Hey there, Reno business owners! If you’re looking to put some swing in your marketing, you’ve come to the right joint. We’re talking about all the bee’s knees events in the Biggest Little City that can help you grow your business. So, grab your fedora, and let’s get a wiggle on!

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Avoiding Common Reno Marketing Mistakes: A Business Owner’s Guide Listen up, Reno business owners. If you want your marketing to hit the target, you need to avoid some common slip-ups that could tank your efforts faster than a bad poker hand. Stick around while we spill the beans on Reno marketing mistakes to avoid, and […]

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Keywords: The Detective’s Guide to Cracking the Case Listen up, gumshoe. If you’re trying to crack the case of online success, you better know your way around keywords. They’re the bread and butter of everything from data management to digital marketing, and if you don’t use them right, you’re just spinning your wheels. Let me […]

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The Importance of YMYL (Your Money, Your Life) for Private Healthcare Practices Running a private healthcare practice in the digital age isn’t just about scrubbing in and saving lives—it’s also about making sure your online presence doesn’t slip into the shadows. Google’s Your Money, Your Life (YMYL) guidelines are like the gumshoe watching over the […]

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Chrome’s Site Engagement Metrics: Debugging or Something More Sinister? When you’re diving into the murky underbelly of the web, you’ll stumble across all sorts of tools. Some are shiny and straightforward, while others sit in the shadows, quietly shaping your digital world. One such shadow player is Chrome’s Site Engagement Score, part of Chromium’s codebase. […]

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The Sell-Off of Google Chrome: A Big Shake-Up in the Search Biz The name’s Chrome, Google Chrome. It’s the shiny piece of software everyone and their dog uses to surf the web. But now the big wigs at the DOJ want Google to hand it over. Why? Because having the world’s most popular browser and […]

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Emotion, Injustice, and the Power of Storytelling P-Nut the Squirrel wasn’t just some two-bit rodent scampering across social media—he was a star with over 700,000 followers, a symbol of joy turned tragic headline. His tale of rescue, love, and an untimely end lit up the internet like a neon sign in a rain-soaked alley. What […]

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The Biggest Little City Isn’t So Little Anymore Digital marketing is no longer just a luxury; it’s a necessity for businesses in Reno, Nevada. As the “Biggest Little City in the World” evolves into a hub of economic growth and tourism, the competition in the digital space is getting fiercer. Whether you’re a tech startup, […]

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Top-Level Domains Provide Signals About Audience and Location Choosing a Top-Level Domain (TLD) ain’t just some two-bit decision. That little suffix at the end of a URL? It’s something that you don’t pay much attention to but actually has some important uses from signaling what audience you are talking to, to fancy branding opportunities.  If […]

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What’s the Big Idea with USP’s? Put simply, a USP is a clear, concise statement that describes the unique benefit your product or service offers and how it solves your customers’ problems better than your competitors.  It’s not a hand jive that you do, it’s what truly sets you apart from the competition.  It can […]

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Why You Need to Build an Ideal Customer Profile An Ideal Customer Profile is a whole different kettle of fish from your typical buyer persona, ’cause it’s all about a type of business, not just a specific customer. Most outfits are busy cooking up buyer personas to steer their marketing, but if you’re in the […]

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Why You Need a Buyer Persona Buyer personas might seem like a bit of hooey at first glance, but they’re the real McCoy when it comes to dialing in your marketing efforts. Sure, it’ll take some sleuthing to put together, but once you’ve got it, you’ll be squarely focused on the folks you want darkening […]

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Don’t rely on “hacks” for your SEO efforts I want to issue a PSA for anyone who is thinking about employing hacks, tricks, or shortcuts to move up in the rankings, or get more clicks.  SEO hacks are a dime a dozen, some of them can be good strategies that will offer temporary fixes for […]

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Are you forgetting about social media in your SEO efforts? Social media is an opportunity to directly engage with your customers, build brand awareness, links, traffic, and trust.  If you are not taking advantage of that, you are missing out on a huge opportunity and leaving money on the table. One of the biggest effects […]

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A Fast Website is A Good Website See, if you keep em’ waiting, there’re going to go elsewhere. The thing about visitors to your website is that most of them don’t like to wait for your website to load.  So how do you improve your website’s speeds?  There are some tricks that you can pull […]

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Regular SEO Audits Help to Prevent Issues Before They Become Problems Be honest with yourself, you don’t fix what you don’t measure.  SEO is not something that you can just do once and forget about it. It requires ongoing work, and while the results that you get does improve over time, you do need to […]

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Tracking SEO Results can get Complicated Fast However, you don’t have to be an Einstein to figure it out and find areas where you can improve or track your progress.   When looking at the results of your SEO efforts there are two traps that you can fall into. One just looking at simple metrics like […]

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EEAT and YMYL: What’s the Big Idea? Like it or not pal, everyone is judging you based on your website, and this goes double for some very specific industries.  We’re going to get down to brass tacks on these subjects and give you a leg up to not get left behind in the rankings.  So, […]

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Small Screens Rule Now Greetings folks! Today’s a good day to tune in, ’cause I’m about to give you the skinny on not just mobile website design, but also making your joint easy for people to use and navigate.  I’ll lay you odds you’re eyeballin’ this on your mobile phone. In ’24, half the cats […]

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Mobile First Indexing: The Human Network In a world where data is the new gold, the way tech giants collect and utilize information often remains behind a veil. Hold onto your hats, folks—Cindy Krum has some eye-opening insights that might just make you see the web in a whole new light. In the nearly 45 […]

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Start with keyword research first Keyword research is the foundation of just about everything that you will be doing with your website. If you’re not doing it right then you are setting yourself up to fail.  If you don’t want your content to be pushing up daises then read on.   First things first Let’s lay […]

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Search engines are pretty smart, but they are still limited. You may have heard the term, schema markup, but what is it? How does it work and what does it do for your SEO efforts?  Well pal, you’re in luck.  I’m going to break down what schema markup is. How to go about getting it […]

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You have a plan pal? Because if you don’t you’re setting yourself up to fail. Do you know how to plan your website structure? Believe it or not, it actually has an impact on your SEO as well as how people use your website. We’ll give you the low down on how to understand a […]

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Good linking practices can have a positive effect Internal linking for SEO is an important, but easy to miss check box when you are crafting your website’s articles. It has a knock-on effect on other aspects of your rankings so I’ll give you the goods about what you should be doing for all of your […]

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Fake Clicks Could Be Harming Your Rankings Extra! Extra! Extra! Read all about it!  A new black hat, negative SEO tactic has been found harming rankings through fake “short clicks”. This has already been seen in the wild, harming rankings for important keywords. Read on for more details, and how to deal with the new […]

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