Messy Middle: Using Human Biases To Optimize For User Satisfaction

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Boost your skills with Growth Memo’s weekly expert insights. Subscribe for free! In There Is No Spoon, I covered Google’s growing emphasis on user satisfaction as key to success in SEO. The most important key to success with Google Search is to have content that’s meant to please people, rather than to be whatever you might have … Read more

How To Optimize Videos For Social Media

How To Optimize Videos For Social Media

Videos have ascended to become a cornerstone of social media content, offering an unparalleled medium to engage, inform, and entertain a global audience. Yet, the sheer volume of video content shared across platforms daily makes it increasingly challenging to capture the attention of your intended audience. To navigate this saturated landscape, creators and marketers must … Read more

Google Ads Checklist: 5 Ways To Audit & Optimize Your Campaigns To Boost Results

Google Ads Checklist: 5 Ways To Audit & Optimize Your Campaigns To Boost Results

This post was sponsored by That PPC Guy. The opinions expressed in this article are the sponsor’s own. Google Ads campaigns not yielding the desired results? Want to turn things around, but don’t quite know where to start? Unsure of where your PPC campaign may have gone wrong? In This Guide: 1. How To Improve … Read more

6 Ways To Optimize GPTs To Boost Online Visibility & Engagement

6 Ways To Optimize GPTs To Boost Online Visibility & Engagement

GPTs, the no-code way to create custom ChatGPT experiences from OpenAI, allow brands to reach ChatGPT users in the GPT Store. Considering that 80% of Fortune 500 companies have registered OpenAI accounts, it’s an important market segment for most businesses to engage. It gives people new ways to try your brand’s products and services while … Read more

How Do I Optimize SEO Conversions On Non-Branded Search Terms?

How Do I Optimize SEO Conversions On Non-Branded Search Terms?

This week’s Ask an SEO question comes from Arpit, who asks: “How do I optimize SEO conversions on non-branded search terms?” Great question! This one is all about meeting user needs and modifying your copy or the page experience at the current step in the consumer journey. And it applies to both B2B and B2C. … Read more

How To Optimize Website Architecture For SEO (Festive Flashback)

How To Optimize Website Architecture For SEO (Festive Flashback)

Celebrate the Holidays with some of SEJ’s best articles of 2023. Our Festive Flashback series runs from December 21 – January 5, featuring daily reads on significant events, fundamentals, actionable strategies, and thought leader opinions. 2023 has been quite eventful in the SEO industry and our contributors produced some outstanding articles to keep pace and … Read more

Should Marketers Optimize for Bing? [Data + Expert Tips]

Should Marketers Optimize for Bing? [Data + Expert Tips]

When you think about search engine optimization (SEO), one major search engine probably comes to mind: Google. But what about Bing SEO? With more than a billion monthly users, Bing is the second most popular search engine globally. Moreover, since Microsoft’s acquisition of OpenAI earlier this year, Bing has begun integrating AI technology into its … Read more

Data-Driven Decision Making To Optimize Local Digital Marketing Efforts

Data-Driven Decision Making To Optimize Local Digital Marketing Efforts

If you’ve been involved in any sort of marketing over the past 20 to 30 years, you’ve no doubt heard the phrase “Content is King.” This may very well be true, as content in its many forms underpins all interactions between businesses and their target audience. However, if “Content is King,” then data is an … Read more

How To Optimize App Install Campaigns

How To Optimize App Install Campaigns

It’s now easier than ever to promote an app, thanks to Google App Install campaigns. This campaign type has both advantages and disadvantages when trying to promote a mobile app. The settings and features you have to your advantage in these campaigns are: Operating system device (iOS or Android). Budgets and bids. Cost-per-install caps. Creative … Read more

How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

How to optimize your marketing budget: Do more with less

With an economic downturn looming, it’s not surprising around 75% of CMOs report being asked to do more with less in a Gartner survey. Marketers are finding it increasingly difficult to set the right budget, optimize it and keep the leads flowing. Managing social media and other marketing channels in this economy can be challenging. … Read more

How to Optimize Your Products & Services for Social Media Search

How to Optimize Your Products & Services for Social Media Search

In 2023, Google’s no longer the only search engine. In just one scrolling session, you might search Instagram for makeup tips, Facebook for products, or even TikTok for something niche — like bat videos.  @lubeebatconservancy big yawn #bats #lubeebats #cute ♬ Love You So – The King Khan & BBQ Show In HubSpot’s recent Consumer … Read more

6 Ways To Optimize Your PPC Performance

6 Ways To Optimize Your PPC Performance

PPC optimizations are critical to improve your paid search advertising campaigns’ performance. Before we get into our top tips, what exactly is PPC optimization? After paid search campaigns are launched, running, and collecting data, optimizations begin. Pay-per-click (PPC) optimization is the process of reviewing, analyzing, and editing campaign elements to improve performance based on business … Read more

Strategies To Optimize Your Automation Testing

Strategies To Optimize Your Automation Testing

In the fast-paced world of software development, automation testing has become an essential practice. Think of it as a vigilant guardian, safeguarding software quality, reliability, and efficiency. Automated processes allow testing teams to enjoy faster feedback loops, less manual work, and broader test coverage. But the real magic of automation testing services goes beyond just … Read more

Disctopia And Semrush Launch Podcast Hosting App To Optimize Podcasts

Disctopia And Semrush Launch Podcast Hosting App To Optimize Podcasts

Disctopia, a podcast hosting platform for independent creators, announced a partnership with Semrush to optimize podcast episodes with its Podcast Hosting App. This new SEO feature enables keyword extraction from audio transcriptions directly from the Semrush platform. This allows indie creators and their SEO pros to align their podcast keywords directly to keyword campaigns in … Read more

YouTube Ads for Beginners: How to Launch & Optimize a YouTube Video Advertising Campaign

YouTube Ads for Beginners: How to Launch & Optimize a YouTube Video Advertising Campaign

Running YouTube ads is one way to ensure your target audience finds the videos you worked hard to script, storyboard, shoot, and edit. When you embed your videos on your website or share them on social media, that’s only a start. By doing YouTube ads, you don’t just hope someone watches; you get who you … Read more

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