Why is a Store Locator important?

February 13, 2019

Potential customers fill the physical space all around your retail locations. But before they can come to your stores to make a purchase, they have to find you.   If they know you exist, they can go to your website and find your location. However, 80 percent of shoppers head to a search engine or even a mapping app such as Google Maps when they're looking for, say, motorcycle gloves. If you have a wide ...

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How Do Meta Tags Affect SEO

February 11, 2019

“Meta tags are a great way for webmasters to provide search engines with information about their sites. Meta tags can be used to provide information to all sorts of clients, and each system processes only the meta tags they understand and ignores the rest.”- Google Meta Tags and SEO Search engines use meta tags to get more detail and context of your web pages. Search engines rely on analyzing sites for relevance based on searcher ...

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Completing the Customer Journey at the Local Level

February 8, 2019

Location Finder technology, Dealer Finder and/ or Store Locator - it is all about location - winning brand to local. You as the brand - are the authority on your most important location data. Period. Own the experience. Do not be held captive by providers who do not have the flexibility to adapt to your strategy. Developing a digital strategy for companies to capitalize on brand to local opportunities with location data, is a chance for your brand ...

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Matching Facebook Ads To Landing Pages

February 6, 2019

Facebook’s advertising platform has been attracting savvy marketers looking to generate more attention for their brands and to create campaigns that achieve greater ROI; than traditional media. According to Facebook’s Q4 earnings report...Facebook's net income jumped 61% to a record $6.88 billion last quarter as revenue rose 30% to $16.9 billion amid continued user growth and strong demand for ad placements in Stories. Facebook’s Ad Platform - Ease of ...

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Gary Vaynerchuk and the Facebook Effect

February 4, 2019

If you are relevant in digital marketing you have heard about Gary Vaynerchuk. Most videos, books and podcasts; Gary radically candors (leads) people to spending more on social media with good reasoning. Traditional media i.e. billboards, magazine spreads, tv commercials, direct mail, radio, newspapers are simply overpriced for the reach and attention. He (GaryVee) makes the obvious point that in order to keep up with the slowing demand of traditional advertising - media companies have ...

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DevHub co Founders Podcast Interview

February 2, 2019

Recently our co-Founder(s) Mark Michael and Daniel Rust were featured on a Podcast series called Folk Stories. In their (Mark and Daniel) episode they discuss DevHub's founding, turbulent years to now. DevHub is emerging as a leading technology for brands looking to stay ahead in the ever changing digital marketing landscape. From the Folk Stories site: Mark Michael (CEO) and Daniel Rust (CTO) are the co-founders of DevHub, a white label technology platform ...

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Advantages and Opportunities With Schema Markup

January 31, 2019

Introduction To Schema Markup Schema markup is an important tool which gives search engines context to the data it reads. The ability to have the standard schema.org markup applied to a website increases the possibilities of higher search rankings for pages with these snippets. Most importantly adopting to Schema markup standards allows for a more future proof website(s). Common ways websites use Schema markup are to add menu, types of payment, phone number ...

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What is Image Search? A Look Into Consumer Behavior And Image Search Optimization

January 30, 2019

Image search is whereby a person using a platform like Pinterest, Bing, Instagram, Google uses keywords to search but navigates the image results to find what they are looking for. “Google Image Search accounted for 22.6% of all searches...“ (via StateofDigital):  5x times more than YouTube; 10X times more than Amazon or Bing; Almost 20X times more than Facebook. As consumer behavior changes it is increasingly important for marketers to keep up with digital ...

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SEO Focused Location Pages

January 29, 2019

“50% of consumers who conducted a local search on their smartphone visited a store within a day, and 34% who searched on computer/tablet did the same.” - Google This article gives tips and tricks on how to create location pages that check all the boxes for CMOs. From ranking to Google Local Pack  - Winning at the local level provides brand awareness and more complete consumer experience.   Location Page Basics Location pages will generate traffic to ...

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Voice Search Optimization: Simple tips you should take advantage of to get ahead in 2019

January 28, 2019

“The total number of smart speakers in use in the United States is expected to be around 119 million, according to a new survey by NPR and Edison Research.” Why are they used so much? Voice search is surging with more devices from phone, laptops, tablets, and IoT device - that enable voice assistance; powered by the likes of Amazon, Google, Samsung, Comcast...etc. Using these ‘digital assistants” for mundane tasks like calling your doctor or ...

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