Category: Denver Search marketing

Accelerate Growth with Google Ads: Your Path to Success!

Unlock Ppc SuccessAre you ready to take your business to new heights?  Consider paid search as a way to jumpstart your sales process. Here’s how a strategic Google Ad campaign can connect you with your target market:

  • Targeted Reach:
    Reach your ideal audience precisely. Google Ads allow you to target users based on demographics, interests, and online behavior, ensuring your message resonates with those most likely to convert. This is particularly useful if you have geographic targets. But does require monitoring to make sure other geographic indicators don’t leak in.
  • Cost-Effective Advertising:
    Google Ads operate on a pay-per-click model, meaning you only pay when someone clicks on your ad. This ensures you get maximum value for your budget, with the flexibility to set your own spending limits. It takes constant monitoring to get your specific goals met – Google will often make recommendations that may increase your budget beyond your willingness to spend.
  • Real-Time Performance Insights:
    Gain valuable insights into your campaign’s performance. Track clicks, impressions, and conversions in real-time, allowing you to make data-driven decisions and optimize your strategy on the fly. This is one of the powerful benefits of a paid search campaign as you can make changes and tweak ads, keyword phrases, landing pages and more to get the best bang for your buck.
  • Boost Conversions:
    Drive action with compelling ad copy and strategic calls-to-action. Whether it’s website visits, form submissions, phone calls, newsletter signups or product purchases, Google Ads are designed to convert interested prospects into valuable customers.
  • Global Visibility:
    Expand your reach beyond borders. Google Ads provide a platform for global exposure, allowing you to connect with audiences worldwide and tap into new markets. For those organizations NOT limited geographically, Google Ads can be the way to connect with your target clients no matter where they are.

Why Google Ads Matter:

  • Immediate Results: Start seeing results and driving traffic shortly after launching your campaign.
  • Customizable Campaigns: Tailor your ads based on goals, audience, and budget.
  • Competitive Edge: Stay ahead of competitors by securing prime ad positions on Google’s search platform and, if appropriate, in their display and expanded network platforms.

Ready to Ignite Your Growth?

We are here to craft and execute a Google Ads campaign that aligns with your business objectives. Let’s propel your brand to new heights and achieve unprecedented success together!  #GoogleAdsSuccess #DigitalMarketing #BusinessGrowth

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Unleashing the Power of AI in your SEO campaigns!

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In the ever-evolving landscape of SEO, Artificial Intelligence is the game-changer we’ve all been waiting for! Used properly, it can streamline processes, generate templates and get your first draft ready.

How AI Transforms SEO:

  1. Smart Content Creation: AI analyzes user behavior to create content that resonates, boosting engagement and SEO ranking.
  2. Predictive Analytics: Anticipate trends and adapt strategies for optimal search engine performance.
  3. Personalized User Experience: AI tailors search results based on user preferences, enhancing user satisfaction.
  4. Voice Search Optimization: Leverage AI to optimize for voice search, a rising trend in SEO.

The Future is Now! Embrace AI for SEO Success:

  • Stay ahead of the curve with AI-powered SEO strategies.
  • Boost rankings through intelligent content creation.
  • Optimize for voice search to cater to evolving user behaviors.

But don’t make these mistakes:

  1. Post raw, unedited AI: your users will likely notice and Google recently updated their algorithm to delist sites that are just using AI. It is great for first drafts, not final.
  2. Check the facts: if any data or quotes come up in the AI generated content, you need to check it
  3. Keep your data private: providing excellent prompts to AI leads to better content but don’t make the mistake of sharing your proprietary data – once it is out there, it is out there.

Ready to Elevate Your SEO Game?

