About Leslie Carruthers

Leslie Carruthers is President of The Search Guru, a search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO) and content marketing agency serving medium and large businesses who think big.

What Really Keeps Marketing Heroes Up at Night?

2023-10-02T14:55:39+00:00October 2nd, 2023|

Introduction On our podcast, "Marketing Heroes [Unfiltered]," Leslie Carruthers and Danny Muscoplat ask top B2B marketers: What keeps you up at night? The answers we’re getting are insightful and sometimes surprising. Index/ TLDR Kat Noreen highlights the hidden pitfalls of internal misalignment - how organizations can inadvertently hold themselves back while competitors surge

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Unlocking Global Success: Smart Implementation of Powerhouse Hreflang Tag Delivers

2023-03-09T22:48:47+00:00March 8th, 2023|

Caution: Missing, incorrect or unrecognized hreflang tags sabotage multilingual websites, costing you leads and sales TL;DR (Introduction) Hreflang are super handy tags that tell Google your website has a few versions of the content for queries in a specific language, tailored for a specific region of the world. Proper use of hreflang: supports your

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B2B Landing Pages: Great Examples of Huge Wins & Epic Fails

2022-07-08T15:44:49+00:00July 8th, 2022|

Before we get into what does NOT work for Business to Business (B2B) ECommerce Landing Pages, let’s go over the basics. B2B Ecommerce is selling products or services between businesses through the internet. A landing page is a standalone web page. It is where your customer or potential client will start their journey on

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VSEO: 5 YouTube SEO tips for video optimization that really work

2022-07-08T15:39:27+00:00July 6th, 2022|

VSEO, or video search engine optimization, is different from traditional search engine optimization, but many of the same basic SEO principles hold true. VSEO has many benefits for business owners. YouTube is the second largest search engine in the world and the third biggest site on the Internet (Google and Facebook

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5 Steps to Get Rid of Poor Performing Marketing Pages, Once and for All

2022-06-22T19:46:19+00:00February 24th, 2022|

MORE traffic & MORE conversions? Yes, please! Let's tackle your B2B marketing landing pages, improving them so they drive more traffic and conversions, now. Watch our video series as we guide you step-by-step through what it takes to solve any issue you may be having with your web pages. Following these steps guarantees your

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Not Enough Traffic to your B2B Website? 5 Steps to the Right Traffic.

2022-05-12T07:13:34+00:00August 24th, 2021|

It’s frustrating when you’ve been in business for over 30 years, you’ve worked with the biggest companies, you are a well known brand among the experts and when you look at your website stats, you see less than 30 people come to your website daily. And to make things worse, the majority of those 30

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Top B2B Content Marketers Discuss What Success Looks Like

2021-08-18T15:54:41+00:00August 15th, 2021|

For the last year, TheSearchGuru has begun working on a book about content marketing and what strategies to use when you don't have enough time, people or budget. Leslie Carruthers has met with top industry movers and shakers in the B2B marketplace gaining insightful views on their successes, challenges and views on what is

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What are B2B Marketers Solving for: No More Trade Shows

2022-02-18T17:58:58+00:00February 16th, 2021|

What’s missing? “No more Trade Shows or in person events - now where do we fill our pipeline and generate leads?”  Deena was charged with generating targeted leads for the sales team. And she was wildly successful... until the pandemic reached the US.   “Event marketing was our bread and butter pre coronavirus pandemic.

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Happy New Year, Amphicars and Pandemics

2022-05-12T06:50:34+00:00January 3rd, 2021|

One Minute your Tires are on the Ground, the Next Minute you are in the Lake, and your Point of View Shifts Forever and Completely. Have you heard of the #amphicar? I offer it as a worthy representative for 2020. That’s me riding in one in Lake Travis (Austin, Texas -  #ThankYou Herb and

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[New Research] Marketing Managers’ POV: How is the COVID-19 Crisis Affecting your Marketing Budget?

2020-05-26T18:15:56+00:00May 21st, 2020|

Wondering how the COVID-19 crisis is impacting marketing budgets? So were we. What we found was surprising. Update: In the period April - May, 2020 we did interviews with top marketers on what they are seeing as opportunities, trends and positive examples. The article has been updated with their insights. In it we’ll show:

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