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11 SEO Myths That Will Damage Your Rankings in 2022

Brightedge

It’s a tried-and-true hook for generating interest, and could not be farther from the truth with 74% of companies investing in SEO in 2021. Panic quickly ensued among web admins, with many worrying that they would have to discard a valuable lead-generation tool. Generic Top-Level Domains Improve Rankings. SEO Is Dead.

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Search Marketing Strategy | Treat Search Marketing Like a Macroeconomy

Adobe Experience Cloud Blog

This tactic has the power to significantly influence how you optimize your websites, which leads to a boosted number of leads or sales generated overall. An example where Google made an algorithm change that benefited their bottom-line was when they increased the number of paid results on the top of the SERP (search engine results page).

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How a Tiny Finance Startup Dethroned Fortune 500 Giants in Google Search

Hubspot

In 2009, most people would have called Tim Chen, the founder of Nerdwallet , crazy for even trying to take on the titans of the credit card industry. Founded in 2009 as a bootstrapped startup, Nerdwallet has grown at an exponential pace, from 283 users per month in 2009 to 2.2 Picture Credit: SlideShare.

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A Content-Based Guide to Local SEO

ClearVoice

There are two content strategy ideas I’m thinking about here that can help you get more positive reviews (along with other more measurable review generation techniques, like asking for them, of course). Using videos impacts your SEO by giving you another spot to appear in the SERPs. Absolutely! Coupons & offers. 82 percent!

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Marketers Deserve Enterprise Software That Doesn’t Suck

Hubspot

As far back as 2009, there were calls on enterprise software providers to pay more attention to the user-friendliness of their products, but like the proverbial ostrich, they put their head in the sand, rested on their laurels, and blindly trusted the lazy assumption that customers will forever accept pain as the price of power.

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Building a ROMI Calculator

Online Marketing Institute

Until next time – Axel Related Posts: The Shift from Art to Science in B2B Marketing The best ROMI calculators on the Web Website ROMI – Calculating your Marketing ROI online Tags: marketing ROI , ROMI This entry was posted on Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 at 1:05 pm and is filed under Blog Posts. Just the facts.Enjoy!

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4 SEO Tactics to Embrace in 2015

Hubspot

In 2009 Google’s Matt Cutts posted on the official Google Blog , "Google doesn’t use the ''keywords'' meta tag in our web search ranking." Too often I see sites with a Meta description that has been completely ignored, or maybe worse yet, use a tool or plug-in to dynamically generate a Meta description. Still don’t believe?

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