How to Track and Measure the Success of Your PPC Campaigns

PPC Campaigns

With any of your marketing efforts, you want to be sure you’re getting a positive return on investment (ROI). This is especially true when you’re paying for advertising. 

With a pay-per-click (PPC) campaign, it can seem difficult and overwhelming to determine if your investment of time and money is paying off. So, let’s look at various ways you can track and measure the efficiency of your PPC investments.

The Basics

Just to get on the same page, let’s define PPC. This is a form of Internet marketing in which you pay a fee each time your advertisement is clicked on by a user. Basically, you’re paying to get visitors to your site, rather than having them arrive via an organic search. One of the most popular forms of PPC is search engine advertising. This lets you bid for ad placement in a sponsored link when a search includes one of the keywords related to what your business is selling. 

For instance, if you have an online clothing store, and someone searches “women’s cotton pants,” your business advertisement appears in the search engine results.

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How to Boost Your Content Marketing Campaign With Videos

Brain Process

What strategies are you using to boost video marketing campaign? Is video part of your digital marketing tactics for 2019? I know you are interested in learning the best video content marketing tips that will help you grow your business. In fact, that is why you are reading this post in the first place.

So ensure to read the entire. Thus, before we go any further, let us find out why you really need to use video content I’m your marketing techniques.

Why use Video Content Marketing?

The benefits of video content in your digital marketing plan are enormous as recent expert surveys indicated. Some of the benefits of using video include:

  • Higher engagement rate
  • Reach a new audience
  • Strong emotional connections
  • Boost search engine optimization (SEO) and Google search rankings
  • Help retain customers
  • Etc.

For example, a study shows that visual content is a remarkable marketing tool for sharing information. Why?

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5 Digital Marketing Tips for SMEs on a Budget

Digital Marketing

If you’re an SME, you’re probably working to a tight budget and wondering how you can justify spending that much money on digital marketing to your accountants. You don’t want to spend much, you want value for your money, and you want things to work.

Unfortunately, when the money is running low, marketing is one of the first things to go.

But this shouldn’t be the case — digital marketing is a crucial part of your business strategy, and it’s how you’re going to boost your brand, reach new clients, and retain your current ones.

Luckily, there are plenty of digital marketing techniques that don’t cost the earth and have a high ROI. And the great news? You can do many of these on your own without having to outsource to an expensive agency or download premium software.

Here are some of our easy tips for digital marketing on a budget for your SME.

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How to Use Kaizen to Improve Your SEO Strategy

Improve Your SEO Strategy

Trying to improve your SEO strategy, but you find SEO to be an uphill battle? Are you experiencing frustrating bounce rates? Consider Kaizen, a method for improvement developed in Japan. It’s been applied to many businesses and business functions to optimize workflows and efficiency.

Among its major benefits are that it’s fairly easy to implement. It can be taught and shared with your team and documented as you go to provide insights into what matters most: the user experience. Kaizen helps you improve your SEO strategy slowly and steadily.

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Digital PR: What You’re Missing Out On & How to Fix It

Digital PR

PR is a communication strategy that builds a brand’s positive reputation with the public. Traditional PR involves building relationships with journalists and various media outlets to receive brand exposure. This tactic translates to digital PR, but the digital landscape also affords brands other ways to build their public presence outside of such relationships.

Digital PR encompasses SEO-related activities like link-building, which itself involves a number of different tactics. However, there’s more to the strategy than that. A common term in content marketing is “storytelling,” and this concept can be applied to digital PR as well. Your goals are to shape your audience’s understanding of who your brand is, what you have to offer, build positive relationships, boost website traffic, improve search rankings, and ultimately increase sales.

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10 Link Building Tips That Can Make or Break Your Outreach Efforts

Link Building

Learning new ways to improve your search engine ranking can be ecstatic, exciting and promising at first glance, but taking a crack at it will tell you it is not as easy as it seems. And such is the case with link building through blogger outreach as an SEO tool.

Search engine optimization (SEO) has become a very important aspect of online marketing ever since the internet became a “thing” and search engines – especially Google – launched to make the Internet easier and more efficient to use. Utilizing several SEO tools has become an integral part of online marketing as your search engine ranking is directly proportional to the traffic your site gets.  

