If you spend anytime analyzing data, exporting it to Excel, and adding formulas to get totals, you find quickly that certain Analytics metrics that appear to be a total at the top of a column are not a total at all. Wait, what? Find the Story Behind the Analytics Stats Some of these labels [...]
Your organic SEO efforts have paid off. A user has been enticed by your link in Google’s search results. They click...and instead of going to the content that attracted them, they get a big “404 Error-Page Not Found” headline staring them in the face. The user clicks the back button and moves on with their [...]
In Summary: Re-optimizing for SEO is taking well performing content and improving it to perform even better in search results. You simply review which content is doing well and make improvements including metadata, content, keywords and relevance. You can even implement new keywords where appropriate. So you wrote a blog post, and it’s getting some [...]
As was recently reported in Search Engine Journal, Google has launched a beta version of a website grader tool - called Lighthouse, and it is currently available at web.dev. The tool is designed to provide insights into aspects of the site that are directly related to user experience: SEO, performance, accessibility and best practices. How [...]
Every brand should optimize their online presence for local SEO so that people can engage with you at multiple locations. Placing all your local information on the landing page, however, crams the home page and is counter-productive. It’s much better to optimize individual pages for efficient local search. This also lets you implement high yield [...]
When was the last time you checked your Google My Business profiles for accuracy? Well now it may be easier than ever to do. As reported by SEO Roundtable, Google just rolled out new business cards within some Google Maps listings that give businesses the opportunity to review and submit updates to their Google Business [...]
A lot of digital marketing agencies out there are content mills. This means they write many articles for you as inexpensively as possible. You might think they’re doing your business a service since blogging boosts website exposure. The agency might even tell you that pumping out a bunch of posts with the right keywords is [...]
You’re a local business owner that has developed a steady customer base the old-fashioned way—networking, billboards, etc. You also know the Internet has drastically changed the game and shows no signs of stopping. Making concessions to the modern era, you put up a website. Now you hear many theories about what needs to happen from [...]
Tracking conversions is a critical piece to proving the value of your online marketing services. Google Analytics is the de facto standard at this point in time for tracking and being able to analyze the results of services being provided. Many Google Analytics users are deploying their GA tag through Google Tag Manager. What happens [...]
Google Analytics is rolling out Cross Device capabilities to help companies better understand the customer journey. Prior to Cross Device reporting, if a user came to your site from a mobile device and then from desktop, it would show as two separate sessions and two unique users. With the new Cross Device feature, you’ll be [...]
