8 free keyword research tools for SEO (that beat their paid alternatives)
Do you really need to pay a fortune to find the best SEO & PPC keywords for your business?
Do you really need to pay a fortune to find the best SEO & PPC keywords for your business?
Competitor Social Citations How good exactly is social media at generating referral traffic? Let’s look at the facts. As of 2019, there are 4.39 billion Internet users in the world. Facebook, the social media giant, has 2.32 billion — over half of that. There are five more platforms with over a billion users (YouTube, WhatsApp, […]
Finding why performance of a search advertising campaign changed can be maddeningly difficult but tools like Optmyzr can help.
Social media is an enormous pool of insights on your market and competitors. These social listening tools bring those insights right to the surface.
Armed with data and insights, Watson Marketing empowers marketers to know their customers better than ever and help drive loyalty.
If you’re not already using YouTube videos as part of your marketing efforts, you should be. Researchers have found that a majority of consumers (81 percent) have been convinced to buy a product or service by watching a brand’s video. Video marketing is on the rise as well. The latest State of Video Marketing Survey […]
Why AI is a ‘must-have’ for marketing campaign management
Use the hierarchy of your site's technical SEO needs to understand its technical growth and actualization—and what to do next to improve it.
How human creativity and AI-based automation make a winning combination
Why reports alone don’t cut it anymore in the fast-paced world of automated PPC
AI and machine learning are helping marketers in more ways that you can imagine.
Search engine marketing (SEM) has been a game-changing marketing tool for companies for the last ten years. But today, creating a simple ad is not enough to keep driving traffic to websites. Search has become so complex that it is prohibitively difficult for the average individual to create a successful search ad. AdPoint Agency, a […]
As a sales leader, you might think account-based marketing (ABM) isn’t for you. After all, it has the word marketing in the name. But the reality is, ABM isn’t something marketing does in a silo — and B2B sales orgs need to get on board. Put simply, ABM is a target account strategy that requires sales […]
You know the drill. The end of the quarter rolls around, so you dust off your go-to spreadsheets and dashboards. It’s once again time to distill three months’ worth of marketing into one quarterly report. But this time, something is different. You’ve been working with your sales team on a list of target accounts, and […]
Sometimes humans and machines disagree about what content is duplicate content. Here's why--and how to beat the system when it happens.
Marketers’ jobs have never been more complex. They have to juggle vendors, evaluate complicated technology, and draw insights from reams of data, all while meeting skyrocketing customer expectations. But artificial intelligence is changing the equation, helping marketers make sense of a deluge of information and effortlessly execute more effective campaigns. Watson Marketing’s suite of AI-powered […]
While they comprise half of the U.S. workforce, women still hold less than 20 percent of all tech jobs. By comparison, women will represent 23 percent of the incoming 116th Congress. Let’s let that sink in for a moment. Congress, by the numbers, is now more progressive and less of a “boys’ club” than the […]
As more buyers rely on online research, your brand’s reputation can make or break your business. These 9 handy ORM tools will help.
Machine learning is reinventing marketing — and a growing number of marketers know it. According to recent research from the IBM Institute for Business Value, 91 percent of marketers at companies that outperform their competitors believe artificial intelligence is important to the future of their organizations. At the same time, only about a quarter of […]
To be atop the waves, think about your SEO strategy in advance. A shortcut to success: get to know the upcoming trends and work out an action plan for each. This year, Google’s shaken the world with its mobile- and speed-related efforts. As a result, most of next year’s SEO efforts are expected in this […]
If someone asked how you track your marketing efforts, how would you respond? Chances are, your answer would sound like a game of martech MadLibs. You’re using Google Analytics, advertising platforms, marketing automation, your CRM and myriad other tools to track, measure and take action on your marketing data. You spend your days building marketing […]
Three examples of site architecture modifications that offer big SEO gains in digital marketing.
