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Domain Name Opportunities and Protection image

You’ve got a great name for your website. It reflects your brand and provides credibility to your budding business. You’re good, right? It’s time to sit back and relax and reap the benefits of having a solid domain name. Not so fast. Now, you need to keep your domain name protected as well as expand on any additional opportunities. You did the hard work of developing a name and researching it so as to not infringe on a trademark or cause any confusion with the name of another site. You want the same thing for your site too. You don’t want someone to take your name at .net or .biz or grab something similar and use it on Twitter or ...

Seven Tips for Perfecting the Domain Name Game image

A key aspect of starting a business, is starting a website. Once you’ve spent the time and resources to develop and test an idea or service, you’re then ready to bring it to the marketplace. And no matter how you’ve chosen to sell your product, you need a website. Consumers essentially live online so you need to meet them in their space. You might think then that an app or social media is where you need to spend time initially. But a high performing website is what you really need first. Because what good does generating traffic do for you, unless you have a place called home to convert the traffic. Thoughts about website design and color schemes may be racing ...

Seven Tactics for a Better FAQ Section image

They say spring is the most popular time for remodeling. For many people, who have just been cooped up indoors during the winter months with time on their hands to notice home improvements they would like made, this makes sense. Now, it’s time for businesses to consider a little spring rejuvenation project too. You’ve probably had your company website for years. You may have even redesigned it in the past few years (hopefully, yes. If not, please contact us – seriously.) You know your site forward and backward; you add images, include customer reviews, and even add new content regularly (well, pretty regularly). Kudos to you indeed. However, when is the last time you thought about your FAQ page? You know ...

Use Local SEO Content to Stand Out From the Pack image

Gone are the days of using Yellow Pages to find local business; that search has moved online. With the ever-increasing importance Google places on local search, marketers will need to up their SEO game, namely within a certain region. We’ll look at on-page local SEO elements to include, important link building strategies, customer reviews, and the creation of solid local SEO content. Local SEO Must-Haves Before you can get to the local content, you’ll need to ensure that both your website and the pages within it are locally search optimized. Some important elements to include: Add NAP (Name, Address, Phone Number) to the header or footer of your website. Use the name of your city and its suburbs throughout site pages. Include ...

The Why & How of Website Accessibility image

Websites today need to be readable, navigable, and usable for a wide-range of people. Accessibility has become an important criteria for marketers to consider when strategizing on website content structure and design. It requires a thoughtful approach to creating something beautiful, purposeful, and functional. Accessibility covers a wide range of conditions and situations in everyday life. There are many reasons that people might need an accessible site. People with color blindness, blindness, dyslexia, hearing loss, MS, ADHD, rheumatoid arthritis, etc. have permanent conditions that may be impacted adversely by aspects of a website that uses Flash, is only navigable with a mouse or doesn’t include a transcript with videos. There are also many temporary needs and situations such as a broken arm, ...

Search Optimizing For Google Snippets image

For years, the coveted SEO spot has always been the first listing. The further you are from this spot, the more invisible you become. Accordingly, wise marketers always worked hard to gain this top position. But as the years go by, Google continuously throws in new features on its search page. It has greatly enhanced the consumer experience, but it tends to mean a new challenge for marketers to address. Google snippets are no exception. Whenever a snippet exists, it overshadows the other listings, including the top organic spot. What exactly is a Google snippet? And, how can you end up there? Learn more below. What is a Google Snippet? Even if you’re unfamiliar with the term, you probably have (frequently) ...

Businesses Can’t Afford to Ignore HTTPS Anymore image

Google has repeatedly talked about the importance of HTTPS as opposed to HTTP over the last year and discussed flagging non-HTTPS pages with warnings to users on its Chrome browser. Now, it appears to be in its final implementation. Non-HTTPS pages are displaying warnings in a variety of industries. A Reminder: What’s the Difference Between HTTP and HTTPS? HTTP stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol; HTTPS means HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure. Both are protocols/languages for passing information between servers and clients. As the names imply, HTTPS is secure; HTTP is not. Without the security, it is possible third parties can view the conversation between the site and the user. HTTPS connections are secured through SSL/TSL protocol, which respectively stand for Secure Sockets Layer ...

11th of November, 2017
In: B2B Marketing, Inbound Marketing, Lead Generation, Website Best Practices
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IP Lead Tracking — Just the Facts image

There’s a new tool in your marketing tool box. A tool that can identify your website visitors, that until now, often remained anonymous. IP Lead Tracking is typically a subscription service that uses analytics code and databases to deliver timely and user-friendly reports. It is reported that although 90% of B2B sales begin with a web search, only 2-3% of website visitors complete a contact or registration form. While website analytics software report traffic or visitors, page views, bounce rate and other useful statistics, actual sales leads from registrations are a fraction (2-3%) of website visitors. What if you could identify all those anonymous website visitors? A marketing no-brainer, right? Enter IP Tracking Software Think of a Caller ID for your website. ...

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