5 Tricks & Tips for Analyzing Your Competition As Done By An Odd Dog

Category: Advice, Local SEO, SEO, Marketing
Posted by Danielle | October 23, 2020

Humans are competitive by nature. We’re raised in a competitive environment from sports to school to the occasional family reunion dance-off. It’s in our DNA and brings out (usually) the best in us as individuals and groups. Without competition, we’d have a difficult time striving to be better, continuing to improve, and ultimately, becoming the…

Does Google Ads Help SEO?

Category: SEO, SEO, Marketing, Adwords, Google Ads, advertising, Paid Search, PPC
Posted by Odd Dog Media | January 7, 2020

A common question we get from a lot of our clients is, “Does Google Ads help SEO?” This is a great question that we’ve all wondered about at some point. Let’s face it – wouldn’t it be awesome if you could just make your website rank higher and get tons of free traffic just by…

How can I tell if my website is ADA compliant?

Category: Web Design, SEO
Posted by Danielle | October 31, 2019

Why it’s more important than ever to have an ADA accessible website in 2020. There are a lot of things to factor in when you are building a new website or assessing your existing one. Page speed (how fast your website loads on both desktop and mobile devices), website structure, page titles and keywords, meta…

Marketing Your Business For A Local Audience

Category: Marketing, Local SEO, SEO
Posted by Danielle | August 14, 2019

“I need help growing my business.” This is a statement I hear all too often when speaking with potential clients ranging from carpet cleaning companies to tech-savvy SaaS entrepreneurs. Local business owners like yourself are some of the hardest working people I’ve ever met but as a result, they’re often juggling a million things at…

From 0 to 30+ Reviews in Just 6 Weeks

Category: Blog, Web Design, Local SEO, SEO, Web Development
Posted by Adam Broetje | December 6, 2017

If you’re a business owner, you know how hard it can be to get your HAPPY customers to leave reviews for you. Happy is capitalized because we all know what people do if they have an experience they’re not pleased with. Here we’ll break down the numbers to identify Seattle Towing’s conversion rate with our…

6 Signs You Received a SPAM SEO Proposal and What to Do About it

Category: Advice, SEO
Posted by | October 30, 2017

Oh, SPAM SEO emails…. If you have a business and a website, there is no doubt you have received emails like these: Hello there- I’m contacting you because your website is terrible and not ranking at all for any of your keywords. Also, your local listings are non-existent. It’s a wonder anyone can even find…

How important are backlinks in 2017?

Category: Local SEO, SEO, Advice
Posted by Adam Broetje | May 17, 2017

There are many factors that Google and other search engines (wait, there are OTHER search engines?!) use to determine how a website is ranked in search. Website structure, content, meta descriptions, title tags, schema, and backlinks are all signals that search engines use to determine a website’s rankings. Backlinks are links from other websites that help…

9 Chrome Extensions That Will Rock Your World

Category: SEO, Marketing
Posted by | February 8, 2017 | Tags: Google Chrome, chrome, chrome extensions, productivity, tools

Google’s Chrome web browser has taken the lead in the most popular web browser claiming 60% of all internet traffic. Source And if you spend as much time on this web browser as I do, I thought that is was high-time I shared the Chrome Extensions that are rocking my world so they can rock…

Headlines: How to Win Customers and Influence People

Category: Advice, Blog, SEO
Posted by Adam Broetje | February 6, 2017

4 steps to crafting fantastic headlines that drive traffic to your blog Studies have shown that about 60% of people will share an article with a great headline without even reading the article. This means that people online are sharing content online without even reading past the headline. Moral of the story? You might want to…

The Importance of Online Reviews

Category: Local SEO, SEO, Uncategorized, Clients, Food for thought
Posted by Adam Broetje | February 2, 2017

How many times have you read a review for a new restaurant you want to eat at? How did you take a look at it? On Yelp? Google? Facebook? I don’t know about you, but every time I’m looking at a new place to find some delicious grub, I do a little homework before committing…

How to Survive Blogging for Your Small Business

Category: Advice, Blog, SEO
Posted by Danielle | January 30, 2017

“The first thing you need to decide when you build your blog is what you want to accomplish with it, and what it can do if successful.” – Ron Dawson, writer and educator I was recently meeting with our client BLUE INK, a Seattle print and design agency, when I finally realized how difficult blogging…

JSON Schema for Businesses with Multiple Locations

Category: SEO
Posted by Danielle | January 12, 2017

Here at Odd Dog Digital Marketing Agency, We have been handling multi-location marketing for a while now, currently managing over 4,000 locations for our clients. Needless to say, we have experimented with multiple versions of multi-location schema. The simplest implementation thus far has been a single snippet that can list multiple locations rather than single-location…