7 Important KPIs to Monitor in Google Analytics

Google Analytics

Back in the day when I was new to the Google Analytics, I would often stare at reports for hours not knowing what to do.

Until I came to know about KPIs…

Google Analytics has various metrics & dimensions, so it’s very easy for anyone (new) to get lost in a sea of reports.

But once you define your business KPIs, you now have a clear goal & know which report to look at. 

Monitoring the right metrics will help you save time & most importantly, achieve your business goals.

In this article, we’ll be looking at some of the important KPIs you can start monitoring in Google Analytics.

These metrics can help you answer questions like

1. Which channel is giving me more returns?

2. Are visitors engaging with my content?

3. What time does the user take to convert once he visits my website? & more.

But before that, let’s understand KPIs.

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Why Educational Content Marketing is So Powerful

Content Marketing

Content marketing is the art of using valuable information to promote your brand, and this information has to have relevance and be useful to a good percentage of your site users. There is one way you can provide useful details to your visitors so that they keep coming back for more and that is by providing educational content on your website.

Educational content marketing is where you not only focus on selling or promoting your brand but rather on educating your site visitors’ about important subjects within your niche.

With educational content, your purpose is concentrated more on educating your visitors rather than just promoting your brand on every post. The visitor wields the power to buy, and instead of forcing a sale on them, why not draw their attention to important issues about your niche and drive engaging discussions with them?

So, instead of selling, why not teach?

That is what educational content seeks to do; teaching your visitors so they can become better buyers. In teaching your online visitors about topics related to your niche, you tend to reach a wider audience, because many online visitors come to your site looking for vital information that will enable them to make informative decisions. 

So, in providing educational content, you are helping your visitors to solve some of their problems, provided you publish top-quality educational content to achieve that goal. 

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How to Optimize Micro Moments in Hyperlocal SEO

Have you ever searched for a specific type of business on your smartphone when you’re out with your family or friends? With growing mobile usage, the chances are that you’ve! 

In fact, to be more accurate, you have conducted a hyperlocal search.

Hyperlocal SEO is crucial for any business be it online or offline. You simply can’t ignore it while setting up your business at a specific location or choosing your local target audience. 

With Google’s Pigeon update, the focus has moved to hyperlocal search by reducing the search radius for local queries. Hyperlocal SEO helps local businesses rank higher in search results and improve the number of loyal local customers. 

Therefore, with the recent updates in Google Algorithm and fast-changing trends in SEO, we cannot ignore the importance of hyperlocal SEO. 

Let us understand in detail what exactly hyperlocal SEO means and how you can gain local customers by teaming it up with micro-moments.

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How AI Powered Social Media Marketing Drives Success to Your Marketing Campaign?

AI Powered Social Media Marketing

For the past few years, the world has been actively discussing and gaining an increasing interest in artificial intelligence. The technology has made the world evolve into an era where many of the activities and tasks we used to conduct manually on a daily basis, are now performed by computer programs without any input from any user.

Artificial intelligence is being integrated into many departments of human life, and also in the business world. The technology is being used in many different ways to provide companies and website owners with a method for improving their general operations by offering an opportunity to automate certain tasks; thus leading to a reduced need for physical labor, a faster turnaround time for business operations, and a significant reduction in the costs involved in keeping a business running and successful.

Social media marketing is a particular department where artificial intelligence is becoming more useful in the modern day, with quite a few tools on the market already that utilize artificial intelligence to drive marketing efforts on social media networks.

In this article, we’ll consider how social media marketing can be improved and become more effective through the implementation of artificial intelligence, and we’ll take a look at things you can do to ensure you take full advantage of artificial intelligence to achieve better results.

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How Experienced and Expert Online Marketers Can Help Enterprises Move up the Competitive Ladder

Move up the Competitive Ladder

If having a website is obligatory for any enterprise large or small, then it is equally necessary to have the right supporting and expert SEO service. Without a solid SEO foundation, a website just does not achieve the traction it requires to move up the competitive ladder.

