Marketers have criticized Google Analytics 4 since it was released in late 2020. The list of complaints is long – from the move from user tracking to event tracking, to the missing standard reports, and the replacement of bounce rate with engagement rate, to name just a few. GA4 is the predominant platform for measuring website performance…
SEO conversions and tracking go well beyond a direct sale or lead in your pipeline. They can be: Newsletter and SMS subscribers that turn into sales. Win-back campaigns where customers haven’t shopped yet or rediscovered you. Bringing job seekers to your job listing pages, resulting in lower costs of hiring new employees. If you only…
Google has confirmed it fixed the ongoing issue with Google News indexing. This resulted in many publishers seeing massive traffic declines from Google News for a three-week period, starting around June 21st. The update. Google posted an update at 5:06 pm ET today, saying, “We fixed the issue with News indexing. There will be no…
A brand SERP is the results Google serves when a user searches for your brand name. A digital strategy is how a brand positions itself across the online ecosystem. I have been talking about brand SERPs since 2013. I’ve learned that a brand SERP isn’t just a “pretty Google Business Card.” When you bake SEO…
One of the fastest developing and potentially essential shifts in search marketing is artificial intelligence (AI), specifically generative AI. Generative AI is poised to change the nature of the search engine results page (SERP). Thus, strategies for managing digital marketing campaigns must also evolve. We see it now with the new Bing, powered by ChatGPT,…
Amazon Prime Day 2023 broke records to become the retailer’s most successful to date. The two-day event, which took place on July 11 and 12, saw year-on-year spending shoot up by 6.1% to $12.7 billion in the U.S., according to Adobe Analytics data. Prime members splashed out on more than 375 million products worldwide and saved…
Threads is implementing branded content tools to give marketers access to paid promotion opportunities. Meta’s new social platform doesn’t serve ads yet. However, this feature will enable brands to explore the possibility of running influencer campaigns. Why we care. Meta is waiting until Threads reaches a critical mass before selling ad space, which is proving…
Communicating with your customers across channels is crucial to providing positive experiences. However, often this means regularly replicating and syncing customer data across different systems in order to deliver differentiated and personalized campaigns. But with all of this data movement, you end up stuck with a version of (not so real) “real-time” marketing data. The…
Enterprise SEO plays by different rules. Strategies that may work for small or niche websites won’t always work at scale. So what exactly can happen when enterprise SEO gets too big? In this article, I’ll share three real-life examples. Then, you’ll learn a potential antidote for more efficient management of SEO at scale. Facing the…
If you manage ecommerce PPC accounts in Google Ads, you likely have used Performance Max campaigns since mid-2022. You also know that the insights and reporting are limited. We can’t control how much of our budget goes to top-of-funnel strategies like video, display and discovery campaigns. We can’t see how that spend is broken out…
