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3 easy ways to check a website’s technical SEO health issue
Having compelling content for your website is essential for every business to attract more traffic to their website. Even with impeccable content, you can still struggle to rank and get traffic if you have underlying technical issues on your website. Thus, it is...
5 Best SEO Tools to Ramp up Your Website Traffic this 2023
One of the biggest challenges of starting an online business is generating traffic. As millions of blogs are published every day, the chances of your content getting buried forever are greater than ranking first in search engine results. For this reason, understanding...
6 SEO Metrics to Track Business Performance this 2023
Whether you are an SEO specialist or a small business owner, it is essential for you to stay on top of digital marketing trends in 2023. And when we say marketing trends, that includes the key SEO metrics to track to ensure your business is doing well this year. Why...
Numerical Advantage: Growing a Business With Data Analytics
Talk Out Loud is Portland’s premier SEO and digital marketing agency, creating an online presence that highlights your brand’s personality. Connect with us today to learn more! (800) 773-0029 For any business looking to thrive in the digital space, understanding how...
Wix vs WordPress: Which platform works best for SEO?
Wix and WordPress are among the most popular and well-known website builder platforms for every business online. With these two platforms, your business gets to have the opportunity to reach and connect with the right market. As we all know, having a website is an...
Talk Out Loud is TechBehemoths’ 2022 Award-Winning Company
It’s now official! Talk Out Loud's social media marketing expertise has earned recognition as one of TechBehemoths' 2022 award-winning companies. Techbehemoths is an innovative platform that provides client support to help them find reputable and reliable IT companies...
5 Digital Marketing Tips for Small Businesses to Ramp Up in 2023
It’s 2023 and if you want to stay relevant in a highly competitive space, you need to keep up with the latest digital marketing trends and practices. With the fast-paced development of technology today, it is no question that businesses going digital is the best way...
Starting an online business? Here are 5 reasons why you need a website
If you are a startup business, the first platform you may have considered utilizing to scale your products and increase sales is social media. With the vast and diverse number of social media users, making a website may seem like a little bit of extra work for you. ...
Google’s User Query Enhancement: How does it affect digital marketers and online businesses?
With the continuous advancement of the online space, people have become more and more reliant on the convenience it brings to their everyday lives. In Google's recent search feature, users can refine their queries to find the most relevant content. This feature...
Should your IT Company use SEO or Google Ads
Whether you are a startup or an established IT company, it is no question that the use of digital marketing strategies plays a huge role in your online success. With the number of ways to market your business online, choosing the right marketing strategy for your IT...
Do’s and Dont’s of SEO for Small Businesses
Search engine optimization (SEO) is one of today's most important digital marketing strategies that will allow businesses to generate valuable leads. Keeping up with established competitors can be overwhelming if you are a small business and have just started your...
Getting Started in Link Building? Here are 5 Easy Beginner Tips that can Help You
Link building is a known search engine optimization (SEO) strategy to increase a business website’s search engine ranking. As a matter of fact, it is one of Google's most important ranking factors that help search engine algorithms determine a website's relevance....
Google Ads and Facebook Ads: The best way to reach your target audience
Google and Facebook are one of the most popular and biggest platforms on the internet for venturing businesses today. With its growing online users daily, these are important platforms for businesses to utilize to gain leverage in the marketplace. Thus, it is vital...
Google Business Profile: Why You Need It and How to Create One
Google Business Profile is important because it provides pertinent business information and makes your business more visible on Google searches. One distinct feature is that your Google Business Profile will have a Google Map that points people directly to your...
Top local consumer review trends 2022: What are the consumer’s take about reviews?
Business reviews are one of the most powerful tools to highlight its authenticity, credibility, and legitimacy in the market. It also plays an important role in influencing other consumers' purchasing decisions. It also provides insightful data on consumer...
SEO vs PPC: Which marketing strategy should you use for your business?
So you have started venturing your new business. You have finished setting up your website and social media platforms and even started posting to maximize your visibility and audience reach. After several weeks, you have yet to see your efforts to bear its fruits....
Google core and product reviews rollout update are completed! Here’s what you should know
September 12, Google Central Board released its second core update for 2022 called “Broad Core Update”. And just recently, September 26, Google announced it has finished its rollout along with product reviews update. So what does these updates mean to you and your...
What Are the Benefits Of SEO
What Are the Benefits Of SEO? Search engine optimization, or SEO, is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine's unpaid results—often referred to as natural, organic, or earned results. There are many benefits to having high...
Make your Facebook ads more effective: Here are 5 tips to get you started
Getting organic reach remains a huge struggle for many businesses that have to rely on paid advertisements. Fortunately, any businesses can now run Facebook ads within the platform and maximize their audience reach.
Social Display Ads: A Quick Guide to Boost Your Social Media Presence
You can always get ahead of your competitors “fast” with the proper strategic social media marketing approach. Using social display ads you can level up your marketing campaign and gain new audiences for your business. The amount of venturing business on social media...
