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  • Leverage dozens of training videos focused on everything from Technical SEO to Local Search w/ new videos added all the time!

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Peek Inside Our Monthly Issues

May '20 Featured Articles

  • Getting Your Business Started with Pinterest
  • Today's Pinterest is one of the fastest growing social platforms online that caters to everything from automotive parts to cool light bulbs. Among its 300 million active monthly users, 66% are female aged 25-54, which translates to the largest buying demographic online! So, regardless of your industry, you have potential customers on Pinterest and it's time to tap into this captive audience as part of your business strategy.
  • Video: Live COVID-19 Strategic Brainstorming Event
  • It's clear that we've entered an entirely new consumer environment. This sudden shift brings an insane amount of pressure to adapt very quickly. That's why we scheduled this Brainstorming event so that SEN's community of Experts and Members could band together to come up with ideas and strategies for businesses to adapt.
  • 8 Website Rank Boosting Tips that Take 15 min or Less
  • If there is one thing you can never have enough of it's time. This counts double if you're in charge of keeping a website running smoothly and ranking at the top of the search results. With that in mind, I spoke with our in-house experts and asked them what their direct recommendation was for something that you could do to improve your site's rankings. The catch was that it couldn't take more than 15 minutes to do it! I narrowed it down to these 8 easy and quick to implement optimization tips.
  • Video: SEN's May 2020 Pro MasterMind Meetup
  • On Tuesday, May 12th John Heard, Darren Shaw and Carrie Hill joined us for the Monthly Master Mind Meetup. Typically, this live meeting is exclusive to SEN Business and Pro members. However, we wanted to be sure that ALL of our members had a chance to leverage this Expert support this month and opened the meeting to all active SEN members.

SE Bytes: Member Q&A

  • Your May 2020 Search Engine Bytes Digest
  • Read on as our FastAnswer Experts support members with clear-cut advice on if Foursquare is still worth the trouble or not these days, if you want to track clicks and downloads of a MP3 file do you HAVE to list it on a webpage or is there another way? Is it true that Google is finally relaxing it's strangle hold on the video search results and allowing more than just YouTube to rank? And is it smart or even possible to password protect your site's WordPress' login page to protect against hacking?

Search & Social Media Updates Digest

Apr '20 Featured Articles

SE Bytes: Member Q&A

  • Your April 2020 Search Engine Bytes Digest
  • Read on as our FastAnswer Experts support members with clear-cut advice on why Google Analytics data and Google Search Console data never matches up, strategies for image optimization for multilingual websites, the most Google-friendly way to clean up a site's duplicate content - to 404 or not, and do you HAVE to put important pages in the main site structure or can they go into the blog and still perform well?

Search & Social Media Updates Digest

Mar '20 Featured Articles

  • Hashtag URLs & Named Anchors: What They Are and Why You Should Care

  • A long used user experience tool that's FAR too often overlooked especially considering how often Google uses these URLs within their search results. Read on to get the specifics and see if it's a feature that makes sense for your site.

  • Your 2020 Advanced Guide to Page Speed Optimization - Part 1
  • Learn how to make your website load faster than greased lightening! This first installment of our series shows you how to properly test your site speed, identify exactly what is slowing it down and goes on to give you a 4 step plan to dramatically improve your page load time.

SE Bytes: Member Q&A

  • Your March 2020 Search Engine Bytes Digest
  • Read on as our FastAnswer Experts support members with clear-cut advice on the best image optimization plugin and why, when you have to choose which is better a first page listing or a Featured Snippet, how to pick a domain for a new project that gives you the best chance for success and not make the same mistake we did, how to troubleshoot why Google isn't picking your images to go along with your position zero result.

Search & Social Media Updates Digest

Feb '20 Featured Articles

  • How to Write FAQ Content For Featured Snippets
  • This article focuses on exactly how we approach writing FAQ content for our own websites. It includes our Featured Answer content formula, how to organize your page for the best user experience, advice on Q&A Structured Data markup and code examples, as well as local content research tips.
  • Video: How to Protect Your Site Against Chrome's Looming Security Updates
  • In this video Sitebulb's Co-founder, Patrick Hathaway, as he explained Google Chrome's upcoming updates that promise to have large repercussions for websites that Google perceives to have 'security issues'. This training laid out a clear timeline for what is happening and when, why they're doing it, and the impact it could have on your website. And if you aren't using Sitebulb to impress your clients and make auditing websites easier then Start! It's worth its weight in GOLD and access is automatically included in our SEN membership!

SE Bytes: Member Q&A

  • Your February 2020 Search Engine Bytes Digest
  • Read on as our FastAnswer Experts support members with clear-cut advice on how to get Google to believe your legitimate business location is real and verifiable, what to do when your Google Ad campaign requires certification when you're outside of the US, what exactly a hashbang URL is and how Google treats them and then finally how to know if it's worth putting together a disavow file to get rid of spammy links after a site takes a traffic drop.

Search & Social Media Updates Digest