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Regular monitoring is important to ensuring your team is reaching goals, such as through bi-weekly checkpoints and an end-of-month number crunch to see just how efficient each member was from a macro level.
This is still a bit of a new idea (especially to advertisers) but if possible avoid the standard ad units. Not only have web users developed ad blindness but Google has also started penalizing pages that have too many ad units above the fold, and...
The average number of weekly downloads in December, not including the Christmas period, was just 1.07 billion. Flurry projects that 2013 will see one billion app downloads a week become a standard. Over 1.7 billion mobile apps were downloaded...
Talk to Different Teams Weekly It's a vicious cycle, so stop overworking and reset expectations to a more realistic standard. Whether you are a devoted resolution-maker or just want to know how you can be a better marketer, here are 13 changes...
The SEO reporting cycle is still very much a monthly process (although I’m seeing this standard move to weekly with larger agencies and marketing teams). Having daily and weekly insight into all the SEO metrics included in an SEO campaign is...
Alternatively, you can focus on activities that occur on a regular basis – weekly top 10 industry article summaries, monthly Facebook polls, or biweekly blog posts. The point is to plan for pertinent content that draws readers in by delivering...
Set a standard by providing a weekly plan at the onset of your engagement with a client. When a new employee starts at your agency, this is the perfect opportunity to start sharing all of that knowledge.
Maybe you meet someone at a restaurant and give him a business card with your URL on it, then he includes you in his weekly roundup of local businesses. These are the gold standard for links. Site owners are scrambling to clean up link messes after...
When you look at the standard Google Analytics dashboard, it's like an information hoarder has been living there for a year collecting as much useless information as they can and stacking it up against the walls.
Although I have never used any of the typical low value tactics that have become standard linking tactics over the years, my position is that you have the right to pursue any linking strategy you want, but you have no right to complain when a...
These reports include all of the data you would expect in a standard SEO tool. Everything in the platform is actionable, so in the inbound links section, for example, you can perform your analysis within the program and create graphics or reports...
At that time, Larry Page had just announced that Google+ had reached 90 million users, with 60 percent engaging daily and 80 percent weekly. The W3C Tracking Protection Working Group is trying to establish standard definitions and policies around...
The increased prominence placed on social media content, seeding, and sharing (social media optimization) has meant social signals are now a standard part of any search optimization techniques. I will have one client who won't know what meta data...
Many reports are standard across all search marketing campaigns, such as search ranking reports, search visibility reports, referral traffic, search engine traffic, conversions, and so on. Some of the common tools we use are keyword research tools...
So if your weekly click volumes have a mean of 2,500 and a standard deviation of 500, then it would mean you expect to fluctuate by around 25 percent away from your average each week. If you're interested, most spreadsheet packages have built-in...
Email newsletters: The great thing about PPC is that it changes on an almost weekly basis. Demos – A standard story to position your company and product consistently across reps and demos. The company was formed by two serial technology...
These metrics won’t tell you everything about the impact of your social media programs, but they will establish a low-cost, repeatable standard you can use to gauge success over time. To do: Manually collect figures from key channels; calculate...
Last summer I decided to change things around with my weekly fishing expeditions. I am running two sponsored stories at the moment and the results are indeed better than our standard Facebook ads campaigns -- we're seeing 3 times on click-through...
However, Edelman's study says Google should be held to a higher standard because it "claims that its algorithmic results are 'algorithmically-generated', 'objective', and 'never manipulated'. Algorithm: Google says it uses more than 200 signals to...
