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…
January 2020
It’s a brand-new decade, rich with all the promise of a fresh start and new beginnings. But does that mean you should be doing anything different with regards to your SEO? In this Whiteboard Friday, our Senior SEO Scientist Britney Muller offers a seventeen-point checklist of things you ought to keep in mind for…
Wisely, you’ve taken the dive into video marketing. Whether you’re using video to create educational content or product-focused advertisements, you’ve made the right decision. It is, after all, the year 2020; any digital marketing strategy that lacks video is incomplete. Now that you’re in the game, it’s time for the…
Managing your PPC marketing can feel like a daunting task when your industry is as heavily restricted as drug and alcohol rehabilitation and addiction treatment services in Google, Facebook, and other advertising platforms. If you’re not routinely optimizing and keeping up to date on industry trends and best practices, it’s…
On January 13th, MozCast measured significant algorithm flux lasting about three days (the dotted line shows the 30-day average prior to the 13th, which is consistent with historical averages) … That same day, Google announced the release of a core update dubbed the January 2020 Core Update (in line with…
When looking up the definition for the Google Display Network, we get the following description on the Google Ads help site: “A group of more than 2 million websites, videos, and apps where your ads can appear.” The Google Display Network goes beyond just websites; the sentence clearly states our…
Knowledge is power. Here at WordStream, we pride ourselves on being one of the most in-depth sources of digital marketing knowledge in town. Want to learn how to create impactful Facebook audiences? We have a blog for that. Want to learn how to write better PPC ad copy? We have…
I recently finished a project where I was tasked to investigate why a site (that receives over one million organic visits per month) does not rank for any featured snippets. This is obviously an alarming situation, since ~15% of all result pages, according to the MozCast, have a featured snippet as…
Negative customer feedback is hard to hear, which means sometimes it’s too easy to write it off. The likes on social and positive testimonials are easier to highlight—those feel good! But if you’re not paying attention to all customer feedback, you may be missing on a huge chunk of knowledge….
When it comes to the forms your site visitors are using, you need to go beyond completions — it’s important to understand how people are interacting with them, where the strengths lie and what errors might be complicating the experience. In this edition of Whiteboard Friday, Matthew Edgar takes you…