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Google’s Mobile First Index – Are you up to speed?

November 14, 2016 by Katherine Watier-Ong Leave a Comment

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Google announced last week that it’s testing out a mobile first index – using the elements from your mobile site to determine how your content should ranking for both mobile AND desktop queries. While the update will most likely not roll out for a few months, what do you need to do now to prepare? […]

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Do you have what it takes for a digital marketing career?

August 10, 2016 by Katherine Watier-Ong Leave a Comment

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Are you interested in pursuing a career in digital marketing? Perhaps you’re wondering where to start? I firmly believe that great marketers have the power to persuade others and distill complicated information into more simple, actionable copy. More importantly, digital marketers need to be able to “just figure it out” by themselves most of the […]

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Trashing your Google Analytics – UTM Campaign Tagging

July 6, 2016 by Katherine Watier-Ong Leave a Comment

I had to write a post about this issue as I’ve now seen it across quite a few clients’ Google Analytics accounts, and it’s a surefire way of trashing your Google Analytics data. It’s this: Using Google Analytic’s UTM campaign parameters on internal URLs Here’s an example:- www.domain.com/contact?utm_source=Email-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Fall+newsletter%20appeal I’m a huge proponent of using UTM […]

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How to execute SEO for Saudi Arabian clients

June 3, 2016 by Katherine Watier-Ong 1 Comment

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SEO for a Saudi Arabian client? If you had told me that after 10 years of doing enterprise SEO I would be writing a post about how to execute SEO in Saudi Arabia because that’s where one of my clients is based, I would have told you that you were crazy. But that’s the reality […]

Filed Under: International SEO, SEO

SEO Checklists are dead

May 13, 2016 by Katherine Watier-Ong Leave a Comment

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With increasing search personalization and the addition of Google’s RankBrain manipulating part of our ability to rank in Google search, it’s impossible to “win” the search game just by following a checklist. Or at least that was my takeaway from Search Love Boston. Every online marketer needs to understand their target audience, build content and […]

Filed Under: SEO Tagged With: seo checklists, seo process

Local SEO training in Silver Spring, MD

December 9, 2015 by Katherine Watier-Ong 2 Comments

downtown Silver Spring, MD

I’m looking forward to speaking next week in Silver Spring at the Level UP events about local SEO. I’ll will be sharing data related to search and social personalization and how local businesses can make the most of their limited time for marketing with paid social media promotion and working to generate local citations, links […]

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