“Ok Google… How Will Machine Learning Affect the Work of SEOs?”
As marketers and search engine optimizers (SEOs), we’re not here just to develop and advance your existing sites, but we’re here to…
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Think Before You PPC: Aligning Your Goals to Digital Marketing Channels
Is your audience wearing blinders or goggles? The answer will determine what channels you should pursue for pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, and how…
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Tracking Content Engagement with Google Analytics
As search marketing professionals, one of the elements in an ongoing strategy we discuss a lot is content marketing. It has…
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Delivering Honesty & Ethics in Search Marketing
Preface: We’re Terrible Salespeople We work in an industry wrought with “experts” and experts. The former is likely out to make a…
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Understanding and Navigating Google’s Mobile First Index
Given the knowledge that over 50% of Google searches are performed on a mobile device (closer to 60%), marketers must shift their…
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Improve Online Traffic After The Holidays
Hey – great job, pal! You won the Internet over the holidays. Black Friday – killed it. Cyber Monday – owned it….
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Tips to Optimize Your Etsy Store
This is part two of a series, in which Patrick breaks down insights for Etsy SEO and shares proven action items that…
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Increase Your Etsy Store Traffic and Sales
In this two-part series, Patrick breaks down insights for Etsy SEO, then shares with you proven action items that can generate results. All…
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How to Play Nice within a Network
Chances are there are many people involved in your client’s strategy for success. You might rely on other businesses like Advertising, PR…
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SEO Smackdown 2.0 with American Marketing Association
Recently we attended the the SEO Smackdown 2.0 panel discussion luncheon hosted by AMA West Michigan. Thank you to the AMA for…
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Take Back Your Local SEO
When was the last time you actually picked up a phone book to use, not toss in recycling or stack under your…
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Your target audience is likely not as huge and varied as Amazon or Walmart and despite that, it’s likely that your business…
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Digital Summit Detroit
This past week the Black Truck team headed to Digital Summit Detroit for two days of listening, learning and networking with other…
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Google Penguin 4.0 Algorithm Update
Full disclosure, we’re not ones to freak out about algorithm updates. Instead, we abide by a core practice of stepping back, researching…
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Successful Content Curation Best Practices
Usually communications pros that dabble in social media maintain a mixture of content creation and content curation in order to fulfill their…
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What is position zero in Google?
Position #1 has undoubtedly been the Holy Grail of web marketers and SEOs for years. But what if we told you that…
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Google To Crack Down On Interstitial, Pop-up Ads
You’re browsing along, minding your own business and you find something that looks interesting to read. Clicking on it, you start scanning…
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Will Voice Search Impact SEO?
“Okay Google” “Hey Siri” “Alexa…” Yahoo first released voice search in 2008 and since Apple’s acquisition of Siri in 2010, mobile device…
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Facebook Blocks Adblock – Will Google Do The Same?
“A moment’s beginning ends in a moment” – Munia Khan Update: According to multiple tech sources Facebook’s plan to stop ad blockers…
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What is Bounce Rate? Is it Important?
You’ve seen it on your analytics reports – bounce rate; but is it something you should track? The answer is, “it’s complicated.”…
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Top Five Blackhat SEO & SEM Tactics
Now that Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a household phrase, it seems everyone and their cousin now offers SEO services. Even many…
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It’s Not Failure – The Pitch for MozCon
Photo Credit: Moz A few months ago, we got a big idea. The kind of idea that you just can’t shake. It’s…
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Thank you, West Side Grand Rapids
Dear West Side Grand Rapids, It’s been real and we want to thank you. You were the first physical home for the…
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