Now, I work with a lot of clients who are desperate to get into content marketing. They may leverage traditional advertising for their businesses, but they know that content marketing is an important part of that mix and they want to do it. They see the value in it. It's been proven. They want it, they need it, but they don't have the time and they don't have the people, and a lot of times they don't have the expertise...

A lot of people think, if they build a website, they will come, or if they put up their portfolio on Behance, clients are just going to magically show up. Well, I got a harsh business reality check for you. That's not going to happen. People say, "I don't want to be salesy. I don't want to have to cold call. Reaching out to people makes me really uncomfortable, or they're not going to want to hear from me." Well,...

In this blog post, I'm going to talk about a detailed SEO checklist that helped us grow organic traffic to our blog from 50,000 monthly search visits to over 230,000. The first thing you should do is create a sitemap. Sitemaps tell search engines of where to find important content on your site so they can easily crawl and index your pages. Here's what the site map for our blog looks like, which was created automatically with the Yoast SEO...