Google’s PageRank is one of the metrics that started it all. It was present in that very first research paper, that laid a foundation for Google’s entire ranking system. PageRank figures out the importance, credibility and “weight” of a webpage, based on the type of backlinks that the webpage gets. It’s a system analogous to […]
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With Google releasing more information of when updates take place, you should see it as a good practice to highlight this information in your Google Analytics account. With the use of annotations, you will now have a visual guide in Google Analytic’s reports to help understand if you have been affected negatively or positively from
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Whether you’re an SEO, PR or a website owner, it’s highly likely you’ve come across DA (Domain Authority). The metric, created by industry-leading platform Moz, was designed to help search marketers understand the value of a domain, at a glance and compare it with others in the same industry or niche. This was important for
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Whether you’re an SEO, PR or a website owner, it’s highly likely you’ve come across DA (Domain Authority). The metric, created by industry-leading platform Moz, was designed to help search marketers understand the value of a domain, at a glance and compare it with others in the same industry or niche. This was important for SEO,
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April was a big month for Google Data Studio (GDS), with Google introducing some significant product updates to this already robust reporting tool. For those not familiar with GDS, it is a free dashboard-style reporting tool that Google rolled out in June 2016. With Data Studio, users can connect to various data sources to visualize,
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A theme has been consistently popping up in my day to day conversations regarding the rapid pace of the digital marketing world. These discussions have gone on to expand upon how difficult it is to keep up. Today, the Twittersphere was abuzz sharing an ebook titled, “It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work,” published
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During a recent dive into an auction insights report for one of my clients, I noticed that one of our top paid search competitors was declining in impression share. Our Search dominance was prevailing and I proudly looked down on the competitor <10% stat. I was excited to share the news with my client, but
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Many advertisers today are looking for ways to create their sales funnels within platforms for several reasons. It helps reduce friction, keeping users within the platform and eliminating issues with conversion-rate optimization and bounce rate once the user lands on a webpage. It also avoids issues with using potentially sensitive customer data to build a
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A more recent addition to Facebook’s panoply of automation tactics is Budget Optimization. This feature frees advertisers from having to manually set budgets at the ad set level. Instead of setting an arbitrary daily spend for each of your ad sets, this tool optimizes your ad set budgets on an opportunity-by opportunity basis in real-time
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Value. It’s a concept that we all understand in theory, and we have all certainly faced this question in our professional lives: “What value do you bring?”. It can be a tricky question to answer, and to even begin to answer it we first must have an understand of this word “value”. This is the
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