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Does 1+1= 3? Combine SEO + PPC & See
Why does Apple advertise on its own brand terms?
Common sense says NOT to advertise when you’re already ranking well organically. But the data suggests we should think different.
Take a deep dive into online reputation management and understand:
a) 3 benefits of running Paid Search (Adwords) and SEO campaigns simultaneously.
b) How leading companies own more of the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) for reputation management and higher click-through rate (CTR).
c) The SEO value of implementing your validated keywords across your online and offline content, including your Social Media.
May 15, 2012
Your Toughest SEO Questions, Answered!
Does Search Engine Optimization seem like a black box? Working hard but not seeing steady progress with your online marketing? Having trouble effectively measuring and tracking SEO results? You are not alone! Over 75% of respondents in our State of Digital Marketing Survey identified the same challenges. In this session, we’ll break open the black box and reveal what’s driving success now for our B2B and B2C clients.
Turn Your Website into a Revenue Machine (Conversion Secrets You Won't Learn From Google Analytics)
A famous experiment, replicated many times, presented supermarket shoppers with a tasting table of many jams. Long story short: the more jams, the fewer people ended up buying. One of the most common mistakes on a website is giving too many calls to action, or no clear one at all. We often see the contact form and phone number hidden at the bottom of a page, and different options vying for attention: “free trial”, “launch demo”, “contact us” and “buy now”. You may be investing time and resources in SEO and Paid Search, but not achieving satisfactory ROI because your conversions are stuck at 2%. Don’t worry, get cracking.
Is the Thrill Gone? Know When to Break Up with Your SEO Agency
Does SEO seem like a “black box”?
Does your SEO agency speak in a Klingon-like Jargon?
Are they optimizing for cost per lead, or just making promises about ranking on page 1?
Do you have a clear sense of what kind of link-building they are employing, and are they exposing you to unnecessary risk?
Being a savvy buyer of SEO services is a two-way street. You have to demand transparency and accountability for results, and you need to work with your SEO agency to develop metrics by which you can measure success.
"Content is king." "Web content needs to be SEO-friendly." We've all heard that. But what is SEO-friendly content? There’s no silver bullet. In order tocreate compelling and SEO-savvy content, first you need to put yourself in your customers' shoes. What do they need to know to understand your offering? Use concise and clear writing that directs users towards your call to action, and integrate relevant keywords. Truly powerful content *naturally* attracts quality links, website traffic, and visitor engagement.
SEO is always transforming, driven by changing search behaviors and the rapidly evolving search algorithms of Google & Bing. As an online marketer, you need to stay ahead of the game and not get bogged down in the mix of myths vs. realities about SEO.
What are some of the SEO myths you can finally discount? Do you sometimes feel like there is so much information that you become unsure about which resources to trust, which strategies work, and what you should do first?
New From Google: 2012 Algorithm Changes & Social Media Analytics
Recent months have brought a whirlwind of changes to the digital marketing world. Get your bearings with this rundown of the most impactful changes, including the“Panda” Updates, the Shifting Definition of “High Quality” Content, and the Rise of Social Signals.
New Webinar: Use SEO Espionage to Beat the Competition in 3 Steps
Business feels like warfare, and you want to win. You know who your competitors are, and you see their websites in search results, too often above your own! We all know that it’s unhealthy and unproductive to focus overmuch on competitors, but what real advantage can we gain from studying them?As it happens, your competitors are unknowingly telegraphing their intentions through the invisible parts of their website. Using SEO as a spyglass, you can see what kinds of optimization strategies are likely to work best against a particular competitor.
When it comes to SEO, how do you measure success?
Many companies experiment with SEO internally or with a vendor but don’t set measurable goals for qualified traffic, conversions, and ROI. If you don’t have a clear picture of what success looks like for your business over a 6-12 month period, your investment in SEO will not be realized.
While there's lots of talk about "white hat" vs "black hat" SEO techniques, we believe the most common mistake is not even on folks' radar...
There’s no way around it. Websites need to be refreshed regularly to keep up with customer expectations and new functionality that can boost conversions. Companies often ask us whether to “do SEO” during or after a redesign. We strongly recommend integrating SEO into your redesign process as well as your ongoing content creation.
