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6 Ways to Support Women in SEO for a More Inclusive Industry

At The Web Guys, we believe that diversity in the workplace helps foster innovation, improves decision-making, and creates a more equitable society. A recent article highlighting the gender gap between men and women in SEO (Search Engine Optimization) caught our attention. According to the State of SEO 2020 Survey, men outnumber women by over 2 to 1 in SEO professions. By supporting and encouraging women, we can work to increase women’s representation in this industry. A multifaceted approach is needed to elevate women in SEO and foster a more inclusive industry. Keep reading to discover six key ways to support women in SEO for a more inclusive industry, each with practical, actionable suggestions.

What Is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)?

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) refers to the strategies and techniques used to optimize content, prompts, and interactions for generative AI models, like language models (e.g., GPT-4), image generators, or music composers. Marketing agencies like The Web Guys stay on top of new tools and technologies that directly impact our clients’ marketing campaigns’ effectiveness, efficiency, and creativity. GEO aims to produce high-quality, relevant, and efficient outputs from these models by understanding how they interpret input and how their algorithms function. According to a Gartner press release, approximately 79% of consumers are expected to use AI-enhanced search within the next year, and 70% already trust generative AI search results. 

Multisearch Is Open for Business

We all know that what we want is out there. It’s finding it that’s often the problem. The Web Guys know that spending hours going down a search rabbit hole is exasperating, and your customers and clients feel the same way. Enter Multisearch. Google’s upping its search game with this one by allowing searchers to include their own photos – and photos grabbed from the web – in their queries, and they’re opening up a whole new visual world of search possibilities in the process. As usual, however, Google’s latest move raises new questions about keeping up in relation to your online marketing. Let’s take a closer look.

Small Businesses: Surviving the Google Ads Gauntlet

If you’ve ever defied the odds by slipping into your seat at an important meeting in the nick of time – only to discover you forgot the document or file that was your reason for being there in the first place, you’ve experienced that this can’t be happening feeling. In fact, most of us have been there more than once or twice, and when it comes to small businesses, Google Ads is often the stage for these missteps. Yes, Google Ads has much to offer, but there are plenty of chutes and ladders along the way that can leave you wondering where to turn for the help you need. The truth is that small businesses can compete with the major players in the Google Ads arena, but you’re well advised to bring your strongest game.

Online Marketing and Inclusivity Should Go Hand in Hand

Inclusivity is not something you should aspire to – or that you should massage into your content after the fact. Ideally, inclusivity is part of who you are as an online business – and your content reflects this fact. There is always room for improvement, however, and if you’re behind the curve on this, now is a good time to get cracking.

Post-Pandemic Digital Marketing Wave

There is no denying that the pandemic upended our lives in obvious ways and in other important ways that we have yet to fully understand. In the process, marketing did an about-face. The pandemic came, locked us all inside, and created a tsunami of online activity that includes shopping, gaming, browsing, surfing, and every other manner of online entertainment. And because businesses have to keep up, a digital marketing two-step has been going on ever since. If you aren’t sure where your business fits in, turn to an online marketing pro for innovative solutions that will help you ride the post-pandemic digital marketing wave and secure your market share. It’s all about understanding the trends, and it’s time to get started.

Newsworthy Content: How to Achieve It

You recognize that your content matters – it’s what brings your readers to the yard – but you may be at a loss about how to elevate it to the level of newsworthy and garner links in the process. The answer is content that strikes a personal chord with your target audience (and beyond). And your research, at its most basic level, involves deciphering who your fiercest competitors are getting their links from and then brainstorming your own inroads into similar territory. While there’s a lot of tech involved, the heart of the matter comes down to creating content that is newsworthy to begin with and that does a lot of the heavy lifting on its own.

The Psychology of Purchases

Our brains are constantly on the lookout for shortcuts. All that cognitive functioning is a lot, but when you break matters down into bite-size chunks, things become more manageable. When decision-making time is here, we don’t start at zero and go through the whole decision-making process every single time. Instead, we rely on past experiences and implement shortcuts to get where we need to be. It’s one of the reasons you’ve probably been buying the same toothpaste from Target for the past 20 years. In the end, there’s a psychology of purchases – with seven foolproof tactics – that you can use to your business’s advantage, and because you offer excellent products and services, these tactics are also to your customers’ advantage.

3 Tried-and-True Techniques for Building Online Trust

In the digital shopping arena that is becoming increasingly more relevant, building online trust is critical. No one would argue with this sentiment, but figuring out how to foster trust in this nebulous arena is less clear. Fortunately, the precepts of successful marketing apply fairly evenly across the board and translate nicely to online marketing – especially with the application of savvy tweaks and nuanced adjustments that are in keeping with the medium and that experienced digital marketing specialists have on tap.

A Fine Balance: Market-Building Strategies for 2020

Online marketing – it’s complicated. You’re looking for your piece of the pie, but should you be focusing on search engine optimization (SEO), pay-per-click (PPC), or some combination of the two? The fact is that, while many companies are looking to up their online game, most look at these as two separate and distinct entities, it’s actually more complicated than that. While SEO and PPC both stand alone in their own right, they’re also incredibly interconnected, and the best path forward is generally to think of each as an important component of a whole – a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.