The Technical Side of Adblocking

The Technical Side of Adblocking

Following on from Alan’s great blog post about advertising blockers, I wanted to share a bit of information about the technical side of adblocking to…

How Apple and Google’s New Ad-Blocking Services Will Impact Digital Marketing

How Apple and Google’s New Ad-Blocking Services Will Impact Digital Marketing

Imagine you’ve just opened a website and a pop-up appears or a video starts pre-playing with sound before you can click or read anything. Or…

The 6 Elements of a Comprehensive SEO Audit

The 6 Elements of a Comprehensive SEO Audit

Pop quiz…just five quick questions for you. Do you know every page/piece of content on your website and how it is displayed within search results?…

Anything You Can Do, Digital Can Do Better | Radio Edition

Anything You Can Do, Digital Can Do Better | Radio Edition

So, You Decided to Run Terrestrial Radio Ads… Why: You wanted to achieve mass reach, with a low CPM, to reach a captive audience. You…

What Google Doesn’t Know Can Change Your Content Marketing

What Google Doesn’t Know Can Change Your Content Marketing

It’s easy to think that your favorite search engine knows everything. It’s our go-to source for new information, after all. You “Google” everything you don’t know, and Google always has an answer.

But there is one critical thing that search engines don’t know, and it can completely change the way content marketers think about content creation.

Search engines still don’t know what you are going to search for.

Helping Clients Understand SEO

Helping Clients Understand SEO

There are many moving parts to an SEO campaign and having a roadmap that lists the items to accomplish and the actions we will take to fix & optimize your site, can be the best tool. A solid roadmap can consist of:

6 Steps to Boost Your Content Conversion

You can blog and publish content regularly. However, if your site content isn’t converting your website/blog readers into actual contacts – then what’s the point or value behind it? Every marketer inevitably hits a content wall and bandwidth restrictions to keep churning out blog posts, social posts, infographics, videos, podcasts…you name it. The key is to keep the content and conversion wheels in motion, even while you’re not at the actual wheel creating it.

Instagram Ads

Instagram Ads

If you’re like me, and check Instagram a few (hundred) times a day, you have probably noticed that your feed has included a lot more…

Secure the web! Early experience with the Let’s Encrypt Open Beta

Secure the web! Early experience with the Let’s Encrypt Open Beta

I’m writing this blog post because I just can’t hold in my excitement. Let’s Encrypt has just entered public beta! Read on for technical details.

The 10 Commandments of Redirects

Emfluence relaunched an awesome Magento theme update for our client Instore Design Display last week, and this got me thinking about the do’s and don’t of redirects. I started to list a few how-to’s when I realized that this would be much more fun with a theme. Since redirecting and canonicalizing can ruin an otherwise successful site relaunch, what better theme than the 10 Commandments?

DIY SEO

DIY SEO

Search Engine Optimization…yes, it might sound daunting and intimidating, but did you know there are a few quick and easy ways you can improve your…

The Fight for SEO: How Google Changed Everything.

The Fight for SEO: How Google Changed Everything.

Not too long ago (a decade or so), being in SEO meant figuring out the best “link farms” to submit your site to as well…

Conversion Optimization for New Websites: What’s really going through your customer’s head?

Conversion Optimization for New Websites: What’s really going through your customer’s head?

Customer acquisition is only a small piece of your audience’s marketing journey. Oftentimes, marketing efforts are successful in bringing customers onto a website, but your…

Google to Disallow App Install Pop-Ups November 1st

Google to Disallow App Install Pop-Ups November 1st

On September 1st, Google made an interesting statement regarding websites that showcase annoying lightboxes urging users to install the mobile app version of the site…

Digital Analytics Dashboards: 4 Awesome Examples for Any Organization

Digital Analytics Dashboards: 4 Awesome Examples for Any Organization

In this age of data, endless supplies of information can be accessed with just a click of a button. But most of us have no…

The Good, Bad & Ugly of Google Analytics

The Good, Bad & Ugly of Google Analytics

What is it? Google Analytics launched November of 2005 and yet, there are still so many misconceptions about what it is. Is it a giant…

5 Best Practices for Pinterest Paid Pins

5 Best Practices for Pinterest Paid Pins

Pinterest is upping their ROI game to attract more marketers (and money) to their platform. Brands have already been playing with Paid Pins and now,…

The Case For Social Video – Part III: Creating Video Ads That “Stick”

The Case For Social Video – Part III: Creating Video Ads That “Stick”

As with any PPC/Display advertising campaign, there are no magic bullets to guarantee success. The best ad-campaigns are crafted through strategic audience targeting, identifying KPIs…

The Case For Social Video – Part II: Why Video Needs to Be Part Of Your Social Mix

The Case For Social Video – Part II: Why Video Needs to Be Part Of Your Social Mix

In part of one of this three-part series about social video ads, I reviewed the social media industry’s shift towards promoted video ads. The focus…

10 SEO Tips for Your 2015 Content Marketing Strategy + One Bonus

10 SEO Tips for Your 2015 Content Marketing Strategy + One Bonus

As Google relies on a wider variety of link and social sources, content marketing has taken the cake. Yet another Google algorithm was released in…

5 Steps to Successful Conversion Rate Optimization

5 Steps to Successful Conversion Rate Optimization

Chances are that you’ve heard of Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), but what is it and why do you need it? Conversion rate optimization is the…

Link Building 101: What It Is And How You Use It

Link Building 101: What It Is And How You Use It

Link building: what is it? Link building: people know it’s important, but they don’t exactly know why. Link building can be thought of as a…

The Forgotten Importance of Meta Descriptions: 6 Steps to Make Better Descriptions

It’s no secret that meta descriptions don’t carry official weight when it comes to search engine algorithms, but that doesn’t mean you should stop caring…

4 Steps in Google AdWords to Know if Paid Search Will Work for Your Business

4 Steps in Google AdWords to Know if Paid Search Will Work for Your Business

Pay-Per-Click (PPC) advertising is a great way to target those searching for solutions and products like yours. In fact, at emfluence we often recommend PPC…

SEO Secrets: 5 Actionable Steps for Link Building

SEO Secrets: 5 Actionable Steps for Link Building

Jason White from DragonSearch.net provided a great synopsis of earning authority via link acquisition at SMX East 2014. Below is a collection of the actionable insights I took away from his presentation. They make a great basic checklist for getting into link building!

SMX East Recap: The Art of SEO in Google’s (Still) Rapidly Changing World

SMX East Recap: The Art of SEO in Google’s (Still) Rapidly Changing World

Taking the stage on the first day of SMX East is Marshall Simmonds, famed CEO of Define MG and longtime SEO professional. I am excited to be reporting from New York all of the excitement and adventure surrounding this years Search Marketing Expo! Blog posts will be coming rapidly and I frantically try to share all of the valuable information shared for the next four days.

Turn Up the Local SEO Heat  for Your Restaurant Marketing Summer Strategy

Turn Up the Local SEO Heat for Your Restaurant Marketing Summer Strategy

Things have finally warmed up in the Northern Hemisphere as summer arrives. It’s time for vacations, great food, and a surge in flip-flop sales. Just…