Top 4 Mistakes Execs Make with Their Search Marketing Program
More than 4 billion searches are occurring on Google each day. How many of them are relevant to your company’s products and services? Can these potential clients find you online?
We often find that companies cede market share to competitors when they lack prominence on the search engines. Even those who recognize the value of SEO aren’t sure how to implement it and what kind of ROI to expect.
Selecting keywords and phrases that pertain most closely to your business offerings is critical for your online success. Running an effective SEO program that will produce quality leads and more deals for your business requires a solid foundation of relevant keywords. How are people searching for your business solutions online? Are they searching with keywords by region, category, or brand? Find out today!
With increasing competition in the online space, as a B2B marketer your job is becoming more complex and demanding. What are the most effective ways to market to and attract B2B prospects online? Find out about the SEO recommendations that will help your B2B company.
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SEO Fundamentals: Best Practices on the Search Engines to Follow
In today’s digital landscape, search trends and online activity provide a window into your ideal customer’s challenges and needs. Great marketing is about seizing this opportunity and optimizing your marketing efforts to directly capture this audience. Follow the tips in this presentation to jump ahead of your competition.
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Google Facts & Stats: How to Capitalize on the Latest Updates in Search
Every marketer’s goal is to customize his or her marketing efforts to match their prospect’s buying behavior. We need to know what prospects are looking for and how they are looking for it. The good news is that much of this data is available to us! View this webinar to find out about the latest updates in Google Search that will affect your online marketing initiatives.
As the online marketplace becomes more social for B2Bs, it’s time for your company to increase its impact with active prospects on the web. You may already have an SEO, PPC or social media program in place. In order to maximize your online success, integrating your digital marketing efforts into one strong competitive advantage is critical. View this webinar to learn how to bring your B2B to the forefront of online business.
New Google Analytics Updates: What Every SEO Marketer Needs to Know
You should check out this webinar if you understand the value of analytics to help track the success of your SEO campaigns, want to take advantage of Google Analytics’ latest features including real-time analytics, multi-channel funnels, and flow visualization, or need help setting up analytics goals such as form fill outs, downloads, e-commerce tracking, and more.
Get Your SEO Machine Into Shape! Beginner's Guide for Conversion Success in Q1
Many marketers struggle with understanding the best way to get their SEO campaign off the ground. SEO works best when a proper foundation is set, but knowing just how to do this takes time and expertise. If you are in the process of learning about SEO and want to launch a successful lead-generating marketing program, this webinar is just for you.
4 Reasons Your CEO Needs to Know About SEO in 2012
Optimizing your website performance on the search engines is equivalent to managing the front door to your business. It’s a way to increase your company’s visibility and take share from your top competitors online. As Q1 kicks into high gear, every CEO and executive team should know about the benefits of SEO and its direct impact on ROI. You should check out this webcast if you are experiencing low lead and sales flow from the web and want to turn your website into a lead/sales generating machine.
Your Toughest SEO Questions Answered for 2012 Success
Are you an online marketer who is experiencing not seeing progress as soon as expected, setting aggressive but reasonable goals for the program, and having trouble effectively measuring and tracking SEO results? If this sounds like you, you are not alone! In this session, we answer the most difficult SEO questions that you haven't been able to solve just yet.
One factor that plays a large role in determining your rank and relevancy on the search engines is links. Like a bibliography of a report or a list of gratifying testimonials, outside links provide the trustworthiness and support to allow your site to rise in page rank and stand out to searchers looking for your product or service. We guide your through how to distinguish between good quality links and bad links, integrate inbound links naturally to demonstrate a clear theme to the search engines, and create an internal linking structure to tie together navigation and content silos.
Top SEO Tips Your Competitors Don’t Want You To Know in 2012
SEO is about getting your business in front of every prospect the moment they are searching for your product or solution – before your competitors do. In this session, discover how to audit competitor sites to compare against your own for optimization improvements, select and utilize keywords that fuel lead quality and closed deals, create tight content silos for thematic cohesiveness across your site, and secure a strong internal and external linking structure.
