Since this is a digital marketing blog, let's just stick to what we know. No Terminator talk here. Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) offer huge advantages for digital marketers. Today, companies accumulate detailed information about user identities in addition to a real time cache of associated attributes and events. This highly granular view allows [...]
Is Google+ still worth it? Do I still need a Google Plus listing? Is Google Plus going away? For several years, we heard a version of those questions fairly frequently. Then, in October 2018, Google announced that Google+ would gradually be phased out by August 2019. After a security breach was disclosed in December [...]
How do you determine what topics to write about and what types of content to produce for your website? To effectively drive website performance, we recommend leveraging data to assess your most successful content and determine what future content will resonate best with your target audience. Experiment With Different Strategies There’s no reason to approach [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
At what point does your client graduate from their online marketing training? As data analysts, marketing geniuses, SEO monsters, PPC rockstars... how do we finally convince our client to put the trust token in our hands? I'm not talking about the marketing director who understands how to stay in their lane nor the senior marketing [...]
By 2020, fifty percent of the workforce will be remote. What does this mean for your brand’s digital marketing? Just like people, a brand’s identity typically has several manifestations. The way you act at home vs. work isn’t exactly the same. Likewise, your business presence goes beyond your website. Now with social media, review sites, [...]
Recent data compiled by Databox of the most-tracked metrics of over 50,000 Google Analytics users revealed that Google Analytics is most often called upon to: Measure and track visitor growth and online conversions. Determine how long visitors are staying on the site. What visitors are viewing. This is critical information, but Google Analytics is capable [...]
Ernest Hemingway once said, “As long as you start, you are all right. The juice will come.” The same is true for link juice and websites: Once you make a start at trying to obtain link juice for your website, the rewards will follow. What does link juice in SEO mean and if it’s so [...]
