How to Generate Content Ideas that Will Attract and Engage Visitors
As you probably know by now if you’ve been an SMT blog or podcast subscriber, content marketing is beneficial for a variety of reasons like improving search engine optimization SEO, building an audience, and converting website visitors, but generating content ideas that will help you achieve those goals is a little more tricky. Whether you’re putting together your first content strategy or you want to ramp up your current efforts, we’ll show you several ways to generate...
8 Tactics to Boost Your Mobile Marketing in 2020
With 40 percent of online transactions happening on mobile and the rise of voice search, your digital marketing strategy must include mobile marketing to be competitive in today’s marketplace. By targeting prospective customers through their mobile devices, like smartphones and tablets, you can connect with them at any stage in the buyer’s journey: awareness → consideration → decision. Check out these eight mobile marketing tactics to boost conversions and generate...
5 Tips to Optimize Content for Voice Search
Voice search, which allows users to use a voice command to search the internet, a website, or an app, is gaining in popularity and if you’re not optimizing your content for voice search, you could miss out on a lot of users. According to a report from Voicebot.ai and Voicify, 66.4 million people in the United States - 26.2% of the adult population - own a smart speaker e.g. Google Home, Alexa Echo, Apple Home Pod. Furthermore, Google has reported that 20% of searches are now by voice...
How to Increase Customer Loyalty Through Consistency
Although inbound digital marketing helps attract customers, what makes customers loyal to a business is exceptional customer service. Some businesses get so caught up in trying to acquire new customers that they lose focus on the customers they already have, which can end up costing them. According to Harvard Business Review, investing in new customers is between 5 and 25 times more expensive than retaining existing ones. So, what can a business do to make customers happy and stick around?...
3 Practices to Improve Google Ads Performance
Google Ads is a powerful platform for pay-per-click PPC advertising but its many capabilities can often be overlooked. After all, Google rolls out new targeting features on a regular basis which can be hard to keep track of. Whether you’re new to Google Ads or have been using it for years, here are three practices that can improve your campaigns’ performance and increase your return on investment ROI. 1. Combine Branded Keywords with Modified Broad Keywords Branded keywords are...
Pinterest Reveals Top Holiday Search Trends for 2019
As the leading social network for saving and discovery information through images, GIFs, and videos, Pinterest is a hot online destination for holiday inspiration. According to Pinterest’s 2019 holiday report, users started searching for holiday inspiration as early as June for things like decor, recipes, outfits, gift ideas, and more. Pinterest also reports that searches for "Christmas inspiration" are up 220% globally! See what’s trending on Pinterest this holiday season to see...
6 Tactics to Balance Data-Driven Marketing and User Privacy
The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR in Europe has raised concerns all over the globe about the changes happening in digital marketing and pay-per-click PPC advertising. While businesses understand the importance of obtaining consent before collecting and using people's data, they also worry about navigating new and evolving regulations since one misstep can hurt their business. All is not doom and gloom, however, there are ways businesses can balance data-driven marketing and user...
Is It Possible to Get LinkedIn Leads Without Advertising?
Paid advertising is an effective way to get LinkedIn leads but if you don’t have the budget or a boss who sees that value in it yet, you can still identify and nurture leads organically on LinkedIn by getting a little creative and making a plan. See how LinkedIn can act as a sales funnel and several steps you can take to develop and nurture leads through LinkedIn, all without paying for ads. How LinkedIn Can Fit Into Your Sales Funnel LinkedIn has the potential to be a lead generating...
7 Best Web Development Practices to Prevent Project Setbacks
In a perfect world, every new web development project would progress without a glitch but in real life, things happen and plans get derailed. Fortunately, there are steps that you can take from the start of your project and all through the development process to help avoid setbacks. By following these seven best web development practices, your project will move forward more smoothly. 1. Determine your objective. Eager developers can jump into writing code but without a plan and clear...
6 Content Marketing Mistakes To Avoid
Content marketing can help you reach new audiences, engage your current audience, and generate leads or conversions. However, breaking through the digital noise is getting increasingly harder as more and more content is being produced. By avoiding these six common mistakes, your content marketing strategy will perform better thereby increasing your return on investment ROI. 1. Too focused on quantity. Instead of churning out content non-stop, take the time to develop thoughtful, well-rounded...
