Digital Marketing
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Achieving a Digital Advantage is Key to Unlocking Insane Growth
Digital growth. There is a lot of buzz around that subject, yet many don’t even know what it exactly means, or how to apply the knowledge that they have.
How to Hire a Subject Matter Expert
Working with SMEs, or subject matter experts can make or break an organization. Especially one that is going through change, and especially in professional services industry. B2B consultants and experts are mandatory in today’s world.
Google’s Search Journeys
Search is changing. No longer do users type a query into Google to find a simple answer. Google has changed its strategy and its algorithms and now tries to better understand ‘user intent’ and the stage of the buyer’s journey.
Optimization Roundup: Neural Matching and the March 2019 Core Update
For the first time, Google gave a name for a recent update to its core algorithm. Not just that, we learned even more about Google’s Artificial Intellegence and how we’re all going to benefit from more relevent search results even if it’s super vague.
Why Blogging Matters & Best Practices
The internet is content. Without content, what do you have? Google SERP would be like a series of Instagram posts without hashtags or words so how would you even find the content in the first place? Images are incredibly important but without accompanying narrative, they only tell half the story.
A Guide to Identifying Keyword Intent
SEO is used to drive highly targeted traffic to your website. As searcher’s are on their journey, you must factor their intent during keyword research to drive optimal results.
Designing for People-First Matters: Why Mobile-First is a Necessity
Mobile performance matters. Even a hundredth of a second may be the difference between enhancing the user’s experience or increasing your bounce rate.
Why Compelling Imagery Matters & Best Practices
Imagery is everywhere and it’s an integral part of our world. From advertising to city planning to nature to what we perceive as beautiful, scary, macabre, and anything in between, imagery plays a big role.
Why Mobile Optimization Matters & Best Practices
Over half of the world’s internet users access the internet via a mobile phone. Here’s why mobile optimization matters and best practices for mobile optimization.
Why CRM Integration Matters & Best Practices
CRM stands for ‘customer relationship management.’ Companies often use CRM software to manage their customer and potential customer interactions.
Micro vs Macro Conversions
Ultimately, a conversion translates into a sale. You should know that here are two main types of conversions: micro and macro. We’ll get into the definitions later, but it’s important to understand that in the early days of web design, a ‘successful’ website was measured by the numbers of ‘hits.’ But, what we know today is that you may have one million unique views per day, but if no one is converting or buying your product and–by extension–you don’t know how they are converting or buying your product or service, then you’re missing the largest piece of the puzzle.
User Experience Affects Your Bottom Line: Here are the Top 10 UX Videos from 2018 to Help You Grow
Whatever your business does–from marketing to legal to to eCommerce and more–you’ll need to consider user experience overall. Here are 10 UX videos from 2018 to help you grow.
Why you should take responsive search ads and its implications on search results into consideration
In January of 2017, Google decided no longer to support Flash player ads. Then, summer 2018, Google announced it would roll out responsive search ads. Google constantly tries to come up with improvements and innovations, so is this new AI-generated advertising a good thing for your company? And should you care? Should you consider the implications and impact on your business?
Ways to Get Your Website Optimized for Voice Assistants
Voice search is here to stay, so here are ways to get your website optimized for voice assistants.
Off-page SEO vs on-page SEO
There are two SEO techniques that you will probably have heard of: one is ‘on-page SEO’ and the other is ‘off-page SEO.’ Together they are a way of optimizing your website for search and improving your organic search engine ranking.
The Mini-Guide to Local SEO
Local SEO is incredibly important if you want to be found on Google, especially on mobile; however, local SEO will be more relevant to some businesses than others.
The importance of branding in web design and SEO
Here’s why branding is just as important as SEO and web design and why they go hand-in-hand.
How much should an SEO agency charge?
When planning your company’s SEO and marketing budgets, what factors do you need to consider to determine if you’re getting good value for money? No one wants to be overcharged for services; however, just like when buying silk ties, you often get what you pay for– and that applies to SEO too.
What is web design’s role in SEO?
We’re a web-based world. From computers to tablets to mobile devices, the web answers our questions, tells us what to buy, lets us know what our friends are up to, and keeps us from being bored when we are waiting at the doctor’s office. Think about it. How often do you Google something on your phone (or ask Alexa, Siri, or Google assistant)?
Gaining traction organically: why you should validate your channels with the bullseye framework before optimizing for specific keywords
Organic search (as opposed to paid search) is still the best, most trusted way to rank in Google’s SERP. But, how can you gain organic traction? How do you figure out what is and isn’t working in your SEO and marketing efforts? Use these expert marketing tips to uncover your best channels, enabling a multiplier affect on your optimization efforts to gain traction for your product or service, organically.
