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Local SEO has never been more important for marketing because of Google’s continued algorithm updates aimed at helping small businesses attract more customers. A local SEO strategy should be a proper mix of factors like:Google My Business profileConsistent NAP across Internet (name, address, and phone)Local citationsSocial mediaLocal link buildingGoogle reviewsOn-page optimizationAll these methods, trust me, are being used by all your competitors to good effect. Where webmasters tend to relax, that’s where your opportunity waits. And one method that is making waves right now is schema markup. Add it to your website and let your business reap the SEO benefits. Here’s a guide to help you out in your local SEO schema markup execution.Understand schema markupPut the schema markup code on your site, and help customers find more descriptive and informative results from the search engines. Consider the competitive and saturated state of the market, and you’ll figure out how schema markup hel…

According to Twitter, KFC was the best brand voice on its platform this year. As a year-end wrap up, Twitter’s brand strategy team compiled a “Best of” list naming the brands they believed stood out in 2018. Of the eleven categories — from Best Brand Voice to Best Launch Moment — using Twitter as a complementary strategy seemed to be a running theme among many of the brands acknowledged, including Heinz Ketchup, Budweiser, Bud Light, HBO’s Silicon Valley and the NBA.Twitter as a launching pad. Heinz Ketchup was named the winner in the Best Launch Moment category. The brand generated 2.4 billion impressions on Twitter during its Mayochup product launch — a campaign that was initiated after a fan Tweeted a photo of the product from a grocery store located in Kuwaiti.Heinz jumped on the opportunity to turn the Tweet into a conversation about whether or not it should launch the product in the U.S. — which resulted in earned media placement off Twitter — and led to an official product laun…

Supply-Side Platforms are perhaps the most undervalued and inherently powerful links in today’s digital supply chain, and yet their current offerings do not fully reflect this strength. It’s high time that SSPs evolve their business models to become more than mere plumbing in the elaborate media-buying ecosystem. Doing so promises to deliver enhanced value not only to the SSPs themselves, but also to the publishers and advertisers that they serve.We’re already starting to see some of the largest platforms in the marketplace acknowledge that this transition is overdue. Thanks to their direct relationships with publishers, SSPs are uniquely suited to expand their responsibilities to include the following:Filtering inventory based off of viewable impressions and other parametersMinimizing ad fraudFiltering audiences on a single publisher or across multiple publishers based on first and third-party dataMinimizing queries per second that are sent to Demand-Side Platforms by only passing th…

Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web.From Marketing Land:Agencies looking to win over new CMOs should connect within 3 to 12 mos. of their start dates
Dec 17, 2018 by Amy Gesenhues
Winmo analyzed the career path for more than 2,400 CMOs during the last eight years to provide insight on the tenure track for the C-level role.How marketing and sales alignment can better drive the buyer journey
Dec 17, 2018 by Keith Richey
Move beyond a siloed approach to marketing to improve the return on investment while evolving your organization.YouTube crowns Amazon with top ad, OMD as top media agency of 2018
Dec 17, 2018 by Amy Gesenhues
YouTube ranked its top ads for the year based on organic and paid views, watch time and audience retention.5 techniques to make free shipping pay off in the holiday season and beyond
Dec 17, 2018 by Mike Farrell
Rethink your free shipping offers to better align with larger busines…

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