Small-budget guide to testing ad copy, landing pages, and more

It’s key to focus on one or two tests to ensure you reach statistical significance. Guide to testing ad copy, landing pages, new engines and ad formats.

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New visual search innovations tap human emotions and biological buying triggers

Shopping on social media channels is spreading quickly as the next big thing. The rise of visual search is powered by people’s desire to discover brands.

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Facebook is a local search engine. Are you treating it like one?

Over 600 million users visit FB business pages every day. 52% of consumers have discovered a brand there. Why and how to optimize for Facebook local search.

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Google and Facebook back Berners-Lee’s Case #ForTheWeb

Google, Facebook, Richard Branson, and the French government are among nearly 60 parties who’ve already signed on to participate in Tim Berners-Lee’s efforts to create a contract for the web.

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New tactics to improve your Facebook reach

Last week, I posted an article about the current status concerning Facebook traffic. I shared the fact that for Yoast.com, the Facebook referral traffic is decreasing. I also asked you all whether or not you noticed something similar and invited you to share your tactics to deal with such a decrease. You left lots and […]

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Facebook traffic: What’s the current status?

Facebook is becoming less important as a source of traffic to your site. We wrote about it before, but mid August a lot of internet-sources reported that Facebook “did not care about publishers”. Joshua Benton wrote a nice and nuanced article about the matter, in which he also shared some interesting statistics. Facebook is indeed […]

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Writing great social media content for your blog

I’ve always felt lucky blogging for Yoast.com. As I wrote before, I have an entire blog team that makes sure my post gets scheduled, is free of grammar or spelling errors and they publish it on social media. So I ‘only’ had to come up with an idea, which the team often helped me with, […]

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The Transformation of Search Summit: Strategies and tactics to harness the next generation of search marketing

Combining the expertise of Search Engine Watch, ClickZ and Catalyst (part of GroupM), this exclusive one-day event provides a unique view of the transformation of search marketing and the changing role it plays within a customer’s path to purchase.

Is Facebook getting less important?

Nowadays, the majority of teens use YouTube and Instagram, instead of Facebook. And, websites are now attracting more traffic from Google – organic search – than from Facebook. Statistics aren’t looking that good for Facebook. Is Facebook getting less important for companies, blogs, and websites? And what should you do about it? In this post, […]

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