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How to Create Engaging Content in the “Boring” Industries

engaging content

One of the strategies that you can implement when preparing a marketing strategy is content marketing. Many marketers are stuck on the phase of developing an editorial plan because they cannot come up with any topic that wouldn’t bore the readers to death.

This article gives you a way out of this situation.

What are the Boring Industries?

First things first, let’s define what boring industries are. Accounting, insurance, banking, and law almost certainly fall under this category. Plumbing, roofing, real estate and many others do as well. 

In fact, most industries can be called boring because the content they can produce is not newsworthy. What are the interesting industries then? Eco-friendly shopping bags or hipster shoes? They’re not interesting, they’re trendy. CarbonClick is one site you can see list of sustainable and ethical fashion brands.

If you continue to describe industries as interesting and boring, think of crab fishing. It is an industry, where lots of bearded men sail the sea in gloomy weather and perform a series of boring and repetitive tasks to get some crabs out the water and sell them. Yet it has its own Discovery Channel documentary that millions of people enjoyed. 

It is not about the industry itself. Rather, it is about your ability to show the most interesting things in the industry. If the oil industry could do it, as a case study in Forbes suggests, you can do it too. 

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The SEO Advantages of Using HTTPS

HTTPS

You use the internet for everything, right? It is common knowledge. We all do that. Finding out potential competition? Do a Google search. Feeling the need to remodel your home? Google it. Want to buy a book you can’t get in real stores? Internet. Like I said, everything!

In the midst of your internet experience, you might have noticed something but chose to ignore it. If you have ever waited for your site to load, you might have looked at the URL bar and noticed that the sites you visit generally fall into two categories: one has an “HTTP” written on it, while some other site might have had an “HTTPS”.

At face value, these things would not matter. In fact, why would they even matter? You are browsing the internet for information, or for making a purchase, the HTTP and HTTPS are the least of your concerns, right? Well, kind of. These “protocols” are irrelevant, but they are important.

The HTTP and HTTPS protocols are important. They are related to website security. For regular folk, it can determine the authenticity of the site, and for site owners and digital marketers, having a correct (Spoiler Alert, it’s HTTPS) protocol can boost your traffic and sales considerably.

Today, I will be writing about the SEO advantages of using HTTPS. But before that, we have to begin at the basics.

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How to Successfully Integrate Direct and Digital Marketing

Integrate Direct and Digital Marketing

The integration of direct and digital marketing is a recent challenge that has many people choosing sides instead of embracing the merge.

The primary reason for this negligent behavior is not arrogance but rather misunderstanding.

Here are 4 tips that we came up with to show how the integration of direct and digital marketing can help boost sales, conversion rates, and overall success.

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5 eCommerce Marketing Trends That Can Help Boost Your Online Sales

Ecommerce Marketing Trends

Have you ever played or heard of a battle royal game called Player Unknown Battlegrounds (PUBG)? Bunch of players dropped on a large map with a constantly changing environment, fighting to be the last one surviving. Either you adapt to the environment and fight for your survival, or you die.

This could be an exaggerated comparison. However, considering the competition and desperate need for survival, the game is not different from the eCommerce market today. In the eCommerce arena, you are not just competing with the players of your corresponding level but also the pro players who have already captured a huge section of the map. If you are not watchful, the opponents will take no time to load their AWM (eCommerce marketing ideas) and outrank your business after looting your body (customer base).

Just think about where are you in the map of current eCommerce adventure. Maybe you have just set up an eCommerce store recently, or maybe you have been in the market for a while now. Regardless of your business age, nothing works better without building an impressive plan. A plan that will help you leverage every marketing opportunity of what that is left of 2018. More importantly, a plan that will help you to stay prepared for what 2019 have in its store for you. Aside from marketing, you can also start using other platforms like ShippingTree to meet the needs and expectations of your customers.

Hence, here are the five biggest eCommerce marketing trends of 2018 that will also help you to survive the market in 2018 and generate innovative eCommerce marketing ideas for the next year as well.

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