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Having a company blog can be extremely beneficial to your business in many ways. As high-quality, informative content becomes an increasingly important factor in determining how sites will rank in search results, many businesses are discovering the immense power of having a blog on their company website to increase rankings, increase traffic, expand brand awareness and drive conversions. Today on the Volume 9 blog, we are going to take a look into what kind of…
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With a year of beta testing in the books, Google moved Universal Analytics to production status in April 2014. While every site had the option of making the move during beta testing, it’s safe to say many webmasters were hesitant to make the change without more information. Would you lose historical data? Did customization of analytics port over to the new platform? More importantly, if you liked your Google Analytics, were you allowed to keep…
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Reviews, comments, and other forms of UGC (user generated content) frequently become a focus of social media marketing and brand management – but did you know that they are also important for ecommerce SEO? Yes, reviewing or commenting on products and posts can indeed give you a better page ranking, provided you use the right tools and make commenting options easy to find and use. Read on to find out why you should be encouraging…
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Happy social media day from Volume Nine! To celebrate this historic day, we challenge you to take the ultimate quiz: What Social Media Personality are You? Once you’re finished, share your results! Then connect with us on all our social media platforms: Facebook @V9SEO Google + YouTube
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You’ve got video content. Loads of it. From behind the scenes clips of your business environment to educational tutorials — they need to be shared with the world. So, where should you post them? Today we’re diving into video sharing platforms. Have you always wondered what the difference is between Vimeo and YouTube? We’ve got answers. But, before clicking the Upload button, it’s crucial for a company to decide: What are my goals for this…
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Wikipedia labels well over 200 social media sites as “notable and well-known,” excluding the enormous amount of dating websites out there! Pinterest, Yelp!, Google+, Yammer, MySpace (Yessir! JT’s putting it back on the map!), the list of social media sites just goes on, and on, and on, and … on. When you utilize social media for business use, remember there’s a site for just about everyone, and competition is fierce. So whether you’re a sharing…
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Whether you own a business or serve as the marketing guru of someone else’s, your is mission simple: get everyone to purchase your products and/or services. Well, maybe it’s not that simple. And maybe you shouldn’t really be marketing to EVERYONE. Before you start promoting your business willy-nilly to the whole world, it’s wise to narrow the focus to people who are actually interested in what you offer. So this begs the question, how are…
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If your business is just hopping on the blogging bandwagon, or even if you’ve been blogging for years, you may be struggling with the management part of it all. And at the top of that management mountain; figuring out who will be doing all this blogging??? In the SEO biz, blogging is considered just one piece of the “content marketing” pie. And we at Volume Nine (or SEO experts, if you will…) are happy to…
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Since Volume Nine tracks the search rankings for a large number of clients, we noticed a shift in March that has led to significant fluctuations in Google search results. As of now, there has not been an official statement from Google regarding an algorithm shift, but SEO Roundtable had some interesting findings when looking at manual penalties. Given the variance across a number of websites, the recent shifts have the makings of a potential algorithm…
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Have you noticed that over the past year or so Google search results have become much more robust and eye-catching with the use of photos and special call out sections? What most internet marketers don’t know is that priming your site to achieve those robust search results is not reserved solely for Wikipedia and other web giants. HTML markup is a way to take content you already own on your web site and call out…
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