Whether you are a tiny company based in Cheshire or a global organisation blogging is a key element to your online marketing strategy. Here are a few reasons why you and your company should be blogging! 1) A blog drives traffic to your website 2) Increase your Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) 3) Positions your...
SEO For Beginners
What is Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)? SEO is a marketing discipline focused on growing visibility in organic (non-paid) search engine results. SEO encompasses both the technical and creative elements required to improve rankings, drive traffic, and increase awareness in search engines. There are many aspects to SEO, from the words on your page to...
The Importance of Business Blogging
Effective content marketing is all about the pull, not the push. Business blogging is a great way of achieving this. In fact, marketers who implement a strategic blogging game plan generate up to 67% more leads than those with no clue as to what they are doing, which is why you need to keep...
Cost Per Action
Cost per action, or CPA – sometimes referred to as cost per acquisition – is a metric that measures how much your business pays in order to attain a conversion. Generally, your CPA will be higher than your cost per click or CPC, because not everyone who clicks your ad will go on to...
Lowering CPC While Maintaining Value
So how do you go about lowering the price you’re paying for each click, while sustaining the value of you visits? There are to key paths: raise you quality score Google has created an automated system that offers pricing discounts to well-managed PPC campaigns with high Quality Scores. Currently, accounts with quality scores of...
What Is Quality Score? (QS)
Quality Score is Google’s rating of the quality and relevance of both keywords and PPC ads. It is used to determine your cost per click and multiplied by your maximum bid to determine your ad rank in the ad auction process. Your QS depends on multiple facts, including: Your click-through rate (CTR) The relevance...
PPC Keyword Research
Keyword research for PPC can be incredibly time-consuming, but it is also VERY important. Your entire PPC campaign is built around your chosen keywords, and the most successful AdWords advertisers continuously grow and refine their PPC keyword list. If you only do keyword research once, when you create your first campaign you are probably...
Minimising Your PPC Costs
Pay-per-click advertising is one of the most powerful tools available for online marketers, giving companies of all sizes an opportunity to reach their audience quickly and efficiently, whatever their budget. The accessibility of PPC makes it easy for anyone to run their own campaigns, but costs can quickly mount if you don’t follow best...
Boosted Posts & Promoted Posts
There are 3 levels to a Facebook ad campaign. The creation of the ad campaign begins with setting the objective of your campaign, then goes into deciding who you want to target with the ad and what pricing to set. The campaign finishes with the creative aspect of choosing images, and writing the copy....
Keyword Analysis – Choosing the best key phrases for your website
Finding the right/best key phrases for your website is an extremely important part of SEO and arguably the most important activity you will undertake on your website. Ranking for relevant and correct keywords can either make or break your website. This is not simply a case of finding the phrases with he highest search...