Okay, starting with a couple of assumptions. 1. You care about knowing where your website traffic is coming from and finding better places from which to get it. 2. You have, or are willing to get, Google Analytics (GA) setup on your site. If you are putting links in social media or paid advertising, you…
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Microsoft’s LinkedIn View Through Conversion Tracking
View through conversions have been around for quite some time. The simple premise is that a media channel tracks when a person sees your ad or content and then, some time later, when they go to your site and convert, the tracking tag on your site sends data back to the media channel indicating that…
Ad Blockers Put On Notice by Facebook
Facebook announced that it will implement ad serving in such a way that ad blockers can’t prevent the advertisements from showing. [ad blocking]…reduces the funding needed to support the journalism and other free services that we enjoy on the web. Facebook is one of those free services, and ads support our mission of giving people…
Why can’t I find new customers? Wrong question.
Not too long ago the paradigm shifted. With few media choices for consumers and large budgets for advertisers, brands would focus on targeting the customer. Consumers watched one of the major television stations, you just needed to look at Nielsen to know which shows. It seemed like every household received the major newspaper in town…
Changes With Google and Bing Search
There have been a lot of changes in search this year and some big changes in store. You have likely seen many of these, but since they tend to come out in a fairly ad hoc fashion, I am bringing together some of the bigger changes. Bing and Yahoo! are breaking up their deal. While…
Content marketing has made SEO link building harder
Yes good content should generate links back to your website and improve SEO perfomance. The challenge is in helping people differentiate between content marketing strategy and SEO link building tactics, and their respective control. Content marketing starts with a broader marketing objective, using distributed content to help achieve goals, and in some cases linking back…
Adobe’s Best of the Best – less engagement is good
As designers and marketers, the best thing we can do for our website users is help them get off our sites a fast as possible. Take a look at Adobe’s study and a few things stand out: Traffic from smartphones is growing year over year (no surprise) For some industries desktops remain dominant Users are…
AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages
The Problem AMP and FIA Fix Behind the scenes a browser sorts through a whole bunch of code that tells it how to present the content. This code is an agreed upon standard. Unfortunately, it is not really designed for easy mobile access to information such as news stories or blog articles. Standard html and…
Google Compare Shutting Down
Google will close down its lead gen platform, Google Compare, by the end of March. Compare was, as the name infers, a way for shoppers to compare pricing and get quotes for services focused primarily in finance and insurance. After a 12 month run, Google sent an email to the partners letting them know that the…
Big changes coming to Google paid search results
Fewer Ads to Show on Google Search Results Page – No Right Sidebar Google will remove the right sidebar ads from desktop search results, globally. There is an exception for product listing ads only. In some cases Google may add a fourth ad to the top results if it is a localized (inferred or explicit)…