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Red Olive combined with Motos in Moab to shoot one epic video. This video chronicles the experience of a motorcycle festival and campout, Motos in Moab, from the perspective of an attendee. Motos in Moab is an epic event in the southeastern desert of Utah. Past events have brought hundreds of motorcycle enthusiasts together for […]

The digital world is full of billions of informational data. Full of business ads and promotional giveaways, every click users take drives them closer to your business or further away. Fortunately, Red Olive provides the roadmap to finding these customers and getting them to engage with your company. As a full-service digital agency since 1999, […]

Highland Custom Homes Teams up with Our video production team to showcase their Heber Valley Home Whenever our clients complete work on their biggest projects, our video production team is on-site ready to make the project come to life on the digital screen. Using the latest videoing equipment, our videographer, Max Daines, took to the […]

See how your business can rank higher in local search results. We’ve known for a while that Google reviews significantly impact where your business lands in the Google search algorithm. This is especially true when people turn to search engines for help when making buying decisions. The good news? Local businesses can now compete with […]

The Importance of User Reviews for Local SEO Local businesses face many challenges. Getting customers to your front door is probably the first on your list. Even if you have a steady flow of loyal customers, you still need to have a consistent stream of new people coming in as well. So, the first question […]

This July Google started rolling out the Google Speed Update we’ve all been anticipating since they announced it at the beginning of the year. But what does the Speed Update mean for you and your users? Let’s discuss. Now more than ever, it’s important to get your page up to speed with Google’s latest algorithm. […]

How Red Olive Does Sprint Planning As a digital marketing agency, planning and organizing projects in a timely and effective manner can seem overwhelming. From balancing time to assessing client’s individual needs, we’ve developed a different approach to agile sprint planning that helps our agency stay ahead of deadlines and accomplish goals set by clients […]

Connecting a new website to all the marketing platforms we use, and setting up the needed functionality to make us successful was no easy or quick task. We oftentimes depended on our developers to add functionality and tags to our clients’ websites as they came in. Many of the items were the same for all […]

When it comes to the complicated minefield (or money factory…) of new gTLDs, those of us working in SEO really just have one question on our minds: how will the new .something domain extensions affect search results and rankings? The short answer? They won’t. The longer, more complex one? They might, but no one can […]

Your website has just 50 milliseconds to establish a viewer’s first and lasting impression of your company according to a study conducted at Carlton University in Ontario in 2006. For this reason, creating a website that is aesthetically pleasing is an absolute must in order to portray the image you want for your company in […]

Mike Murphy has been an internet marketer for over 12 years.  He has excelled in acquiring online leads, e-commerce transactions, and increasing conversion ratios.  Mike’s methods of choice are SEO, PPC, and Social Media.  His past clients have included INC 500 companies, start-ups, and international companies. He is an ROI extraordinaire, loves A/B testing, and […]

Web Design Web design impacts conversion, it’s that simple. A quality web design means a great user experience, which is more important than ever for SEO. Some SEO-Only firms may hate to admit it, but if your internet marketing strategy is rooted in bad design, your results won’t be as great as they can be. […]

The first thing I want to make clear is that you shouldn’t look at SEO and PPC globally in a versus style debate. In most cases, I believe you should utilize both categories of search marketing. This particular case study examined the traffic and conversion differences from SEO and PPC for a single keyword. The […]

A few months ago Google made a dramatic overhaul to their local business profile service, Google Places. What they have done is consolidated Google Places into Google+, calling these new pages Google+ Local. Many Google Places profiles have been automatically switched over to Google+ Local. If you have noticed that your profile looks different, this […]

By now any self respecting business owner knows that having a website is crucial. When someone hears about your business and they would like to learn more, the default has quickly become the internet. If a potential customer has your business card or can remember your business name (which often times they won’t), they can […]