Last week, Wednesday Oct. 3rd to be exact, myself and a few other Schipulites attended the Interactive Strategies Psych Conference (IS 12). Every session centered on human behavior, decision making and how to market products and campaigns in a way that has your end user in mind. I feel like one session in particular stood […]
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Top 5 WordPress SEO Plugins You Should Be Using
WP SEO by Yoast I will go ahead and say that WP SEO by Yoast is the holy grail of all WordPress SEO plugins. At Schipul, we install this on all WordPress sites. The Yoast plugin makes it super simple to add meta descriptions, title tags and meta keywords to your page or post. One […]
ASAP Utilities: One Tool to Rule Them All
4 ASAP Utility functions that will make you love Excel even more… As a senior production manager at PPC Associates, I spend a great deal of my day working in Microsoft Excel, whether that be manipulating data for reporting or prepping an upload sheet to load into AdWords Editor (Google AdWords’ offline editing program). When […]
Adwords, Simplified; Quality Scores, Not So Much …
Adwords are surprisingly complicated – a side effect of having LOTS of user options and the TON of data google collects and crunches to optimize user experience (ie, the likelihood of internet searchers to quickly find relevant ads). Infographic by pulpmedia: Awesomely Accessible Lesson in the Basics of Adwords 1) What you pay (CostPerClick) depends on: […]
Schedule Your Reporting in the New Google Analytics
They say change is a good thing, but it isn’t always easy. SEOs everywhere are experiencing the big change taking place with Google phasing out the old version of Google Analytics. It seems like Google is itching for the “old version” of Analytics to go away. The only way to even get to the old […]
Essential Excel Tools for Writing PPC Ads
Guest Blogger: Laura Rodnitzky is the Director of Production for PPC Associates, a search engine marketing agency with offices in San Mateo and Chicago. Writing PPC ads can be fun – using your brain to shoehorn great messaging into a limited number of characters is like doing puzzles. The parts of the copy-creation process that […]
Quantitative Effects of the Penguin Police
Penguin sparked fear in many SEOers, with blog posts like Anatomy of a Disaster, Penguins, Pandas and Panic at the Zoo, and innumerable accounts of sites losing over half of their traffic. Penguin is Google’s latest search algorithm update, and is supposed to level the playing field – increasing ranking for websites that have great content but […]
Pinterest: Why it’s worth the investment, and how to get your ROI
If you’re the person in charge of social media at your company, Pinterest may cause you to groan and look for excuses to opt out of maintaining yet another communication channel. Unfortunately Pinterest is increasingly looking like a medium marketers shouldn’t ignore; fortunately, it also looks like a medium that delivers significant ROI, and might […]
HOWTO: Handle Negative Online Business Reviews Like a Pro
Let’s face it, online reviews can make you or break you. People rely more than ever on online review sites before making purchases or doing business with a company. If you’re not already monitoring reviews of your company then it’s time to start. Claim Any Listings Floating Around the Web The first thing you should […]
The Familiarity Effect: PPC vs Organic Search
Dave Underwood of Topspot Internet Marketing spoke on “Improving Website Measurement & Analytics” at the HiMA luncheon last week in Houston, Texas. He offered useful insight for successful marketing, some of it surprisingly simple. For example, recording and listening to phone calls: if your sales people give inaccurate information or fail in some other way […]