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Marketo is one of the most powerful marketing automation platforms in the industry, as well as being one of the most robustly and comprehensively integrated. As a natural consequence, it’s also not necessarily the easiest thing in the world to use. This isn’t really a mark against it. Marketo has a pretty intuitive interface for…

While your meta tags don’t directly influence your position in the search results, the meta description is the first thing a searcher sees when they notice your listing in the search results other than your page title. It serves as an important call to action that helps verify the relevancy of your page to their…

With February in the books, there was one major piece of local news. There hasn’t been a single day of snow in Chicago in January or February for the first time in 146 years. On the other hand, there also weren’t any major Google updates in February. So, at least we got that going for us,…

Title tags are one of the most important pieces of content on your page. Without a title tag, a page in search results will either have no title to draw users in, or it will feature an algorithmically produced title created by the search engine, which is likely to be irrelevant and perhaps unnatural looking….

Google Analytics is a simple tool to start with, but endlessly complex to master. Even after you get it setup in the best possible way. What’s more, most of the advice you get isn’t actionable. Just tips that sound good in concept. So, we asked these data science experts a very direct question: What is…

Marketo is an absolute beast of a product that allows you to collect user data from contact forms and landing pages, connect that information to previous interactions that they’ve taken on your site before filling out the forms, and launch personalized campaigns. Further strengthening the product, Marketo integrates with various other pieces of software, including…

Doorway pages, also known as gateway pages, are pages set up to capture search engine traffic, but do not add value for users. An example of this is to create a landing page for every city in the country, without any differentiating information on the page other than the name of the city somewhere on…

Every great digital marketing effort combines three things. It doesn’t matter if the brand is B2B or B2C.  E-Commerce or brick & mortar.  They are: Foundation Funnel Flywheel Everything our agency does revolves around this, and today, we’re talking flywheels.  How we build them.  And how you can build one for your business too (with…

“Cloaking” occurs whenever what a user sees and what a search engine crawls are somehow different. Cloaking is not always intentional or malicious, and in fact it is frequently accidental. Search engines do a decent job of separating malicious cloaking from accidental cloaking, but we’re of the opinion that it should be avoided as often…

Who’s sticking to their New Year’s resolutions? Have you stopped laughing yet? Don’t despair. You still have time to make a renewed push. In that spirit, we’ve shared a number of posts in this roundup that can help you get various areas of your inbound marketing plan working for 2017. It’s not too late. So, without…