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Your Ads: Up for Auction?

Your Ads: Up for Auction?

by | Jul 17, 2019 | Best Digital Marketing Insights Online, Digital Trends, Ecommerce, Google Ads, Guardian Owl Digital Marketing, Internet Marketing, Investment, keywords, Paid Search, PPC, search engine optimization, SEM, SEO, Social Media, strategy

An ad auction is the process search engine algorithms utilize to determine which ads to show based on user searches. The auction process not only dictates whether the ad will show, but in what order ads are placed. This is called your ‘ad rank.’ The ad rank consists...
Even YouTube Uses Algorithms

Even YouTube Uses Algorithms

by | Jul 11, 2019 | Best Digital Marketing Insights Online, Digital Audience, Digital Trends, Ecommerce, Future of Media, Guardian Owl Digital Marketing, Internet Marketing, Social Media, Video For SEO, Youtube

When is an algorithm not a rule? When a human being doesn’t set it up. Sites such as YouTube use ‘machine learning’ to make their algorithms more robust and accurate. The main concept behind machine learning is that an application becomes more intuitive the more use...
Mid-Year Checkup: Your 2019 SEO Efforts So Far

Mid-Year Checkup: Your 2019 SEO Efforts So Far

by | Jul 4, 2019 | Best Digital Marketing Insights Online, content is king, Digital Audience, Digital Trends, Ecommerce, Google AI, Google Trends, Guardian Owl Digital Marketing, Internet Marketing, keywords, optimize, search engine optimization, SEO, strategy

Remember back on New Year’s Eve, when you made all those promises to yourself about how you’d hyper-focus on growing your business? Well, since you’re sitting at the pool right now, waiting for the fireworks show to start, today is a good day to do a mid-year checkup...
Image SEO is everything. And So Are Images.

Image SEO is everything. And So Are Images.

by | Jun 20, 2019 | Best Digital Marketing Insights Online, Digital Audience, Digital Trends, Ecommerce, Google Trends, Guardian Owl Digital Marketing, Image Search Engine Optimization, Internet Marketing, optimize, search engine optimization, SEO, strategy

You spent a lot of time thinking (and probably overthinking) which images to add to your website. But the work isn’t done once you load them. You need to add ‘alt text’ (shorthand for alternative text) to them so that search engines, such as Google, will know what the...
Bigger Isn’t Always Better (Sometimes Less is More)

Bigger Isn’t Always Better (Sometimes Less is More)

by | Jun 11, 2019 | Best Digital Marketing Insights Online, content is king, Digital Trends, Ecommerce, Google Trends, Guardian Owl Digital Marketing, Internet Marketing, keywords, Search Engines, SEO, strategy

The size of your website is not a direct indicator of where you land in search rankings. Bigger is not always better in a world of algorithms. Search engines, such as Google and Bing, don’t give extra credit for sites with more web copy. The copywriting itself must be...