The Importance of Gated Content: Capturing Leads Effectively
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The Importance of Gated Content: Capturing Leads Effectively

In today’s digital landscape, capturing leads is crucial for your marketing funnel. If we’re paying for ads, we need a way to nurture that potential customer if they haven’t converted on their first visit to our site. Retargeting ads are expensive and still won’t guarantee conversions.  One powerful strategy is to capture customer information through…

How to Use Google Analytics to Build a Useful Website Performance Report
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How to Use Google Analytics to Build a Useful Website Performance Report

Part 2 of a series on SEO reporting best practices (ICYMI: Part 1) Traffic data, found in Google Analytics, helps you quantify your site’s engagement level. Using this data, you can understand more than just how many users visit  your site. Traffic data can reveal what information users find useful and help you prioritize optimizations…

How to Use Google Search Console to Build an Impactful SEO Report
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How to Use Google Search Console to Build an Impactful SEO Report

Part One of a series on reporting best practices Marketers rely on metrics and KPIs, whether it’s to manage expectations, track progress, or just establish a common internal vocabulary to discuss projects and goals. Understanding the sources and limitations of each type of data point you collect directly informs the insights you can gather–and the…

The Current State of Google Scholar: Everything We’ve Learned After Working with Journal Sites

The Current State of Google Scholar: Everything We’ve Learned After Working with Journal Sites

The purpose of this article is to serve as a reference to the current state of Google requirements, specifically as they pertain to scholarly literature. Several of our clients must satisfy guidelines as part of Google Scholar, one of the most widely used free academic search engines. We aim to optimize our clients’ content for…

The Big List of PPC Resources and Articles [Updated for 2022]
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The Big List of PPC Resources and Articles [Updated for 2022]

Whether you’re new to the world of PPC or have been in the field for years, it’s important to stay up-to-date on the strategies and tools that can make your work more efficient. Luckily, the Paid Media team at Greenlane mined the internet for you, and curated this list of articles, tools, and hacks that…

Ultimate Guide to Google Ads Recommendations
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Ultimate Guide to Google Ads Recommendations

Last updated Sept. 2020.  In your Google Ads account, you may have noticed a new Optimization Score, as well as recommendations on how to improve that score. Your initial thought may be “Wow, this is really insightful. Thank you Google for making it easy for me to increase my optimization score!” But beware. While some…

Not Ranking Organically For Your Target Queries? Google’s SERP Intent Might Be Working Against You
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Not Ranking Organically For Your Target Queries? Google’s SERP Intent Might Be Working Against You

We all know the keywords we want to rank for, but that doesn’t mean Google actually wants to rank your content for those queries. Google’s algorithm may have already decided the intent of a query directly conflicts with the page you would like to rank. By understanding SERP intent, you can help serve up a…

4 Tools for Getting Ahead of SEO Disasters
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4 Tools for Getting Ahead of SEO Disasters

We recently had a client launch a new site in Wordpress. It was appropriately in a staging area before launch. Instinctively upon hearing the news of the launch, we decided to look for a robots tag. Sure enough, every page was marked as “noindex, nofollow”. The client was able to make the change before Google crawled the new site. Above I said “instinctively” because, well, this isn’t the first time I’ve seen a site launch set to block search engines. It’s probably not even the 50th. I worked on an eCommerce platform where many sites launched with this issue. Wordpress – as fine a platform as it is – makes it super easy to launch set to noindex. Since developers often build sites in staging areas, they’re wise to block bots from inadvertently discovering their playground. But, in the hustle to push live an update or new design, they can forget a tiny (yet crucial) check box. I’ve gathered up three different ways you can monitor your clients’ sites, or even your own, without the use of server logs or an education in server administration. There’s different kinds of website monitoring (e.g., active, passive), but I’m keeping it simple and applicable for anyone. I wanted to pick a few that were diverse, free or affordable