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Impact of Customer Reviews on Sales

January 15, 2021 //  by Alyson Harrold//  1 Comment

What can make or break a sale on an eCommerce site? A negative customer review. What could be worse? A bad review with no response from the brand. We all know the importance of customer reviews from a brand reputation standpoint. Now customer reviews — especially on local profiles play an even bigger role in the buyer journey. Let’s look at how user-generated content (aka customer reviews and comments) has a direct correlation to sales.

Category: Sales// Author: Alyson Harrold

Google’s Disavow Tool Gets a Refresh

January 22, 2021 //  by Jen Currier//  Leave a Comment

If you’re familiar with Google’s disavow tool, you’re most likely a proactive SEO practitioner. For those who aren’t familiar with this powerful tool, read on with this caution. As with any type of advanced tool, it can be helpful or catastrophic if used incorrectly.

Category: Links// Author: Jen Currier

Do You Have Google My Business Suspension? – Who’s Managing Your GMB?

October 9, 2019 //  by Jen Currier//  Leave a Comment

Google has recently published some alarming information about its local SEO tool Google My Business. If your GMB account is managed by a person that had previously had a Google My Business account banned, your account could be in danger too.

Category: Local SEO// Author: Jen Currier

Will Demographic Targeting Help Your Google Ads?

October 15, 2019 //  by Yuan Feng//  Leave a Comment

In 2019 the amount of data available to marketers on their customers is higher than ever. Which, in theory at least, should make targeting easier than ever. Tools like Google Ads and Facebook’s audiences tool are at the cutting edge of this, pushing how we can leverage collected data to speak with our customers. But what about more time tested targeting tactics like demographics?

Category: PPC// Author: Yuan Feng

CCPA – What is the California Consumer Privacy Act? & do you need to worry?

November 15, 2019 //  by Alyson Harrold//  Leave a Comment

Privacy online has been a talking point for a long time now and finally it seems that legislators have picked up on the topic in California by passing the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CCPA will become law January 1st 2020. So, with four months to get ready, what do you need to know?

Category: News & Events// Author: Alyson Harrold

2020 Marketing Planning: Predictions from the Latest CMO Survey

December 3, 2019 //  by Alyson Harrold//  Leave a Comment

Keeping Pace Marketing budgets are expected to increase by 8.7% in 2020. Surprisingly, this marks the highest increase in two years. So what are the marketing budget trends for next year? The latest CMO survey provides insights on how top marketers are planning for 2020. A Year in Review 2019 has been a turbulent year. …

Category: News & Events// Author: Alyson Harrold

Fake Reviews Can’t Be Ignored – How to Save Your Online Reputation

December 15, 2019 //  by Jen Currier//  Leave a Comment

Give Us Your Opinion Products displaying at least five reviews are 270% more likely to get purchased, according to a Northwestern University study. So getting online reviews is big business. However, fake reviews are a growing problem. Earlier this year Amazon was investigated by a UK advocacy group; they analyzed hundreds of tech products to …

Category: Content// Author: Jen Currier

What’s the Google BERT update? & Can You Optimize For It?

January 1, 2020 //  by Massimo Paolini//  Leave a Comment

The Newest Google Algorithm Update Google has updated their search algorithm. Again. This time it’s called BERT. Ernie is nowhere to be seen. So what is Google BERT? What is natural language processing? And how does it affect your website’s visibility in organic search? These are all great questions, ones we’ll answer and provide context …

Category: SEO// Author: Massimo Paolini

Google E-A-T: Stay Up-to-Date and Ahead of the Curve

January 20, 2020 //  by Alyson Harrold//  Leave a Comment

Google E-A-T Overview  E-A-T is a relatively new SEO-based acronym that’s generating a lot of buzz in the digital marketing cosmos. But what exactly is E-A-T? The truth—algorithmically speaking—is complex. Yet some of the core elements that marketers can leverage are actually straightforward and non-technical.  Let’s start out with the basics. Google E-A-T stands for:  …

Category: Content// Author: Alyson Harrold

Using PPC & Want More Phone Calls? How To Set Up Call Extensions

July 30, 2019 //  by Yuan Feng//  Leave a Comment

Digital marketing can be a long and complicated process. So the faster you can get talking to a potential customer the better. One of the quickest ways we’ve found to do that is using PPC ads and call extensions. A lead can be looking at Google’s search engine results page one minute, and on the phone with you the next. No steps in between to get lost. If you want more calls from your ads, it’s time to learn about call extensions. 

Category: PPC// Author: Yuan Feng

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