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February 18, 2019 by Bill Treloar Leave a Comment

7 Trends for Successful Digital Marketing (Infographic)

On February 18, 2019 / email, local search, marketing, page content, PPC/sponsored links, SEO practices, social media / Leave a Comment

There’s a lot going on in digital marketing lately. For your small business to compete successfully, you need to be aware of and respond to current trends and changes in internet marketing and digital marketing more broadly. Here are the 7 top trends to be aware of:

  • SEO
  • Social media
  • Video
  • Email marketing
  • Paid advertising
  • Lead generation
  • Content marketing

Below is an excellent overview of the most important trends in digital marketing you need to watch. Thanks to the folks at Serpwatch for all their hard work on this.
7 trends in digital marketing for small businesses to be aware of.

March 20, 2014 by Bill Treloar Leave a Comment

Do AdWords customers get special treatment?

On March 20, 2014 / Google, PPC/sponsored links, SEO practices / Leave a Comment

If you buy Google Ads, can you get special treatment?

Google has long said that buying AdWords ads doesn’t help your rankings in the search results. But someone recently asked why his AdWords rep couldn’t help answer some questions about his organic rankings.

Google’s Matt Cutts answers the question.

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July 21, 2013 by Bill Treloar 3 Comments

Nearly Half of All Traffic Comes From Organic Search

On July 21, 2013 / analytics, marketing, PPC/sponsored links, social media / 3 Comments

The largest share by far of website visits come from organic search.

Enterprise level SEO company Conductor recently conducted a study of 30 large websites across six industries to evaluate the sources of their inbound web traffic over a one-year period. They analyzed over 310 million visits and found that, overall, organic search was responsible for just about half of all visits.

Traffic sources

The sources of traffic break down into six categories:

  • Organic search — the main, natural search engine results, as distinct from PPC (pay per click) ads
  • Direct visits — where visitors typed in the website domain address in the address bar of their browsers
  • Referral visits — where visitors followed links from other websites
  • Paid search — from PPC ads in the search engine
  • Social media visits — from posts in social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc.

Website traffic source distribution

Here’s the breakdown:

  • Organic search – 47%
  • Direct visits – 29%
  • Referral visits – 15%
  • Paid search (PPC) visits – 6%
  • Social media visits – 2%
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Caveats

There are a few factors to consider when considering what this means for your business.
1 – These are large company websites. For smaller companies the proportion of social media visits is likely to be larger, but is highly dependent on how active a given company is in social media.
2 – Organic searches done on mobile devices running iOS6 and higher and Android 4 and higher could not be captured. If they had been included, the organic search share would almost certainly have been greater than 50%.
3 – There were some quite significant differences by industry so the overall proportions may well be different for your business. See the report by Conductor for an industry breakdown.

How does traffic to your site compare with this? Let us know in the comments below.

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January 29, 2013 by Bill Treloar 15 Comments

Does Buying Google AdWords Help Your Rankings?

On January 29, 2013 / Google, PPC/sponsored links, SEO practices / 15 Comments

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The Myth That Just Won’t Die

[Updated 2022: AdWords is now Google Ads.]

Google AdWords doesn't affect your organic rankings. Not at all.Does participating in Google Ads (Google’s Pay Per Click or PPC program) help your non-PPC rankings?

The corollary to that is the question:

Does Google punish sites that don’t pay them for for Google Ads by lowering their rankings, thus encouraging participation in Ads where Google makes money?

The SEO Myth That Just Won’t Die

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The Answer is No.

Google AdWordsThe answer is No.  Always has been and always will.  The simple reason is that doing this would reduce the relevance of Google’s main organic rankings.  And once that happens, Yahoo, Bing, or another search engine will unseat them as the Big Dog of search.

More savvy searchers typically avoid the PPC ads because they understand the sponsored links up top aren’t there because they’re the most relevant match for your search.  Those top-ranking PPC links are there largely because the advertiser is willing to pay more than others for your click.

A blog post over at WSI said it well:

No, buying Google Ads won't raise your organic rankings.Doing AdWords does NOT directly help or effect rankings.  Integrity in this area is a cornerstone of Google’s business. If this were violated it would damage Google beyond repair, not to mention a slew of legal actions.  Google would never risk those consequences.  Google has stated over and over that AdWords advertising will not affect rankings.  I don’t always believe Google but….

I have been managing Adwords and doing search engine optimization for my clients for many years.  I have managed every combination of clients that do or don’t do AdWords combined with SEO.  There have also been cases where SEO clients stop doing AdWords, or start doing AdWords.  I can say that I have never seen anything that indicated that AdWords affected rankings.

There are a number of reputable SEO research firms that study this issue and every one of them has come to the same conclusion: AdWords does not affect rankings.

Does Buying Google Ads Help Your Organic Rankings?

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My experience is completely in agreement with that assessment.

There’s a place for Google Ads, of course.  And it’s true that if you show up in both the PPC and the organic results on the first page it super-validates you as a site that searchers will want to click on first.  But Google Ads itself has no impact on how highly you rank in the organic results.

Bottom Line: Google Ads won’t help your organic rankings. Only SEO can do that.

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