How to align SEO and sales teams so everyone benefitsÂ
If your sales and SEO team need a refresher on how to work together, Columnist Casie Gillette has the answer with five communication tips that will get them talking in no time. It’s no secret that marketing and sales don’t always see eye to eye. The sales team gets mad at the marketing team for […]
8 of the Worst SEO Mistakes Even the Experts Make
Digital marketing is like playing the drums; everyone thinks they can do it. Inevitably, the layman writes content stuffed to the brim with a target keyword and cannibalizes his/her own webpages by using the same five keywords across all of their webpages. As infallible as we sometimes think we are, even the best of our […]
3 Critical PPC Tasks You Should Do Every Day
Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising remains an effective way to grab the attention of your target audience and drive them back to your site so they can engage with your products and services. Obviously, the higher your ads appear to the top, the more likely that someone will click on that ad. That said, just getting the click […]
5 advanced Google AdWords features to enhance your PPCÂ
Google AdWords is a highly effective marketing channel for brands to engage with customers. The auction-based pay-per-click (PPC) model has revolutionized the advertising industry, but beneath the seductive simplicity of this input-output relationship lies a highly sophisticated technology. Within this article, we round up five advanced features that can help you gain that vital competitive advantage. […]
4 concrete ways to use images to build links – Search Engine Land
Every picture tells a story and also may help you build links. Contributor Pratik Dholakiya shares four solid ways to use images to attract links. “Create visual content and the links will follow†is a nice sentiment, but in reality, it’s a prerequisite, not a guarantee of the fulfillment of a promise. If you want […]
5 conversion boosters to optimize your PPC campaignsÂ
Earlier this year, Facebook broke some bad news. Organic reach is officially being choked, making it harder for brands to reach the audiences they’ve worked so hard to build. Because of this, I believe marketers will look to SEM (search engine marketing) to recapture lost attention. The problem is, there’s already so much competition. How […]
Why And How Semantic Search Transformed SEO For The Better
Did the introduction of semantic search change the SEO industry for the better, or for worse? Some search optimizers like to complain that “Google is always changing things.†In reality, that’s only a half-truth; Google is always coming out with new updates to improve its search results, but the fundamentals of SEO have remained the same for […]
B2B PPC Tactics: 4 Best Practices to Start Using Today
Discover some of the best practices on B2B PPC campaigns that you can use today, including attribution models, ad types, video, and more. If you work in digital marketing, you might not normally think of B2B PPC (that is, pay-per-click for business-to-business campaigns). Most digital marketers think of PPC as a B2C (business-to-consumer) discipline for […]
8 PPC Mistakes to Avoid If You Want Quality Leads
If you aren’t seeing that success you expect from your paid search marketing campaigns, check to make sure you aren’t making these critical mistakes. Have you ever noticed how often someone will complain that something “doesn’t work†if they don’t understand it? It couldn’t be more true with PPC. In my experience, a lot of […]
Top 10 SEO Mistakes Affiliates Make
Affiliate marketing is powerful when SEO and affiliate goals all push in the same direction. But you have to avoid these 10 SEO mistakes. Affiliate marketing can be really powerful when SEO and affiliate goals all push in the same direction. Yet it’s also painfully clear that many affiliate marketers are missing out on substantial, sustainable growth […]