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What is an Editorial Calendar?

The standard for content marketing has skyrocketed in recent years. With more and more businesses seeing the value of a solid content marketing strategy, along with search algorithms rewarding websites with high-quality content, good execution is a must. And good execution relies on great strategy. Here at Volume Nine, we believe that a good content marketing strategy starts with a solidly researched and planned editorial calendar. What is an editorial calendar, exactly? An editorial calendar…

The Essential SEO Website Launch Checklist

Launching a new website is always a very tricky prospect from an SEO perspective. Without taking the proper steps and precautions, a launch has the potential to result in a dramatic loss of SEO rankings and traffic. It is essential to have a comprehensive SEO strategy and checklist for any website launch or re-design. What are the key elements of a website launch checklist to avoid SEO pitfalls? The items below are core pieces of…

How to Manage Local SEO for Your Business with Multiple Locations

Managing the online presence of a business with multiple locations will take effort to plan, execute, and maintain, but it will be time well spent. Drawing visitors to your local business as the best answer for products or services they seek online is the main goal and reward for implementing an effective Local SEO strategy. More rewards The rewards for performing Local SEO for multi-location businesses are highly valuable and multi-fold: Website traffic – highly…

How to Disavow Links – A Guide to Disavow.txt

At this point, there’s a good chance you’re aware that Google’s Disavow Tool exists. The disavow feature has been around for several years, and there has been no shortage of documentation on the tool within the SEO community. A quick search of “How to Disavow Links” yields roughly 397,000 results. Whew. Within this post, our goal will be to speak plain English and empower anyone with a keyboard the ability to disavow links safely, correctly,…

How Can Blogging Help My Business?

As a business owner or marketing manager, you’ve likely been told that blogging is a powerful way for getting the word out about your company. However, when done correctly, blogging can do much more than inform consumers about your products. If you’re on the fence about the efficacy of blogging, take it from us – blogging can help your business. Here are eight benefits you’ll see from starting and maintaining a company blog: Increase your…

What are Facebook Chat Bots, and How Do I Use Them?

In April of this year, Facebook introduced chatbots for their messenger service, opening up an entirely new avenue for businesses to reach consumers. Since Messenger is the second most popular app on iOS – over 900 million people actively use it each month – the announcement about the new feature generated quite a lot of buzz. Chatbots have powerful potential when it comes to online customer relationship management for your business. Here’s everything you need…

What is “Good Content,” and How Do I Create It?

What is good content? Is there a formula for creating good content on a consistent basis? You betcha. Top performing content, including viral content, has some things that are easy to replicate. Use this eight-item checklist to crank out good content on a consistent basis. Is your content original? Whether you are composing a tweet with an image or using an image in a blog, an original image can be essential for your audience. Take…

How to Write a Perfect Meta Description

Regretfully, meta descriptions are often a less-loved stepchild of the SEO world. And while that analogy may seem a little brash, we jump to these extremes because, with a relatively little effort, updates to missing or poorly-optimized meta descriptions can often lead to positive change for your website. Let’s discuss how to write a meta description further, beginning first with a few basics and then transitioning into a few best practices and useful tools: Meta…

Technical SEO Checklist – What Really Matters?

A technical SEO checklist can help to identify issues that often get in the way of you leveraging the ranking and traffic potential of content campaigns and make you feel like you’re just spinning and not seeing organic search growth.  Having done hundreds of Technical SEO audits in my career, I can tell you that I’ve never seen a site “ace” it.  So the question becomes, how much is too much, and when do you…

New Google Posts Feature in Google My Business [Case Study]

Google Posts went live recently for most Google My Business (GMB) customers. It enables businesses on GMB to instantly share info and a link to whatever page they’d like, right in the Knowledge Pane, on Google Search and Google Maps. These localized Page 1 search result inclusions show up instantly, are highly targeted, and can be shared socially across Facebook, Twitter, G+ and email. Here at Volume Nine, we were excited to try this new…