Contextual Targeting: An Innovative Way to Reaching Broader Audience
The digital marketing industry is rapidly growing, and so do the opportunities for venturing businesses to reach more audiences. With that, many digital marketers today are continuously seeking and developing campaign strategies that will help scale their business’s growth.
Social media listening and monitoring: why it is the next big thing in 2022
If we are discussing the best marketing strategy to reach a large audience, then social media channels will certainly deliver satisfying results. But keep in mind that this is only possible if you implement the proper social media practices in your business.
Why KPIs Matter to Track Your Local SEO this 2022
Local SEO is one of the digital marketing strategies that is now gaining traction among small businesses. In 2021, "near me" mobile searches across the web grew by 136%. This strategy gave small businesses the opportunity to flourish, grow and thrive despite the...
Getting Started with Social Media Marketing: 5 Things Beginners Need To Know
If you are thinking of using social media marketing to promote your business’s goods and services then you are on the right track! It is no question that the growing popularity of social media made it a powerful platform to scale businesses. According to 75% of...
Social Media Marketing: A Quick Guide for Better Online Presence
It has come as no surprise to anyone that social media's popularity has exploded in recent years. More than half of the total population around the world is using it and that is about 4.62 billion people. And guess what? The rise of social media opened a lot of...
8 reasons why you should hire a digital marketing agency
As more and more businesses venture online, capturing a potential customer's attention is becoming increasingly challenging. Having been in business for a long time and still not seeing much success in sales, chances are you have probably considered hiring a digital...
Can’t find your Google Place ID? Here are 4 easy steps you can follow!
Still having problems looking for your business’s place ID with Google’s Place ID finder? We know that not being able to find your place ID with the standard solution can be frustrating. A Google Place ID is a series of characters that uniquely identify your...
Looking for the best digital marketing agency? Check out this guide!
Are you looking for a reputable and best digital marketing agency to boost your business? Digital marketing now plays an important role in the growth of many businesses. If you are already in the online business or simply starting to venture, seeking consultation from...
Google Maps Street View Update – Exciting New Features
Google Maps Street View has been on an incredible journey since its inception in 2007. It all started with Larry Page, who had this crazy idea to build a 360-degree map of the entire world, and today we can explore over 220 billion images from 100 countries &...
Digital Marketing: A Guide to Deliver Better Results to Your Business
There are more and more online businesses appearing every single day, leaving businesses wondering how they can further improve their marketing efforts to stay relevant and competitive in the digital space. Apart from that, businesses are expected to be quick in...
How Do I Get My Business Listed on Google Maps?
As a small business owner, you want to do everything possible to get your business in front of potential clients. There are lots of ways to do that, but one way that you definitely shouldn't overlook is listing your business on Google Maps. A listing on Google Maps...
5 Branding Best Practices for New Small Business Owners
If you are a new small business owner, you may struggle to define your enterprise and set it apart in a world of similar entities. Branding comes into play here as you capitalize on what makes you unique among competitors. Learn more about branding and decide upon...
How to Become Your Own Marketing Department
If you're an entrepreneur, marketing is an important part of your overall business strategy. Through marketing, you're able to attract new customers, expand your operations, and make more money. That said, many small- to medium-sized enterprises don't have the budget...
Google My Business Optimization
Search engine optimization is one of the most essential tools for any 21st-century business. This means explicitly targeting your visibility on any Google searches, which is how most potential customers find products and services these days. There are a few different...
Marketing Trends to Prepare For in 2022
As the global economy slowly recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, marketers all over the world are looking to the future. The world has changed drastically, and everyone is trying to figure out what comes next. In a field like marketing, that's more important than...
Talk Out Loud Marketing Agency Ranked Among the Top 30 Digital Marketing Agencies In Portland
Talk Out Loud has been recognized as among the Top 30 Digital Marketing Agencies In Portland in 2021 by DesignRush. DesignRush is a B2B marketplace that connects brands with professional full-service agencies, web design companies, digital marketing firms, and top...
Promoting Your New Business Blog With These Tips
Blogging is one of the best ways to add content and drive traffic to your site. But if you're new to the art of blogging, you might have some questions. Many new business bloggers wonder exactly how to promote their brand new business blogs. Promoting a new blog isn't...
Moving to the Digital Market after the Pandemic
The pandemic hit hard and affected the lives of many people, businesses included. There is no doubt that you were the master of the sales floor, and now you are wondering how to make do of whatever platform is available. Thanks to digital marketing, some businesses...
Does Your Business Have A Google My Business Listing?
Google is used by 90% of the 4.39 billion internet users. That is 4 billion people using Google as their primary search engine. Would it not make sense that you want your business to appear on Google's search engine? What is Google My Business? Google My Business...
The Importance of a Professional Email Signature
The email has been around for almost thirty years now and will not be going anywhere. Since it is here to stay, you should be making the most of it. Portland Digital Marketing has the facts on the importance of why you should be using a professional email signature....
