Marketing

3 Smart Tactics to Make Your SEO Less Expensive

Most businesses understand that SEO can be long-drawn and ROI realization can be slow. However, because you need to invest quite heavily in the initial periods, you could very well see the ROI becoming negative. For many small businesses with limited resources, this can be immensely stressful. Unfortunately, spending less in the early stages can either leave you stuck with low-quality SEO professionals or simply prolong the agony of a negative ROI. Some suggestions on how you can slash the cost of your SEO campaign without spoiling your strategy.

10 Questions to Ask an Internet Marketing Agency Before Engaging

Strategizing and executing Internet marketing campaigns require specialized expertise and hours of effort. Unless your company has the knowledge, skills, tools and time to handle all of your digital marketing efforts, you’ll need the assistance of a digital marketing firm.

But how can you know whether you’re entering into a relationship with a partner who is not only capable of helping you reach your goals, but also a good fit with your company culture?

Both components are essential because:

  1. You want to work with a firm that's adept at increasing traffic to your website and converting that traffic into leads and sales.

Top 4 Strategies That Will Improve Your Online Ad Buying Program

Few forms of advertising are as powerful as online ads. With more people shopping online than ever, you want to allocate a good portion of your marketing and advertising budget to this endeavor. The key is to work smart and make the most of the effort. Here are four strategies that will help you get the most from your campaigns.

Recognize That Ad Buying Has Changed

Online marketing is not a static process. Over the years, approaches that once worked fine are no longer effective. That means the strategy and even the resources you were using five or ten years ago may no longer be the best way to proceed.

Me, Myself & I: The Call for Individualized Customer Experience

Today Cloud IQ, the effortless commerce platform, unveils its latest research report, Me, Myself & I: The Individualization Imperative. The report identifies customer experience pain-points and attitudes to data sharing and how brands are faring in the UK, US and Australia. This research explores how personalization is not cutting it with consumers and as such how individualization is emerging to benefit both consumers and brands. Consumers are sending a strong message to brands with 69% of consumers wanting an individualized experience, and two-thirds expecting it, and yet only 40% of brands actually offer one today.

TERMINALFOUR 8.2: Two Years in the Making

TERMINALFOUR, a leading provider of Digital Marketing and Web Content Management Solutions to higher education, today announced the latest release of its platform – TERMINALFOUR 8.2. This release benefits from almost 500 feature enhancements and new functionality particularly focusing on the key areas of accessibility, migrations and integrations, performance and form submissions. 

Searchmetrics Study: Did Google Shopping Really Gain an Unfair Advantage over its Competitors in the EU?

London, U.K., September 28, 2017 - With Google now agreeing to concede to the EU’s antitrust action by creating a standalone unit for its shopping services and allowing rivals to bid for ads shown there, a new study examines whether Google Shopping did in fact gain an illegal advantage over other price comparison sites. And does the search company have a legitimate case in appealing the EU decision?

Fast-Loading AMP Pages Dominate Google’s First Page Results for Media and News Searches

San Mateo, September 26, 2017 - News and information publishers who enable fast-loading Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP)[1] for Google searches now overwhelmingly top mobile search results, suggesting holdouts are increasingly likely to lose readership and advertising revenue, new Searchmetrics research finds.

Few Essential Tips That Will Help You Ace Your Social Media Game

Hardly anyone guessed that social media platforms would prove to be one of best places for marketing. As conceptualized by the founders, social media networks were meant to be the venues for social interaction; however, with the passage of time, these networks have proven to be the popular marketplaces for almost all types of businesses. If your company or business is yet to make an impact on social engagement, it is time to keep pace with the times and plunge to social media marketing with no further delay.

What Are The Benefits of Quality Content for Your Marketing Needs Online?

Have you ever wondered about the methods with which you can get are traffic to your website? There are many different methods of marketing, particularly with the advent of digital marketing techniques, and a number of stores are coming with their own unique ways of marketing their products. A very influential role is played by the content that you have on your website in determining the SEO ranking of the site. The optimization work and the related ranking are important factors that influence traffic and visibility of your site.

The Next Progression of Your Website: The Case for Progressive Web Apps

In combining the best components of mobile apps with the best components of websites, progressive Web apps (PWAs) offer a new, exciting way to engage with consumers via the mobile web. These PWAs function as websites that allow users to view them and interact with them as they would do with a mobile app. They do not have to be online in order to work, which enables them to be used at any time, on any device, and from any web browser. Each and every person who goes to a particular PWA will access the same version of the site. Plus, a PWA can be downloaded directly to their home screen, so users get to skip a visit to the app store on their device.