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Does Social Media Affect Google Organic Search (SEO) Rankings?

How does social media affect Google’s Organic Search Engine Rankings (SEO)? We’ve gathered the latest answers -- learn why you need to make social part of your content marketing plan!

SEO Social Media

Google Announces Latest Mobile-Friendly Algorithm Update

Google rolled out its second mobile-friendly algorithm update May 12, 2016. By increasing the effect of the mobile-friendly ranking signal, Google promises to help mobile searchers find even more relevant, user-friendly content.

Algorithm Mobile Friendly

Two Ways Your Website Bounce Rate is Actionable

Since high bounce rates identify pages and marketing activities that are key points of failure, fixing them is a step toward increased content consumption, goal completions and transactions.

Engagement Content Consumption Bounce Rate

Misunderstood Scientists: What Do They Need?

Scientists and their achievements occupy an ambiguous position in the public mind. They are very often seen as dangerous disruptors of the status quo and traditional belief systems.

Scientific Communication

An Intern's Perspective: How Storytelling Influences Scientific Marketing

HDMZ attended CPhI 2019 at McCormick Place in Chicago and presented at C&EN’s Pharma Marketing Breakfast about marketing and media relations in the science industry.

Marketing

Expandable Tab Content Will Be Given Full SEO Weight in Google’s Mobile-First Index

Google has always crawled websites to deliver SERPs (search engine result pages), with the goal of efficiently delivering the most relevant, exceptional results to the majority of its users.

Algorithm Google Mobile Friendly Mobile-First Index SEO SERPs

Breadcrumb Navigation & SEO

Breadcrumb navigation can improve SEO and user experience. Learn more about breadcrumb navigation and best practices for including this in your website!

Breadcrumb Navigation SEO

5 Recent Google Updates You Can’t Miss

HDMZ’s Digital Marketing team brings you 5 of the most recent updates from Google, including hidden content indexing, breadcrumbs, SEO, geotargeting, and Google Posts!

Google Mobile Friendly SEO GeoTargeting

The Significance Behind the Bounce Rate Metric in Google Analytics

Of all the baseline metrics you’ll encounter in your Google Analytics reports, bounce rate is the most important. It’s a gateway metric that provides unique insights for improving site engagement.

Bounce Rate Google Analytics Website Analytics

Narrative: The Marketing Tool Life Science Companies Constantly Forget

Which of these opening words to a narrative makes you want to read whatever text follows?

Behavior Change News Release Narrative Story Writing