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What Is the Best Way To Write Headlines that Will Increase Traffic?

Headlines are to your blog posts, as covers are to books. Everyone tells you not to judge a book by its cover, but they do it anyway. Everyone also judges your blog posts by their headlines. Why wouldn’t they? There’s more content published than ever before, and people scan headlines to see if something is actually worth their time to read.

Nathan ElleringJan 08, 2015

General Marketing

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Tracking Offline Marketing Campaigns

This month I’ve been booking a lot of outdoor advertising for a client using Blueline Media’s huge inventory, which was a marketing area totally new to me. I was surprised how many businesses pay for offline ads without using any form of tracking, so I decided to write this post. The challenge of tracking offline marketing campaigns and the impact on digital results is one that continues to grow.

Jane FreemanJan 02, 2015

Analytics

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Event Tracking in Google Universal Analytics With and Without the Help of Tag Manager

It’s time to talk about Universal Analytics in detail. Since it was released out of beta on April 2 — with a whole bunch of features available in classic Google Analytics — most GA fans have been trying to migrate to Universal Analytics and take advantage of all of its innovations. Just as with all innovations, these require some time, attention and experimentation to get used to.

Vladimir PonikarovskyDec 04, 2014

Technical SEO

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HTTP to HTTPS: 7 Best Practices for Top Ranking

Google has a global goal to secure the web. While a noble goal, it requires website owners to become more tech-savvy and invest more in securing their websites. Secure search means Google will give more ranking authority to content and ecommerce websites that have an SSL/TLS certificate.

Amel MehenaouiDec 03, 2014

Technical SEO

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How To Perform a Quick SEO Audit with Semrush

Semrush offers a wide range of functions for analyzing webpages and their performance in search engines. In this article, I am going to explain how you can perform an SEO audit with Semrush tools and identify opportunities for optimization, as well as how you can determine how your competitors are doing. For this analysis, we’ve chosen to look at the Spanish version of Samsung.

M.J. CachonDec 01, 2014

Paid Advertising

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How To Find Cheap Keywords for Your AdWords Campaigns

Pay per click marketing campaigns include not only landing pages, ad copy, offers and designs, but also CPC and bidding strategies. Before you assume PPC ads will bring you a fast ROI and monitor their effectiveness in your AdWords account, you should make sure they won‘t eat up your ad budget too quickly.

Elena DryaminaOct 07, 2014

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Semrush Copilot: Your AI Assistant for Faster SEO Insights

General SEO

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Semrush Copilot: Your AI Assistant for Faster SEO Insights

Semrush Copilot helps you save time in common SEO analysis and planning. It does this by automatically analyzing several key Semrush tools and reports to offer actionable recommendations and present a prioritized list of SEO activities.

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Keyword Research

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Keyword Research for SEO: What It Is & How to Do It

You can do keyword research by looking at search suggestions in Google or using a keyword research tool.

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Link Building

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What Is Off-Page SEO? A Guide to Off-Page SEO Strategy

Off-page SEO is a set of strategies, such as link building, used outside of a website to improve its rankings.

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How to Check Website Accessibility in 2024

Technical SEO

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How to Check Website Accessibility in 2024

Is it time to check your website accessibility? Remember that accessibility is about improving the user experience for everyone – including people with disabilities.

Luke HarselFeb 14, 2024

Technical SEO

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What Is Technical SEO? Basics and Best Practices

Technical SEO is the process of optimizing a website for search engines. Read this guide to get started.

Tushar PolFeb 08, 2024

On-page SEO

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On-Page SEO: What It Is and How to Do It

This is a guide to on-page SEO. Learn exactly how to optimize your titles, descriptions, and content in 2024.

Kelly LyonsDec 15, 2023

Social Media

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How to Find YouTube Influencers

Need help finding influencers on YouTube for a partnership campaign? Follow these steps.

Grace BrennanApr 18, 2024

Content

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The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Content Marketing Strategy

This step-by-step guide teaches you how to build a content marketing strategy for your business.

Tushar PolMar 19, 2024

Paid Advertising

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Banner Ad Sizes: How to Choose the Right Size

Knowing your options is important so you can visualize how your ad will look, and how easily people will be able to see the ad.

Grace BrennanMar 18, 2024

Paid Advertising

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How to Make an Ad, Step by Step

A great ad doesn’t bombard audiences’ in their newsfeed, it conveys a clear brand message, offers value, and earns users’ attention.

Grace BrennanMar 14, 2024

Competitor Intelligence & Research

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What Is a Competitive Analysis & How to Do It (With Template)

Grab our competitor analysis template to learn more about your competitors. And how you can stay ahead.

Kelly LyonsDec 14, 2023

Ecommerce

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What Is Ecommerce? A Beginner’s Guide to Online Business

Ecommerce, short for electronic commerce, involves buying and selling goods and services online.

Marilyn WilkinsonDec 13, 2023

Original Research & Studies

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10 Small Business Trends for 2024

Learn the top small business trends for 2024 to stay ahead of the competition and keep employees happy.

Ankit VoraFeb 19, 2024

Major 2023 Semrush Updates: Get Results with the Help of New Features

News & Research

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Major 2023 Semrush Updates: Get Results with the Help of New Features

We made seismic product updates in 2023. Check out our best and brightest changes at Semrush.

Anastasiia YashchenkoDec 13, 2023

Which Companies Spend the Most on Digital Advertising? [Study]

News & Research

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Which Companies Spend the Most on Digital Advertising? [Study]

Learn what companies spend the most on advertising across 12 separate industries—and how you can gather competitive ad intel for your own niche.

Shannon O‘SheaNov 14, 2023

Advertising Trends: CPM Benchmarks by Industry [Study]

Original Research & Studies

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Advertising Trends: CPM Benchmarks by Industry [Study]

If you‘re looking for CPM benchmarks for digital ads in your industry, this study is for you.

Luke HarselOct 23, 2023

Advertising Trends: The Most Popular Types of Digital Ads [Study]

Original Research & Studies

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Advertising Trends: The Most Popular Types of Digital Ads [Study]

By partnering with AdClarity, we’ve investigated ad types, ad channels and ad spend so you can plan and strategize with the kind of competitive edge that other players don’t have in your industry.

Luke HarselOct 10, 2023

Original Research & Studies

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