Posts Tagged ‘digital marketing’

The customer journey to conversion is becoming even more unpredictable, non-linear, and includes more cross-device touchpoints than ever before. Brands are often challenged with selecting the best media spend mix and have difficulty understanding the impact of each channel across the customer journey. As Adobe shared in its recent Attribution IQ Solution Partner Webinar, the […]

Conducting in-house studies and tests can be a powerful way to learn about the state of your industry, enhance your brand reputation and visibility, build relationships within the media, improve your SEO rankings, and ultimately win new business. Watch our recent video to learn about not only the benefits of conducting your own research, but […]

Faceted navigation, which allows online shoppers to filter products by categories like brand, size, and color, is a valuable and time-saving addition to your eCommerce user experience. However, because search engines will view each combination of product filters as its own unique page, your faceted navigation may be hurting your SEO rankings. Watch the video […]

The same product can display in different campaigns and categories. You need to control which products show under which campaign and when. By utilizing the three campaign priority settings (high, medium, low), you can stack the bid to help prioritized products win more auctions. Here’s what to know about priorities: Google Favors When multiple products […]

Product titles and descriptions are crucial for long-term success. When people search, they scan and look for whatever matches the text they typed in, often ignoring the rest. Since Google Shopping campaigns aren’t keyword-targeted, making that connection for the shopper requires analysis, optimization, and tweaking of titles and descriptions to include the most common variations of […]

Shopping results are always competitive, but especially during the peak of the holiday shopping rush. Retailers that correctly set their promotional features within Google Shopping have a big advantage during this season, when those with long shopping lists are trying to get the most value for their money. Promoting a sale on your website but not […]

Companies that excel in Google Shopping all share one thing in common: they have highly detailed, thorough, and timely feeds. According to Google, “…it is essential to provide high-quality data – product data that is fresh, accurate, and comprehensive.” Shopping campaigns don’t target keywords directly, so good feed data is critical and the leading factor […]

Today, Perficient announced that it has acquired Stone Temple Consulting, Inc., a Boston-based $9 million annual revenue digital marketing agency. Stone Temple has an incredible reputation for delivering excellent search engine optimization and content marketing solutions. Perficient helps many of our clients with digital marketing, content marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) and content services. By acquiring […]

Remember PURLs or Personalized URLs? I certainly do, as it was my job to build PURL microsites for hundreds of forward-reaching direct mail marketers over the course of several years. Tie that together with variable printing and POW! – your customers’ names are not only on their mail but on a website too. Dazzling! Yes, […]

Learn how easy it is to create your own Search Visibility Matrix and automatically calculate your scores with this free Google Sheets template. Apply the calculation sitewide, or segment it for a specific keyword, or in aggregate for a set of keywords or keyword phrases. Search visibility scores can be used for both internal comparisons and competitive analysis. What It […]

In recent years, Google’s been highly invested in educating advertisers on various attribution models, and making data sets readily available and easy to analyze. The old way of relying on last-click attribution was often problematic and limited. It essentially ignores early touch points that sow seeds for future conversion harvests, making it tough for marketers to optimize […]

Search engine optimization (SEO) started as a discipline of testing and iteration. Most of what was learned came from continuous cycles of trial and error. As the industry grew and matured, the recommendations and advice shared on message boards, forums and later blogs and conferences, congealed with public statements from Google and Bing’s webmaster ambassadors to […]