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Conference Report: TechSEO Boost
There is no shortage of SEO conferences to choose from each year. It can be hard to narrow it down when it comes time to decide which conferences to attend.

Page Speed Optimization: Table for Two
I’ve been reading a lot about this debate of “does site speed matter for organic success?”, and to me it always sounds like an evening out at a restaurant. Page

Is My Website Good Enough? How to Think About and Measure User Engagement
You launched your new website, and you celebrated! (As you should! That was a lot of work.) But you’re not done. Your website can get better. You want more leads

Data, Data Everywhere–But How to Stop and Think?
The world gathers data at an alarming rate – 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. We’ve become extremely proficient at collecting data – be it from enterprise systems, documents,

Search Ad CTRs by Age
A college student asked, “Do young people click on search ads?” We analyze the likelihood of clicking on ads by age.

How to Track Scroll Depth in Google Analytics
This post describes a method for reporting on scroll tracking in the Universal Analytics (UA) version of Google Analytics. Setting up scroll tracking as an event in GA gives you

Learnings from NATCHCOM: digital meets natural
Two Octobers was at NATCHCOM last week, the premier (and only?) digital marketing conference for natural brands. I got a chance to share some ideas about metrics and marketing strategy,

Creating a marketing data pipeline with Google Sheets, Supermetrics, CIFL and BigQuery
With zero coding, a small investment, and a little bit of time, you can create your own BigQuery data warehouse of marketing data. In the video below, I walk through

5 Tips for Google Grant Accounts Struggling to Hit a 5% CTR
Last year, Google announced a major change to its Ad Grant program, requiring accounts to maintain a 5% click-through rate (CTR). Click-through rate is the ratio of clicks an ad

Make the Most of Your Google Grant Keywords
Recent Changes to Google Grants If you’re already a Google Grant recipient, chances are you’ve noticed some changes in your grant account in the past year. One of the most

No Time? No Problem: A Nonprofit’s Guide to Google Ad Grants
What Should I Know About Google Ads Grants? As of January 2019, Google is processing over 40,000 search queries every second – that’s over 3.5 billion searches per day. This

Children Are Hurting Your YouTube Performance: Here’s How to Fix It
Unless you are paying close attention to your YouTube ad campaigns, you might not have noticed this trend: children have taken over. If you are currently running a YouTube campaign
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