
The 5 best digital marketing courses for your digital success this year
Modern-day digital marketers are expected to be skilled in a variety of areas, including analytics, copywriting, creative direction,...

Test-and-learn steps for agencies
We have seen a rapid expansion of entertainment and news options for consumers over the past few years. This explosion of options has...

7 tips for small manufacturers thinking about using AdWords
In my 17 years as a B2B SEO and marketing consultant, I hadn’t really considered giving PPC a go until Google changed the layout for its...

How to nail a local SEO pitch
Local SEOs just get it. We understand that a company needs to be present when a customer digitally seeks its services. We get that...

A step-by-step guide to developing your 2017 digital marketing strategy
We’re almost halfway through Q4, and as a marketer, you know what that means. It’s time to start thinking about next year, if you haven’t...

Expanded text ads that kick butt
Expanded text ads (ETAs) in AdWords are here, and we’ve had some real success with them thus far. In this article, I’ll talk about what...

Content-specific chat prompts: Unlocking the power of conversation
Often, live chat is viewed as a customer service tool — or, even worse, a pesky sales pop-up. In my opinion, though, while live chat can...

Perfecting the pass from marketing to sales
Hut… hut… hike! “Marketing’s got the lead! He signals to sales! Sales is in the end zone! Could this be it? The pass is up and… nope,...

How to get the old Google Keyword Planner volume data
Back in June, the AdWords Keyword Planner started displaying the same volume of searches for keywords that were similar. Search Engine...

The big picture guide to local SEO: ranking in 2016 & beyond
Local SEO is getting more difficult for many businesses. Google’s move from seven to three listings in the local pack, and the threat of...

5 ways to maintain your SEO ranking
Generating a consistent source of website traffic is the foundation of every online business. If you don’t have visitors coming to your...

Performing a manual backlink audit, step by step
It might be every SEO’s least favorite job: the backlink audit. This is not because the work itself is horrible (though it can be tedious...

Data-Led Inbound Marketing, Part 2
This is a follow-up to my post at the end of 2015, which looked at how you can take third-party tools and merge their data to create...

Bring Your Work Home: How To Use Google AdWords To Improve Your Love Life
If you’re like most online marketers, you know that it can be hard to strike a good work-life balance. Sometimes, that can put a strain...

Create A Killer PPC Strategy With This 3-Step Process
Throughout my digital marketing career, I’ve had the good fortune to audit numerous paid search accounts. Many of these accounts are...

How To Localize Google Search Results
In late November 2015, Google removed the location search filter from the (shrinking) list of search tools available to refine queries....

How To Uncover SEO Content Marketing Ideas With Google Search Analytics
When Google first launched Webmaster Tools (now known as Google Search Console), I was more than skeptical of its value. I had a hard...

How To Get Google Review Links After The G+ Update
If you play in the Local arena at all, you’ve probably seen the new Google Plus update and freaked out along with the rest of us. The...

Use Google’s Search Console API & Pivot Tables To Supercharge Your Long-Tail SEO
Google’s recent changes to their Search Console API have allowed for interesting data analysis via Impressions and Clicks data....
























