Conversion Rate Optimization

Why Digital Marketing for Small Businesses? Maximizing ROI

In today's digital landscape, small businesses need to leverage the power of digital marketing to thrive and stay competitive. This blog post delves into the importance of digital marketing for small businesses, with a particular focus on the return on investment (ROI) of tactics like search engine optimization (SEO). We'll explore why measuring success is [...]

Important for Small Businesses to Read the Right Data, Especially with Recent Google Changes

With some of the changes that have happened from Google in recent months, I want to help make sure we all keep our eyes on the right prize. I've written many times about measuring the right things to make the right decisions. With recent Google algorithm updates, small and locally focused businesses may see shocking [...]

Small Business Conversion and UX Basics

With small businesses, we have to be careful to use each dollar of our budget wisely.  This is why it is critically important not to make basic mistakes with your website that cost you money.  I regularly run into business owners who have invested in a new website but have mistakenly forgotten to address some [...]

Make It Easy For Your Visitor: CRO and UX Small Business Basics

One of the most common problems I find when working with smaller businesses diving into Google Ads or SEO for the first time is basic conversion rate optimization (CRO) concepts. Why aren't people calling or buying my product when I first turn on a Google Ads campaign or get started? In recent years, it has [...]

Avoid Generic SEO: Pick the Right Targets for Your Small Business

A lot of SEO advice that is published is based on the goal to generically getting more universal traffic. Many publishers are constantly battling for keyword phrases people search for to gain visitors to their site and sell advertising. This is all well and good but can be confusing for small business owners with local [...]

What is LPO or CRO? Converting the Visitor and UX

Landing Page Optimization (LPO) or Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO) often go hand in hand. LPO is more specifically dealing with the effectiveness of the page visitors visit on your site and how that can help convert them to buyers. CRO is more about the entire user experience from initially becoming aware of you via search [...]

Focus on What Problems You Solve with Your Content

This comes up probably more than it should  I have been doing some more work on Google Ads campaigns for larger corporate entities with large ad budgets, and sometimes even they make the same mistakes that I talk about regularly with small business owners.  Lead with what your solution is. What problem are you solving? [...]

Optimization Score Dropped – Does it Matter?

In the world we live in with constant notifications for everything from new emails and texts to news updates and more, we are constantly triggered into action or worry by the latest icon that pops up on our phones.  Google adds to the digital stress with regular updates on your optimization score. I've written before [...]

Empathy Marketing the Key to SEO and Google Ads Success

Carolyn Lyden gave a great keynote address at SMX Advanced 2021 this week about empathy marketing and it really hit home with me. It was a great way to put much of what I have been preaching into one succinct phrase. Empathy marketing is all about the user and making sure you are giving them [...]

Jim Thorpe PA Overlook – Climbing the Rankings – YCBF Anywhere

In the latest You Can Be Found Anywhere we look back to the fall and a beautiful climb up a mountain in Jim Thorpe PA, for a beautiful payoff. You Can Be Found has been successfully helping small businesses compete against the big guys for nearly 15 years. We specialize in knowing the ins and [...]

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