Category Archives: SEO Basics

SEO and B2B Growth: Applying the Fundamentals to Get Your Message Across and Nail Your Outreach Campaigns

SEO Basics
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SEO and business growth go hand in hand. It’s impossible to scale your B2B company without doing everything you can to appear on Google’s first page, but even organic lead generation drops off after the first result. Only 2.5% of internet users click the tenth position in Google.

There’s no denying that the competition is fierce, but there’s a light at the end of the tunnel. 

Although your competition is using SEO, they aren’t necessarily using it to its full potential (or at all). That gives you an edge, especially on social media sites like LinkedIn, where B2B receives an exceptional return on investment (ROI). Don’t wait for your competition to catch up.

In the B2B marketplace, 68.3% of all traffic comes from search engines, which rank your website and profiles. If that isn’t a reason to invest in SEO, we don’t know what will.

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The Best 7 Public Relation Tools

Marketing, SEO Basics
7 best public relations tools

To outsiders, PR may seem like a cakewalk. Just reach out and schmooze with journalists, influencers, and bloggers. And BAM, you get your coverage.

But in reality, there is much more to being a PR professional than what first meets the eye. They’re constantly putting out fires and managing multiple moving parts, all while staying on top of the ever-changing social media landscape.

PR pros need to be awake and on top of the latest happenings at all hours of the day since their job will always be on-call for those ‘crisis communications’ that pop up unexpectedly. Sure, there are large moments of elation when their press release gets picked up, but they often have to put in long hours of brainstorming to make it possible. PR pros also spend a lot of time working behind the scenes to generate positive buzz. So, in addition to building relationships with the press, they’re also working to monitor their company’s social media presence and undertaking a whole host of other things to boost business.

In short, the world of PR is chock-full of perplexing issues that can be challenging to manage. And unless you master the ropes and prepare well, you’re going to be in for a rough ride. That’s why we’ve scoured the web and put together this list of best tools for you to use when planning your next big PR campaign.

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13 Tips to Write a Meta Description That Ranks

Copywriting, SEO Basics

You’re working hard to write compelling blog posts, market your business, and try to drive as much traffic to your website as possible.

And you’re doing a great job at it!

But still, one thing seems to catch your attention when you’re finishing up your blog posts. 

And that’s the meta description.

It’s a bit of a grey area for many content creators, and in this article I’ll go over 13 tips to write a compelling meta description that ranks in Google.

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