Search Engine Optimization Posts

SEO and accessibility: Why both are critical for website success

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Did you know prioritizing SEO and accessibility together can lead to a better-performing website? Many elements that improve a site’s accessibility—like alternative text for images and clear site navigation—also boost rankings.  That said, the reverse is also true.  Accessibility errors and poorly implemented SEO are also things that can make your website harder for users, […]

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7 link building for SEO mistakes (and what to do instead)

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What zoo animal does SEO love the most? An inbound lynx. That punny joke might be a groaner, but inbound links are no laughing matter, especially when it comes to search engine optimization success. And—now that the volume of web content is growing astronomically on a daily basis as content creators leverage AI tools to expand resources online faster than ever—backlink acquisition is top of mind for many website managers. So, how can you avoid link building mistakes for SEO when working to acquire high-quality backlinks?

It might feel quite impossible if you’ve just dipped your toes into link building for your website, even if you’ve got a strong grasp of SEO basics. But investing time and energy into getting links from reputable sites is worth it for this main reason:

Content with a significant number of links from authoritative sites tends to get rewarded with higher placement in search engine result pages (SERPs)

Take Google’s famous PageRank Algorithm. For over twenty years, it has used links back to a webpage as a quality signal for rankin

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Less isn’t more anymore: The battle of quantity vs. quality in content creation for SEO

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SEO and content marketing share many of the same goals—increase visibility, engage the audience, and convert. But just under the surface, tensions have been simmering. Not between SEOs and content marketers but between parties on both sides that advocate for quantity over quality, and vice versa. It turns out that content creation for SEO is a divisive subject.

At the heart of the debate: is it better for brands to have more content … or better content? In a perfect world, we’d all work in harmony to effortlessly move our brands up the search engine results pages (SERPs) and drive traffic to top-notch, killer content. In the real world, we know that kind of quantity and quality require an enormous amount of time—and an equally enormous budget. The loudest voices on each side of the argument believe their method is best for rising to the top of SEO rankings, but which one will prevail? Keep reading to find out.

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