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The SEO Metrics That Matter Most

Knowing which KPIs – or key performance indicators – for SEO are the most important to track is crucial to the success of your organic strategy and can help guide future content creation. Today, 53.3% of online traffic comes from organic searches. Not only does this mean that SEO is more important...

What Is Click Through Rate? How Do I Maintain A High CTR?

Click through rate, or CTR, is a performance metric that helps you understand your audience and what content resonates. However, a good CTR doesn’t always mean higher conversions or better engagement with your site. If you have a high CTR but you’re not seeing purchases from those users, you are...

Increase Your Domain Authority With Quality Backlinks

Backlinks are foundational to SEO and play an influential role in search engine ranking. If you are a trusted website that receives backlinks from other sites, search engines like Google will also see you as trustworthy. This will give your pages better opportunity at ranking well, improve your...

A Guide to Structured Data

Marketers, developers and search engine optimization specialists have been talking about structured data since before 2011, when Google, Bing, Yahoo! And Yandex decided to collaborate on and support an open source platform to define entities and their attributes. This collaboration led to the...

Use SEO and PPC Together For Maximum SERP Real Estate

While SEO and PPC are unique channels that both work well alone, combining insights and data from the two for greater results and more visibility can help your overall digital marketing strategy and help increase your ranks in the SERPs. What is the difference between SEO and PPC? SEO (search...

Complete Your Mobile SEO Strategy With This Guide

Beginning in September 2020, Google will be switching to mobile-first indexing for all websites. Currently, 70% the sites appearing in Google SERPs are already mobile-friendly. Is your site ready for mobile-first indexing? What is mobile SEO? Mobile SEO is the practice of optimizing...

An Overview of HTTP Status Codes

HTTP status codes are easy to understand but the issues that arise they identify can be complicated to fix. Monitoring the status codes and addressing issues are critical to long-term performance of your website. What is an HTTP status code? Every time you visit a website, such as...

Rank For Lawyer SEO Terms Relevant To Your Firm

How should law firms do SEO? The legal vertical is one of the most competitive in search, and for good reason. Paid advertisements and aggregator sites including Avvo, Justia, and Super Lawyers fill the first half of the SERPs for a majority of the industry’s top keywords including specialty...

SEO Now Research For B2B Tech

As states rolled out social distancing orders, BrightEdge began a deep dive into the digital world and the shift in search behaviors. We discovered that SEO is more important now than it ever has been before. We also discovered where search trends are headed in the future. In this installment of...

Search Insights For The Financial Industry

As businesses use their digital presence to communicate with consumers, the keyword “SEO” hit a new high in April 2020 with 1.5 million monthly searches. Brands are leveraging SEO more than ever to increase organic traffic over the last few months and for good reason. Digital marketing...

The Importance of SEO For E-commerce and Retail

SEO is more important now than ever before as search trends and buying behaviors continue to change throughout this era of uncertainty. In a continuation of our BrightEdge Research series, today we’ll look at how COVID-19 has affected search behavior and heightened the importance of SEO. E-...

SEO Now For Higher Education

If at the start of 2020 we could have known that our lives would be dramatically changed, could we have been more prepared for the events that have taken place over the last few months? COVID-19 has taken over the lives of most of the world and while families work to develop some type of normalcy,...