It’s too easy to fall into a rut with your SEO audits. If it doesn’t meet best practices it ought to be fixed, right? Not always. Though an SEO audit is essentially a checklist, it’s important to both customize your approach and prioritize your fixes to be efficient and effective with…
Both Google and Facebook have recently announced important changes coming to their respective advertising platforms—changes that every business and digital marketing agency should be aware of. On the Google side of things, accelerated ad delivery is going away in the coming weeks. And on the Facebook side of things, your…
Everyone talks about what makes millennials tick or how to market to them, so we forget they’re old news. Sure, we’ll still need to market to millenials for years to come, but it’s time to start focusing on Generation Z. At first glance, millennials and Gen Z might seem very similar….
Structured data (Schema markup) is a powerful tool SEOs can use to efficiently deliver the most important information on our webpages to search engines. When applied effectively across all relevant entities, Schema markup provides significant opportunities to improve a website’s SEO performance by helping search engines to better understand its…
Ah, one of my favorite industries to write about! I love food, and I love eating at restaurants. That’s why the restaurant industry is such a fun one to write about, because I get to think about two of my favorite subjects: food and marketing. There are many pros and…
If you’re anything like me, you might be wondering how the heck it’s already August — where did the first half of the year go? As we move into the last months of 2019, it’s a great time to reflect on what we’ve accomplished so far this year. And here at…
Whether you’re in lead gen or ecommerce, managing your business’s online advertising accounts means keeping tracking of a bunch of different metrics. You use search impression share to judge how well you’re performing in the Google Ads auction. You use engagement rate to see whether your messaging is resonating with…
WordStream has some impressive employees in our ranks: from industry influencers to marathon runners, from analysts to authors. The Employee Spotlight series aims to highlight the talented individuals who work here. Each month, we’ll be featuring an interview here on the blog and on our social accounts. For this month’s…
How many of these have you heard over the years? Convincing clients and stakeholders that SEO is worth it is half the battle. From doubts about the value of its traffic to concerns over time and competition with other channels, it seems like there’s an argument against our jobs at…
When I’m sweating bullets in the oppressive August heat, I want nothing more than to dive into an ice bath fit for a polar bear. But when it’s snowing boatloads, I dream of lounging like the inner feline goddess I am, sprawled out in front of every sunbeam in my…
