among the main sources of finding the information they need or learning about […]...
Marketing
Google Search Console is a must if you want to understand how your content performs as well as whether it’s properly optimized for Google. This is a free tool designed by Google to help its business users ensure that their websites are well-optimized for search, easily discoverable, and visible to a relevant audience. It’s safe […]...
Business Marketing
Long gone are the days when you could promote your business and attract new customers by means of traditional marketing methods such as TV commercials, newspaper ads, and spam emails. Modern customers can now fast-forward your commercials, ignore your newspaper ads, and send pushy emails directly to spam. Banner blindness can render your marketing efforts […]...
AccountantsBusiness Marketing
Digital marketing has the highest ROI, and yet many accounting firms still mainly rely on the outbound approach and its traditional marketing methods. Although you can still attract new clients through newspaper ads, TV and radio commercials, and billboards, digital marketing has become indispensable for the firms providing accounting services. In this post, we’ll discuss […]...
Business Marketing
You’ve probably read all the stats claiming that customer acquisition is somewhere between five and 25 times more expensive than customer retention. Besides, your existing customers are 50% more likely to try your new products and spend 31% more than the new ones. But, all this doesn’t imply that customer retention should be your only […]...
Business MarketingAccountants
Growing your accounting firm requires a serious and strategic approach, and having a detailed marketing strategy in place is essential. However, marketing usually isn’t a top priority when we’re talking about smaller accounting firms, but growth requires investing more time and money in it. Making your firm more visible will result in generating better leads […]...
On Page SEO
With all the negative news about Google SEO, you might think that Google does not recommend SEO. However, Google recommends SEO for your website – you can read the full documents here and here. This post is a beginners guide to ranking higher on Google. Google’s documentation is a 32-page guide – this is shorter […]...
On Page SEO
Internal links are one of the biggest levers of Google rankings and traffic increases for a website. The following guidelines were written for my clients and for internal use – they are intended to make internal links easy to understand for non-technical SEO people. What is a Link and What is Anchor Text? Yes, this […]...
Business Marketing
Publish and forget is the easy attitude that most businesses have to content promotion. But, successful businesses are not like most businesses, success is process driven....
On Page SEO
Let’s imagine that you are a first-time webmaster or a business owner whose company is working on a new website. You have big plans for it, you have an unlimited number of ideas for the website and you really, really wish for it to both wow users and make conversions. While you are working on it, […]...
MarketingAccountants
Content marketing for service businesses has to be approached differently than for those selling tangible products with immediately visible features and benefits. If you’re running an accounting company, providing healthcare services, or practising law, then you’ve noticed that your content can’t be done in the way that so-called glamorous industries do it. However, the fact […]...
Business MarketingOff Page SEO
No matter what kind of business you run, it’s crucial for your potential customers to be able to find you on the internet. For this, you need so-called general SEO, that is, the work of optimising your website for global or national searches. In other words, if you want to target a particular audience regardless […]...
Business Marketing
Marketing differentiates your business from every other business that your customer could choose. It is the first impression of your business, and we all know that first impressions DO count....
Marketing
The growth in digital online advertising and marketing spending is an area that all companies need to be aware of. Changes According to Google, the shift in media consumption since 2010 has been the following: Chanel 2010 […]...
Business Marketing
Local SEO should be considered essential for any business that targets customers in a specific location. Physical businesses including stores, restaurants and dental practices that want to get found online need to focus on their local SEO efforts. Wherever you are trying to attract local customers, local SEO plays a key role in boosting your […]...