Website security is a hot topic as attacks are quickly growing in number and sophistication. As a small website or blog owner, you may believe that you don’t need to worry about your website, as there is no valuable content on it and you therefore won’t be targeted. It will therefore surprise you to learn… Read More »
5 Silly but Harmful SEO Mistakes Digital Marketers Need to Avoid
With the rise of comprehensive digital marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) has been somewhat on the sidelines. Why would you spend your time on keywords, tags, and links (all this technical stuff) when you have paid ads, social media, and content? Though a bit ignored, SEO is still increasingly important to a site’s overall performance… Read More »
6 Online Traffic Sources You Are Probably Not Taking Advantage of
When it comes to generating traffic, the majority of people concentrate solely on Google. There are good reasons to do so. After all, 93 percent of online experiences start with a search engine and Google’s global market share is around 80 percent. So, if your goal is to generate traffic, the search giant seems… Read More »
Five annoying contact page mistakes • Yoast
If your business website’s goal is to get in touch with (potential) customers, you should avoid a number of contact page mistakes. Here, we’ll mention the mistakes we find most annoying. And we’re not unique in that. In my previous post about contact pages, I already mentioned that the right content on this page can… Read More »
How to Grow Your Blog to 100K Monthly Visitors (From Scratch)
I first began working in internet marketing 13 years ago. Since then, I’ve taken on and grown more than 10 blogs to the 100K (and above) monthly visitors mark. Doing this has played a critical role in the development of my own personal brand as well as the companies I’ve launched or been involved in… Read More »
5 things to do after a hack • Yoast
Even if you try your utmost best, chances are hackers will find a way to hack your site. Following our WordPress security article, I’ll show you five things you should do right after you find your site to be hacked. Some of those things you should probably do before it even happens! 1. Understand what… Read More »
6 Advanced SEO Tactics That Will Seriously Increase Your Search Traffic
Did you know that 80 percent of all web traffic begins with a search engine? Stunning, isn’t it? It’s why investing in SEO is an absolute must for any website owner. Proper search engine optimization means improving your search ranking, which in turn means more traffic, conversions and revenue. That’s also the reason why we… Read More »
The most important factor for startup success – The Product Hacker Blog
Bill Gross has founded multiple startups and incubated many others. He is a very talented and experienced entrepreneur and investor. In his famous talk about the reasons why startups succeed, he is trying to convince us that the single biggest reason why startups succeed is timing. The idea, team, business plan, and funds are… Read More »
Meta keywords: why we don’t use them • Yoast
You would think this post would be redundant by now: people know that the meta keyword tag is useless nowadays, right? The truth is that we still see site owners using meta keywords on their website. In addition to that, people are still searching for meta keywords according to Google Trends, although there seem… Read More »
30 Spammy Marketing Practices that Kill Trust and Conversions
Are you worried that your marketing isn’t resonating with your target audience? It could be a question of trust. No matter what message we think we’re sending, it’s consumers’ opinions that count. It doesn’t take much for them to hit the spam button in their email client or leave your site forever. In this… Read More »