- Bad Marketers Have Shiny Object Syndrome I’ve noticed something funny about marketers. Most of them have what I like to call “shiny object syndrome.” They get an idea, test it, and before they’ve given it enough time to work, they hear of another idea, and decide to test that instead. The cycle repeats. Instead of ending up with marketing channels that […]
- Is SEO Worth It? An In-Depth Breakdown of the Costs and Benefits Search engine optimization (SEO) is a uniquely valuable channel for many businesses because it offers two key benefits that many other marketing channels lack: 1. The results are evergreen: When SEO is done well, once you rank for keywords that bring in traffic, leads, and customers, they continue generating this “free” organic traffic and leads […]
- 5 Factors to Consider When Choosing an SEO Agency Over the last 5+ years running our content-focused SEO agency, we’ve worked with dozens of brands including SaaS, B2B, and B2C. From these experiences, as well as countless conversations with other businesses about their experiences working with SEO agencies, we’ve developed a deep understanding of: What businesses are looking for when they hire an SEO […]
- How to Create a Content Marketing Strategy: A 5-Step Guide After 5+ years of running our agency and writing in-depth articles about the nuanced details of content marketing (content writing, SEO, content promotion, content attribution, measuring ROI, etc.), we’ve decided to take a step back and discuss content marketing strategy at a high level for people and companies who are just dipping their toes into […]
- Why We’re Repositioning G&C as an SEO Agency From the very first day Benji and I founded Grow and Convert (G&C), we have associated the entire brand with the term “content marketing.” We initially started G&C as a content marketing educational site. We tried — and failed — to sell corporate content marketing training, which led us to eventually launch the content marketing […]
- SEO Keyword Strategy: How to Prioritize Based on Buying Intent to Drive More Conversions For the vast majority of businesses, the goal of doing search engine optimization (SEO) — which we define as the process of optimizing pages on your website to rank for valuable keywords — is to generate meaningful increases in revenue. And in our experience doing SEO for dozens of companies over the last 5 years, […]
- Why We’re Adding Paid Search Management to Grow and Convert’s Services In the 7 years since starting Grow and Convert, we’ve made one thing extremely clear: search intent matters. We coined the term “Pain Point SEO” with the intention of proving — via many case studies — that a keyword strategy which focuses on high-intent keywords produces more leads than a traffic-focused keyword strategy. But an […]
- SaaS SEO Strategy: A 5 Step Process to Drive Signups and Traffic We define SaaS SEO strategy as the process of selecting keywords that indicate people are looking for (or need) your product, and then creating content (or optimizing existing website content) to rank for those keywords. Over the past 5 years running our agency, we’ve helped to create and implement SEO strategies for dozens of SaaS […]
- How to Create a Successful SEO Content Strategy: 2 Factors That Are Often Overlooked In our experience, a good SEO content strategy includes (1) deciding what keywords you will target and (2) developing a content plan to rank for those keywords. But over the last 5 years of running our agency, we’ve learned that most companies make a critical mistake with each of those two parts above (keywords and content), […]
- SaaS SEO Agency: How to Scale SEO as a Marketing Channel From talking to dozens and dozens of SaaS businesses, it’s clear that marketers at those companies know that investing in SEO can give them really nice long-term ROI. Specifically, if you can rank in the top three results for searches related to your product, you can get a reliable stream of traffic from very qualified prospects, […]
