Marketing

What Is Strategic Digital Marketing?
There are a few typical reactions we get when we tell people what we do. The most common is “Oh, we’ve tried digital marketing and it doesn’t work for us.”…

Comparing Outbound vs Inbound Digital Marketing Strategies
The term “digital marketing” covers a wide variety of purposes, tactics, and channels. Often we see the historical understanding of traditional “advertising” clouding the understanding of what the purpose of…

SEO Content vs. SEM Cost-per-Click Value Comparison
Let’s be honest. When it comes to marketing, there is always an upfront cost to strategy, creative, and management of campaign efforts. Beyond that realization is the real question, what…

Why is Google My Business So Important?
Google has a stranglehold on the online search market with 92% of search activity flowing through it. Throughout its history, Alphabet (the parent company) has used innovation and new features…

Website Content Planning: The Key to Writing Better Copy for Websites
When it’s time to rebuild or update your website, everyone has a sense of the basics: we need someone to design it, someone to build it, and stuff to put…

How Does Local SEO Impact Search Rankings?
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is complicated enough as it is, but when another layer of hidden metrics for locality is added into the algorithm, it leads people to unintentionally believe…

How To Make A Website One Of Your Best Marketing Tools
It’s no secret that marketing has started to lean heavily into the digital advertising and engagement channels of search, social, and web publications. All of this has opened up the…

Critical Elements For Optimized Landing Page Design
An optimized landing page design is an incredibly valuable tool in the inbound marketing and sales toolbox. Unfortunately, it’s all too common to see website pages that are labeled as…

The Google Page Experience Algorithm Update’s Impact on SEO
The Google Page Experience algorithm update was introduced in August of 2021. It brings one of the more aggressive updates that Google has taken in an attempt to separate the…

SEM Performance Metrics: Long-Term vs. Short-Term Comparisons
From the outside looking in, Search Engine Marketing (SEM) can appear complicated and mystical in nature. However, there are a few high-level SEM performance metrics that, with a little understanding,…