Your marketing team is hard at work tweaking ads and landing pages to drive efficiency and hit the targets set for them by the C-suite. And those targets are more than likely ROAS-related. But, for two reasons, these ROAS targets are actually causing a lot of damage: ROAS usually doesn’t take incrementality into account, which…
Editor’s note: This post is part of an ongoing series looking back at the history of Google algorithm updates. Enjoy! May 3, 2015, it happened again. Google quietly launched an update – now popularly known as the “Quality Update,” though in truth it has no official name. ADVERTISEMENT It struck fear into the hearts of many webmasters,…
We have nearly unlimited access to information and data. For search marketers, this can be a blessing or a curse. It’s very easy to get sucked into the never-ending pool of data — but this rarely, if ever, benefits our work. So how do we protect ourselves from information overload? Futurologist Alvin Toffler predicted in…
Local SEO is competitive and fierce. With more and more local businesses vying for the Google local three-pack — and ads and online directories occupying a large percentage of the remaining SERP real estate — your local SEO strategy has to be aggressive. So, what can you do to outrank your local competitors down the…
Bing Ads is now letting advertisers import call conversion data, which can help connect phone sales back to the ad campaign that prompted the call. Call conversion imports are facilitated through Bing Ads’ Offline Conversion Import tool, which was released this past September. Any call-tracking system can integrate with Bing Ads, and import call conversion…
Are your SEO and content efforts not producing enough results? Are you heavily investing time and resources on link building yet you’re still getting minimal to zero returns? Then perhaps it’s time to take a step back and rethink your overall strategy. Last December 6, I joined SEJ ThinkTank to discuss how companies can gain…
This week’s roundup of news, announcements and events happening throughout the search marketing industry includes: Industry veteran and Majestic SEO CMO Dixon Jones announced he’ll be retiring from Majestic in November 2018, and will move into Global Brand Ambassador role at Majestic until that time. He’s been a key member of the search community since…
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Search engine optimization (SEO) can be a powerful marketing channel for any industry. But SEO can be especially powerful for industries where the buying cycle tends to be longer and more complex, like with new home construction. That’s because in cases like this, SEO provides so many additional opportunities throughout the buying cycle to put…
If you have been an SEO practitioner for a bit of time and feel that you aren’t learning as much as you used to, it might be time to start think broader and try your hand at international SEO. Managing SEO for a global audience isn’t applicable for many smaller websites, but if you have…