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How to Move Your Mobile Site to Responsive Before Mobile-First Index Rollout
Though we aren’t exactly sure when Google will roll out the mobile first index, we have indication that it is happening soon. As such, everyone in our space needs to prepare by ensuring their website is responsive before the roll out. There are indications from Google that you should make sure your website is mobile…
How Writing for SEO-Friendly Content is Changing in 2018
In the world of SEO and content marketing, the only reliable factor is change. No matter how you approach writing for SEO or what strategies you use, those strategies will become obsolete within a few years. This is how Google and other search engine giants prevent people from gaming the system. As time goes…
8 Surefire Ways to Increase Content Engagement For Your Brand
If you’re struggling to get engagement on your content, you may be discouraged. It’s a little disheartening to spend hours crafting content that you poured your heart and soul into, only to find it’s not resonating with your audience. But, it’s not the end of the world. If you know you’re creating quality content, here…
5 Steps to Teach You How to Use Power Editor for Facebook Ads
The Power Editor tool for Facebook ads allows advanced ad creation and management. It’s useful for handling large ad volumes, offering precise targeting options, and bulk editing features. Understanding audience segmentation, A/B testing, and detailed performance analytics are essential. Familiarity with its interface and features like custom audiences and lookalike audiences can maximize ad campaign…
37 URL Shorteners and How to Create Custom Branded Shortlinks
When you start adding UTM tags to URLs, they can get even longer, and more complex. We need these tags to help us track the URLs, but the longer they are, the less likely people are to remember them. That’s where the URL shortener comes in to save the day. They shrink the number of…
Best Practices to Building an On-Demand Content Strategy
In today’s fast-paced world, we consume content much differently than we did just 10 years ago. Thanks to the advent of DVR, it became easier to watch our favorite shows on our own terms, rather than at their scheduled air time. And as more people cut the cord in favor of streaming services like Netflix…
Learn How to Keep Automated Outreach Marketing Personal
How can something be automated and personal? Don’t the two terms contradict one another? In marketing, you hear two things preached more often than anything else: focus on building quality relationships with your customers through personalization, but automate your marketing where you can. After all, there are only so many hours in a day, and…
Is it Too Easy to Become an Instagram Influencer?
Influencer marketing is far more than a hit new trend in marketing. Statistics. Being an Instagram influencer alone has reached $1 billion as an industry. It’s even poised to hit $2 billion by 2019. But, it may not be worth the investment to businesses that they once believed it was. The Experiment One Agency…
Tips for Creating a Stellar “About Us” Page for Your Website
It’s safe to say nearly every website online today has an About Us page or a variation thereof. It’s essential to tell your visitors who you are, what your company does, and what they can expect to find on your website. It’s your chance to showcase your brand, your people, and your purpose. There’s more…
Do You Have What it Takes to Be a Great Content Marketer?
In online marketing, you can find a slew of content marketers all across the spectrum, ranging from freelancers who focus on blogs, to agency professionals handing the content for Fortune 500 companies. Regardless of who’s producing it and why, it results in a flood of content – all at varying levels of quality – pushed…
10 Tips to Avoid Writing Content No One Will Read
Content is everywhere – and with the increase in content marketing, we can be sure that it’s not going anywhere. Of course, written content like this blog post is just a fraction of the content out there, but because it’s one of the most accessible things out there, it’s what many people turn to. After…
Your Complete Guide to Repurposing Video Content
Video marketing is hot, there’s no doubt about it. 43% of people want more video content from marketers, and 51.9% of marketers say video is the content with the highest return on investment. 85% of businesses now have an internal staff and resources to create videos in-house. Business have an average of 293 videos in…
How to Write Faster to Supercharge Your Content Marketing
Writing is a necessary part of content marketing, and even if you’ve got a team of writers working for you, you may find yourself writing some stuff on your own. And if not, feel free to share this advice with your team, to help them improve their productivity. Create an Idea Capture System That…
Top Los Angeles SEO Firms… Clutch Names Sachs Marketing Group Again!
Clutch named Sachs Marketing Group one of the Top Los Angeles SEO firms of 2017. If you’re new to reading the blog, we were also given that distinction three times in 2016. Clutch offers a leading online directory of SEO, digital marketing, and web development firms, aimed at helping those who need help with their…
Don’t Waste a Penny: How to Allocate Your Digital Marketing Budget
When you’ve been in digital marketing as long as I have, you tend to notice when brands are making mistakes with their strategy. A lot of brands believe they must be using all available marketing channels to be successful, but in doing so, find they don’t have the budget to properly manage and execute campaigns…
Factors That Affect Website Speed
There are several factors that affect website speed. Website speed is affected by the quality of your hosting service, the size of your images, and how many add-ons or extra features you have. Making sure images aren’t too large, keeping extras to a minimum, using simple caching methods, avoiding unnecessary redirects, and using a content…
Our 14 Step Website Migration Checklist
If you’ve determined you need to make changes to your website – either through a re-design, changing your URL structure, making the switch to HTTPS, or switching to a different CMS, it’s not a one-step process you can just decide to do on a whim. Making changes, particularly to the URL structure can have negative…
Learn How to Properly Optimize Your Facebook Ads Strategy
If you’re running any kind of ad campaign on Facebook or Instagram, you could be spending way more money than you need to. Before you start running any new campaigns, take a few minutes to read through this to make sure your ads are as optimized as possible. Are your ad conversions where they should…































