
Why you cannot ignore practitioner listings on Google My Business (case study)
Recently, a dermatologist in Hollywood, Florida, hired us for a consultation. He had three listings on Google My Business and wanted to...

Mobile marketing AMPlification: Content, performance and measurement
The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project was created to improve the mobile web experience; pages built with AMP HTML load instantly on...

Suffered a rankings drop? Use this checklist to diagnose why
Losing positioning on high-volume generic terms can trigger panic, even if the drop only lasts for a short period of time. However, in...

How to conjure big PPC profits with a few hundred dollars
Many PPC marketers are frustrated. Why? Because they feel like AdWords is no longer an option. Over the past few years, CPCs have...

Earned engagement and fragmented audiences: kickstart your process in the enterprise
The problem: You have a PR team. They keep getting great coverage… in the same 10 publications. You have a content team and dozens of...

3 common mistakes made in do-it-yourself PPC
People have the best of intentions when they take on PPC without the help of a professional. And why wouldn’t they have high hopes when...

7 lessons to jump-start your digital marketing in Asia
About a year and a half ago, I relocated from California to Singapore to take on the challenge of marketing SurveyMonkey’s portfolio of...

The perfect local SEO landing page
We work with hundreds of local businesses — from hyperlocal, single-location businesses to nationwide, multi-location companies — at the...

Using automation to execute PPC strategy
Both technology and automation play a huge role in the digital marketing space. Paid search and social functionality is more complex than...

SEO is as dirty as ever
As much as the SEO industry wants to grow up and shed the shady reputation it had in the past, it seems many don’t want to change and...

SMX Advanced recap: Advanced Google App Deep Linking
Smartphone usage of apps continues to soar. Recent data from comScore show that 44 percent of all digital media time is spent using...

Making your content perform beyond just SEO
Content marketing serves many purposes for an organization, not the least of which is to drive organic traffic to a website. But let’s...

13 link opportunities to pursue now
Link acquisition is hard. There are a number of unique challenges in link building, which are made even more difficult since most SEO...

Do keyword rankings even matter anymore?
Some SEOs and brands think that rankings are a very important metric to track for SEO success. But is this really the case? Some sites...

Angie’s List is now free: What this change means for your business
In a move that hasn’t attracted a lot of attention online, Angie’s List followed through on their March announcement and removed their...

SMX Advanced recap: Lies, Damn Lies, and Marketing Statistics
Kyne made the point that by not understanding the importance of validity of sample size, we often end up unintentionally lying to...

Machine learning for large-scale SEM accounts
A key challenge when working on what we could term “large-scale” PPC accounts is efficiency. There will always be more that you could do...

How to maintain content marketing focus in long-running SEO programs
A few weeks ago, I gave a presentation on a SEO-centric content marketing program that members of our team have been engaged in across a...

Help! I just launched a new website and my search rankings tanked!
Imagine this nightmare scenario: you’re on the verge of launching your newly redesigned website, and you’re already anticipating new...
























