We’ve been consulting clients large and small for several months now and really believe that there’s some gaps in most strategies and a whole lot of hype with others. When our clients are struggling, we typically see that there’s a gap in a key dependency of their overall marketing. A successful inbound marketing strategy may not include brand marketing, outreach or community development – but it’s largely dependent upon them. Brand – it’s almost impossible to have a successful inbound marketing strategy if you don’t have a consistent look and … Continue reading
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Infographic: 200 Ranking Factors in the Google Algorithm
Well, this is no easy feat but kudos to Backlinko and SingleGrain for putting together this infographic aimed at dissecting Google’s ranking algorithm. The infographic walks through domain factors, page level factors, site-level factors, backlink factors, user interaction, additional indicators and social signals. Since they’re not applying a weight to each individual factor, I’m not going to nitpick the list… I don’t believe all impact ranking but the ones that still don’t can influence your search engine performance by increasing click-through rate. Either way – it’s a great comprehensive list … Continue reading
Infographic: What is Digital Marketing
We’ve had some similar infographics on the inbound marketing process, the inbound marketing ecosystem, the rise of inbound marketing and even an infographic on the explosive growth of inbound marketing. While inbound marketing focuses primarily on the acquisition of leads through your digital marketing efforts, this is an infographic from Pixaal, What is Digital Marketing? It’s quite a good infographic, but digital marketing has quite a few other elements – video marketing, to Call-To-Action design, landing page development, public relations outreach, marketing automation, and other content strategies like whitepapers, ebooks, … Continue reading
LuckyMetrics: Simple Paid Search Performance Tracking
Your average analytics package can be a bit overwhelming if you’re simply trying to monitor your paid and affiliate search performance. LuckyMetrics is an analytics platform that integrates with Google Adwords, Bing Ads, Clickbank, AWeber, Mailchimp and PayPal to provide you with the metrics you need to monitor and optimize your paid search and affiliate advertising performance. Which geographic regions are profitable? Which hours of the day? Which days of the week? Which keywords should you stop bidding on, which should you raise your bid on? Note: We’ve included our … Continue reading
Penguin 2.0: Four Facts You Should Know
It’s happened. With one blog post, the rollout of an algorithm, and a couple hours of processing, Penguin 2.0 has been unleashed. The Internet will never be the same. Matt Cutts published a brief post on the topic on May 22, 2013. Here are four key points that you should know about Penguin 2.0 1. Penguin 2.0 affected 2.3% of all English-US queries. Lest 2.3% sound to you like a smallish number, keep in mind that there are an estimated 5 billion Google searches per day. 2.3% of 5 billion is … Continue reading
First Touch, Last Touch, Multi-Touch
Analytics is running aground as the the buying methodologies of consumers get more and more complex. I recently spoke at event where I described how most people think about marketing and sales… and our reporting systems really haven’t wandered too far from these scenarios: Most of these systems utilize methodologies of first and last touch: First Touch – what was the first occurence when the prospect was introduced to our brand, product or service that led them down the conversion funnel to become a customer? Last Touch – what was … Continue reading





