Inbound Marketing, Content Marketing
Jeanna Barrett
First Page Roundup: The Inbound Marketing Funnel

Our August roundup covers everything from content creation strategies to a deep dive in the inbound marketing methodology and marketing funnel. Let’s get started! .

First Page Roundup: The Inbound Marketing Funnel
Inbound Marketing
Jeanna Barrett
Understanding The Inbound Marketing Funnel ...

What do most of us do when we have a question?

If you're like me you turn to Google. Within minutes I can be halfway through a blog post or video giving me the information I'm looking for. Now if we look at this process from the marketing side of things, I've just entered the inbound marketing funnel. So what will it take for me (a new lead) to take further actions and eventually make a purchase?

Understanding The Inbound Marketing Funnel & How to Get Leads
First Page Updates
Jeanna Barrett
Introducing the New First Page Brand in ...

Today I’m proud to roll out version two of First Page Strategy — three years, almost to the day, after I launched my business before moving to Belize in 2016. The first half of this year, we worked hard on reimagining the entire brand, and redesigning the website from the ground up. First Page is now sporting a sexy new look and our internet home base much more “US.”

Introducing the New First Page Brand in celebration of our 3-Year Anniversary
SEO
Jeanna Barrett
Does Your Small Business Need Help With SEO?

One of the more important questions to ask yourself today as a business owner is: do I need help with SEO? Search Engine Optimization is the art of making sure your website is being found in search engines by the thousands of people searching every day for the service your business provides.

If you’re not sure if you need help, let’s begin with opening a Google search in your internet browser and typing in your top keywords. Do you come up first on the web page? If not, the answer is clear, and you need help with your SEO.

Does Your Small Business Need Help With SEO?
Content Marketing, SEO
Jeanna Barrett
6 Reasons You Need to Make SEO a Priority In ...

SEO and content marketing go together like milk and cookies — you can’t (or shouldn’t) have one without the other. There are a variety of benefits from SEO. It demands fresh, new content and keywords to ensure your website can rank better. SEO also requires backlinks to your website. And, really great content naturally builds backlinks (for free!) as other brands and individuals link to your blog post.

6 Reasons You Need to Make SEO a Priority In Your Editorial Calendar

SEO

The First Page Guide to Doing Your Own Small Business SEO Audit and Plan

The First Page Guide to Doing Your Own Small Business SEO Audit and Plan

Small businesses often ask me for help with their SEO. And it’s understandable — SEO is very technical and can seem like “black magic.” If you haven’t kept up with the ever-changing optimization, Google algorithm updates and tactics, it can seem daunting to tackle. And, because SEO experts are highly sought after and hard to find, they are often paid well and not accessible to the average small business budget. As a small business owner, this might leave you feeling like SEO is something you’ll never be able to understand or tackle.

Does Your Small Business Need Help With SEO?

Does Your Small Business Need Help With SEO?

One of the more important questions to ask yourself today as a business owner is: do I need help with SEO? Search Engine Optimization is the art of making sure your website is being found in search engines by the thousands of people searching every day for the service your business provides.

If you’re not sure if you need help, let’s begin with opening a Google search in your internet browser and typing in your top keywords. Do you come up first on the web page? If not, the answer is clear, and you need help with your SEO.

First Page Roundup: The Experts Guide to SEO and Climbing The Google Ranks

First Page Roundup: The Experts Guide to SEO and Climbing The Google Ranks

SEO, backlinks, and google rankings can be a point of confusion for a lot of small businesses or digital marketers just getting started. But these marketing tools are often considered the backbone of any marketing strategy and an integral part of what we do at First Page. What good is amazing content if people can’t find it? This month’s roundup is highlighting the behind the scene tools necessary for your digital marketing machine to really thrive.

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6 Reasons You Need to Make SEO a Priority In Your Editorial Calendar

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6 Reasons You Need to Make SEO a Priority In Your Editorial Calendar

SEO and content marketing go together like milk and cookies — you can’t (or shouldn’t) have one without the other. There are a variety of benefits from SEO. It demands fresh, new content and keywords to ensure your website can rank better. SEO also requires backlinks to your website. And, really great content naturally builds backlinks (for free!) as other brands and individuals link to your blog post.

Backlinks & Link Building in 2018

Backlinks & Link Building in 2018

If you’ve ever had a discussion about SEO, you’ve definitely heard the terms “backlinks” and “link building.” Over the last decade, link building has remained one of the most effective ways of improving organic search results and driving increased traffic to websites. Remember how spammy the internet was in the early ‘90s? If you wrote a blog, you'd receive dozens to hundreds of comments saying, "Great post! Check out my business LINK." Now, Google has made it nearly impossible to link spam by creating an algorithm that only rewards very specific and strict link strategies. If you want your website to rank, you are forced to create high-quality links and content. Let’s dive a bit deeper.

Is Traditional SEO Dead with the Addition of Mobile & Voice Search?

Is Traditional SEO Dead with the Addition of Mobile & Voice Search?

Recently while on my Unsettled trip to Medellin, Colombia with other aspiring digital nomads, we were invited to share with the group our professional background. While explaining my marketing agency and our focus on growing businesses organic search and revenue through content/SEO, one of the group members asked me, "Well isn't that type of SEO dead? I don't use Google, I search for a restaurant on TripAdvisor, and I search for products on Amazon's mobile app." Another one said, "What about voice search?"

Both of these examples (mobile and voice search) are important mediums that are changing the way people search... and they're going to impact the SEO industry going forward. But, that doesn't mean that the content-focused SEO we've used in the last 5-10 years is dead. Let's take a look at how mobile and voice search might change our industry...

3 SEO Strategies for Driving Traffic to Your Website

3 SEO Strategies for Driving Traffic to Your Website

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the single most important marketing channel for a small business, and if you’re not investing in it today you need to be. Why is it the most important? I’ll let these SEO statistics speak for themselves:

  • 93% of all online experiences begin with a search engine such as Google or Bing
  • Search is the #1 driver of traffic to content sites, beating social media by more than 300%
  • 70-80% of users ignore paid search advertising and click on organic search results
  • 30% of all clicks in organic search results in Google go to the top three results
  • 72% of all people who performed a local search ended up visiting a store that was within five miles of them

What these stats tell us is that people use search engines frequently to make a decision about a purchase or business, and it’s important your business is on the first page of Google (or even better, the first three organic search results).

So how do you get your small business to rank in search results? Small business owners often spend money hiring expensive SEO consultants or agencies without seeing results. And it can be hard to compete for the top three positions against big box companies that have giant marketing budgets. But there’s still hope for the little guys!

I’ve put together a few quick strategies that your business can use to start playing in the SEO sandbox.

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