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Pam Aungst Cronin

Recently named one of the “Top 10 Best Women in SEO,” Pam Aungst Cronin, M.B.A. is widely recognized as an expert in SEO, PPC, Google Analytics, and WordPress. A self-proclaimed “geek”, Pam began studying computer programming at 6 years old, started creating websites in 1997 and has been working professionally in the field of e-commerce since 2005. Referred to by Sprout Social as a “Twitter Success Story,” she harnessed the power of social media to launch her own agency in 2011. Pam travels all over the country speaking at conferences and guest lecturing at universities. Click here to read her full bio.

How to optimize your WordPress site to boost Core Web Vitals

How to Optimize Your WordPress Site to Boost Core Web Vitals

This past summer, we shared Google’s announcement that “page experience signals would be included in Google Search ranking.” This new performance evaluation is meant to ensure users have the best and most helpful search experience possible. Google did give plenty of advanced notice prior to the May 2021 rollout of this new experience evaluation — which combines […]

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Google My Business is testing a new Call History feature.

Google My Business is Testing a New Call History Feature

Google My Business is a “free tool that allows you to promote your Business Profile and business website on Google Search and Maps.” Through your Google My Business account, “you can see and connect with your customers, post updates to your Business Profile, and see how customers are interacting with your business on Google.” Earlier

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How to set up Google Analytics campaign tracking.

How to Set Up Google Analytics Campaign Tracking

You’ve brainstormed and come up with the marketing plan for your business. You’ve built and launched your email campaign, paid ad campaigns, and social media campaigns. Now you’re tasked with tracking the ROI of your marketing efforts. As Digital Marketer states, tracking the ROI from your marketing campaigns can “[transform] your business from one that

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Guest Blog Posting Tips and Tricks — My Two Cents on the Subject as Quoted in a Recent SE Ranking Article

While guest blog posting might be touted as an effective marketing strategy for growing brand awareness, driving referral traffic to your website, and building quality backlinks, I think your time and resources could be better spent elsewhere. Anyone who’s ever written quality digital content, whether that’s the copy to post to your business’s social profiles

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Why does your Google ranking keep changing?

Why Your Google Ranking Keeps Changing

You’ve done your keyword research. You’ve ensured your keywords are distributed throughout your website and your content. And your hard work has paid off: you’ve achieved the top ranking on Google’s search engine results page (SERP)! You’re riding high on your achievement, and then, all of a sudden, your Google ranking has dropped. You want

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How to generate an XML sitemap in WordPress.

How to Generate an XML Sitemap in WordPress

Since 2019, Google has been working with WordPress to incorporate the ability to generate XML sitemaps. Google’s Pascal Birchler recently announced that “in WordPress 5.5, a new feature is being introduced that adds basic, extensible XML sitemaps functionality in WordPress core.” Here’s what you need to know about this exciting new development and how to

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What's the difference between shared hosting and managed WordPress hosting for agencies?

What’s the Difference Between Shared Hosting and Managed WordPress Hosting for Agencies?

When you’re looking to launch a new website, two of the most important decisions you’ll need to make first are to choose: Your domain name. The domain name is your website’s address. Where you’re going to host your website. The web host is the place where all of your website files are located.  There are

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Creating an effective content marketing strategy.

Creating an Effective SEO Content Marketing Strategy

As I’ve mentioned in a previous blog post, SEO is vital to your company’s ultimate success. And a large part of that success comes down to creating and implementing an effective SEO content marketing strategy. SEO and content go hand in hand. As a recent Forbes article succinctly puts it, “SEO without content marketing is

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Which is better for SEO: meta robots tags vs. robots.txt?

Which is Better for SEO: Meta Robots Tags vs. Robots.txt?

Robots meta tags, or meta tags, are pieces of code that provide instructions to search engines for how to crawl or index web pages and content. There are three types of robots meta directives: Robots.txt: Use robots.txt if crawling of your content is causing issues on your server. Don’t use robots.txt to block private content. 

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