Google is constantly updating its algorithm, oftentimes without even explicitly knowing. It uses machine learning to find patterns in the data and redefine rules based on these findings. For a while, we had gotten past the age of big, sudden algorithm changes with significant impact across the board, like Penguin and Panda, and had entered…
In the late 1990s, a gentleman by the name of Nick Swinmurn was looking to buy a specific shoe at a San Francisco mall. He wanted brown Airwalks. After browsing through the mall’s shoe stores he left without finding what he originally came for. In 1999, Swinmurn, along with Tony Hsieh and Alfred Lin, founded…
“Google ads don’t work for me, I get a lot of Medicare patients.” Controlling for lead quality is one of the most crucial, and often neglected, elements of an ad campaign. If the campaign is sending you bad leads, then why invest in it? Bad lead quality is not a good reason to cancel your…
Online advertising platforms, including Google and Facebook, make it incredibly easy to track and measure ad performance. We know how many times an ad was shown. How many people clicked on it. How those people engage with the landing page. And, finally, how many visitors converted into leads. That’s just the surface. With such a…
There are certain conversations that stay with me forever. One of these I wasn’t even a part of. I was sitting in the dining area, next to the kitchen, training the Tony Robbins editorial team on SEO. I had only recently arrived at the company, I barely knew anyone. One of the head coaches comes…
How many thousand-dollar bills are you leaving on the sidewalk? We had a client in northern California who had invested in a dental implant lead generation website. Her website ranked at the top of Google for all the major decision-making key terms and generated inbound phone calls asking to set appointments. These calls are tracked…
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit,” wrote Will Durant, summing up a point made by Aristotle over 2,000 years before. I remember the night I decided to take the Marketing Director job at Now Media Group as if it were yesterday. I was lying in bed…
Do you know how often Yelp shows up on the first page of Google for a local dentist search? 97 percent of the time. I did the math myself. I looked at 140 different cities, as small as 6,191 souls to as many as 8.5 million. I recorded where the first Yelp listing showed up…
Content is everywhere. What makes your law content superior to your competition? You have it, your rivals have it, and almost anyone who wants to reap the benefits of digital marketing has it. But the more important question isn’t who’s using content – it’s how does your content stand out and what is it actually doing…
It’s 1989 and the hottest product in the gaming world is about to hit the market. It’s a gauntlet that a player can wear to manage the game through hand motions, rather than with buttons and joysticks. The hype is building, and the marketing is relentless and brilliant. Right before the product hits the market,…