Content Strategy

Why Your Landing Page Isn't Converting — and How to Fix It

You've put hours into your web design, and your landing page seems to have everything in order. However, people are bouncing away without converting into customers. There are many possible reasons why your landing page is not working the way it should, and thankfully, there are remedies.

Around 80 percent of marketers archive their conversion rate optimization results so they can measure progress over time. If you aren't tracking this, start keeping the data today so you can see what tactics work and what needs adjusting. That way, you can avoid constantly doing something that's not working.

Boye 19 Brooklyn: The Digital Leadership Conference

It has been a couple years since I personally promoted a conference through my websites and perhaps even longer since I've attended a conference. This was not an intentional decision by me but simply a recognition that in the past couple years I didn't find a conference I found worthy to promote. After awhile talks covering topics such as content management, digital strategy, and collaboration become noise so over time my interest in conferences waned. Then all that changed last week when Janus Boye contacted me to remind me that's he's rebooted his company and bringing his conference back to the USA.

4 Franchise Development Efforts that Increase Qualified Leads

Many franchisees heavily rely on existing brand reputation that comes with every established business in order to appeal to their target audience. The support and training that come with running such a business model also help generate the right traction for your branch, which often leads franchisees to a standstill when it comes to delivering new, advanced lead generation methods. It’s commendable that a franchisees along with franchisers work together to maintain brand consistency across the board while they keep appealing to the right audience – but innovation is still needed in order to increase the quality of those leads.

What is Organic SEO? Important Things to Boost Organic Traffic

Ranking high in the search engines is tough, especially in a world where everyone is competing for space and visibility. The trend has been drastically changing, and website visitors are today more influenced by paid adverts that lead them to specific sites. It means that organizations are finding it difficult to generate organic traffic as more money goes to influential campaigns. This notwithstanding, it is still possible to make organic traffic and while at it convert some of your web visitors to customers.

New Searchmetrics study: Google now wants brands to get niche-specific

San Mateo, October 17, 2018 - Brands’ organic search strategies on Google should now be tightly tailored to the niche they operate in, according to the latest research by Searchmetrics. That’s because Google’s use of technologies such as AI and machine-learning are helping it pin-point, more clearly than ever, the specific factors that satisfy search queries in different niches and contexts. 

socPub in the Slow Lane

I'm a one-person show when it comes to managing, editing, and maintaining the content found at socPub. A year and a half a ago, there was a lot of unknowns when I rebranded CMS Report into socPub. Today, I'm happy to report that the number of readers that visit the site daily have stabilized. When we receive a unique and exceptional article, almost immediately the published article becomes popular and attracts a number of new visitors to the site.

Is your website ready for the 2018 market?

Several digital marketers and website owners say that their website is optimized for Google. Are you one of them? When was the last time you visited your SEO strategies and compared them to the 2018 guidelines? To think of SEO as a one-time practice is a cardinal sin for digital marketing experts. Revisiting optimization strategies and tactics require us to locate the different factors that act as ranking signals for Google. Considering 200 individual factors contribute to SEO and page ranks, it would be a Sisyphean task to compare and weigh our SEO techniques each time.

What to Consider When Planning Your Intranet Project

Research reports indicate that more than two-thirds of company intranet projects face issues with cost overruns. If modernizing your company’s Intranet is your top concern and estimating your returns on investment, then it’s important to plan your Intranet budget well in advance. You will often find that many businesses have unrealistic budget expectations because they haven’t properly planned their intranet project in advance, and this can lead to their intranet project, unfortunately, failing.

Manage your online reputation tactics well before it’s too late

Your organization reputation is essential. It's an asset that you need to keep secure. When your online reputation gets affected, you might lose sales, customers, partners as well as employees. Not all business takes their online reputation management seriously. They don't look to check if they have positive or negative feedback in Google search results. 

How can you secure your brand reputation? The ORM (online reputation management) experts suggest that business owners should optimize their web content proactively. Also, monitor the search results on a regular basis. And when negative news pops up, businesses and organizations should be proactive to mitigate that with correct efforts and actions.

6 Essential Digital Marketing Elements that Every Business Owner Should Be Familiar With

The marketplace today is increasingly turning digital with technology continuing to evolve, and this is no surprise. The benefits of this form of marketing are becoming all the more common day by day. Majority of the customers are researching and purchasing products online. We are living in a digital age where countless people are spending a lot of time poking around the digital platforms. In fact, businesses have become more aware of this and thus are leveraging on this platform's popularity for promoting their products and services. Merely put, marketing is basically to connect with consumers at the perfect time and the ideal place. If one has plentiful customers online, then definitely that is where they should go.