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Simply having a website isn’t enough in 2018. Take a look at the web design trends you’ll need to stand out this year. Web design’s a fast moving industry. With so many factors at play, from new tech to changes in consumer tastes, there’s a lot of moving parts to it.You need to know what you’re doing before you dive in if you’re going to create something you and your users can get any value out of. In today’s article, we’ll be looking at some of the biggest web design trends of 2018. With these in your arsenal, you’ll be at the top of your web design game. But why take our word for it? Get in touch with us, today, for more on how you can take your online presence to new heights, this year. In the meantime, join us, as we look at what’s going down in web […]

Local SEO Tips for Small Businesses It used to be when you started an organization, you did your advertising the old fashioned way. This meant newspapers, flyers, handing out business cards, sometimes just going door-to-door. With the arrival of the internet, these methods are now out of date. As of 2015, there were 3.26 billion internet users. This makes up 40% of the planet’s population! If a business owner wants to increase the traffic to their website or shop, they need SEO. Let’s jump into some of my favorite local SEO tips! Understanding why you need local SEO tips Just because you know SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization doesn’t mean you know why your business needs it. Just because you know the main purpose of SEO is a marketing strategy doesn’t mean you know how to begin using it yourself. When 93% of online experiences start with the use […]

Is your profession one that needs a local SEO expert to survive? In today’s business world, every business can benefit from having a local SEO expert on their team. But for certain industries, a local SEO expert can make a huge difference and every day I meet people in these businesses that don’t employ any type of local SEO expertise. Industries that need a local SEO expert: the truth might surprise you! When you think about search engine optimization, the first industries that come to mind are probably tech related. But those are not necessarily the ones who stand to gain the most (even though they are the most likely to employ such expertise). So which ones benefit the most from local SEO know-how? Sure, everyone benefits from search engine optimization. But, service industries, those that are considered “immediate need”, require local SEO expertise more than any other. If you […]

The Most Effective SEO For Lawyers Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is of the best ways to increase the digital reach of your business. Nowadays, consumers go to online reviews, judge websites for authority, and even unknowingly discriminate based on search rankings. Curious? Here are some fun facts about search engine users, according to Search Engine Journal: The top five search engine results get 75% of user clicks. Two-thirds of users ignore the paid ads on the search engine results page (SERP), even though they usually are at the top of the results. Consumers tend to focus on the organic results, rather than companies who paid to rank. A whopping 75% of users never scroll past the first page of search engine results.  So, it’s clear that you need to rank high on the searches of your potential customers in order to generate leads, and you need to do it […]

Grow your small business Twitter account in 30 minutes a day Last fall, I wrote a guest post at the Exodus Digital Marketing blog about how I had managed to grow LinkNow Media’s Twitter account from the 50-60 followers we’d had since the account was created in 2011 to over 900 followers in about nine months. You might think that this isn’t any great achievement – 900 followers isn’t exactly a huge number when compared to some other brands out there. But when you consider that I’m the only person managing our company’s social media and I’m only able to spend, at most, 30 minutes each day working on our Twitter account, growing our follower count by 1500% is actually pretty huge. Since then, our growth has accelerated. In just over four months, we’ve added another 750+ followers, and there’s been no sign of slowing down. With that in mind, […]