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5 Things Holding Your Website Rankings Back

If you have noticed that your site rankings on Google, or other search engines, are stagnant or aren’t moving anywhere, we’re here to help. We’ll provide you with some tips to improve your site rankings and how to properly build out other areas, too. Read on to learn more about the reasons your website rankings are being held back and what you can do about it.

Jun 30, 2021Advanced SEO 12 min read
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27 Free (and Paid) Local Business Directories

For local businesses of all kinds, maintaining an online presence is key. If your local business listings are mismanaged, and there is different information in different places, it won‘t be very easy for users to find you. Therefore, it’s important to claim your profiles on business directories to keep them up-to-date. In this guide, we‘ll show you some top business directory sites and tell you how Semrush can help.

Local SEO

May 26, 2021
8 min read

How to Perform an SEO Audit in 18 Steps

Performing regular SEO audits to find and fix issues that could be holding back your site‘s organic search performance is critical for SEO. In this guide, we walk you through a step-by-step approach to undertake a simple, but effective, SEO audit and identify problems that you will need to prioritize to kickstart growth.

Advanced SEO

Dec 23, 2020
17 min read
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SEO

7 min read

How An Artisan US Bakery is Using Link Building for SEO Growth

Semrush SEO Reality Show is back for episode two with our new client: the artisanal Edelweiss Bakery in Miami, Florida in the US. In this episode, we’re going to look at one of the main components of SEO success, which is building a strong link profile by getting more links to our site pages from other domains to rank higher in the search results.
Anna KocheguraJul 02, 2021
Marketing
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Marketing

7 min read

How An Artisan Bakery Is Increasing SEO Through Competitor Analysis

If you’re wondering how to do competitor analysis when it comes to SEO for bakeries or small businesses, this is one you won’t want to miss. Take a close look at how a powerful digital agency helps an artisan bakery in Fort Lauderdale capture web traffic and convert them into customers. Follow the episodes of the brand new Semrush Reality Show.
Anna KocheguraJun 22, 2021
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Marketing

13 min read

Why You Need Branded Content (and How To Get It Right)

Branded content is content that speaks the values and the vision of your company. It is not a pen with your logo scrawled on it. That would be branded ‘stuff.‘ Branded Content is a message that resonates with your target audience. In this guide, we‘ll take you through what branded content is and how to do it right to gain a following.
Connor LaheyMar 31, 2021
Content Marketing
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Content Marketing

8 min read

6 Hacks for Writing SEO Blog Articles Faster

When talking about content marketing, you’re going to hear people stress “quality over quantity” like a broken record. This is entirely due to the fact that so many businesses focus exclusively on quantity, rushing to put out a ton of SEO blog posts that end up being poor quality and yielding no positive results.
Jakub ZielinskiJul 18, 2021
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