Our solutions, using AI where appropriate, are tailored to keep your brand at the forefront of search engine excellence. Let’s redefine your digital presence together! #AIForSEO #DigitalTransformation #SEOInnovation

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Staying Ahead in 2024: 5 SEO Trends To Pay Attention To

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SEO Trends for 2024

As we navigate the digital landscape, staying ahead in SEO is paramount.  Here are five trends reshaping the SEO landscape for 2024:

  1. Voice Search Optimization: Voice-activated searches are on the rise. Tailor your content to conversational queries for a seamless user experience. I personally do most of my searches via voice these days. One of the things that means is that you can use longer phrases – it’s much easier and faster to speak than to type. Think through how you would search for your services in sentences and phrases instead of key words.
  2. Core Web Vitals Dominance: Google loves speed! Basically this refers to how long it takes for the page to load. But there is a lot more technical calculations behind it. Prioritize Core Web Vitals for improved user satisfaction and better search rankings. Check your site’s page load timing – our favorite resource is gtmetrix.com for that. One of the key factors in this is Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). A way to conceptualize this is “How long does it take from the time a visitor goes to your site before they can begin to interact with it?” Interact could be scrolling, clicking, or just viewing the content.
  3. AI-Driven Strategies: Leverage Artificial Intelligence for smarter content creation, personalized user experiences, and predictive analytics. The use of AI can speed up your processes, especially for content creation. And the more content rich your site is, the more search engines love it. Just remember to edit / make any generated content your own.
  4. Mobile-First Indexing: With the majority of users on mobile, ensure your website is mobile-friendly for optimal indexing and user engagement. Sure it needs to load fast but also make sure it loads right and that the content you most want users (and search engines) to see is at or near the top of the page.
  5. Collaborative Content: Partner with influencers and industry leaders for collaborative content creation, boosting credibility and expanding reach. Since the beginning of advertising, influencers have played a prominent role in marketing, and that is what SEO is. That’s why actors, musicians, athletes and others are asked to endorse products. But even in the B2B realm you can leverage partnerships and connections to industry leaders to get a boost for your site.

Why Embrace These Trends?

  • Stay Competitive: Stay ahead of competitors with forward-thinking SEO strategies.
  • Enhance User Experience: Prioritize user satisfaction with faster, more accessible websites.
  • Future-Proof Your Brand: Embrace evolving technologies to future-proof your digital presence.

Ready to Elevate Your SEO Game?

EduCyber is here to guide you through these trends, ensuring your brand remains at the forefront of SEO excellence. Let’s shape the future of your digital presence together!

Call or contact us today.

#SEO2024 #DigitalMarketing #SEOInnovation

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Optimizing Paid Search Campaigns

Recently we’ve had several new customers with existing paid search campaigns come to us. As we have taken over these campaigns, we’ve come across a basic mistake that other providers make: failing to weed out negative keyword phrases.

This is a pretty basic tenet that, when done diligently, helps ensure that your ads appear in front of your target audience. When you set up your campaign in Google, you enter the keyword phrases that your customers search for (when looking for you or what you offer). Letting the algorithm automatically add keywords to your campaign appears to be where the issues arise. So instead, turn that off and monitor what search terms Google shows your ad for.

Note here that keyword phrases and actual search terms are different. If your company is an HVAC company located in Denver and you set a phrase of “Air conditioning repair near me”, the algorithm mostly gets it right. But if someone searches for Air conditioning repair Gainesville, and Google can’t determine where the searcher is, your ad may show. And get clicked on. And cost you.

But if you mark that term as a negative keyword phrase, that won’t happen again. And geography is just one way the algorithm is imprecise. Going with the same concept of an HVAC company, if someone search for RV heater repair, that probably isn’t a good lead. Marking it as a negative keyword means that Google won’t show your ad to future searches for that phrase.

Need help managing your campaign or understanding how to do this? Give Brian at call at 303-268-2245 ext.4

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The Changing Face of SEO

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) continues to mature as a discipline and as it does, the things that one must do continue to change. Some of the work of SEO is quite straightforward and in fact the single most important thing you can do to boost your rankings is to have quality content about what you do.

No search engine will send visitors your way if you don’t explicitly tell them what you do using the keyword phrases that people would naturally use in the search bar to look for a company doing what you do or selling what you sell.

