Digital Marketing
New Google Image Search Feature: Fact Check
Google, in an effort to clean up false information, has included fact check within their image search function. They announced this with a blog post and tweet from their SearchLiason. “Starting today, we are surfacing fact check information in Google Images globally to help people navigate these issues and make more informed judgments about what…
Read MoreWhy You Need to Avoid Keyword Stuffing in Your Content
Choosing keywords for your SEO campaign can seem tricky. You want to choose the right keywords that benefit your page and start moving your website up in the rankings. But SEO is an end game. As you wait and watch your website move rank higher on Google, you may want to start seeking different strategies…
Read MoreSmall Business Economic Recession Fallout
Part of the struggle we’ve all faced during the coronavirus pandemic is just the sheer uncertainty of it all. One day it’s total doom and gloom. The next, there’s some good news. We’re just trying to figure out the effects of the virus while trying to keep some semblance of the economy going. Part of…
Read MoreHow Does Amazon Display Search Results?
If you are familiar with SEO and search engines, then you know what best practices help rank your website higher in the SERPs. It takes a combination of on- and off-site optimizations and cohesive planning to rank on page 1 of Google. But what happens when you aren’t trying to rank a website but rather…
Read MoreSearch Sessions | The COVID Customer Mindset – Understanding the Changing Customer to Future-Proof Your Business
When coronavirus hit, customers and businesses had to adapt to the new normal. Communication and needs changed. The restaurant industry had to undergo an immediate transformation. We saw the rise in hobbies as people began to focus more energy inward and at home. We also saw a change in how businesses and consumers needed access…
Read MoreSEO Basics for SaaS Companies
SaaS Businesses are different from other SMB or large businesses in many aspects. A business that runs on a Software as a Service(SaaS) model is often more creative and brings new innovation to the market. Sometimes they even create a new market altogether. Look no further than companies like Adobe or Zoom for great examples…
Read MoreHow to Capitalize on Your Down Website Traffic from COVID
I’ve talked to many businesses during this unprecedented time. There’s one common thread for all of them. They’ve seen a tremendous decrease in business in the past few months. There’s varying degrees of optimism or sense of being overwhelmed that accompanies these conversations. With limited interactions, that means limited business. It has meant less overall…
Read More5 Safe Business Practices in a Digital Environment
One of the key principles of 2020 survival is adaptability. We all have needed to learn this skill in new and varying levels throughout the insanity that has played out in the first six months of the year. We’ve all likely had to do and try things that we never thought possible before. For example,…
Read More6 Digital Marketing Strategies to Improve Your Brand Recognition
There is a huge variety of approaches for improving your brand awareness through digital marketing. As a result, it is important to focus your efforts on the right strategy for your business. This means you need to understand the benefits of each approach, and how to succeed with each strategy. These are six effective digital marketing…
Read MoreSearch Sessions | Protect Local: Evolving Your Business for Today and Tomorrow
COVID-19 changed the digital landscape for local businesses around the world and the long term economic impacts are starting to shake out. More than one in five of the US’s 30 million small businesses say they could close permanently in the next two months because of the coronavirus pandemic, retail being hit harder than most…
Read MoreHow Consumer Behavior Changes During COVID-19
“The New Normal”. That’s a phrase we’ve all heard a lot over the past couple months. It’s hard to believe that most of the world has been in lockdown for two months or more during 2020. And industry leaders across the globe have realized that the world we knew at the start of the year…
Read MoreWhat You Need to Know About the May 2020 Core Algorithm Update
At the beginning of this month, Google released its latest core algorithm update. This marks the second of its kind so far in 2020. The other algorithm update dropped in January of 2020 and our coverage can be found here. Google’s @searchliaison twitter account announced the latest update on May 4th 2020. The official announcement…
Read MoreSearch Sessions | How to Thrive in a COVID-19 New Era of Business
In the latest edition of Search Session, Boostability VP of Marketing Amanda Price spoke to Thryv’s VP of Product and marketing Ryan Cantor about how your business can adapt to the new normal, the customer phycology shift, how to conduct safe commerce, and how to leverage technology to build trust and do business in this…
Read MoreHow COVID-19 Has Changed Our Search Experience Forever
Every so often Google drastically changes the way we receive information from our searches. Sometimes they come from seemingly out of nowhere. But you can see this change displayed on Google’s own COVID-19 resource portal SERP. With the advent of the new COVID-19 aggregate portal, Google once again shows they can make changes to how…
Read MoreWhy You Need to Take Your Analytics Game to the Next Level
What’s the biggest difference between online and offline marketing? There are a lot of potential answers to that question, but one of the biggest has to be analytics. Offline, you have very little data to go off of. You might know how many people watched a television program or have a sense for how many…
Read MoreHow to Virtually Prospect for Leads
Looking for leads is an age-old struggle, no matter what you’re selling. But when circumstances change, your means of finding leads should, too. COVID-19 has forced most of us in the tech and SaaS industry to work remotely, which means that if you’re used to prospecting for leads in person, your usual methods aren’t available…
Read MoreSearch Sessions | Actionable SMB Strategies During COVID-19
In the fifth episode of Boostability’s series Search Sessions, Amanda Price (Vice President of Marketing) chatted with Boostability’s resident SEO experts Colton Miller and Mike Marsh about easy-to-implement SEO strategies for a variety of business verticals. Boostability was founded specifically to help small businesses succeed online. With nearly 30,000 small business clients across the…
Read MoreHow to Host Effective Webinars & Virtual Meetups
With most non-essential businesses working from home or working remotely, connecting with your consumer base and your community must have also gone digital. Webinars and other virtual meetups are replacing town halls, forums, and conferences. Boostability is a big fan of webinars. We’ve been hosting them for years, and we’ve even launched a special series…
Read MoreSearch Sessions | The Impact of COVID-19 on Global Search and Consumer Behavior
In the fourth episode of Boostability’s new series Search Sessions, Amanda Price (Vice President of Marketing) hosted a conversation with Duane Forrester, the Vice President of Industry Insights at Yext, to explore the way consumer behavior has changed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Not all search categories have seen a decrease in traffic. It’s…
Read MoreWhy User Intent is Important for SEO
Keyword in the title? Check. In an image alt text? Check. High-quality, relevant internal and external links included? Check and check. You’re certainly on top of your SEO, but there might be one thing you’re forgetting to look into: user intent. Wait… What’s User Intent? It might sound self-explanatory, but it deserves a closer…
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