Search Articles and News

Browse through the most recent search articles and news from the team at emagine. We cover all aspects of SEO, PPC, and digital marketing strategy.

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Best Practices for Creating SEO Friendly Content

Today’s post focuses on best practices for SEO friendly content. It will walk through the importance of creating SEO friendly content for humans and search engines, it will discuss the process of creating SEO focused content, and then it will wrap up with a checklist for on-page optimization efforts.

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Google Maketh and Taketh Away

Last November, Google unveiled four new metrics that report on where ads show up on the Search Engine Results Page. Last month, Google announced that these metrics will completely supplant Average Position starting in September of this year.

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PPC FAQs: Our Most Commonly Received PPC Questions

Our Digital Marketing Services team has many years of experience helping businesses embrace digital advertising. As a result of this ongoing client interaction, we’ve compiled the list of the most common PPC questions we’ve received over the years. The PPC FAQs are available to help you get started on your journey to what has now become the most popular advertising method.

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Back to Basics: PPC 101

As much fun as it is to get into the nitty-gritty details of digital marketing, we realize that not all of our readers are looking for that level of tactical discussion. To that end, we’d like to take a moment to provide a PPC 101 and get down to basics. In this article, we’ll review what PPC is, why you should use it, and how PPC ad bidding and placement work.

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How the Broad Match Modifier Can Amplify Your PPC Efforts

With the release of Google’s broad match modifier, search engine marketers have questions. What is it? How is the modified broad match type different than phrase match? How I do make the most of it in my digital marketing strategy? In today’s post, we’ll look how each match type is defined, how you’re probably misusing them in your keyword strategies, and how to make the most of Google’s broad match modifier for paid ad results and beyond.

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PPC vs. SEO: Which One is Right for You and Your Organization?

While PPC and SEO both help brands achieve a strong presence on Google’s search results page, they are actually quite different, both in terms of execution and how success should be measured.  PPC refers to ads that live at the top of each Search Engine Results Page (SERP), while organic SEO listings appear below the ads.

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SEO Changes in 2018

It’s no secret that SEO is an ever-evolving industry and will continue to be for years to come. Believe it or not, 2018 happened to be one of the most active years for SEO changes.