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Local SEO
Local SEO

7 Local Business Incentives to Offer Instead of Amazon Gift Cards

When budget is allocated to increase sign-ups or improve retention with gifts, we want recipients to feel intrigued, recognized, engaged, welcomed, and understood. And when 65% of your local business customer base views Amazon’s market dominance as a challenge to the existence of their business, it turns out there are much better ways to sweeten a deal than sending a gift card with that logo.

Navigating Through Departments: The Key to Making Impactful Changes in SEO
Marketing Industry

Navigating Through Departments: The Key to Making Impactful Changes in SEO

Whether in-house or on the agency side, blockers to success often come from internal site teams or long development queues. The key to making progress comes from two primary avenues: Advocating for SEO through exceptional knowledge of the channel as a whole, and deep integration with internal teams to move projects along. Here’s how to do both with the teams you might work with on a regular basis.

Search Engines
Search Engines

Title Tag Rewrites: 7 Months Later

Back in August, we analyzed 10,000 SERPs and found that Google was rewriting 58% of the title tags we were able to track. In September, after some serious objections from the SEO community, Google made changes so that “title elements are now used around 87% of the time”. This immediately raises two questions. First, has the situation improved? Second, why the huge mismatch between our numbers? Let’s take a look.

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