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Why We Don’t Specialize in an Industry

Why We Don’t Specialize in an Industry

One concern we have noticed quite a few business owners have when they approach us at events is they’re worried about whether we would work with their direct competitors. To ease any concerns around this topic, we decided to create a separate blog to focus solely on...

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YouTube Announces Faster Content ID Appeals Process

YouTube Announces Faster Content ID Appeals Process

On July 18th, Creator Insider announced on their YouTube channel that YouTube is implementing a new, faster way to appeal your Content ID strikes (copyright strikes). This faster appeals process skips over the “dispute” part of a copyright strike, and offers a new...

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What Happens During a Discovery Call?

What Happens During a Discovery Call?

When a business asks Sajid, our founder, to hop on a discovery call with him, he is usually thoughtful and careful. He wants to qualify you so that we only get on calls with the right people and don’t waste both of our time. Some businesses use the discovery call not...

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Part 1: Focusing on SEO Alone isn’t Enough

Part 1: Focusing on SEO Alone isn’t Enough

Consumers are constantly changing how they discover new products and services, so businesses, too, must evolve how they reach their customers and potential customers. Pumping time and money into only SEO may improve your conversions, but relying on Organic Search...

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Who Do We Choose to Work With?

Who Do We Choose to Work With?

When people reach out to us and ask for our services, we have a process that we use to determine if our business will be the right fit for them. Here are the qualities we look for in a culture check for our potential clients:   1. Value alignment We choose to only...

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Retargeting

Retargeting

In the world of marketing, retargeting is a process that is one of the vital strategies for long-term success but is difficult to nail down and get right. The reason it’s so vital is because 97% of people who visit your site for the first time leave without purchasing...

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Measuring Marketing Attribution

Measuring Marketing Attribution

The average customer uses 10 channels or touchpoints to interact with companies before making a transaction, which creates a unique challenge when trying to measure the impact of individual channels on an entire campaign. Omni channel attribution is one of the tools...

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PageSpeed Metrics Updates

PageSpeed Metrics Updates

Last month, Google updated its PageSpeed Metrics with two new Lighthouse speed metrics. These new tools were labeled as “experimental.” Because of this, it means that it could be adjusted or changed in the future. Google Lighthouse is a free tool that provides...

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Email Marketing

Email Marketing

If you’re like most people in this day in age, your email inbox is probably flooded with spam messages from corporations trying to reach you upwards of three to five times a day. I mean, who even has time to read all of those?  In this blog, we will teach you all the...

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When a Traffic Spike Occurs Overnight

When a Traffic Spike Occurs Overnight

Your traffic just spiked overnight - this is exactly what you wanted! But, before you start celebrating make sure that the traffic spike is in fact genuine users who are visiting your site – rather than spam. This article is going to detail the steps to take to...

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How Do I Choose the Right Google Ads Agency?

How Do I Choose the Right Google Ads Agency?

Google Ads can change your demand generation and capture strategy on steroids by putting your business infront of people who are actively seeking the products and solutions that your business provides. A good experienced Google Ads agency can be the difference between...

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The Importance of Marketing

The Importance of Marketing

Marketing is the essential driving force behind any vision or sale that a business creates. In fact, after the pandemic took a hit on a lot of businesses, Salesforce found that sixty-six percent of marketers expect revenue growth over the next 12 to 18 months. Whether...

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Part 1: What is Performance Max?

Part 1: What is Performance Max?

If you ever wondered if you could use automation and machine learning to improve your marketing ROI, Performance Max campaigns are the right fit for you. As the name suggests, this new kind of Google Ads campaign creates a culmination of different automated ads,...

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6 Best Fairfax VA Google Ads Agencies

6 Best Fairfax VA Google Ads Agencies

Digital marketing is a diverse field with a lot of different emphasis and specialties that agencies can zero in on. With nearly 5.4 million small businesses created just last year, there are plenty of opportunities to help take startups or multi-million dollar...

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How to Rank Seasonal E-Commerce Products?

How to Rank Seasonal E-Commerce Products?

