No More “Double Dipping” on Featured Snippets—Does It Matter?
On January 23, Google announced that, “If a web page listing is elevated into the featured snippet position, we no longer repeat it in the first page of results.”
Derek Gleason
The 2019 State of Conversion Optimization Report
This is the fourth edition of our State of Conversion Optimization report. The upward and downward trend data is increasingly interesting.
Want to Know a Secret? Your Customers Do.
The carefully evasive proposal included intriguing tidbits: Jeff Bezos laughed when Mr. Kamen assembled an It for him [. . .] The proposal also included proclamations from tech-world celebrities like Steve Jobs, Apple’s founder, that the device might change urban life and could be as significant as the development of the personal computer.
The New York Times, January 2001
Dean Kamen’s code name for the project was “Ginger.” That was all most people knew. But few could wait to learn more. Deprived of source material, journalists wrote articles about articles. Finally, in December 2001, came the big reveal: Ginger was the Segway.
What 15 CEOs Learned Building Top Agencies
I asked more than a dozen successful agency CEOs to share how they’ve navigated critical moments—getting started, landing (and keeping) clients, scaling teams, and marketing their agency.
10 Conversion Optimization Myths that Just Won’t Go Away
Every industry is plagued by myths, misunderstanding, and half truths. This is especially true in digital marketing, and conversion optimization is no exception.
How to Grow a YouTube Channel: Benchmarks & Strategy
What does it take to grow a YouTube channel? Is a channel more than the sum of its video parts? Or will a strategy that focuses on videos alone increase subscribers?
Learning Styles: The Impact on Marketing Messaging
If you’ve ever worked at an agency, you know the value of client education. Results aren’t persuasive if reports seem like a jumble of acronyms. Trend lines aren’t impressive if they track metrics that appear distant from business goals.
Economic Moats: Who Has Them? And How Do You Get One?
The concept of “economic moats” came from a 1999 Fortune article by Warren Buffett:
The key to investing is [. . .] determining the competitive advantage of any given company and, above all, the durability of that advantage. The products or services that have wide, sustainable moats around them are the ones that deliver rewards to investors.
Economic moats remain tethered to investing: A bigger moat makes a stock a better bet. But the implications are broader, for companies large and small.
Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site
What answer is a searcher looking for? For sustainable, valuable search traffic, you’d better provide it.
Form Analytics: What You Can Track and How to Track It
You spend plenty of marketing dollars trying to get someone to your form. But how much goes to waste at that stage? According to data from Zuko, roughly two-thirds of those who start filling out a form never complete it.
Why? If you’re not tracking form analytics, you don’t know. The data between a pageview and a form completion (or abandonment) is missing.