3 Red Flags In Your Digital Strategy

Digital Strategy Red Flags

3 Red Flags In Your Digital Strategy

First and foremost lets be clear on one thing, simply having a Facebook page for your business is not a digital strategy.

Many small to mid-sized business owners who aren’t as immersed in their company’s online marketing don’t understand this and this lack of realization adds to their concern of why they aren’t getting the attention or conversions they want in the digital space. Digital is all-encompassing and succeeding in digital isn’t a hobby. It all boils down to actually having a clear strategy, or roadmap, to be able to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.

So, say it with me now: I will not set goals without creating a strategy to reach them in the first place. Great. Will there be bumps in the road? Inevitably. That’s why our overall strategies also need to be constantly monitored, adapted, and analyzed along the way. Continue reading

Good Content, Pay-Per-Click Marketing, Email Campaigns And Other Types Of Internet Marketing

types-internet-marketingIn order to drive more visitors to your website every day, a marketer should frequently post fresh and relevant content on a website, get your business verified by Google, and launch a pay-per-click advertising campaign by using the services of Google AdWords.

High-Quality Content

The more often a website owner posts new and relevant articles on the site, the higher the positions of the site’s pages will be in the search results. The headline and the first paragraph of each piece should contain your targeted keyword phrases because Google’s bot will rank the webpage more highly for groups of words that are in the first few sentences of the article, especially if it is in the title. Continue reading

Having Separate Landing Pages for Organic Search Traffic and Paid Search Traffic

A Question About Creating Unique Landing Pages for Different Traffic Sources:

“If you have a Pay Per Click campaign in Google Adwords for a certain group of keywords, would you make the destination URL of the ad point to an existing page on your website that is already optimized for organic search keywords? Or would you create a whole new page just to send the paid search traffic to?” Continue reading

Tortoise and the Hare: SEO and PPC

A question that is asked often from prospective clients and our current clients is,  “What is the difference between search engine optimization (SEO) and pay per click (PPC), and the traffic it brings to my website?”  This question is often proceeded by the following question, “why would I want to wait for results with SEO, when PPC can get me the website traffic that I need right away?” Continue reading

Google Reporting & Analytics Advanced Exam

As an Internet marketing firm in the Milwaukee area, we believe it is important to stay on top of the latest trends in advertising technology. The other month I started along the path toward becoming re-certified as a Google Adwords Professional. My certification was coming to an end from the previous year, so I took “Google Advertising Fundamentals Exam” and passed with flying colors. Continue reading