
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...

The 3 types of remarketing you should be trying
When creating your remarketing audience in Google Analytics, it’s all too easy to slap together an “All Users” audience, or take it one...

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...

SMX Advanced recap: Dr. Pete’s Guide To The Changing Google SERPs
For those of you unfamiliar with him, Dr. Pete Meyers is a marketing scientist over at Moz. He is responsible for building the MozCast...

SMX Advanced recap: Using Paid Search & Social Together to Deliver the Ultimate Knockout Punch
As always, SMX was chock full of new ideas and actionable content. One of the struggles that many media teams face is the disconnect...

How e-commerce SEO matters in strategic redesign of web shops
Baking a cake is easy — when you use all the right ingredients from the beginning! But just imagine how it would be if you mixed the...

AMP: Above and beyond
Since the announcement of the project in October 2015, a lot has been said about Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) — what they are, how to...

Shopping campaigns: Play like every day is a holiday
Shopping campaigns are becoming a major source of website clicks and revenue during the holiday season, and the “Shopping Campaigns: Play...