But it used to be all about getting a page to rank. Earlier this year, Google rolled out “passage ranking” which is where Google tries to provide the one passage on a web page that answers the question the searcher has. I guess one example of that would be if you searched for “to be or not to be” you wouldn’t want the result to be the script of Hamlet. You want to get straight to Act 3, Scene 1 where Hamlet opens with “To be, or not to be, that is the question . . . “. And those are the passages that Google seeks to show you for specific searches.

Google’s ability to index pages and understand the content well enough to know that, buried deep in the page is a specific answer to someone’s search is powerful (and a tad scary). But what it really points back to is the importance of having quality content.

Another key to both SEO and user engagement is using a mix of content types. Text, yes, we’ve already addressed that. But having images, videos and perhaps infographics to help illuminate your content will help both getting traffic through the search engine AND in engaging the visitor once they get to your page.  

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The End of Cookies: Good Internet Marketing?

Are Browser Cookies A Privacy Compromise Or The Best Part Of Internet Marketing?

Pretty much everyone has heard of cookies. They are those (nasty?) things that track you on the internet, right? It’s just a part of internet marketing, yes?

Well kind of. But they are also those nifty things that once you’ve logged in to a site mean that you don’t have to keep logging in. They are the cool things that mean you are less likely to see ads completely unrelated to who you are and what you like to buy.

A cookie is a small file that can help a website remember who you are – great for online shopping when you put something in your cart and then leave. When you come back, your stuff is still right there in your cart. It can also be used to track you across other web sites or even across all the sites you visit.

Privacy Concern or Just Internet Marketing?

And that is where the trouble lies. Privacy is becoming an ever-increasing concern for folks as they surf the web – it isn’t anyone else’s business what sites I visit.

Now browser developers (like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla, Safari, Brave, etc.) are ending their support for 3rd party cookies to help protect consumer privacy.

What does this mean exactly? No one is sure just yet. As tracking 3rd party cookies goes away, you can be pretty sure advertisers will find new ways to target their market appropriately. And Google certainly won’t lose out as they will still be able to track searches on their search engine and track users who use the ubiquitous Google Analytics tracking for websites.

Does this mean that your privacy is better protected? Not necessarily. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in targeting and delivering ads simply moves the protections to a different level. But this is a step intended to protect consumers.

How it will all play out is yet to be determined but if you are not sure if your site will be affected, contact us.

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Misguided Marketing

Over the course of the last several years, we have had many customers come to us asking for Search Engine Optimization. We do SEO (and we do it well) so we are happy to accommodate.

Are Your Marketing Goals Misguided?But as a part of our marketing assistance, we seek to understand the goals of the SEO program. On a few occasions the customer’s goal has not been to get a higher ranking with the search engines. Those conversations go something like this:

Customer: I would like you to do SEO for my site.
EduCyber: Sure thing, let’s take a look at your numbers. First, what is your conversion rate for your web site?
C:            ???
E:            How many leads are you generating from your site on a daily, weekly, monthly or even quarterly basis?
C:            I’m not.
E:            So if we get you ranked in the top ten for all of your keywords and you are still at a conversion rate of zero, will you be happy?
C:            Of course not!
E:            So let’s look at what you want to accomplish.
C:            I want the phone to ring!
E:            Ah, we can help with that.

And in many cases what we do is first tweak or in some cases redo the site to clarify and simply the Call To Action (CTA). Once we’ve done that we can establish a conversion rate. Once the conversion rate is established, then we can look at whether SEO, Pay Per Click, Social Media or some combination of those is the appropriate solution in order to get more business.

Are you wondering if you might be practicing misguided marketing? Some of the comments we hear from folks include:

  • We tried social media, it didn’t work.
  • I don’t get any feedback from my SEO firm.
  • I get all kinds of reports from them but I don’t understand any of them.
  • We’re paying a lot of money but not getting any tangible results.
  • I’m told we rank high but the phone isn’t ringing
  • I’m paying for clicks and I see the reports but no one is contacting us.

