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How Adopting SEO Best Practices Will Increase Your Brand Awareness and Drive Sales

Got questions about SEO? Act-On’s eBook is a collection of common questions, with answers created to help you make sense of search engine optimization.
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Each year, there is talk among the search engine marketing community whether or not SEO is still valuable to a business.

The short answer is that SEO still matters – a lot.

Watch this short video interview in which I interview Anvil Media’s Kent Lewis on why SEO is still important and why it matters for B2B companies.

Of the three important factors affecting your organization’s SEO, two are under your control:

  • The pieces of the puzzle that make up an SEO campaign, e.g., content, meta data, link earning, on-page optimization, etc.
  • The technical components (e.g. site architecture, formats) associated with search crawler efficiency

The key factor you can’t affect is how, when, or why search engines adjust or significantly change their algorithms.

Each year, Google changes its search algorithm around 500–600 times. Most of these are updates or minor tweaks, but some (notably the first iterations of  Panda and Penguin) have been major, and one (Hummingbird, 2013) was entirely new. Every new update impacts the organic search landscape in ways that potentially change how businesses are able to connect with qualified online consumers.

The good news is, that while it’s difficult to keep up with every new rule and consideration that impact your company’s online visibility, you don’t actually need to do that. If you understand what organic search is all about and the best practices for making SEO successful, you’ll know what you need to, in order to reap the benefits. Knowing the wrong things to do is helpful, but understanding the right things to do and putting them into play is, overall, more powerful.

According to consumer behavior research done by Google and other industry authorities:

For these reasons and more, it makes sense to hammer through the noise and answer the most common, the most pressing, questions about SEO.[

Act-On’s new eBook, “Your Most Common SEO Questions, Answered,” does just that. Download the book and peruse it at your leisure, and then let us know what you think. Got a burning question the eBook doesn’t answer? Let us know, and we’ll get an answer for you.

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