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7 Key Components of Useful and High-Quality Blog Content

High-quality content creates trust, builds brand awareness, and turns strangers into customers and advocates. We all know this, yet marketers keep failing when creating content; this post, with insights from Google, experts & real-world-examples, will show you how to avoid failure and be successful from the start.

Jawad KhanJul 26, 2019

How To Successfully Avoid Fake Influencers

General Marketing

7 min read

Influencer Checkup: How To Successfully Avoid Fake Influencers

It is estimated that the influencer marketing industry will be worth between $5 billion to $10 billion by 2020. This is the primary reason why so many fake influencers have cropped up in the past few years. While it can be hard to identify fake influencer profiles, there are ways in which brands can shortlist real influencers for their campaigns and avoid investing in fake profiles.

Tony TomovJul 12, 2019

How To Untangle the Website Architecture of a Site with 500,000+ Pages

Technical SEO

11 min read

How To Untangle the Website Architecture of a Site with 500,000+ Pages

A confusing website architecture doesn‘t just confuse Google, it impacts profits. Find out how to apply a data-driven approach to improve website structure (regardless of the size of your site).

Nick BrownJul 10, 2019

Ecommerce

12 min read

Research: How Fashion Ecommerce Websites Generate Traffic

To help marketers and business owners save time on research activities and concentrate on their strategic goals, we have collected critical data that can assist them with future marketing decisions. Our high-level research of the fashion ecommerce industry includes digital marketing trends, consumer behavior, and patterns in the use of technologies.

Elena KozlovaJun 26, 2019

Social Media

7 min read

Getting Low Quality Leads from Your Facebook Ads? Here's What To Do

If you have been running Facebook ads for a while and are even generating leads from it but finding that lead quality isn‘t great or that they are not quite converting at a similar conversion rate to your Google Ads, this guide is for you. See my three advanced tactics to sky-rocket your lead quality from Facebook ads.

Shirish AgarwalJun 14, 2019

How to Add FAQ Schema to Any Page Using Google Tag Manager [Easy Guide]

General SEO

6 min read

How to Add FAQ Schema to Any Page Using Google Tag Manager [Easy Guide]

Google recently announced that they will be supporting the new How-To & FAQ structured data markup within Google Search. While implementing FAQ structured data may not lead to higher ranking positions, it can lead to capturing more visual real estate, leading to a higher click-through rate.

Rhys DaviesJun 12, 2019

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What Is Ecommerce? How It Works & Getting Started

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How to Find YouTube Influencers

Need help finding influencers on YouTube for a partnership campaign? Follow these steps.

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10 Small Business Trends for 2025

Learn the top small business trends for 2025 to stay ahead of the competition and keep employees happy.

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Which Companies Spend the Most on Digital Advertising? [Study]

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Advertising Trends: The Most Popular Types of Digital Ads [Study]

By partnering with AdClarity, we’ve investigated ad types, ad channels and ad spend so you can plan and strategize with the kind of competitive edge that other players don’t have in your industry.

Luke HarselOct 10, 2023

Original Research & Studies

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