Social Media Content Calendar: Your Key to Successful Social Media Marketing Strategy

Social media marketing planning is key to successful content marketing. It makes your team more productive and allows you to catch all the seasonal trends and trending hashtags. Furthermore, it streamlines content planning and helps you focus more on community building aspects and other long-term goals of social media marketing. One of the best ways […]

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Featured Results and Google’s De-duplication might be lowering your click through rate in the SERPS.

De-duplication refers to Google’s practice of removing an organic result if the same page appears in other sections of SERPs, like featured snippets and top stories. De-duplication started with featured snippets when Google decided it was a bad user experience for their searchers to see the same page twice per a single search engine result […]

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My Competitors’ Backlinks are Manipulative. What should I do?

Most businesses look at their competitors’ backlinks. And in many cases, the common question is “Why doesn’t Google take any action against my competitor’s manipulative links?” Jim Boykin, CEO of Internet Marketing Ninjas, and Ann Smarty, IMN’s analyst, discuss competitive backlink research and how to interpret it these days. Whenever you do a competitive backlink […]

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Google’s Quality Raters Guidelines: Worth Reading?

Google’s Search Quality Raters Guidelines had been discussed by an SEO community for ages, way before Google made them public. It has always been an insight into how Google may interpret “quality”. But just SEOs should use the guidelines? Jim Boykin, CEO of Internet Marketing Ninjas, and Ann Smarty, IMN’s analyst, are discussing Google’s Search […]

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Does DA Matter when Disavowing Links?

Ever since the introduction of Google’s Disavow tool, it has always been a matter of endless discussions within an SEO community? Which pages or sites should we disavow? Which backlink sources to use to find link to disavow? When should we actually need to use the tool? Jim Boykin, CEO of Internet Marketing Ninjas, and […]

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Google’s FAQ Rich Snippets: Generate More Clicks from Your Current Positions

Google search engine optimization is no longer only about ranking higher. It is also about getting the most of your current positions. As Google’s search result pages are becoming richer and more diverse, there are ways to yield more clicks from lower rankings without investing in increasing them. One of those low-hanging-fruit opportunities is Google’s […]

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