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Four Keyword Research Mistakes to Avoid at All Costsby Lior Levin
If you are serious about the words "sales," "profit," and "conversions," you must master keyword research. Learn four common pitfalls marketers make when selecting keywords—and how to avoid them.
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Five Tips for Implementing a Successful QR Code Campaignby Michelle Eichhorn
QR codes can be inexpensive to implement and can provide you a measureable return on investment—if you use them correctly. Learn five invaluable tips for implementing an effective QR code campaign.
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Take Your Online Presence Global: Five Foreign-Language Online Marketing Tips by Christian Arno
With the exponential rise of the multilingual Web in recent years, extending your online marketing strategy internationally is more timely than ever. Here are five key tips for effective global digital marketing.
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Tactics for Engaging Email Subscribers: Five Companies Getting It Rightby Kara Trivunovic
What's the use in crafting clever emails if they get relegated to the bulk folder? Engagement rates will determine whether or not your emails will make it to the inbox. Learn how to drive engagement and get your messages read.
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Bridge the Website Analytics Gap With Dynamic Telephone Number Insertionby Scott Buresh
With any lead-based online marketing campaign, it's important to track the sources of your leads. Learn how a new technology, Dynamic Telephone Number Insertion (DTNI), can track website leads based on incoming sales calls—and how it falls short.
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Five Ways to Make Communicating Web Analytics Data Easierby Zack Pike
Visits, pageviews, unique visitors, click-throughs... the list of metrics for digital marketing performance is endless. Often it's up to online marketers to decode the jargon to execs. Here are five ways to do just that.
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Clicking Me Softly: A Five-Day Crash Course in Conversion (Day 1)by Oli Gardner
Conversion is the mechanism and process of pouring targeted consumers into, through, and out the other side of the marketing funnel. That is the essence of "Clicking Me Softly." Convince, don't coerce. Guide, don't deceive. In day one of this ...
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Five Steps to Interactive Marketing Success With Behavioral Analyticsby Akin Arikan
Many organizations struggle to capture, organize, and effectively act on Web data to drive marketing programs. Here is a five-step path to help marketers develop their capabilities and expand the use of Web analytics to deriving behavioral-insights that fuel interactive ...
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Why Your B2B Website Needs Social Interactionby Bob Egner
If your idea of giving your website a social life entails having a "follow us on Facebook" link on your homepage, you might want to take a second look at your analytics. Learn why and how B2B marketers should socialize ...
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Five Marketing-Accountability Resolutions for 2011by Laura Patterson
Marketing accountability was a key topic of the last decade, and as 2011 kicks off—it looks like that's not going to change. Learn the five marketing-accountability resolutions that will improve marketing measurement and performance as you start your new year.
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Why and How You Should Be Using Triggered Email, Part 2by Karen Talavera
This article looks at the first two of four triggered-email campaigns that no email-marketing program should be without: Welcome and onboarding emails, and remarketing emails (such as resending to nonoperners and clickers but nonconverters).
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Three Ways to Find Negative Keywordsby Larry Kim
Keyword discovery is a huge component of pay-per-click advertising. You need to find relevant keywords so you can create topical ad groups, text ads, and landing pages. But for truly cost-effective, high-ROI PPC campaigns, it's equally important to find negative ...
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Eight Ways to Improve Your Site Search and Capture More Conversionsby Shaun Ryan
Whether you're marketing an e-commerce, informational, or B2B site, your site search is a critical feature of your site and deserves your time and attention. And by making some small improvements to your site search, you can reap higher conversion ...
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Facebook Upgrade: How New Features Will Help Brands Connect With Fansby Aaron Strout, Kevin Tate
Although much of what you might have heard recently about Facebook likely involves privacy concerns, many of the updates coming out of Facebook's F8 Developer Conference this past April should only make it easier for marketers to engage with their ...
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What Is Marketing Automation, and Why Does It Matter to You?
by Jep CasteleinA new type of online marketing system, marketing automation has recently become popular. What is it, how does it work, and—most important—should you adopt it? Not all companies should. But if yours is among those that could benefit from marketing ...
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Failing to Prepare in Web Analytics Is Preparing to Failby Robert F. Hogeboom
Far too often, Web-analytics initiatives fail to provide the insight that most businesses need and want. Companies are so eager to obtain immediate value from newly implemented Web-measurement systems that they overlook the complexity of Web analytics, which require a ...
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The Power of Web Analytics: Top Four Tips for Marketersby Ram Krishnamurthy
With the right strategy and execution in place, digital media has proven very cost-effective. It scales and caters to a larger volume with faster go-to-market capabilities. Which brings us to the issue of properly implemented Web analytics to accurately measure ...
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Web-Metrics Express: What You Need to Know to Avoid Mistakesby Pete Gaioni
Approaching your website's analytics as a three-step process will allow you to not only understand the tools available and what they have to offer but also create a gauge by which you can determine how well key business objectives are ...
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A 10-Question Lead-Generation Checkup Checklist for Your Website
by Bob DeStefanoIs your website a lead-generation machine? Your website can be your most powerful marketing tool, delivering a steady stream of new business leads and filling your sales pipeline. Find out your website's lead-generation potential by giving it a lead-generation checkup.
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50% Click-Through Rates? Yes, You Can!by Stephanie Miller
You'd think that to get half of your subscribers to click through, you might have to give away a million dollars every month. Publishers Clearing House actually does give away millions of dollars, but that wasn't enough on its own ...