Search engine optimization or SEO, on the face of it, is apparently easy. It involves some keyword research, link building, analytics, a bit of social media, content marketing and blogging with a PR here and there.

One might argue that there is no need to bring in a third party SEO expert when in-house staff can take care of these little things. These little things, however, add up to a larger whole that is quite complex if looked at in depth.

SEO today is an art and science blended with experience and expertise. It is also time-consuming and does cost money. Still, however, for a company to generate traffic and revenues it is a wise thing to assign internet marketing to those who have resources, skilled people, and capability.

Let’s consider one by one all that that goes into a simple term SEO.

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3 Important Steps New Agency Owners Can Take to Land Their First SEO Client

SEO Client

You’ve started a brand new digital marketing agency and you’re hungry to land your first SEO client. Congratulations, truly. 

At this point, you’ve likely been doing killer SEO on your own for awhile, either in an agency setting, as a freelancer, or through an in-house position. You have a great skill set that is valuable for many businesses and you’re confident that you can deliver some results for them.

However…

Owning and operating a new agency isn’t as simple as having technical skills. If you focus solely on your technical prowess or what the service offerings of your agency are, you’re dooming yourself to failure.

Let me tell you a quick story.

A little less than a year ago I started my own lead generation agency. As many of you can relate, I had spent the last 3 years working on inbound campaigns and optimizing the sites of many clients in various different industries. I foolishly believed that my skill set would be all I needed to grow my revenue to 1+ million in the first year.

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6 Result-Driven Ways to Increase Your Local SEO Visibility in 2018

Increase Your Local SEO Visibility

Being a digital marketer, you are always looking for innovative and result-driven ways to increase your business visibility online. Local SEO is one of the most effective online search strategies for local businesses to receive a stable and growing stream of highly-targeted traffic, without having to invest a fortune in traditional advertising methods.

It is important to know that more than 92% users prefer to deal with companies that appear on the first page of local search results. Therefore, you can’t ignore the importance of local SEO. Another study suggests that 18% of consumers who conduct a local search on their smartphones, visit a store/restaurant on the same day. And if your business is not ranking higher in your area, your business location could be losing out to competitors.

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Still Trying Old SEO Techniques? Here’s Your Guide to SEO 2.0

Add NewSEO Techniques

You will hardly find a business not doing Search Engine Optimization, or simply calling – SEO. In the last few years, search engines have changed their algorithms and users have changed their patterns of browsing content.

From ‘SEO driven content’, we have moved to an era of ‘content driven SEO’. If you are still busy creating content that serves your SEO requirements, hold on. Take a breather and read this guide to know what ‘Content-driven SEO’ or SEO 2.0 as I call it, is all about. Read More

Citation Link Building – How to Dominate Local Search

Citation Link Building

Links have always been the most important ranking factors. They still are today. And they will remain just as important in times to come. It is difficult to predict if this will ever change.

Search engines gauge the importance of a site by looking at the number and authority of sites linking to them. The more links they have the better their standing in search results. There are hundreds of other criteria, but links remain the most important of them.

The more sites that link to you, the more credible your site is. It is, therefore, important to remember that you want more links, but from credible sources.

In other words, we need credible & high authority sites to link to us. So that we are also perceived as credible by the search engines.

There are many ways to build links to your site. However, today we will start with the most popular link building technique used by SEOs worldwide. It is none other than Citation Link Building. 

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10 Reasons Why Your Landing Pages Are Not Generating Enough Leads

Landing pages are important, as they are the pages that get visitors to consider signing up for a newsletter, getting a free copy of your e-book, or ultimately buying a product or a service you’re offering. A website’s lead generation efforts and conversions hinge heavily on how effective a landing page is, and that is something all good inbound marketers know.

Landing Pages

However, when a landing page doesn’t deliver the expected leads and conversions, there must be something wrong with it. Take a closer look at your site’s current landing page, and see if it has one, two, or any of the following possible reasons it is not working as it should be.

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