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Alyson Harrold

Alyson is Co-CEO and Chief Storyteller. Prior to forming the agency, her career spanned media (NBC-TV affiliates and city magazine, international ad agency) and positions like C-Suite financial services marketer and digital marketing consultant. Alyson learned how the right medium with the right message can attract the right audience. With her team, Alyson helps brands have meaningful customer interactions. Now she teaches those lessons—among others—as a UC Berkeley Extension instructor in her SEO and Digital Marketing courses since 2014. Alyson shares her knowledge as a speaker at preeminent digital marketing conferences around the country like Digital Growth Unleashed and more.

Heat Maps for Website Insights

In order to effectively optimize a page or website, you need data. While Search Console and Web Analytics are fabulous sources of intel, I’ve found that granular information is often necessary. For example, what page elements draw a visitor’s attention? Is there a difference in how content is consumed via mobile versus tablet? Using heat maps to analyze actual usage behaviors can help drive optimization decisions. Otherwise, you’re guessing what works.

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Category: Web Analytics// Author: Alyson Harrold

Google Analytics – SEO Case Study

This Google Analytics case study sums up a recent project we undertook with a California-based engineering company. This company manufacturers electrical components used in high-tech projects in the defence and communications sectors worldwide. From an SEO standpoint, their product categories ranked well but each has competition in both organic and paid search. Also, due to the nature of the end-product, this client manufactures many variations of each product resulting in multiple pages with similar content and specifications.

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Category: Case Studies// Author: Alyson Harrold

Google Analytics Demographics & Generational Insights

Knowing your audience is Marketing 101. Thankfully Google Analy. In this post, you’ll learn about each demographic age range (mapped to generationeral info), nuggets of info for your online marketing strategy, and how to tackle digging into your data.

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Category: Web Analytics// Author: Alyson Harrold

YouTube – The Worlds Second Biggest Search Engine

YouTube is incredibly popular. You probably use it to look at movie trailers or to check out that new Justin Beiber video. But did you know that YouTube is the world’s second biggest search engine behind Google? In fact, Google has over a billion users and provides all sorts of information on almost every topic you can think of. So, are you creating video content that YouTube will rank?

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Category: SEO// Author: Alyson Harrold

WordPress Website Accessibility

When you’re designing a website there are a lot of different questions you have to ask yourself about your customers. Everything from what colour it should be to where your call to action buttons should go to generate the most revenue. Working out the answers to these questions is tough for every business. So if your business wants to make their site friendly to people with disabilities it might look like you are adding an extra level of complication by considering Wordpress website accessibility.

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Category: WordPress Websites// Author: Alyson Harrold

7 Key Phases of Website Development

What are the key phases of website development? Knowing these will help to ensure your website represents your company’s value, it’s infrastructure supports your business goals, and it’s designed to attract new clients. Even if you aren’t building a website yourself, it helps to understand the phases of website development when working with a designer or developer.

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Category: WordPress Websites// Author: Alyson Harrold

Are Divi Themes Bad for SEO?

We’re seeing a surge in new installations of WordPress websites using divi themes, a framework that “simplifies” the development process. Many clients aren’t aware of the lasting implications for their business. Love it or hate, let’s look at what divis do, the benefits, the drawbacks, and what it means for SEO. Then you can decide.

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Category: WordPress Websites// Author: Alyson Harrold

SEO & SEM Case Study

Coordinating Paid Search & Organic Visibility Before working with us, this professional services client experienced sporadic returns from their paid search efforts and significant fluctuations in their visibility in organic search. After completing an audit, it was clear they engaged several Grey Hat agencies that didn’t follow Google best practices. As a result, their site …

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Category: Case Studies// Author: Alyson Harrold

AdWords Case Study

Moving a PPC Account Into a Positive ROI This AdWords Case Study summarizes the work we completed for a client headquartered in Northern California. They provide online training courses across the U.S. targeted to a young audience. Their competition routinely outbids them on keywords. Amidst intense pressure to further discount prices and guarantee results (passing the …

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Category: Case Studies// Author: Alyson Harrold

WordPress Redesign & Analytics Case Study

Redesigning Website To Improve Organic Search This Silicon Valley-based construction company had a template website on a proprietary system. This system had limited SEO capabilities and the client was essentially a technology-hostage where they didn’t own the site design and couldn’t port elsewhere. Google Analytics data wasn’t configured and not collecting essential performance data. Additionally, …

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Category: Case Studies// Author: Alyson Harrold

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