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The Latest Google Rebranding Initiative Discussed

New Face of Google

Change at some point in life is essential. Google, on their verge to embrace change for the better, are aiming to introduce major changes. They are intending to do away with AdWords and DoubleClick, which are among their brands where they will rebrand them to make them easy and simple. Despite them being made simple, they will have some added features to make your experience the best.

AdWords has been a good brand for the last 18 years while DoubleClick is 22 years old. Google flagship in charge of advertising is aiming at reorganizing these brands. The main aim is to make sure that brands reflect what they are meant to be and what their purpose is.

For you to rise to this level using Google, you must first understand about the new brands. The Google AdWords shall now acquire the name Google Ads while DoubleClick and other brands will fall under the Google Marketing Platform. Google Ad Manager will as well be a new brand.

These changes are aiming at catering to consumer expectation, which is growing day by day. They will also increase opportunities for advertisers. Google has developed over the years adopting new ad products and formats, which over time have become more complex for advertisers to use.

Due to these changes, advertisers, as well as publishers, have been on crossroads wondering on the best Google product to choose. The new branding characterized by three buckets aims at making things easier giving publishers and advertisers guidelines on the product they need. This will depend on their goals and aims. Below are new Google brands and their solutions.

It’s no secret that a trusting relationship is a key part of any sales process. Building rapport is a great way to show your prospects that you’re knowledgeable about your product or service without coming off as a pushy salesperson.

The problem most salespeople take with building a relationship, however, is that they wait until they are actually talking to the prospect to do it. They are missing crucial opportunities to build a relationship with their prospects digitally before they ever talk to them.

Before social media, it was nearly impossible to build a relationship with someone without taking out personal ads. Potential clients could be aware of a company name, but the actual people working for that company would be relatively unknown to them.

This would mean no matter how well known your product or service was to a prospect, you would still have to build rapport with them from scratch. Nothing is initially wrong with this, but it can be time consuming and disingenuous. You can only talk about the weather and music for so long before it gets tedious.

With the creation of LinkedIn and advanced targeting, there are more ways than ever to reach the right kind of prospects without having to spend an overboard amount of money on advertising.

I have used these techniques personally and it has generated qualified leads and sales not only for myself but also for the clients that I work with. While this isn’t a complete list of what I do to leverage LinkedIn, this in-depth analysis should give you a valid foundation for securing leads and sales on the platform.

SEO Agencies

This article is going to break down how one person can outwork the big digital agencies when it comes to SEO and internet marketing.

But who am I to be giving this kind of advice, right?

Fair enough. My name is Craig Tuttle. I used to work for two of the SEO agencies in my city as a Director of SEO, then the Director of Marketing. I decided to go out on my own over 5 years ago when I found out we were having our first child. I didn’t want to miss out on time with her because I was working for someone else. I now outrank my former employers (who outsource their SEO client work to me) as well as the other bigger agencies in my city. This article is how I was able to do that not just once, but I repeated it again in multiple cities.

There’s an old adage that the best results come from the big companies with an army for a workforce, but that’s simply not true. Especially when it comes to digital marketing and actually generating results. You simply have to have the right knowledge and leverage your time, and you can outwork any big marketing agency that you go up against.

It Starts With Knowledge.

Guide to Link Building

During a March Q&A Session with WebPromo Expert, Andrey Lipattsev—a Search Quality Senior Strategist at Google—revealed Google’s top three ranking factors: links, content, and RankBrain. Marketers have since begun to improve their link building efforts and backlink strategies, thanks to companies like the rank way.

Some websites, as expected, went the way of the black hat. They scored higher rankings by manipulating the number of links leading to their page. A later update—codenamed Google Penguin—managed to successfully weed out those employing link schemes and similar black-hat SEO tactics and de-rank them.

With those issues addressed, the focus shifted entirely to link quality, not quantity.

Increase Your Websites' Trust

When business owners are building their company’s real-life reputation, the first thing they look to achieve is signals of trust. However, many don’t treat their company’s website the same way and wonder why they are struggling to convert website visitors into clients. That’s where trust signals play a vital role in how well your website performs. It’s the little things that showcase the fact that you’re worth someone’s time.

