Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Traditionally, SEO was primarily about keyword optimization and links and ranking well on search engines like Google and Bing. While these elements remain important, search engines today evaluate a much more complex set of ranking factors. The very definition of a search engine has evolved.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Below, I have outlined eight strategic aspects that have stood the test of time and are still worth investing resources in. We can now push the design and functional limits of UI and UX. In many cases, search engines can see it. It is as important today as when search engines first started crawling the web.

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Salesforce

APRIL 26, 2022

Or maybe you have a visual design, user experience (UX), or strategy background and now specialize in the Salesforce Platform. Other times, it means aligning strategic directions with business needs. As a Salesforce Designer, you can specialize in different areas of design—notably, UX design and strategy design. SIGN UP TODAY.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Creating better content and a better UX allows you to get all the traffic vs. the referral. Beyond SEO tools, explore customer surveys, referring URLs, and PPC data for strategic insights. Shift your focus, embrace strategic approaches and watch your business thrive.

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Search Engine Land

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In my previous article, “ B2B SaaS SEO: Mapping your keywords to the customer journey ,” I discussed strategically influencing B2B SaaS customer journeys through keyword analysis and content tagging. Let’s delve into how SEO strategically aligns with the five stages to enhance the online shopping experience and boost sales.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But need it to make sure search engines can read your content and explore your site. The main areas to consider here are: Crawl: Can a search engine explore your site? Indexing: Is it clear which pages the search engine should index? Indexing: Is it clear which pages the search engine should index?

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Understanding the 2023 holiday landscape Start strategizing by researching and understanding the consumer trends shaping the 2023 holiday landscape, especially as they relate to your customer and product. Pay attention to their backlink profile, site user experience (UX), and keyword targeting. Strategic timing Timing is everything.

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Search Engine Land

JULY 18, 2023

Maybe SEO is not the first initiative anyone thinks of when strategizing how to incorporate macroeconomic angles inxto their marketing campaigns, but you’re missing the boat if you don’t. What fears, ambitions, or questions do those point to that you can address with UX and content?

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

From a UX perspective, Google scaled back on the initial look , which was taking over most of the SERP. It might not guarantee success, but you’ll have a solid foundation that will make strategic pivots easier to pull off. appeared first on Search Engine Land. Potential shifts in user behavior. Where do we stand on SGE?

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 16, 2024

Frequent readers of Search Engine Land – and all SEOs, for that matter – know why: GA4 wasn’t ready for prime time when Google forced us to make the switch, and we’re still working through kinks months later. We entered 2023 talking about GA4 and we’re doing the same thing in 2024.

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Salesforce

AUGUST 8, 2023

This is where generative AI opens up countless possibilities to streamline and accelerate the strategic design process. While we’re all still learning about prompt engineering, designers are well-suited to pick up the concepts quickly. Generative AI is a powerful tool with the potential to revolutionize UX design.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

By embracing curiosity, you uncover the latest in SEO, UX best practices, project management, and even “minor” skills like creating helpful prioritization matrices. It's time to think beyond boundaries and collaborate with content creators, developers, CRO specialists, UX designers, and UI experts. It's time to dream big.

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Highspot

DECEMBER 21, 2021

21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Highspot , the sales enablement platform that increases the performance of sales teams, today announced the expansion of its leadership team with four industry leaders across engineering, product, account management, revenue strategy and sales. SEATTLE, Dec. billion annual revenue.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It’s an eye-catching example of what’s known as sensory marketing, which is a strategic approach that leverages the human senses to shape consumer perceptions and actions, according to Harvard Business Review. Use strategic visual cues to guide user attention on landing pages, like signposts directing a path. So, why does it work?

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Learning to do strategic keyword research for SEO allows you to navigate the clutter and noise of search marketing, leading you to the treasure trove of targeted traffic, higher rankings, and increased conversions. Users who type their queries into search engines have a specific goal in mind. But only when it’s appropriately harnessed.

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Martech

AUGUST 11, 2021

That marketing automation would take away all the tedious, repetitive marketing tasks that marketers hated, freeing them up to focus on more creative and strategic projects. What was the promise of marketing automation when it was a new category in 2004? be grouped together as Integration Platform as a Service, or IPaaS.

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Search Engine Land

MARCH 14, 2023

Make it easy for search engines. Fast load speed and an overall good UX drive conversions from paid and organic traffic. You can conserve budget, or you can strategically reinvest it to capture market share, turning a gloomy economic climate into an opportunity for growth. Adjust your page URLs for maximum SEO value (if you can.)

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Search Engine Land

JUNE 26, 2023

SWOT: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats A SWOT analysis is a strategic planning tool that identifies: S trengths. Adapting SWOT analysis for SEO Being the hard-optimizing, dynamic, search engine-slaying marketers that we are, we can take this classic marketing tool and then adapt it for SEO to create something entirely new.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Larcker writing for HBR , businesses tend to measure too many things when they don’t strategically choose what to focus on: Christopher D. I’m sure there’s an example out there somewhere where someone quantifiably reduced the UX of a site and increased conversions – but I’ve never heard of such a thing.

