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Peek Inside Our Monthly Issues

Oct '20 Featured Articles

  • Video: How to Leverage Sitebulb's New Structured Data Features Like a Pro
  • Watch as Patrick Hathaway gives SEN members a personal tour of his award winning website auditing tool - Sitebulb, which now shows you ALL of your Site's Structured Data in one GO! Here at SEN we passionately work to Feed you only the important strategies that work, Support you through the learning curve and Aggressively cut out ALL the industry noise. Sitebulb aligns perfectly with that. And, if you don't have access to Sitebulb yet, we've included a quick way to check it out!
  • How to Attract Premium Clients in Any Economy
  • In 2020, our world has faced unprecedented challenges. And while adapting to a new normal may take us into uncharted waters, the fundamental principles of business development remain the same. No matter your niche, you will probably always face this primary issue: how to target and engage with premium prospects and convert them into long-term clients. While in person marketing may not be practical right now, that does NOT mean you can't adapt your approach to meet the moment.
  • Simple Ways to Leverage Facebook Ads for More Local Leads
  • Social media is ALL about building brand awareness or at least that's what you'll hear people tell you over and over again. Well, as local search marketers we don't have the time or money to spend on brand awareness. Our success is measured by the number of qualified leads we deliver to clients. When it comes to social media platforms, Facebook is a huge help in achieving that goal.

SE Bytes: Member Q&A

  • Your October 2020 Search Engine Bytes Digest
  • Read on as our FastAnswer Experts support members with clear-cut advice on knowing the difference between a Structured Data warning vs. an error, when it's safe to reuse old blog content, why people still use HTML sitemaps when they aren't needed, when to publish your content as a WordPress post vs. page and how to change your search results to reflect results from a specific geographic location.

Search & Social Media Updates Digest

Sep '20 Featured Articles

  • Webmaster's Guide to Advanced Image SEO
  • What we discuss in this article falls into the more advanced side and is completely based on our own experiments and observations and not something Google told us about. So, to be clear - these ideas are not guaranteed to have an impact like those discussed in our beginner's image optimization article. However, if you're looking to go beyond the basics to really understand image optimization then you've come to right place (and you're in good company).
  • The Busy Local Citation Builder's Checklist
  • Citations have drastically changed over the last few years. They're still important but the days of chasing down every wrong address variation are GONE! Today you need to focus on the major platforms your customers are using as well as some of the bigger data providers. Then your focus needs to be healthy local link building. Use this checklist to efficiently get the citations and listings that are important and skip the others.

SE Bytes: Member Q&A

  • Your September 2020 Search Engine Bytes Digest
  • Read on as our FastAnswer Experts support members with clear-cut advice on leveraging /Product markup for your services, troubleshooting a missing Google My Business verification card, knowing when AMP is worth the trouble and when it's a complete waste of time plus some tips on understanding how some pages stick in the top of results for years regardless of the competition.

Search & Social Media Updates Digest

Aug '20 Featured Articles

SE Bytes: Member Q&A

  • Your August 2020 Search Engine Bytes Digest
  • Read on as our FastAnswer Experts support members with clear-cut advice on how to handle an F on your 'security score' on webpagetest.org, how to get a business' social media accounts in your Google My Business listing and Knowledge Panel, what's the fastest way to get a URL out of Google and how to copy a website's content for a redesign when the old webmaster is holding it hostage!

Search & Social Media Updates Digest

Jul '20 Featured Articles

  • 13 SEO Features of High Ranking Product Pages
  • Virtually all high ranking and great converting product pages share specific things in common, which of these features is your site lacking?
  • Video: THE Essential 'Starter Guide' to Structured Data Markup
  • This professional training video takes the mystery out of how to get those eye catching Rich Results on Google for your pages. See the best approach to getting review stars, prices, product details, FAQ markup to land in the Featured Snippets and more. Learn which common mistakes to avoid at all costs, the best way to add code to your site whether by hand or with a plug-in and how the Pros test & troubleshoot schema markup.

SE Bytes: Member Q&A

  • Your July 2020 Search Engine Bytes Digest
  • Read on as our FastAnswer Experts support members with clear-cut advice on when it's best to use subdirectories vs. subdomains, how to handle a rogue and outdated GMB location, what to do if you've moved your site to a new domain and the old domain is still being indexed with Google and a quick refresher on meta description best practices.

Search & Social Media Updates Digest