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Meta Descriptions: How to Write Snippets That Improve Click-Through Rates

Meta descriptions are one of the most overlooked parts of SEO, but they’re also one of the easiest ways to improve your search performance without touching your rankings. That’s because while meta descriptions won’t move you up in the results, they can help you get more clicks once you’re there. Let’s explore how to write…

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Have you considered a Fractional CMO? 7 Signs It’s Time to Level Up Your Marketing Leadership

When your marketing feels busy but not effective, it’s time to ask a hard question: Do we need stronger leadership? Most teams don’t start with a CMO. They start with hustle. You hire a social media coordinator, outsource SEO, bring in a freelancer for design. And for a while, that patchwork approach works. Until it…

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Measure Like a Pro, Price Like a Pro: Why Your CMO Should Be Proving Value

Hiring a marketing leader isn’t just about getting campaigns out the door. It’s about making sure the work connects directly to business results. That’s why one of the most important questions you can ask your CMO, whether full-time or fractional, is simple: “How are you measuring success?” The Difference Between Amateurs and Professionals There’s a…

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How to Structure Better Web Pages for SEO – Recipe for Strategic Content

Better websites are made up of great individual pages of good content. It really is just that simple. The best websites are built like a great cookbook. Each individual page, like a single recipe, must work on its own, serve a specific purpose, and be easy to follow. Those individual pages are usually laid out…

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20 Questions to Help You Get the Most Out of Your Fractional CMO Partnership

When you bring on a fractional CMO, you’re not just hiring a consultant. You’re investing in strategic clarity, external perspective, and focused execution that can align your marketing with the future of your business. But here’s the secret: the more prepared you are, the more effective your CMO can be from day one. These 20…

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Why Keyword Research Still Matters (and How to Use It to Rank Smarter)

Keyword Research Isn’t Just About Words-It’s About Strategy If you’ve ever looked at an SEO proposal and thought, “We already know our keywords. Why do we need more research?” you’re not alone. But here’s the truth: keyword research isn’t just a list of terms. It’s the foundation for how your site gets discovered, what kinds…

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How to Identify the Right Keywords for Every Page on Your Website

Start with your Search Engine Optimization goals in mind When people think about SEO, they often imagine “ranking a website.” But search engines don’t rank entire websites; they rank individual pages, one query at a time. That means the real goal of SEO is to treat each page as its own landing page, optimized for…

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How to write for SEO today (and Why It’s Not Just About Keywords)

Old School SEO vs New School SEO Are you still writing the same kind of content you did five years ago? Ten? If so, it might be time to recalibrate. Today’s SEO isn’t about tricking algorithms, it’s about earning trust, understanding user intent, and writing content that serves humans and machines (yes, that includes AI…

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Setting Up Google Analytics 4: A Beginner-Friendly Guide for Modern Website Tracking

Setting up Google Analytics doesn’t have to feel overwhelming. With the right approach, you can implement GA4 quickly and build a measurement system that grows with your business. This guide follows SeeMe Media’s phased methodology-designed to help you prioritize the right data, not all the data. Phase 1: Define What Matters Before you implement anything,…

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H1 vs. H2 Tags: How Headers Help SEO and Readability

Headers do more than break up your content-they shape how both people and search engines understand it. Yet header tags are still often misused or misunderstood. So let’s clear things up. First, Think Like a Reader, Including Google Good content is structured content. Your users rely on formatting cues like headlines and subheadings to understand…

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The Real SEO Magic Trick? Reputation, Time, and Relentless Improvement.

Everyone wants their site to rank first. Despite what the ads and “quick hacks” promise, there’s no single switch that launches your page to the top of Google. There is a magic trick, though. But it’s not the kind you learn overnight. It is earned reputation, and like any meaningful reputation, it’s built over time.…

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Why Your Title Tag Still Matters (And How to Make It Work Smarter)

What’s in a title? Everything. The title tag might seem like an old-school SEO element, however it’s still one of the most powerful tools in your on-page strategy. It influences search rankings, shapes how people perceive your brand, and often determines whether someone clicks… or keeps scrolling. Yet we still see too many title tags…

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Maximizing SEO Impact: Harnessing the Power of AI for Article and Blog Post Keywords

