Update November 13th, 2018: According to official Google Page Speed Insights Release Notes, Google Lighthouse Data is now used as the analysis engine to determine a website’s page speed performance. Lighthouse can also be used to investigate the overall performance of a website and explore individual ranking factors. What is behind Google Lighthouse Data, how do […]
For online retailers, getting your holiday season right is about a lot more than finding the right Turbo Man figure and avoiding a last-minute fight at the checkouts. Kicking off on Black Friday and running through December and into the new year, the holiday season can make or break your yearly targets and have a […]
If you think emotions aren’t important when writing texts, you’re wrong: Google, Amazon, Apple and Facebook are increasingly turning to emotional, multi-dimensional communication and creating new standards in user experience. Linguistic approaches, particularly at a pragmatic level, play a key role in shaping modern digital communication. Users are looking for information, but language doesn’t just […]
A guest article by Gidon Wagner, Wortliga.de – Let’s face it, content marketing can be a frightening business. It’s often hard to measure how much your earned media content reaches and resonates with targeted audiences. Any little slip-up can make you a member of the walking dead. For Halloween, we’re serving up a few tips […]
The German Q&A platform, gutefrage (www.gutefrage.net), has one of the biggest online audiences in Germany – and yet in the past it has often featured in the loser lists following Google Updates. In this success story, Melanie Ruf, Head of SEO at gutefrage.net, explains how the platform implemented an SEO strategy that helped it to […]
Advertising is everywhere – on average, we see between 4,000 and 10,000 advertising messages every day. With communication taking place to such an excess, it is inevitable that the vast majority of messages will be irrelevant and miss their target. In this blog post, we explain how you can use persona groups for your business […]
If you don’t review your content, then you don’t know its value. You don’t know what is doing well. In all likelihood, this means you’ll be missing opportunities for improvements and wasting resources where they aren’t needed. The best way to make sure you’re not falling into this trap is to audit your content. But […]
Industry watchers said in 2017 that search builds traffic and social builds brands, but Chinese developments could change everything. As digital marketers consider allocating resources to one or the other, they might want to consider that the distinction between search and social looks set to fall away in China. Google’s investments indicate that what happens in […]
Like a train pulling out of a station, Google’s long-awaited mobile-first initiative represents a journey to new places. After the confirmation of the rollout on March 26 2018, it took a while for things to really get moving, but in September 2018, mobile-first started to pick up the pace, as Google sent out a wave […]
If you want to report on the success of your SEO campaigns within your company, and you want to develop a data-driven SEO strategy, then you need to be able to show people meaningful numbers. In this article, I will explain how you can create dashboards that perfectly distinguish brand from non-brand traffic, and also […]
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