3 New Keyword Rules for Modern On-Page SEO

Keywords have come a long way from the old days of black-hat SEO, where webmasters stuffed keywords into the background of their sites to help them rank highly. This would often work even if their content didn’t deserve such prominence in search results. The window of opportunity for using this approach closed a while ago. Google … Read more

Google Adwords: Back To Basics

Recently I’ve been mentoring some of the junior staff in creating AdWords accounts that would allow clarity in data for analysis and optimisation in the coming weeks and months. Around the moment I, almost flippantly, said that the data in Analytics fed from Google Tag Manager would provide all the information one would need to … Read more

11 Ways to Find Ideas For Your Company Blog

It seems like every company is blogging these days, and for a good reason. Having a regularly updated blog will get you 434% more pages indexed by search engines, 55% more website traffic, and make 60% of customers feel more positive about your company after reading content. On top of that, blogs are relatively cheap and (unlike paid advertising) … Read more

How to Use Buyer Personas in Your Marketing

In today’s marketing world, targeted content is vital: companies that want to attract as many potential customers as possible must be sure that they can identify the needs of each specific type of prospective buyer. When referred to collectively, these different types of customers are known as buyer personas. A buyer persona is a representation … Read more

Getting Started with Marketing Automation

If there’s one thing that inbound marketing requires for every company in every industry, it’s time. Creating your marketing strategy, coming up with blog topics, generating content, managing your social media accounts…the list of marketing tasks to do goes on and on. Fortunately for busy marketers, there is a way to ease this time crunch: … Read more

4 Key Metrics to Measure with Google Analytics & Tag Manager

I touched on Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager during my foray into the world of Conversion Tracking in my last blog post, a topic which probably had you salivating in anticipation for this installment by the Bearded Dragon (TM) -me. If you’ve already put the Conversion Tracking code on your “thank you” page, excellent, I … Read more