Navigating the complex world of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) can be daunting for small business owners aiming to enhance their online visibility. Leveraging the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT and Gemini can revolutionize how companies identify the most impactful keywords for their websites, articles, and blog posts. By delving into AI keyword…

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Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO)

You have been working really hard to get people to your website. You have been painstakingly reviewing your website, your competitors’ websites, updating content, sharing on social, buying PPC ads, optimizing your SEO Keywords in your content, and doing anything you can think of just to get people to get to your site. Traffic is…

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Tips for choosing the perfect domain name

You have come up with that new business and you are ready to tell the world about it! Well, time to think about your brand online. More and more entrepreneurs are picking their new company name or product name based on their ability to get the domain name! It is a safe bet that the…

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Owning Your Website Assets

Stop Digital Sharecropping. Own Your Content, Reviews, and Testimonials I grew up in the restaurant business in a small ski town in Colorado. In the 80’s my parents purchased a successful Italian restaurant that specialized in all you can eat pasta, homemade pizza, a 50 item salad bar, and a bar to watch the game…

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What is SEO? Why should I care what SEO is?

You have a question, you are looking for information, or maybe you want to buy something… Where do you turn to get more information on the internet? For most of us, we turn to a search engine, either through our computer, our phone, or maybe even a voice-enable device like Alexa or Google Home.  We…

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Define Your SEO Objectives

Onsite Search Engine Optimization is a bit like doing chemistry. Each element of your website, when combined with other elements on your site and its interaction with the world, will help to determine how well your site ranks on all search engines. Have you stopped to ask yourself, what do I want my site to…

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Keyword Research Starter Guide

Keywords are at the heart of all search engine searches. As you head over to your favorite search engine or even website search box, what you enter are the words that you think will bring up the desired results for your search. Those words are the search terms used that keyword research is hoping to…

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Robots.txt

A robots.txt file is like a fence around your property. Fences are meant to keep danger out, but they also can allow others to see through them. For a website, the robots.txt file sits at the root folder of your website and indicates the parts of your website you do or don’t want web crawlers…

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What is a sitemap?

Simply, a sitemap is a file that lists all the web pages of your website that you would like search engines to know about and consider for ranking. There are however two types of sitemaps; the sitemap for crawlers/bots and the visual sitemap for users. Each is intended for different usage and for different applications.…

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How to optimize images for SEO

If content is king to a blog, images are the queen. Without images your page just doesn’t pop, it looks unfinished and downright boring. Images bring your written content to life to your site’s visitors and provide visual breaks for your readers. I think we all can agree that images matter on the Internet today.…

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5 Step Guide to Squoosh Image Compression

Loading the right size image into your website is one of the fastest ways to speed up load times for your website. Using an image that is both the right size of pixels and utilizes the right amount of compression, combined with the right file type, ensures your images are clear and load quickly for…

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5 SEO must dos for all your blog posts

When you are creating a new article for your website, keep your search engine optimization awareness on high alert. There are lots of opportunities for you to write valuable SEO rich content with each of your articles, without having to compromise your article’s content. Make SEO Rich content with every post. Here is a simple…

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What motivates a Search Engine to provide unpaid links in the SERP?

The Search Engine Results Page(SERP) is the search engine’s equivalent of a recommendation from a trusted friend in real life. IRL, you may have a friend that works for one restaurant, but when they recommend another restaurant, you listen, because they are the expert in the field. Search Engines, like Google, work the same way.…

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Add Expires headers to your .htaccess file

Expires headers let your browser know whether to serve a cached version of the page and it’s components or to download new versions of the files. By defining when a component of your site expires, you help to: Reduce server load Increase page load time What are Expires Headers? Expires headers tell the browser whether they…

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Why is your URL important for SEO?

Understanding the structure of domain names and URLs is a fundamental building block of SEO. Over the years, Google and Bing have come a long way in handling the challenges of a growing number of pages available for indexing. The basic rule of SEO URLs is to make it easy for the searching human to…

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Basic SEO Elements for your website

As a business owner, you know you want to be found on the first search engine results page (SERP). You have been trying hard to be found but it seems like you need some type of black magic to get to the top of the first page, right? Truth is, there are lots of factors…

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