5 Tips to Improve Your PPC Campaign’s Performance
It’s not enough to set up your pay-per-click PPC advertising campaign, you’ll need to monitor and optimize it on an ongoing basis if you want to improve its performance. Fortunately, there are steps you can take with your PPC campaign to achieve a higher return on investment ROI. Check out our five tips to see how you can enhance your PPC campaign’s performance. 1. Use negative keywords. Negative keywords are words or phrases that you DO NOT want your ads to show up for. By...
When Does Google Update Its Algorithm?
An important activity of search engine optimization SEO is keeping track of Google’s algorithm updates because minor changes today can become major changes tomorrow. That’s not to say that you must change and optimize your website every time Google updates its algorithm but it’s helpful to be aware of what’s going on to ensure your website doesn’t disappear from search engine result pages SERPs. Not every algorithm update will affect your website but a big part...
Top 5 Ways to Share Links on Instagram
Sharing links on Instagram can be a little tricky since it doesn’t allow clickable links in post captions or comments, however, there are other ways you can drive followers to your content. Check out our top five ways to share links on Instagram so you can increase traffic to your website and promote offers more effectively.
1. Add a Link to Your Bio
The simplest way to share a clickable link on Instagram is in your profile’s bio. You can use the profile bio link for your...
4 Social Media Stats You Should not Ignore
When you create and share content on social media, it should align and support your marketing goals, however, misinformation and unrealistic expectations often undermine efforts to achieve those goals. The good news is that like other types of internet marketing, businesses have access to a wealth of social media data that they can use to reassess their strategy and make necessary changes. Check out these four social media stats from a recent study by The Sprout Social you shouldn’t...
How to Collect More Reviews for Search Engine Optimization
Reviews play an important role in search engine optimization SEO and attracting more customers. Not all reviews, however, are given equal weight by Google because depending on how the review was collected, where it came from, and who wrote it, your business can suffer negative consequences. There are good and bad practices for collecting more reviews. In this article, we’ll show you which practices you should avoid and the steps you can take to get more reviews for your business.
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How to Maintain a Quality and Trusted Google Business Listing
It’s not enough to simply set up a Google My Business listing; you also need to maintain your profile’s quality to build trust with customers. Problems often arise when businesses set it and forget it. However, if you don’t regularly maintain your Google business listing, you’re opening up your business to issues like incorrect information, hacking, false reviews, and more. Not only can your Google business listing build or break trust with customers, but it’s...
5 Essential Building Blocks for Online Marketing Success
Creating a marketing plan for your products and services is one of the most important things you can do for your business. Finding ways to boost your brand awareness, connect with customers, and reinforce current relationships should constantly be on your mind. But with so many ways out there to market your business online, it’s hard to narrow down the basics building blocks to a successful internet marketing campaign.
The five essential building blocks for internet marketing success...
A Quick Guide to Search Intent and Optimizing Your Website For It
When it comes to the customer journey online, there are a
few different stages that they go through before making a purchase.
Here are the buying
stages:
Awareness: The customer becomes aware
of a problem or need
Interest: They seek out information to
find a solution
Consideration: They evaluate specific
products or services
Purchase: They make a decision on what
to buy
Their search queries will be very different depending on which stage of the buying...
How to Build a Solid B2B Digital Marketing Strategy
Updated: June 3, 2019 One of the toughest challenges in building a successful B2B internet marketing strategy is figuring out where to start. This can be especially challenging for B2B companies, because the marketplace is mostly geared towards promoting B2C products and services. Building a solid B2B digital marketing strategy is vital to a company’s overall marketing plan. Over the years, we have uncovered some key areas to help B2B businesses improve their online presence, while...
How ‘Position Zero’ in Google Search Impacts Your Website’s Traffic
Is your drop in traffic a true indicator of less visibility in search results? Or is it merely because you’re showing up more prominently? In the past, we’ve talked about Google’s search interface changes and how they impact the overall search results - like our article breaking down how to get in Google’s Answer Box also known as a Featured Snippet or 'Position Zero'. How to Get A Featured Snippet in Google's Answer Box While getting featured can lead to more...