If you find yourself saying or thinking these, give us a call at 303-268-2245 ext 4 or visit https://www.educyber.com/request-free-call/ to schedule your no pressure evaluation of your site and goals.

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The Problem with Content

On the Internet, content is king.  If you want to be ranked in the search engines, the best thing you can do is put original content on your website.

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We often have existing or potential customers get very enthusiastic about generating content for their site as we extoll the virtues of doing so. And they often follow their content generation plan very religiously . . .  for at least a week or two. But then other bright shiny objects grab their attention and they wander away from their schedule. Sometimes they never return.

Everyone can write, right? Sure we aren’t all the best spellers or best grammaticians. But who knows your business better than you? So it can’t be that hard to write a few lines of content. Or maybe you love to write. You can easily fill page after page about what you do.

But is your content web-ready? Is it optimized for search? Have you considered the placement of key words and key word phrases? There are a myriad of web specific things to understand and implement into your web site content.

  • Is it in a web-friendly font?
  • Is it broken up into digestible chunks?
  • Do longer paragraphs have visual cues to help readers quickly grasp the main points?
  • Have you used headings?
  • Have you used subheadings?
  • What is the call to action in your text?
  • How much information is too much?
  • Will your content look good on mobile devices?
  • How much information should you include so search engines can properly index your page?
  • Are there any visuals you can use along with your text to illustrate key points?
  • Did you actually use any of your key words or keyword phrases?
  • Does your keyword phrase appear in the first paragraph of content?
  • And the list goes on . . .

And what happens if you don’t consider any of these questions?

Most likely your site will be lower in the search rankings than you would like. Most likely you will attract fewer visitors. Most likely the visitors that you do attract will not be as meaningfully engaged as you would like. Most likely your site won’t perform for you. It won’t help you grow and attract new business. It won’t help you engage existing customers. And then you’ll blame your web design team for building a poor site.

Don’t get in trouble with your content. Instead, turn to someone who gets content and understands how the web works. If you choose not to have us do it, choose someone who is well-qualified. If you do choose to work with us, contact us today to get started.

 

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Building Your Brand Digitally

We work with a lot of smaller companies who tell us straight up that they are too small or below the radar to have a brand.

We say hogwash!

Every single organization – for profit or non-profit – has a brand. Included in the brand are tangible and intangible things like:

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  • Reputation
  • Logo
  • Standing of the leaders of the organization
  • Iconic images
  • Presence on the internet (web site)
  • Presence on social media
  • A song or ditty that represents your organization
  • What your customers think of you
  • A particular phrase or tag line that people associate with you

You can control a lot of these aspects of your brand digitally and those that you can’t control, you can still influence.

If you hear of a company or meet someone interesting at an event and immediately do an internet search for them or their website, you can understand the power of your digital brand. Sure it is easy for the big brands. I actually rewrote the first sentence of this paragraph, changing “google” to “do an internet search for”.  We get the big brands, from Nike’s swoosh to McDonald’s “I’m lovin’ it” to the theme song for “Game of Thrones”. But for “little brands” like you and I, what are we to do?

First thing is to do a search for your name. Don’t add a “.com” or “.org” on the end. Just your name. And look at the results. Check beyond Google. At least add Bing into the mix. Do you like what you see? Here are some things to look for:

  • Does your company or organization dominate all the listings? It should.
  • Have you claimed your location on each site you search on?
  • Are the images the location associates with you appropriate to your brand?
  • Are there reviews of your business? If so, are they favorable?
  • Do any of your competitors appear in the results?

If you don’t like any of the answers to these questions, we can help. Want to do it yourself? Here are key things to do:

  1. Claim your location in search engines like Google and Bing (and any others that pertain to you)
  2. Upload photos and other images that are related to you in your location profile
  3. Encourage happy customers to provide favorable reviews on sites like Google and Yelp
  4. Make sure you have a social media presence. If for no other reason, do it so that your search listings will have more links to your brand.
  5. Make sure your website is optimized for search engine indexing so that all of your pages will appear in search results.
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