Have you ever had a negative experience using a search engine optimization agency? If so, you are by no means alone. It seems like just about every business owner has heard SEO horror stories or has one themselves. This article is not an exposé of bad agencies, nor is it to “name and shame” any […]
If you’re like most marketers, you could name the basic parts of the sales funnel in your sleep: Awareness, Interest, Evaluation, Decision, and Purchase. Of course, businesses have tweaked the model over the years, adding extra steps and so forth, but the basic premise has remained the same. But there is one problem with the […]
Four ways a great PPC tool can turn you into a PPC rockstar.
According to SiriusDecisions, a full 91% of B2B teams that are doing account-based marketing (ABM) see larger deal sizes from their target accounts than from non-target accounts. If that isn’t a ringing endorsement for the efficacy of ABM, then I don’t know what is. In theory, ABM is straightforward: Focus the bulk of your energy […]
SEO software is what makes automation of SEO processes possible. However, the choice is so vast today that it is hard to find a winning set of tools for each cycle of an SEO campaign. Of course, there is an option to run down a perfect tool for each part of your SEO routine, but […]
Look to Google Shopping Ads best practices for ways to maximize sales with Bing Ads.
Guide Google to pages you want to rank, index them faster and keep them updated. Bring seasonal pages into focus to increase impressions.
If you change nothing, nothing will ever change. We’re making it our primary goal to improve advertising technology. We’re facing down the challenges of our industry and responding with innovation because we believe call-based leads are the truest form of performance marketing. Soleo matches ready-to-buy consumers with businesses by way of local searches and calls […]
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a busy and dynamic market. As search engines regularly change their algorithms to take new factors into account when calculating a website’s rank, positioning sites is becoming more challenging. Today, SEO is no longer about low-quality content spiked with keywords to please search engine crawlers. In reality, the smartest approach […]
The debate surrounding probabilistic versus deterministic cross-device tracking is nothing new. But with the rapidly evolving online landscape and technological capabilities, and with customers increasingly engaging across multiple devices, brands and agencies should be having a different conversation: They need to look beyond which targeting method to use and determine how they can best identify […]
Back Rub, Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo, DrivUrSelf, Research in Motion, Sound of Music. Wonder if these big brands had been as successful if they hadn’t chosen to go by Google, Sony, Hertz Rent-A-Car, Blackberry or Best Buy? Unquestionably, the name of your company is the face of your brand. It’s the first thing your audience sees […]
Figuring out how your company will grow is one of the biggest challenges facing marketers. The playbook is clear: Choose a high-value audience, execute relevant and creative campaigns, and voilà, results and growth for your brand, product or service. But setting your marketing team up for success is tougher than ever. One reason is that, […]
No one’s immune to traffic drops, and the causes may be easy to overlook. Still, to avoid barking up the wrong tree, gather the evidence first: look closely at the overall stats for a long enough period in your Google Analytics to see if the traffic spike really looks out of place or if it […]
Implementing automated bids from the engines doesn't mean advertisers can forget about bid management.
Let’s face it, the future isn’t turning out to be what we were promised in decades past. No flying cars, and the closest thing to robot butlers are Siri and Alexa. Don’t get me wrong, they’re handy in their ways: suggesting nearby Thai food or tending to virtual shopping carts as we yell our grocery […]
Most common PPC campaign mistakes can be easily rectified. With extra awareness, time and effort, you can adjust your optimization strategy to focus on ROI instead of CPA and get better results. With some changes to the way you approach your PPC activities as a whole, you can fine-tune your funnel and get higher-quality conversions. […]
Although many small businesses do just fine with using one domain name, companies of all sizes can certainly benefit from registering multiple domain names as part of their domain name strategy. Having multiple domain names can provide sound marketing opportunities to engage your customers and to help grow your business. Best of all, a domain […]
As of Q1 2018, Google Shopping ads drove 76.4 percent of retail search ad spend, eclipsing text ads in markets around the world. As these Product Listing Ads (PLAs) become more competitive, the question becomes how to maximize ROI without simply piling on budget. The answer is competitive search intelligence: understanding where your spend will […]