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How Long Does It Take for SEO to Work?

So How Long Does It Take? SEO can be slow, but the potential payoff is worth it. So how long does it take for SEO to work? It depends on several factors, including the age of your website, the competition for your target keywords, and the quality of your content. If you have a brand-new...
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How-To Use Local SEO Citations To Benefit Your Business

We are always looking for ways to improve our local business prospects, and we expect you are as well. One of the most important and effective ways to do this is to make sure your local SEO citations are benefiting your business. What are these citations we speak of? Why are they important? And what...
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Be Available

We are nothing without our clients. Literally, we’d just be spinning our wheels over here if we didn’t have you. In the same vein, your company is nothing without your clients. It is vital that you are available to them! Why Is It Important To Be Available? We go with the people we can reach,...
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SEO Terms Defined

So you had a meeting with your expert SEO specialist and they were blazing through charts, graphs, and lists of keyword phrases, throwing out acronyms you’d never heard before and terms you’re not sure are real. Did you A) stop them repeatedly to define and explain each unknown reference? Or B) nod your head and...
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Video Content for SEO

Video killed the radio star…but it doesn’t kill your SEO. These days, video seems to be everything. The little clips that just about anyone can create with their phones are making people famous. But what can video do for your business? Can it improve your rankings? Is the effort and energy that needs to be...
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Acquire Internet Marketing Features: The Times Collaborative

New Kid on the Block The Times Collaborative is a new addition to the downtown community and a personal favorite for us here at Acquire Internet Marketing. A historic and stunning Longmont coworking space at 338 Main St, it offers private and shared office and desk space, an R&D kitchen, drop-in use, conference rooms, and...
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How-to SEO Tutorial: Title and Description Template Creation

The next post in our How-to SEO Tutorial series covers how to create effective title and description templates. (If you missed other posts in the series, we covered SEO Basics and Analytics and Tracking Set Up.) Title and descriptions are the bits of html code on your website that help your readers (and Google) make...
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How-to SEO Tutorial: Analytics and Tracking Set Up

Part 1 in our “How-to SEO Tutorial” series covered SEO Basics, and this post will go a little deeper into SEO. We’ll cover how to track, create title tags and description templates and add them to your website.  Analytics and tracking set up is essential to do before you do any SEO. By setting a...
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How-to SEO Tutorial: Basics

What is SEO? It’s a common question! Our How-to SEO Tutorial Series digs into what SEO is and explains how it can work in your favor. Our first post in this series provides an overview of SEO. You might not have a clear understanding of SEO because no one has explained it to you. That...
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Do Hashtags Affect SEO?

Do Hashtags Affect SEO? Google search this question and you’ll see varying opinions. The answer seems to be controversial because responses are all over the place. Additionally, there isn’t clear data to determine if hashtags affect SEO. In this post, we’ll look at some opinions to the burning question: do hashtags affect SEO?  What are...
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Are Facebook Ads a Waste of Money?

Some businesses spend gobs of money on online ads, like Google Ads or Facebook Ads. However, ads don’t make sense for all businesses especially if you’re in a competitive industry. You don’t want to throw money at ads if you don’t get qualified traffic and conversions. You can focus on SEO for a more effective...
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The Seasonality of SEO…it’s Not Seasonal At All

SEO is an affordable, effective and efficient way to grow your business if you do it right. SEO focuses efforts on unpaid traffic instead of costly paid ads or direct traffic. You want business year round, not just seasonally, so your SEO efforts should be consistent to reach your ranking goals.  SEO Refresher SEO optimization...
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Are you giving your money away with Google Ads?

The quick answer is yes! A high bounce rate (and some other cons we’ll cover) means you’re most likely throwing your money away on Google Ads. Clients often ask us whether Google Ads are necessary and if SEO is enough. SEO is worth the cost, but Google Ads don’t have a good ROI (return on...
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Local Businesses Get Creative During Pandemic

It’s been said a lot, but it’s true, 2020 was a year like no other. While 2020 was challenging, it was remarkable to see how local businesses pivoted in order to survive the effects of the pandemic in 2021. We witnessed this inventiveness beginning in March, and we’re now seeing businesses thinking outside of the...
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Do I Really Need Monthly SEO?

Is monthly SEO really needed? This is a question we hear often. The short answer is yes. Rankings drop when SEO stops.  Why Do You Need Monthly SEO?  Think of SEO as an exercise. You can’t expect to run a 5K one time and automatically look like a fitness model. Instead, dedicate time each week...
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Do I Really Need Monthly SEO?