With the passing of various holidays and seasons, businesses will experience great fluctuations in website traffic, purchase intent, customer interests, and advertisement costs. A seasonal business must tailor its marketing strategy to get the most out of every...

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Does Word Count Really Matter For SEO Content?

Does Word Count Really Matter For SEO Content?

Finding the best strategy for search engine optimization (SEO) is a never-ending journey with Google’s continually shifting algorithms. There are so many factors that affect SEO, such as keywords, images, alt text, and more, so what about word count? There have been...

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About Duplicate Content

About Duplicate Content

What is Duplicate Content?Duplicate content is when the same content copy appears on more than one page. This can occur either on your site or another site you do not control. We recently received a question from our marketing group regarding duplicate content, which...

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Why Avoid Google Search Partners

Why Avoid Google Search Partners

What are Google Search Partners?Google Search Partners are websites that have partnered with Google to show ads, which extends the available ad space that Google can use for search ads to include other websites, instead of only the Google search results pages (SERPs)....

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How Google / YouTube Understands Content in Videos

How Google / YouTube Understands Content in Videos

What happens after you post a video to your site or YouTube? How does Google’s search engine understand the content in the video in order to provide accurate search results? Gary Illyes and Lizzi Sassman from the Google Search Central team and Danielle Marshak, a...

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SEO Best Practices for Alt Text

SEO Best Practices for Alt Text

Alt-text is shorthand for Alternative Text for Images. It describes what is in an image for people who are accessing a web page with a screen reader. This is used for people with visual impairments and helps to read computer documents aloud so the person can listen to...

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How Page Experience Ranking Factors Actually Work

How Page Experience Ranking Factors Actually Work

Page Experience is a set of signals that measures how users perceive interacting with a web page on both desktop and mobile devices beyond the pure informational value. For more general details on what Page Experience is, check out our recent blog post. This blog will...

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The Secret to High Converting Ads

The Secret to High Converting Ads

Nowadays, you can’t just slap an ad up and expect the money to start rolling in. Ad conversion rates matter, and it can often take months or even years to create high-converting ads. Stop wasting your time and money, and pay attention to the factors that can help you...

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How to Prepare for the Future with Google Analytics 4

How to Prepare for the Future with Google Analytics 4

What is Google Analytics 4?Two and a half years ago, Google Analytics 4 (GA4) was introduced. It has the flexibility to measure many different types of data and allows businesses to understand the user journey across different websites and apps, with machine learning...

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SEO Optimization for Website Migration

SEO Optimization for Website Migration

We’ve all been there before. Your brand changes and you want to change your domain name. You have design upgrades to make to your website. So you need a site migration. But, with all the moving pieces and potential for errors, your SEO ranking, and traffic drop...

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Syncing WooCommerce to Google Merchant Center

Syncing WooCommerce to Google Merchant Center

WooCommerce simplifies the process of developing and administering an eCommerce website by converting your website into an operation eCommerce store, with critical capabilities such as agility and payment processing. In this article, we will delve into how you, as a...

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Consent Mode in Google Analytics

Consent Mode in Google Analytics

What is it? Consent Mode in Google Analytics helps marketers manage consumer consent on a given site, created in response to European data regulations regarding consent. With Consent Mode, Google tags will dynamically adapt behavior depending on what cookies the user...

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Key Takeaways From SMXCreate, part 2

Key Takeaways From SMXCreate, part 2

Optimizing content for increased findability You know that you should be watching what people do on your site often, even outside the SEO context. Here at marketANDgrow, we like to watch these statistics daily. We usually watch what users are doing on our site, where...

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What We Learned From SMXCreate

What We Learned From SMXCreate

It’s time to share everything valuable and useful that we have learned from lessons and workshops by SMXCreate. Their training explored how great content and ad copy are implemented to drive awareness, traffic, conversions, and sales. In this blog post, we are going...

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Introduction To Google Shopping Ads

Introduction To Google Shopping Ads

Shopping ads are widely used by retailers to promote online and local inventory and find better qualified leads by boosting traffic to a website or a local shop. In contrast with search or display ads, shopping ads let you include a picture of your product, a title,...

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