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Martech

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

You have engineering centers, people in the field, people in flex spaces, remote team members. From a strategic perspective, we don’t want to pick and choose [integrations].”. For instance, in Roam, when people go into the large theater for presentations, they encounter several levels of interaction coded into the UX.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

You also get product advantages through data integrations becoming much stronger, and you get shared UX patterns, so usage gets easier. When you build, you need to cordon off resources on the engineering product side and make clear who owns it. On top of that, if you have elements you can copy, you can build new products faster.

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Lead Fuze

MAY 26, 2023

One of the top-notch SEO tools out there is Semrush , which can help boost your visibility on search engines and attract potential clients. Automate repetitive tasks and save precious time for more strategic endeavors. We’ve got you covered with a strategic and professional approach. Say goodbye to manual work. No problem.

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Hubspot

JANUARY 18, 2018

During our focused five-day session, we collaborated with our SEO cohorts to make several strategic adjustments based on design thinking exercises. First, we assembled the ideal cross-functional team for the project, which included a UX designer, a UX writer, a product manager, a marketing manager, and an engineer.

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Search Engine Land

JANUARY 25, 2024

Despite being a highly popular organic search engine with clear benefits, YouTube is underutilized by many companies. How to advertise on YouTube in 7 steps Like any marketing strategy, advertising on YouTube requires plenty of research, crafting a strategic approach, and analyzing your success.

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Smarter With Gartner

JULY 30, 2021

Many modern-day product teams continue to create original UX designs and craft digital experiences from scratch. A design system is one of the most important strategic assets for your company. Download eBook: 3 Key Goals for Software Engineering Leaders to Sustain Digital Momentum. What value does a design system add?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Freelancers can also work in critical roles like product engineering. The team has created 900+ multichannel assets with contributions from a range of freelancers—UX designers, motion designers, writers, project managers, and creative directors. . UpWork has over 350 freelance developers enhancing its core mobile and web apps.

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Search Engine Land

MAY 12, 2023

Creating topic hubs (also called pillar pages ) within your resource center helps search engines better understand the relationships between pages and topics – which may boost your SEO. That’s why working with a web designer or UX designer at the building stage is important to ensure the page looks and functions well.

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Capterra Sales & Marketing Software

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The key is thinking strategically and developing a roadmap that will lead to actual business growth, rather than a set of unrelated tactics. To accomplish this, you need to consider what your users need in tandem with the search engines because ultimately, your goal should be driving more customers with your efforts.

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Hubspot

MARCH 18, 2020

Search Engine Optimization Team. SEO teams should be excellent problem-solvers and think about how to optimize content specifically for search engines. Comprehending analytics and optimizing content for SEO purposes will help your business rank on search engines and reach new prospects, or nurture leads until they're ready to purchase.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 31, 2017

Julien Nouet , Global Frontend & UX Manager at Lacoste, reviews it here: Julien Nouet: “We first started using Kameleoon to A/B test our website to make sure our clients were happy with the experience we offer. UX has some room for improvement. They are quick to respond and provide valuable strategic insights.”

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

And recent trends have placed on page UX factors higher in importance that old factors like keyword density. Google Doesn’t Want to Penalize Better UX. So, Google (and other search engines) are highly unlikely to penalize for A/B testing. So they update their algorithms religiously to try to do that. Google runs A/B tests.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

But better, with higher ACVs, and a more practiced sales and marketing engine. And with strategic upgrades to the team. Don’t get mad because your VP of Product really isn’t that great at say, UI/UX. Drive from $2m to $10m ARR on the path of least resistance. Mistake #9: Not backfilling enough. How to backfill.

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Capterra Sales & Marketing Software

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

The key is thinking strategically and developing a roadmap that will lead to actual business growth, rather than a set of unrelated tactics. To accomplish this, you need to consider what your users need in tandem with the search engines because ultimately, your goal should be driving more customers with your efforts.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 24, 2017

The future seems to belong to those moving far past myopic CRO practices and into the strategic and universal realms. research, data analysis, UX, psychology, copywriting, design and many more skills).”. But human creativity and strategic input still applies. Just read this (terribly lacking) Wikipedia page for CRO.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 22, 2020

If your SEO (search engine optimization) and PPC (pay per click) teams exist in complete silos, it's time to change that. For example, if you Google "sales funnel" the search engine results page (SERP) indicates you're looking for the definition of a sales funnel. For the record, I don't agree.). Video carousels. Image packs.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Marketers use alt text so their images are optimized for any kind of viewer, like someone with images disabled in their browser, and so search engines like Google can “read” the image and return it in results for relevant queries. 5) Algorithms. 6) Personalization. Put plainly: You don’t want your customers to churn.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Marketers use alt text so their images are optimized for any kind of viewer, like someone with images disabled in their browser, and so search engines like Google can “read” the image and return it in results for relevant queries. 5) Algorithms. 6) Personalization. Put plainly: You don’t want your customers to churn.

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