Aaron Mackel

Aaron Mackel

Aaron is the Digital Strategy Director at Hurrdat, where he helps uncover opportunities and build strategies for our clients. Aaron has a deep background in SEO and content marketing and has worked with businesses ranging from S&P 500 clients to small, local businesses. Projects Aaron has worked on include SEO-focused website redesigns, evergreen blog strategies, on-page SEO, lead capture strategies, and more.

Aaron lives in Omaha, NE, graduated from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with a major in Advertising, and enjoys spending time with his family, playing tennis, and playing fantasy football.

How to Create & Use YouTube End Screens

How to Create & Use YouTube End Screens

If you're investing in video marketing on YouTube, using end screens is a great way to make sure you're maximizing exposure. Let's dive into how end screens can help your channel and how to use them. What Are YouTube End Screens? How to Add an End Screen on YouTube...

YouTube Chapters: What They Are & How to Add Them

YouTube Chapters: What They Are & How to Add Them

YouTube and video content in general continue to play an increasingly prominent role across the digital marketing landscape. Adding chapters to your YouTube videos—either manually or with the automatic chapters feature—helps your content show up in search engine...

How YouTube Videos Help SEO

How YouTube Videos Help SEO

Did you know YouTube videos can improve your website's visibility in search engine results, drive more organic traffic to your website, and support your content marketing efforts? Let's take a closer look at the various ways a YouTube strategy can be used for search...

What Are People Searching for Online During COVID-19?

What Are People Searching for Online During COVID-19?

Life as we know it has changed a lot over the last couple weeks. With most of the country staying at home and practicing social distancing due to COVID-19, some unique online searches have spiked in volume as a result. What are people searching for online right now?...

Why Growing Your Email List Should Always Be a Priority

Why Growing Your Email List Should Always Be a Priority

Though there’s always something new to test with your digital marketing strategy, there are some tried-and-true tactics that should be at the center of your long-term online marketing efforts—like email capture. Email marketing provides lasting value for targeted...

Mobile Device Use By the Numbers

Mobile Device Use By the Numbers

A mobile-friendly website is a must, and I'm not just saying that because I design responsive websites. If Google's index split or your own smartphone habits (Are you holding us in your hands?) aren't enough to persuade you, perhaps the who, what, and how of mobile...

Why You Need to Claim Your Business Listing on Google My Business

Why You Need to Claim Your Business Listing on Google My Business

Google is still the #1 search engine on the web, which means any opportunity to improve visibility in Google's search engine results should be a no-brainer for businesses. One such "no-brainer" is Google My Business, a free local business listing management platform...

How to Conduct a Content Marketing Audience Analysis

How to Conduct a Content Marketing Audience Analysis

Understanding your audience is one of the most critical components of content marketing. By knowing who is reading what, and how they're reacting to the content that's being shared, you can really start to understand how your content is performing, and how it can be...

How to Hit a Content Marketing Home Run

How to Hit a Content Marketing Home Run

Build it, and hope that they come. This is what most "content marketing" plans consist of. Creating and publishing. A small majority of the Internet can get away with this. The ESPNs or Buzzfeeds of the world. But for the vast majority of sites, that isn't enough....