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The Munich-based digital agency schalk&friends achieved significant growth in the past calendar year: The agency, which was founded in 1999, increased its total fee revenue by 26.3% to €5.7 million, putting it in 69th place among Germany’s largest digital agencies (previous year: 75th). Particularly pleasing: schalk&friends thus grew by more...
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Ranking 2020: schalk&friends grows twice as fast as the market

Porträt von Tobias Schalkhaußer
Tobias Schalkhaußer
29. May 2020
1 min reading time
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    Recognising search intent in order to sustainably improve the ranking

    Porträt von Tim Kallenbach
    Tim Kallenbach
    02. April 2020
    4 min reading time

    As a webmaster who really wants to provide suitable content, you have to ask yourself what the goals and intentions behind search queries are. What do users really want to know? What results do they expect behind the search query? And for this very reason, it is important to understand...

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    Pillar page and SEO: improved ranking through content clusters

    Porträt von Roman Swoboda
    Roman Swoboda
    25. February 2020
    2 min reading time

    When it comes to the structure of website content and improving keyword rankingsat the same time, the pillar page is often used. Have you never heard of a pillar page? In this article we will introduce you to the concept of a pillar page.

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    Advertising on TikTok: what do you need to know?

    Porträt von Sonia Distante
    Sonia Distante
    03. December 2019
    3 min reading time

    Since January 2019, it has been possible to place adverts on TikTok – with a choice of formats and cost models.

Search engine optimisation is now on everyone’s lips and is carried out by numerous SEO managers in a wide variety of ways. While a few years ago it was common practice to place a so-called SEO text including keyword stuffing just before the footer of the website, search engine optimisation...
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SXO - Search Experience Optimisation

Porträt von Daniel Milojevic
Daniel Milojevic
18. June 2019
2 min reading time
The increasing relevance of mobile website optimisation has received a further boost this year. On everyone’s lips since 2016, Google officially announced the first roll-out for the switch to the mobile-first index in March 2018. But what does this mean in concrete terms for individual webmasters? What needs to be...
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Google's Mobile First Index

Porträt von Markus Kilius
Markus Killius
29. June 2018
3 min reading time
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    Holistic content - what is important?

    Porträt von Tim Kallenbach
    Tim Kallenbach
    22. June 2018
    2 min reading time

    Holistic content refers to the grouping of several keywords on one topic and the resulting landing page or text. This means that similar topics are grouped together and dealt with extensively and in detail on one page. Instead of creating a separate page for each individual keyword, one page is...

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    Featured Snippets - Are you already ranking at position 0 in Google search?

    Porträt von Roman Swoboda
    Roman Swoboda
    21. June 2018
    2 min reading time

    Featured snippets are highlighted snippets or info boxes that give the search engine user a direct answer to their search query and are displayed before the organic search results. Users are shown the answer directly without having to click on a search result. Google uses content from other sites and...

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    Top 5 free SEO tools

    Porträt von Elias Hildebrand
    Elias Hildebrand
    11. June 2018
    4 min reading time

    With the Google Search Console, formerly Google Webmaster Tools, you are informed directly by Google about the quality of your own website. Among other things, information on 404 errors, crawling status and blocked resources is displayed here. You also get an overview of the number of clicks, impressions and positions...

With its latest newsfeed update, Facebook has named Meaningful Interactions as the most important currency for increasing reach. The idea behind this is that it is no longer so important how many people are simply reached, but how many people react to the post – in other words, how many...
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Meaningful interactions - what's behind them?

Porträt von Markus Kilius
Markus Killius
01. June 2018
1 min reading time