Is it Important to Have a Marketing Strategy?
Another year is almost behind us. Did you create a business marketing strategy during this time? Many business leaders still haven't quite grasped the importance of a strong digital marketing strategy. As a result, their business suffers, and the competition thrives...
What Happens When I Stop Doing SEO?
SEO is the largest marketing strategy available online. Any business owner who creates a website or blog or even a social media page is subject to SEO standards. SEO helps Google distinguish the good companies from the bad, giving the best search engine placement to...
5 Reasons Professional Photography Is Necessary for Marketing
You have finally decided to have a professional website for your business with some great pictures by our professioal photography service. You got an Instagram and Facebook account, Pinterest is all set, the website looks good, and even though you are doing all the...
Generate Quality Content for Your Social Media Pages With This Information
Social media influences a buyer’s decision. It’s important that your company is a part of the social media fun if success is destined for your future. These sites provide 24-hour access to customers and leads but also highlights your brand as an industry-leading name....
So You’re a Solopreneur- You Still Need to Worry About Trademarks
“I own a Small Business. Why do I need to worry about intellectual property?” I hear this question all of the time from potential clients, especially because so many of my clients are solopreneurs, startups, and small businesses. It seems that a common misconception...
You Get What You Pay For
Are you paying for a professional graphic designer? There is a saying we've all heard: "You get what you pay for." Whether the subject is on firearms, automobiles, houses, etc...you get what you pay for. Top tier service yields top tier results and you want what is...
3 Reasons your business should be focused on making a social impact
In this crazy world, we live in today and now more than ever people are feeling the tug to be a good human. The millennials may get a lot of flack about how they act and think but I believe they are also the reason why so many are starting to focus on making a...
360 Virtual Tour in Portland Oregon
Virtual Tour for Casa Tolteca Check out the latest 360 virtual tour we did in Portland. Casa Tolteca is an "A café, mezcal bar and artisanal Mexican cuisine." We had so much fun shooting this café! We got to meet one of the owners Alex and her sweet little girl. We...
7 Digital Marketing Trends in Portland OR for 2019
Digital marketing changes rapidly. What worked just a few short years ago no longer possesses the same punch that it once did. It's essential that business owners remain up-to-date with the latest and greatest digital marketing strategies that maximize their business...
Google Virtual Tours in Portland Oregon
First, and foremost, what is a Google Virtual Tour? Google Virtual Tours use the same system as Street View. It allows your potential customers to step into your business, increasing your search engine visibility and converts more web visitors. I have to admit these...
5 Reasons Your Start-Up Needs SEO
Start-ups depend on effective marketing to reach their targeted audience. Without effective marketing, your company may never reach its fullest potential. Since we live in a day and age of technology, it's only expected that online marketing fills a large portion of...
It’s Time to Drop the ‘Customer is Always Right’ Logic
"The customer is always right" is as played out as the Hammer pants you were in the early 1990s as an MC Hammer fan. It's outdated and in today's economy, causes more problems for a business than it's worth. Customers frequently chase a product rather than allow their...
7 Reasons to use Digital Marketing
Digital marketing is a form of promotion of products, services, businesses, and even people via electronic media, particularly the internet. Business owners reach customers via various online channels, including their website, social media, and blogs. Digital...
Sticker Mule is AWESOME
I wanted to give a shout out to Sticker Mule! If you don't know what Sticker Mule is you're really missing out. During a one to one meeting with a client, she mentioned them to me and talked about ordering some sample stickers because she wanted to start sending them...
Women in Business
When you think about success, which words come to mind? Most people would say money, status, or power — but in order to be a successful woman in business, the definition needs to take on a whole new meaning. The honest truth is there is no right way to achieve...
Addicted to Social Media Marketing? Us Too. 6 Reasons We Just Can’t Stop
Social media is an inbound marketing tool that allows businesses and individuals to connect, stay in touch, network, and communicate. Facebook, the world’s largest social media platform, has more than 2 billion active daily users. In fact, more than 75% of all adults...
13 Things About Google Ads That You Might Not Have Known
Google Ads (formerly known as Google AdWords) is a service that allows online advertisers to bid on relevant keywords for placement in a clickable ad within Google’s search results. It is the largest traffic-driving platform around today, although Facebook Ads is a...
15 Undeniable Reasons to Love Marketing Automation
If you’re a well-established business with a steady flow of customers and the need for lead generation, marketing automation suffices these needs and delivers incredible benefits that can take your company to the next level of success. Businesses who use...
Real Estate 3D Virtual Tours
In this day and age, when we are planning to buy something, the first place we look it up is not the nearby store but the internet. So do the home-buyers, proving that real estate is no exception to the increasing obsession of having everything online. The virtual...
Top 10 Benefits of Social Media Marketing
Some Castle Rock businesses aren’t in a rush to use social media to promote their brand while others cannot get enough of the platforms. Those naysayers usually develop a negative social media attitude because they look at it as a technique that is here today; gone...