SEO Fundamentals: 5 SEO Basics to Improve Your Google Rankings
SEO will bring visibility to your business and help drive revenue growth through the web. In this webinar, learn how to target the keywords your customers are searching to find your products, follow best practices for creating well-written, SEO-friendly website content, and cross promote in blogs, social media, video, and more.
3 Rules for Driving Successful Digital Marketing Outcomes
One of the biggest challenges in running a search engine marketing program is setting goals that everyone can agree on. They need to be actionable, easy to comprehend, and also aggressive enough to motivate all participants. Learn how to set realistic search marketing goals that gain buy-in from everyone in the organization, align the interest of decision makers (CXOs), Marketing team members (and even IT), and identify red flags quickly and comfortably manage moving targets.
What Is It Costing Your Business to (Not) Rank on Page 1 of Google?
As we guide you through the process of calculating your potential ROI and tying improvements in search engine ranking directly to revenue, you will learn how to uncover the cost of not ranking highly on Google search results, apply this methodology to your business using your own conversion and sale metrics, and structure a framework for developing a sustainable, effective search marketing budget.
JCPenney's SEO No Go: What Went Wrong and What You Need To Do
Remember and reflect on what went wrong with JCPenney's SEO holiday campaign last season. Uncover the 'black hat' practices to avoid and the precautions you can take in executing your own SEO initiatives. What has JCPenney learned?
4 Google SEO Secrets To Generate Quality Conversions
Take advantage of our specialized tips in determining how to integrate the best keywords to improve your ranking and drive the right leads, compose and cross-promote SEO-ready content on various digital channels, and track and monitor you site analytics and improve your conversion goals.
Back to SEO Basics - 5 Critical SEO Metrics You Must Measure & Master
What is the most critical metric of your SEO campaign? The beauty of digital marketing is that everything is measurable. However, most organizations struggle with what “good” marketing metrics look like and how they compare against their peers. View this archived webinar to learn about the website statistics you should benchmark your own site against, the top 5 digital metrics every marketer needs to be measuring, and frameworks for developing metrics customized to your business.
Performing an SEO Health Check: A Guide to Auditing Your SEO
Have you checked the health of your website lately? In this webinar you will learn how to diagnose your website: Are there usability issues affecting your lead generation or sales goals? Is Google indexing your site regularly? Are your keywords driving qualified traffic to the correct pages?
Proving the ROI of SEO: 3 Steps to Justifying Your Marketing Spend
Whether you are aiming to increase qualified visits and overall brand exposure, or improve conversions, it is important to articulate the value of digital marketing and how these initiatives impact top line revenue. In this ROI-centered webinar, we teach you how to define and improve your objectives and strategies, utilize attribution management to track leads generated from online initiatives, and evaluate performance metrics and analyze against your revenue goals.
5 Best SEO Tips for Improving Your Site Performance
We uncover proven steps to move your website ahead in the online landscape. You will learn how to identify how your site stacks up against global web statistics recently released by Google, implement strategy “do’s” that will make your SEO go, and avoid the pitfalls of SEO “don’ts” that will negatively impact your campaign.
With the data to help you fine-tune your ad campaigns and encourage consumers with targeted and timely calls to action, your sales opportunities will increase significantly. Learn how to connect your brand offering to your audience with contextually relevant ads, plan in advance for Q4 seasonality, and leverage automation tools to make quick updates or promotional changes.
When assessing the quality of your SEO campaign, do you run into any of the following frustrations? Not seeing progress as soon as expected. Setting aggressive, but reasonable goals for the program. Measuring and tracking SEO results. Over 75% of respondents in our Annual Search Marketing Survey had the same difficulties.
Learn how to follow 5 key steps to initiate an effective SEO program, target your low-hanging fruit and translate into quick wins, and tackle the competition with SEO analysis and benchmarking tools.
Learn more about the real numbers that drive SEO performance, and the misleading myths that you can cast away! You will learn about the top myths that are circling the web today about SEO, the truths behind these myths, the real numbers that measure SEO performance, and the tools you can start using today to plan your goals.