Is monthly SEO really needed? This is a question we hear often. The short answer is yes. Rankings drop when SEO stops.  Why Do You Need Monthly SEO?  Think of SEO as exercise. You can’t expect to run a 5K one time and automatically look like a fitness model. Instead, dedicate time each week to...
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Keyword Selection is KEY

How do I pick the right keywords? It’s a question we hear a lot. Don’t worry, we can help you pick the right ones and improve your rankings! The first step is a little research and some brainstorming. Research takes time, but it’s crucial. You may know what you want to rank for, but what...
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Synonymous Target Keyword SEO

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Keywords are important for SEO and increasing rankings, and you want your content to reach its intended audience. If your site uses too many targeted keywords, Google thinks you’re “keyword stuffing” and penalizes you. That’s where synonymous keywords can help!  Why Use Synonymous Keywords? You can create content using similar keywords to boost rankings. That...
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Importance of your NAP (Name, Address and Phone)

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Google can be particular and doesn’t like to be confused—it prefers your business NAP (name, address and phone number) listed exactly the same everywhere online. Consistent NAP can also help drive customers to your business.   Consistent NAP  When you create a Google My Business listing, Facebook page and any other business page/mention (citation), ensure the...
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Is Secondary Targeting Possible

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Is it possible to target a location if your business isn’t located there? Perhaps your city doesn’t have enough search volume or you see greater potential in a nearby city. Maybe you’re in the suburbs and want to attract customers from a close, larger city. Regardless of the reasons why, this is a question we...
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Introduction to Google Analytics

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Not all web traffic is good traffic. If you get website visitors that aren’t sure how they reached your page, they won’t be good leads and won’t stick around. You also don’t want visitors to reach your page and then bounce. So how do you determine if your web traffic is good or bad? Google...
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White Hat and Black Hat SEO

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The Difference between White Hat and Black Hat SEO Black hat SEO? White hat SEO? What do these terms mean and why do they matter to you? In your SEO research, you likely came across these two terms—white hat SEO and black hat SEO. Let’s compare the two so you can see how SEO techniques...
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Online Marketing (Paid, Display, Social)

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Internet Marketing Explained We know that SEO and Internet marketing can be confusing and complicated. We specialize in SEO, bring decades of experience to the table and enjoy educating our clients through the SEO process. If you’re curious about different types of online marketing, then this post is for you! What’s the difference between paid,...
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Questions to Ask Potential SEO Companies

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We often get questions about SEO. We hope this info makes SEO seem less mysterious. It’s helpful to know what questions to ask potential companies and what to expect from paid SEO services. Let’s dive into the common questions we hear! Can you show me some example clients and results?  What you deserve as a client:...
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Are Page 1 Rankings Enough?

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Position 1, 2, 3 or bust! Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades. The same is true for Google rankings! Being almost near the top of page 1 isn’t close enough. You need to be in the top few spots of page 1. If you can put in some SEO effort to move from...
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Step 3: Tracking SEO

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Track What You’re Doing You’ve identified effective keywords and put them to work, so now what? You want to keep track of what you’re doing to make sure it’s working for your business. This way as you make changes, you can test it to make sure it’s worthwhile. If it isn’t, you can try something...
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Step 2: Using Your Keywords

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How To Use Your Keywords Let’s continue our step-by-step breakdown of SEO! Here’s your roadmap: Step 1: Find the right keywords, Step 2: Use your keywords and Step 3: Track what you’re doing. In this post, we’ll focus on using your keywords. Remember that using keywords effectively allows them to increase rankings. First, look at...
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Step 1: Finding the Right SEO Keywords

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Step 1: Finding the Right SEO Keywords In the past post, we looked at how to improve traffic and increase rankings with a few simple steps: Step 1: Find the right keywords, Step 2: Use your keywords, Step 3: Track what you’re doing. Now we’ll dig deeper into how to find the right keywords.   Topic...
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Local Businesses See SEO Boost

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What the Numbers Show Acquire’s SEO specialists noticed a spike in local businesses when comparing client rankings on April 15th to the previous week. Several local businesses in Fort Collins, Loveland, Longmont and Lincoln, NE each received a two or three position ranking’s boost. The Red Point Center in Longmont is a mental health and...
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SEO Can Be As Easy As 1, 2, 3

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SEO can be as easy as 1, 2, 3 SEO isn’t as complicated as it might seem! In fact, it can be broken down into three simple steps: Step 1: Find the right keywordsStep 2: Use your keywordsStep 3: Track what you’re doing Sounds pretty straightforward, right? Let’s look at each one of these a...
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Longmont voted America’s #1 Boomtown

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Acquire Internet Marketing is a top-rated Longmont SEO Company and is proud of its thriving community. A recent study named Longmont America’s number one “boomtown,” and AIM is thrilled to be part of this community. In December 2019, SmartAsset published a list of the fastest-growing cities in terms of population change and job opportunities. Longmont...
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