Brent Carnduff

The URL – Uniform Resource Locator – or address for your web page, is still an “on-page” SEO element. It is one of your available opportunities to tell the search engines what your web page is about so it should contain your keyword(s) for that page.

The SEC’s long overdue update to the Advisor Marketing Rules, scheduled to be effective on May 4, 2021, will have a far-reaching impact on future advisor marketing opportunities.

The changes will allow advisors to solicit and display client testimonials, non-client endorsements, and 3rd-party review site ratings. While it may take some time to sort through all of the marketing and compliance implications of the 430-page document, there are some easy marketing wins for those advisors willing to make an effort to add client reviews to their marketing plan.

Since the release of the Chrome 68 web browser – which accounts for 81.2% of all web search – in July of 2018, Google has displayed this warning message to prospective visitors on non-https websites: Google has been moving in this direction since 2014 when it announced that the HTTPS protocol would be “a very lightweight” ranking

The Meta Description tag (MDT) is an actual example of the near-mythical “low hanging fruit” that marketers are always writing about. It’s a quick, inexpensive change that can positively impact your search engine click-through rates (CTRs).