Internet Marketing

COVID-19 and Customer Loyalty: Lessons to Be Learned

Without customer loyalty, you’re not making the most of your business, but the pandemic and its attendant wave of restrictions put customer loyalty to the ultimate test. The most telling point is that consumer spending hit an unparalleled global low during the height of the pandemic, and this fact left businesses hanging on word-of-mouth recommendations and on those loyal customers who kept coming back for more – the gold standard when times are tough. As uncertainty about COVID-19, business capacity restrictions, and consumer behavior continue to loom, there are some confidence-boosting tactics you can employ to help ensure that you’re building brand loyalty and keeping customer satisfaction high – now and into the post-restriction future.

Google’s July 2021 Core Update Coming in Hot

Google, Google, Google. Never one to disappoint, Google’s July 2021 update is just finishing up, and you’ll want to be prepared for what may be to come. While Google makes incremental changes to improve its search results on a daily basis, these aren’t things that mere mortals like us would generally notice. The core updates, on the other hand, mean bigger changes afoot, and Google likes to lend a hand – so we can prepare ourselves. Because when it comes to your online presence – and the Scouts – being prepared is basically everything, it pays to pay attention when Google speaks. If you have additional questions at the end of this article, don’t hesitate to reach out to our digital marketing experts at The Web Guys today!

Ready to Upgrade Your SEO Status? Google Has Free Stuff

While you can spend a whole lot on your SEO tools – and some of these gems are worth every penny – you don’t always have to drop a lot of cash to update your SEO toolbox. In fact, Google has five tools that are worth checking out right now. Google tools are generally powerful tools, so give them a look and make sure that you aren’t missing out.

Optimizing Your Videos for Maximum Impact

You may understand that video is important to your SEO, but gauging how yours is doing may feel out of reach for you. One of the inroads into handling your videos’ ad performance on YouTube is by setting Moments in Google Ads that capture online performance related to the specific moments you mark, which leads to an accumulation of data surrounding those Moments and to informative attendant metrics. Once you have a feel for the factors that are working for you – and those that are not – you’ll be well on your way to mastering your video offerings.

The Psychology of Purchases

Our brains are constantly on the lookout for shortcuts. All that cognitive functioning is a lot, but when you break matters down into bite-size chunks, things become more manageable. When decision-making time is here, we don’t start at zero and go through the whole decision-making process every single time. Instead, we rely on past experiences and implement shortcuts to get where we need to be. It’s one of the reasons you’ve probably been buying the same toothpaste from Target for the past 20 years. In the end, there’s a psychology of purchases – with seven foolproof tactics – that you can use to your business’s advantage, and because you offer excellent products and services, these tactics are also to your customers’ advantage.

A Deep Dive into On-Page SEO

The best way to grow your website is with organic traffic from the big search engines out there. The only way to garner the necessary clicks, however, is to rank high enough in the first place. Unfortunately, finding a balance between the two is where too many websites spin out of control. The surest search engine optimization (SEO) strategies incorporate both on-site and off-site planning. While the building blocks of your off-site efforts are all about honing your backlink portfolio, which you likely have a fairly solid handle on, your on-site or on-page plans involve SEO elements that are more content-driven, including meta tags and keywords. This is the stuff that speaks both to your target audience and to the search engines, and it deserves closer attention.

The Best and the Brightest of SEO Weigh in on What to Expect in 2021

We made it all the way through 2020, and all the SEO bigwigs out there have had a minute to reflect and to offer their predictions for 2021. It’s true that 2020 was a doozy, but SEO experts are optimistic about trends for 2021. While spam reduction was on everyone’s wish list for 2020, the global pandemic had other ideas, and Google had bigger fish to fry.

Google’s December Core Update May Have Been Bigger than May’s

Google rolled out a core update on December 3 that is so broad in scope it may rival the massive core update the goliath debuted in May (a mere seven months – and many lifetimes – ago). Googles’ December offerings are sure to reverberate throughout most (if not all) vertical markets, so let’s take a closer look and make sure to contact our digital marketing experts with any questions you may have.

Farewell, 2020: Digital Marketing Edition

It is fair to say that 2020 has been a game-changer in every industry, and digital marketing is no exception. Many office buildings, work floors, and other workspaces locked their doors and instructed their employees to set up shop at home. It was an eventuality that no one saw coming – and that many wouldn’t have considered possible before the pandemic. Fortunately, the resourceful and flexible digital industry – as a whole – has managed quite nicely. This isn’t to say, however, that it’s been easy or that there aren’t ways we can continue to stay nimble and to roll with the evolving landscape of the new normal.

3 Tried-and-True Techniques for Building Online Trust

In the digital shopping arena that is becoming increasingly more relevant, building online trust is critical. No one would argue with this sentiment, but figuring out how to foster trust in this nebulous arena is less clear. Fortunately, the precepts of successful marketing apply fairly evenly across the board and translate nicely to online marketing – especially with the application of savvy tweaks and nuanced adjustments that are in keeping with the medium and that experienced digital marketing specialists have on tap.