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Lead generation is a key element for any successful business. Hearing some experts tell it, though, generating leads sounds like a complicated venture that could give pause to small business owners. After all, who has time for complex formulas and strategies when you have a business to run? Fortunately, you can use these 7 ridiculously simple tricks to grow local business leads for yourself. 1. Enhance Google My Business (GMB) API If you're not making full use of the GMB

Content marketing is the future. The growing benefits of using social media and engaging content to drive traffic and sales seem obvious, but knowing the best way to jump on the content marketing trend--well, not so much. Meanwhile, companies in every market continue to make the shift, and you don't want to be left behind. We're offering 9 steps to help you achieve great content marketing that will skyrocket your conversions. Together, they form a comprehensive approach you can tailor

Your conversion rate, the number of website visitors who take action, is the final metric that matters--the one that validates all your other efforts. Here are 20 easy-to-digest, practical tips, proven to help you boost conversions by as much as 200%. Adapt these ideas to fit your business and get the greatest possible return out of all your marketing efforts. 1. Test options for the call to action. A/B testing is essential to finding the reasons behind low conversions. Changing

After years of anticipation and a fair amount of excitement last Friday, the visible impact of Google's new Penguin 4.0 seems to be underwhelming--so far. The consensus is that, in fact, there has been no impact. The new release of Penguin 4.0, confirmed last Friday on Google's blog, means link penalties will be refreshed in real time, so that in theory, ranking corrections and improvements to a site's rankings will happen quickly and not require months or even years of

Are you clear on the difference between high-quality organic links and other kinds? We're going to assume you know it's not about vegans and meat-eaters. Still, the health benefits of organic links are just as important to your website as eating a fresh, nutritional diet is for your personal health. You need to know that link-building is key to organic search success, and your Google PageRank is heavily influenced by how the system judges your online content. In other words,

For those of you that checked your Google Search Console (formerly known as Webmaster Tools) on Tuesday July 28, you might have been surprised to see a new warning, "Google Warning: ‘Googlebot cannot access CSS and JS files on {your domain}.'" For sites that employ Javascript and CSS coding, this may have been alarming. In this post I will try answer some of the most common questions asked by our clients regarding this warning and what you should do when