Many organizations spend countless hours scrutinizing the color palette of their website during the design process and completely ignore those elements critical to lead generation and business-critical metrics. Of those business-critical metrics are using analytics appropriately to gather...
Google has been updating it's search algorithm with an ongoing update called Panda, which was first released in February 2011 and is focused on delivering higher-quality websites to the top of the search results. Quality has always been a major factor of Google's search engine, which has been a...
Alerts are a reverse search engine content retrieval system. They monitor the web for a specific keyword over time and provide timely updates on the use of that keyword in blogs, news websites, social websites and other forms of online content. Alerts can be vital for both the marketing planning...
A landing page is the page your website visitors "land on" when arriving at your website. A landing page could be your home page, or any other page receiving traffic in your website. A landing page may be the visitor's first experience of your brand, or landing pages may serve repeat visitors who...
Understanding what your company needs to measure is a major step in the right direction for online marketing. In fact, digital and online marketing is special in that data can be so accurate and precise. Too much data can actually be very challenging for marketing teams that are incapable of...
Adding social networking to a business model creates new dimensions to the daily workflow, including higher customer engagement, deeper insights, increased productivity, and new sales channels. But many organizations are still finding the transition to social business involvement challenging. Here...
Understanding the benefits of email marketing for enterprise campaigns Email marketing can be a very convenient and pragmatic tool for enterprise marketing, however the channel is often misused and even abused as a form of marketing communications. The cost-effectiveness, scalability and immediacy...
When discussing the various social networks and platforms today's internet users visit, we forget that it is the web browser that ties it all together. Most browsers allow plugins, extensions that allow direct connections to platforms, to be installed. There are a variety of Chrome extensions that...
As an SEO best-practice, it is a good idea to design for more than a single permutation of a keyword. By designing an SEO strategy around a single keyword, you may miss out on other common queries and fall short on search traffic as a result. Consider a keyword strategy that utilizes long tail...
The need for a well thought out, multi-channel Customer Engagement is more important now than at any time in our marketing history. Why? Because there have never been so many channels in which it's the customer that dictates the conversation, not the brand. Gone are the days when a 30 second...