What do you look for in a company whose services you’re enquiring about? The highest on people’s list are the obvious things like, where are they based? Do they offer the service I want? And finally, can I trust them to deliver that service? But, how can you portray your trustworthiness on your website? There are many ways, although, a few of them are much more intuitive and easier to implement than others. Online marketers recommend accreditations, testimonials, case studies, awards and press coverage as an important part of website design. Read More

Still Trying Old SEO Techniques? Here’s Your Guide to SEO 2.0

Add New

You will hardly find a business not doing Search Engine Optimization, or simply calling – SEO. In the last few years, search engines have changed their algorithms and users have changed their patterns of browsing content.

From ‘SEO driven content’, we have moved to an era of ‘content driven SEO’. If you are still busy creating content that serves your SEO requirements, hold on. Take a breather and read this guide to know what ‘Content-driven SEO’ or SEO 2.0 as I call it, is all about. Read More

Citation Link Building – How to Dominate Local Search

Citation Link Building

Links have always been the most important ranking factors. They still are today. And they will remain just as important in times to come. It is difficult to predict if this will ever change.

Search engines gauge the importance of a site by looking at the number and authority of sites linking to them. The more links they have the better their standing in search results. There are hundreds of other criteria, but links remain the most important of them.

The more sites that link to you, the more credible your site is. It is, therefore, important to remember that you want more links, but from credible sources.

In other words, we need credible & high authority sites to link to us. So that we are also perceived as credible by the search engines.

There are many ways to build links to your site. However, today we will start with the most popular link building technique used by SEOs worldwide. It is none other than Citation Link Building.

You know when you start to hear your parents calling for Siri, Alexa or Cortana, that voice searches must be on the rise. In fact, 20% of all searches from a mobile device are by voice.

Is your business prepared to capitalize on this trend?

Mobile Analytics Strategies

In a world dominated by smartphones and mobile apps, marketers are doing their best to keep up with this new playing field. Every month, there seems to be a new way of reaching out to customers to make a difference in their lives. However, with all of this data flowing back and forth, unless you have put in place some robust mobile analytics strategies, you might be missing valuable insights.

But, what does mobile analytics exactly mean? Well, mobile analytics is the practice of collecting user data, determining their intent from said data, and taking actions based on those metrics to drive retention and customer engagement. Although this does include mobile web services, most mobile analytics strategies focus on analytics for Android and iOS applications.

This makes sense when you consider that 54% of mobile transactions made worldwide are done via apps. Not only is that more than half of all mobile transactions, but it shows just how important mobile analytics strategies are for converting customers. In this article, we are going to guide you through 8 mobile analytics strategies that you should follow TODAY in order to stay ahead of your competition. Let’s get started.

Help Your Help Page

Frustrated visitors don’t convert to customers, and frustrated customers don’t stay customers for long. It’s impossible to create a product or service that’s perfect and immediately understandable to all or to set up a website that provides the perfect answer to every question any person in the world might have. But all businesses can be attentive to customer needs by taking the time to craft a “help page” that is truly useful.

A good help page finds the right balance between answering the simple and obvious questions that some may need answering because they overlooked it somewhere else, and providing more in-depth guidance and how-tos for established customers or interested leads.

Help pages must anticipate the needs of a variety of client personas and provides assistance in a way that will be the simplest and most useful for that demographic.

Let’s take a look at some important elements for any help page, along with real-life examples of what works and what doesn’t.

The Latest Google Rebranding Initiative Discussed

How One Person Can Outwork Big SEO Agencies

An Advanced Guide to Link Building – 7 Must-Have Strategies

5 Ways to Intuitively Increase Your Websites’ Trust

Still Trying Old SEO Techniques? Here’s Your Guide to SEO 2.0

Citation Link Building – How to Dominate Local Search

How to Optimize Your Website for Voice Searches

8 Top Mobile Analytics Strategies You Ought to Follow

How to Help Your “Help” Page – 4 Basic Areas to Focus On