Content Marketing As Part Of Your SEO Strategy

Content Marketing As Part Of Your SEO Strategy

Content Marketing is focused on reaching the public through creative, valuable content that’s relevant to what you do. Instead of selling something, content marketing provides consumers with information that’s truly engaging and useful. How do you marry that with SEO? Easy. You just have to get out of the mindset that says “sell the product”…

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How to Get Started on Pinterest for Business

How to Get Started on Pinterest for Business

With more than 150 million monthly active users, Pinterest is an important social media platform. If much of your target audience is on the platform, you must consider creating a Pinterest for business account. Even if your offerings are not especially visual, you can find ways to express your personality on the platform. 1. Create…

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March 2018 SEO and Social Update

March SEO and Social Update

Here is our monthly SEO and social update! General Trend We had a great month for rankings, with an overall positive page one rank trend. We had a few fluctuations and spikes throughout the month. Our rank 1-10 was fairly stagnant while our page one rankings continued to rise. This could indicate some expansion of…

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Facebook Changes the Ability to Customize Images

Facebook Changes the Ability to Customize Images

Facebook has been putting several new strategies into action to prevent misinformation from spreading over the platform. One of the latest of these changes is the ability to customize images. Although the update was announced last year, it has only just now gone into play. What Happened? The change applies to the Graph API with…

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Google My Business Adding Like Crazy to Small Business Tools

Google My Business Adding Like Crazy to Small Business Tools

Google My Business is making life even easier for small businesses, helping them to improve their presence online. Recently, Google My Business added several tools and updated some features to further enhance usability.   Adding Descriptions for the Local Panel Business owners can now add their own description to appear in the local panel in…

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February SEO and Social Update

February SEO and Social Update

January was a great month for Boostability. It was also very eventful for the SEO industry. This month I wanted to cover the general trend we are seeing around Google Algorithm changes. I will also cover the newest version of Google’s Search Console along with the usual key articles for SEO and social media. Overview…

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How To Create A Lookalike Audience On Facebook

Last Update: September 13, 2019 There is nothing we marketers love more than easy optimization. Thankfully, Facebook has been hard at work amplifying the use of their advertising platform with some of those easy-to-use tactics. Facebook’s New Lookalike Audience Setup For those familiar with Facebook advertising, you may notice that “Lookalike Audiences” are now promoted…

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How To Install Facebook Tracking Pixels

How To Install Facebook Tracking Pixels

Are you ready to install a conversion pixel or tracking code on your website in order to allow Facebook to know who visits your site? Before you get started, let’s discuss how conversion pixels work. When a visitor comes to your website, even not directly from Facebook, a conversion pixel can tack him or her.…

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What Kind Of Marketing Material Does Boostability Have For Me?

What Kind Of Marketing Material Does Boostability Have For Me?

At Boostability, we love to help businesses of all sizes succeed–particularly small- and medium-sized businesses with limited resources. In fact, we have a whole portion of our website attributed to sharing what we, over years of working experience and research, have learned about marketing at Boostability. This article is an introduction to what you can find…

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Google My Business Video Uploads Now Available to Business Owners

Google My Business Video Uploads Now Available to Business Owners

Previously, only customers could add videos to a local business listing. At the beginning of the year, some businesses started reporting that they were seeing the option to upload videos to their Google My Business accounts. Google has now announced that this feature is out of testing phase and available for everyone. Adding Videos to…

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December 2017 SEO and Social Update

December SEO and Social Update

Here is the SEO and social update for last month: General Rank Trend Over November we had a wild ride when it came to rankings. There was a ton of volatility and shifting in our ranking data. Overall our trend was positive but we did experience some major fluctuations during the month. In reviewing our…

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November 2017 SEO and Social Update

November SEO and Social Update

I hope everyone had a fantastic October! We had a great month when it came to rankings with fairly minimal fluctuations. There were a few important updates regarding Google this month as well. The first signs of the “Mobile First Index” were seen along with confirmation that it is being actively tested and developed. Google also announced…

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Facebook Live – Who Should Use It And What For?

Facebook Live - Who Should Use It And What For?

Facebook introduced the Live feature back in 2015. Along with Snapchat and Instagram stories, Facebook Live allows brands to communicate with their followers in a more instant fashion. As users engage most readily with video content and, particularly when we’re looking at younger generations, seek a more “authentic” side to the brands they associate with,…

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8 Steps to Create a Successful Holiday Promotion in 2017

8 Steps to Create a Successful Holiday Promotion in 2017

The holiday season is an exciting time for any business, as customers are actively seeking out products and services to purchase. The problem is that everyone else is also rolling out holiday promotions, meaning competition is heavy. To ensure that your campaigns stand out from the crowd, you need to pay extra attention to the…

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October 2017 SEO Update

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There’s a lot of good news for the month of September! For starters, it was yet another overall positive month for Boostability SEO performance, with 26/30 days of positive rank changes. For this month’s update, I want to discuss our general ranking trend for most keywords and give some context and detail to what we…

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5 of the Scariest Marketing Mistakes Made in 2017

5 of the Scariest Marketing Mistakes Made in 2017

You are sitting at your computer when suddenly the air seems to get colder, the lighting a little darker and chills run up your spine. Despite the time of year, it’s not a ghost and it’s not the fact that you just realized you forgot to get candy for the trick-or-treaters either. You just noticed…

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Trolls’ Tricks Are No Treat on Social Media

Trolls’ Tricks Are No Treat on Social Media

Unfortunately, trolls no longer just come out at Halloween — they are a year-round annoyance. If you have a presence on social media, you will surely have had to deal with trolls at times. Although some social media platforms are improving the way they handle trolls (especially YouTube),  others, like Facebook, are getting even worse.…

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Facebook Targets Ads According to Retail Store Visits

Facebook Introduces Creator Amplification Tool to Boost Influencer Posts

By now, everyone is used to seeing ads that match their online behavior. Facebook is now going to take this step further, targeting users according to what brick-and-mortar stores they visit. Currently, the feature is still in the testing phase, but you can expect to see such ads soon across Facebook and Instagram. The move…

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Facebook Adds ‘Donate Now’ to 360 Video to Boost Non-Profits

People often look at virtual reality as a “Gamer’s Only” club. However, newcomers and enthusiasts will quickly find that the non-profit space is taking VR into their own hands. To aid nonprofits, Facebook is bringing its Donate Button and Scheduled Live features over to its live 360 video service. Naturally Facebook hopes to drive 360…

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