What a gift it is that local SEOs put hours of research into facets of our industry and then freely share their findings! Today, I’m going to bundle the most important recent local search marketing statistics and survey takeaways into a single gift basket, which you can draw from when…
December 2021
There are over 22,600 software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies in the world right now, according to Crunchbase. On Capterra, there are more than 800 software categories. Research by Statista indicates that the market size of the SaaS industry has grown from $5.56 billion in 2008 to over $156 billion in 2020. What…
Our top Whiteboard Friday episode of the year was originally published all the way back at the beginning of January! So much has happened in the marketing industry since then, but Cyrus’s 21 SEO tips for the year are still definitely smart, and these go way beyond the SEO basics. He’s also…
Meet the One Rand Man, an average 30-something-year-old living in Cape Town, South Africa. As an architect, he’s living his best life, eating out at swanky restaurants, buying rounds of tequila shots for the whole table, and splurging on clothing of the highest quality. He rarely tracks his finances. But…
As 2021 draws to a close, we’ll soon see compilations of the best (and worst) marketing campaigns of the year, which will likely include Geico’s Scoop There It Is ice cream, Nerf’s chief TikTok officer and, of course, Burger King’s “Women belong in the kitchen” tweet. These roundups are entertaining…
The majority of surveyed consumers say that about half of their searches have a local intent, while the other half of queries can be satisfied with remote solutions. On either side of the chess board are businesses hoping Google will surface them fairly for appropriate keywords. SEOs and marketers hear…
Coming up with that perfect Merry Christmas social post is like putting lights on the tree. Sounds great out loud, looks great in your head, then you start to execute and… The free images are cheesy, the good ones are watermarked. There are different image sizes for each platform. And…
Next up in our top three 2021 Whiteboard Friday episodes, in this installment from February, Andy Crestodina walks through how to get your message across successfully if you ever have to explain the importance of Domain Authority to clients or co-workers who have little or no SEO experience. Click on…
Take a trip back to high school with me real quick. The day everyone looks forward to. The release of… 🙌 the y e a r b o o k 🙌 You paid to be in it. You paid to get your copy. And now it’s yours. But do you start at…
Remember that giddy feeling on the first day of class? The instructor hands out the syllabus of everything that will be covered. Fast-forward a few weeks and you feel like you’re getting curveballs left and right? To put it mildly, that’s how running Google ads felt like in 2021. The…