The Raven Blog

As a small business owner, you’ve probably got a lot on your plate. And it’s not always easy to know where your time is best spent. This is especially true when it comes to marketing. With limited hours and endless options, it’s normal to feel overwhelmed. It’s not easy to find your best return on […]

This year we’re putting the Lean Startup approach into full effect and it will be on full display when we launch our new standalone Site Auditor in a couple of months. However, it can also be seen now through updates we’ve been making to the current suite. For example, in the past few months we’ve released […]

We recently realized we had access to a landfill of valuable on-page SEO data, so we started digging. We then released our 2015 study analyzing on-page SEO issues. On-Page SEO is the code and words within your website that affect how well your pages rank in search results. Between early 2013 and mid-2015, marketers deployed Raven’s Site Auditor tool to check and […]

It’s never easy to stay on top of Google’s algorithm changes. Luckily, Google Search Console (AKA Webmaster Tools) gives us a look at how they see our sites. As marketers, we need to see how users are finding and engaging with our sites through organic searches. And at Raven, we’re always looking for more ways […]

Have your Black Friday or Cyber Monday sale all ready to go? In the midst of all the brainstorming, research, creating content, timing, and logistics… don’t forget about reporting. Make sure all your work translates into money. Of all the metrics you can collect during a sale, roughly measuring something like brand awareness can be straight forward. […]

There’s a newly standardized HTML attribute used with the IMG element called SRCSET. It’s kind of a big deal because it allows webmasters to display different images based on a device’s screen size without the need for JavaScript or other special code. That means mobile browsers can be served the smaller images, thus speeding up their […]

Site Auditor’s Upgrade Makes You a Superhero SEO Site Auditor has been a major focus at Raven, and for good reason. Site Auditor has crawled and recrawled hundreds of millions of pages and has discovered billions of SEO issues. These kinds of numbers deserve attention. So, we’re happy to announce that Raven has rebuilt Site Auditor’s crawlers […]

Raven’s Report Builder opens up an entire world of possibilities when it comes to reporting. Most people use reports as a recurring status update on active marketing campaigns, but reports can be used for so much more than that. For example, what if your goal were to acquire new business? Try creating a prospect report […]

No corner of the Internet advances faster than social media. Your Facebook photos could start reaching half the people they once did. Your Twitter favorites could turn into likes overnight. Some changes don’t affect your business much, while others can have a huge impact. Because of this constant change, it can be daunting when setting up a brand on social media. This is especially […]

We didn’t have a solid answer before we ran some numbers for our 2015 study about on-page SEO issues. Thousands of marketers use Site Auditor to find duplicate content and other SEO issues. Here’s what we discovered about the average website crawl.