Posts by: Jeremy Idlebird
How Instagram Can Boost Your Digital Marketing Strategy
Since Instagram's debut in 2010, it has made great strides in the world of social media. Today it is one of the leading global social networks, boasting over 500 million active members. Instagram is a platform to share beautiful photos that can be furthermore enhanced by using features such as filters and lighting. It may be surprising to you, but Instagram can play a major role in your digital ma
The Law of Prägnanz and Digital Marketing
The Law of Prägnanz, also known as the law of simplicity, is the theory that “People will perceive and interpret ambiguous or complex images as the simplest form(s) possible.” This law is one of the fundamental principles of Gestalt psychology; the theory of understanding laws in our ability to acquire and maintain simple perception in an otherwise chaotic form. For instance: Aocc
3 Ways to Improve Your Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Campaign
As we are all accustomed to, the fastest and easiest way to find anything these days is to search for it online; most noticeably, to "Google It". Whether you have a leaky faucet, need your lawn mowed, or are simply looking up tickets for a comedy show, you now have unlimited information at your fingertips to find the ideal solution to your problem. However, on the other side of that spectrum, as a
SEO/SEM Services - Why You Need a Professional
Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing work together to give companies a competitive edge in their marketplace. When people enter search terms into a search engine, they see results pages that display websites that match the search terms based on relevance, quality, and other metrics. Search engine users also see paid results that resemble organic results but appear either at the t
Benefits of Internet Marketing for Small Businesses
Marketing has come a long way since the internet was first introduced. Many small businesses in the past would turn to traditional methods of marketing such as radio ads, newspaper ads and TV ads in order to promote their products and services. While this allowed businesses to reach out to a large audience, it was quite expensive and there weren’t many ways to track the effectiveness of this
Types of Internet Marketing For Small Businesses
Often times a small business will have a limited budget when it comes to investing in marketing. Whether they are looking to go the traditional marketing route or online marketing, the goal tends to be the same. A company's main focus is to build their brand, get exposure, and sell their products and services. For small companies that are looking to build their brand, social media marketing has sh
Increasing Website Conversion Rates
The main goal of any type of marketing is to bring traffic to a website and build your brand. However, once you start receiving large amounts of traffic to your site, there are other steps which you can take to increase your conversion rates. If you’re bringing in 100,000 people a month to your website with a 1% conversion rate, there are quite a few things that can be done to raise that num
Change in Google Map Listings
As most of us know by now, Google has been consistently changing their algorithm for over a decade and a half. With every change, they aim to make their search engine more user-friendly and beneficial to searchers worldwide. The first few algorithm changes that took place were noticed in the early 2000s. With each change, Google's ranking system became more sophisticated and made it more difficult
Taking Advantage of Long Tail Keywords
Search engine optimization (SEO) has changed much over the years. Long gone are the days when you could publish a web page stuffed with keywords and a couple backlinks to rank in the search results. Depending your industry, trying to rank for just one keyword in order to gain traffic and business is no longer the best way to attract your target audience. With more websites and competition in every
5-ish SEO Tools to help Amateur Digital Marketers
As we all know in the “digital marketing world”, there are hundreds and even thousands of SEOtools to assist in our journey of becoming recognized organically in the major Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs). With so many tools to choose from it is very understandable how beginning Search Engine Optimizers (SEOs) can become overwhelmed. However, our digital marketing team has compiled