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That title? That’s just here for search engine optimization. Yup, I went there. The fact of the matter is, there is no war on Christmas keywords (There’s also not really a war on Christmas, but that’s a whole other topic!). If anything, there’s a war on other winter holiday keywords.

At hasOptimization, one of our primary services is search engine optimization. It’s a service that many of our clients come to us in need of help with. The thing about search engine optimization, otherwise known as SEO, is that there’s a lot of minute things you have to consider when it comes to “ranking”. Search terms, trends, search location, Google’s algorithm, page responsiveness, mobile first indexing, are just a few things to consider when working on SEO.

Today’s blog post is by Social Media Rockstar Aimee Cozza! Take it away, Aimee! So what are these weird things known as “hashtags”? I’m sure you see them often enough… They’re the things with the pound symbol before them. Like you might see, #mylife on Twitter. Hashtags DO serve a purpose, despite how liberally some people may use them (stylistically, that is). Hashtags are like keywords–they are a way to group and find similar topics on Twitter, Facebook and other social platforms. For example, if you post an item such as “Hello world! #tweet” anyone who searches on that platform for…

I recently had to research this question for a client–I knew the answer on a gut level, but needed the data to back it up. Turns out, it’s kind of hard to find. There’s a lot of information out there about what you should do with footer links. And there’s a lot of information out there about the practice of “keyword stuffing” (and if you’re still doing this in your site, please join us in this decade!). But there’s actually relatively little information about specifically stuffing your footer with keywords. Everyone wants to rank well for key terms that may be…