Join us as we walk through key recommendations to make your ads stand out amongst a cluttered search results page, increase your click-through rate, and boost conversions. Learn how to anticipate a searcher’s intent, optimize your character limit with a compelling incentive, clearly communicate your value proposition with keywords, and test your headline effectiveness.
Tune Up Your SEO Strategy with 5 Tailored Tips for Q4
Bring out all the bells and whistles that will make your website ring this season and draw more leads and sales for Q4 than in 2010. Developing a clear action plan is imperative for grabbing the attention of frenzied searchers looking for your product – before your competition gets there first. Learn how to manage keyword ranking compared to your competitors, track conversions and visitor engagement against a metrics dashboard, and monitor your crawl frequency to measure the impact of your content.
Powerhouse Tips to Maximize Your Ad Spend This Holiday
Paid search advertising can be an effective and successful tool for maximizing your marketing dollars, especially during times of heavy online and offline shopping. In this PPC session, we cover how to plan in advance for Q4 seasonality, adjust ad spend during the holidays, and leverage automation tools to make quick updates or promotional changes.
As search marketing spend consumes a larger portion of the overall marketing budget, marketers face tough decisions when allocating amongst various channels to fuel revenue growth. In this webinar, we uncover how to determine the optimal spend for digital marketing initiative, designate spend across both search and social channels, and build a CEO-friendly reporting model that justifies your spend.
5 Keys to Conquering Your Enterprise Search Marketing Program: Part II Enterprise Search Marketing Series
Executing an enterprise search marketing program takes strategy, planning, and buy-in from advocates across multiple business units. As champion of the program, how do you implement a program that scales, while keeping each business unit fully bought in to the process? In Part 2 of our enterprise webinar session, we cover best practices around content development, managing a large scale PPC account, developing Social Media ROI metrics, and establishing corporate governance standards within business frameworks.
Learn how to connect your brand offering to your audience with contextually relevant ads, attract quality clicks with attention-grabbing headlines and a simple call-to-action, and test multiple creative concepts for ad size, placement, color, and graphic treatment.
5 SEO Tips for Successfully Navigating a Website Redesign
Is your corporate website set for a redesign in 2012? We walk you through how to choose a new CMS provider, avoid common SEO architectural mistakes, and benchmark the proper statistics vital to your site’s health.
Establishing a Successful Enterprise Search Marketing Program: Part I Enterprise Search Marketing Series
When it comes to maximizing the return on advertising spend and dominating the competition online, most enterprises do not know where to start. Learn how to gain buy-in from key business unit leaders, build an action plan that keeps all stakeholders accountable and the program moving forward, and develop standardized metrics across the business units.
Discover the common mistakes made in many PPC landing pages that you want to avoid in order for your advertising investment to be worthwhile and profitable. Learn how to engage your audience, keep them on the page, entice them to convert, and minimize missed sales opportunities.
Everything You Need to Know About PPC Quality Score
Get the tips on how to improve your ad click-through rate (CTR) by applying proven optimization techniques, restructure your groups for maximum relevancy, and see through the myths, misconceptions, and falsities around Quality Score.
How to Grow Followers and Convert Leads on Twitter
Identify the effective tactics to cultivate and measure your brand impact through Twitter. Learn how to increase leads with real-time conversation, stimulate an actionable Twitter community, and make an impact with strong brand messaging.
Learn how to track and target missed conversion opportunities, create and manage ads that are personalized to your audience lists, optimize your cookie durations, and identify common retargeting mistakes to avoid.
Investigate how to improve conversion with targeted landing pages and simple, incentive-driven forms, track online activity to score and nurture leads, and engage prospects with compelling content.
3 'Must Haves' For Strengthening Your Paid Search Program
Learn how to diversify your paid search spend to Yahoo! and Bing for optimal revenue growth, implement contextual targeting on the Google Display Network, and launch and effective retargeting campaigns to drive qualified visitors.
All marketers know that effective site optimization is about keywords, links, and search engines. However, what specifically can boost your SEO performance? Navigate your strategy by following these important SEO Do's and Don'ts.
Learn about the bread and butter relationship between SEO and social media. Every B2B should include the combination as part of their digital marketing plate.
