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What Is the Importance of Offpage SEO?

Off-page SEO is an essential part of a successful SEO strategy—it’s the activity that’s OFF your website’s pages. It’s your total online and offline presence. It’s your social media sites where you’re posting on a consistent basis. It includes podcasts and the reviews you’re getting on your Google Business Profile. If you’re not into endless self-promotion, asking for reviews can be uncomfortable. Get over it. All of us are reading reviews these days before making both big and small decisions. 

being top of mind: 9 meeting management tools for business

7 Meeting Management Platforms Not Named Zoom to Try!

“Zoom” has become the generic for virtual meetings. And I suspect that most of us are, indeed, using Zoom. But the applications detailed below provide a wide range of functionality. Many of these applications are free or charge a nominal rate for the paid plan (vs Zoom’s $15/month rate) It’s worth giving them a try—especially if you’re already using these applications, including Microsoft and Calendly.

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The Pink Slip Blues

Who remembers what it’s like knowing you’re going to be laid off? There are rumors and rumblings, of course. The causes are varied but generally driven by economics. It may be a matter of downsizing or organizational changes that come with mergers and acquisitions. Maybe it’s innovation initiatives and you don’t fit in. Perhaps you’ve inherited a new boss who just plain doesn’t like you. It also could be because you’re too old.

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Five Best Collaboration Platforms

Teams are working from home or around the world. Fulltime or parttime. Collaboration tools are now an essential part of the technology infrastructure. They’re the new normal. Here are five platforms that offer a wide range of collaboration tools and functions—many offer free versions that are a good place to start. One app that will surprise you–Microsoft 365 is a collaboration tool that we’re all familiar with.

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The 3 Best Free Keyword Research Tools in 2022

You’ll need to be evaluating single keywords and phrases for keyword difficulty and volume—the average number of searches each month. Difficulty is the degree of competition. A high number means this is going to be very expensive.

You’ll want to know what the cost per click is (CPC) and other factors that you’ll need as you design your affiliate program or manage your PPC campaign. Identifying the competition is important—having some competition is important—if no one’s searching for a term, you don’t want to waste your time on it.

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New SEO Trends: 3 Ways Google Has Enhanced the User Experience

Web Vitals helps make up the page experience ranking factors, including:
• Mobile-friendliness—whether or not your site is optimized for mobile.
• HTTPS—is your site using a secure connection?
• Interstitial use–does your site stay away from nasty pop-ups?
These new user-centered metrics take into account everything a user experiences on a website to try to come up with a more holistic view of your site’s performance.

top of mind marketing: doing keyword research is critical to the success of PPC campaigns

The Best Free Tools for Keyword Research

Keyword research is the process of finding and analyzing search terms for online optimization (SEO). It can identify the popularity of queries and their ranking difficulty—which translates to their cost per click (CPC) and the bids’ affordability for you. It helps identify the keywords for which your audience is searching. Keyword research can be confusing, but it’s the most important part of your online advertising (PPC) campaign. Getting this right is essential.

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#1 Ranking Factor to Increase Search Traffic

Google Ranking Factors: Posting daily or at any specific frequency doesn’t help with ranking better in Google search results. But the more pages you have in the Google index, the more your content may show up in search results. The key equalizer is the quality of your content and getting that content indexed.

top of mind marketing creating offpage seo that is off the page

What Is the Importance of Offpage SEO?

Off-page SEO is an essential part of a successful SEO strategy—it’s the activity that’s OFF your website’s pages. It’s your total online and offline presence. It’s your social media sites where you’re posting on a consistent basis. It includes podcasts and the reviews you’re getting on your Google Business Profile. If you’re not into endless self-promotion, asking for reviews can be uncomfortable. Get over it. All of us are reading reviews these days before making both big and small decisions.