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Greg McNeil

Web Accessibility and Search Engine Optimization: a Powerful Combination

On-page search engine optimization (SEO) and web accessibility are two crucial components of a successful website. But what many people don’t realize is that web accessibility and SEO have a lot more in common than you might think. Both aim to make websites more usable and understandable, whether fo

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The Small Business Marketing Guide to Surviving COVID-19

The coronavirus (COVID-19) has been a drastic agent of change across the globe. It’s forced us to adapt how we live and work to the new pandemic environment. If things go right and we flatten the coronavirus curve, we could be social distancing for quite a while. Already, this has put many small bus

Greg McNeil

Marketing Meets the Age of eCommerce

In 2017, Cyber Monday shoppers raked in a record-breaking $6.59 billion dollars. It was recorded as the largest online shopping day ever with sales increasing 16.8% over the year prior. It even topped Black Friday online sales by $1.5 billion, if you can believe it. With numbers climbing each year,

Greg McNeil

Simplicity is Key to Conversions: User Experience (UX) Produces Profit

Our brains are handling a lot right now. Processing work, making plans for the weekend, reminding you to breathe. You clearly have a lot on your plate. When it comes to focus and cognitive thinking, however, as humans we operate a bit differently. The human brain is not an automated processor meant

Greg McNeil

5 SEO Metrics That Won’t Fail: The Recipe for A Good, Old-Fashioned Organic Listing

Between algorithms and techniques, SEO is constantly evolving in order to deliver the best results to users everywhere. With each and every update, best practices are changing and it is vital to stay on top of the game. The best way to remain relevant and become a front-runner with your content is t

Greg McNeil

SEO in 2018: Times They are a Changin’

A new year is upon us and with it a plethora of updates and algorithm changes to make you second guess your ranking methods. From Google’s surprise, mid-december Maccabee update to the FCC’s net neutrality repeal, 2017 was full of web-related shifts. So to help, we’ve compiled a list of some the bes

Greg McNeil

Black Friday Shopping: Is Your Online Business Ready?

America’s favorite shopping season is right around the corner and with it a barrage of online bargain shoppers. Is your site ready to handle the Black Friday shopping rush? If the answer is anything but yes, you may want to consider a quick preparatory revamp. Why? Because the year-end holiday seaso

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106 Content Marketing Tips: The Big Book on Content Marketing

The ULTIMATE Guide for Brands Who Want to Publish Brands are joining the content marketing frenzy every day. If you haven’t started practicing content marketing yet, it’s high time you did. But where do you start? How do you work with available resources, affordable publishing tools, and strangers w

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How Link-Building Services Boost Your SEO — ANIMATED Infographic!

The days of rocking SEO with spam links are over. Today’s SEO game is all about building high-quality, high-authority, contextual backlinks. Google is smarter than ever, and that means webmasters need to get on board. Link-building services ensure that your site publishes great content marketing—the

Greg McNeil

Content Marketing for Local Business

Editor’s note: We first published this article in the Digital Marketing Pulse on Cleveland.com. It was so popular, we’ve republished it here. Content marketing is a bit of a buzzword these days—and for good reason. With the changes which the internet has wrought to marketing, interruption-based adve

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