Search Marketing Archives - Bryan Eisenberg & Jeffrey Eisenberg

Bryan Eisenberg Webinar The Stories That Sell

The Stories We Sell: Why Every Click, Every Cause, and Every Conversion Begins with Connection

I don’t know about you, but I’ve never believed marketing was about metrics (even as the co-founder of the Digital Analytics Association). Sure, I love a good dashboard. I built a career helping billion-dollar brands turn clicks into conversions. But at the end of the day, what moves people isn’t the metric. It’s the meaning. And that’s what this SEO Charity webinar was really about. It wasn’t a lecture on storytelling. It was a mirror. A reminder that we don’t…

Keith Goode, technical search engine optimization expert

Keith Goode on the Evolution of Search and Why Technical SEO Still Matters

Bryan Eisenberg

Keith Goode landed in Round Rock over 20 years ago. He didn’t have a job. Just an invitation to crash with a friend. He saw potential here. Something felt right. And now? He’s helped some of the biggest brands in the world fix their most complex search challenges. But back then? Like a lot of us, he started by doing SEO before it even had a name. Back in the days of Altavista and Yahoo, ranking was about cramming keywords…

Deep in the Leaky Bowels of Google Search

Bryan Eisenberg

News of a Google algorithm leak has surfaced, unveiling a wealth of documents that shed light on Google Search “signals.” These records reveal an astonishing number of over 14,000 ranking factors or signals. As the community delves into these documents, conducting their own research and testing, a flood of insights is bound to emerge in the coming days. The biggest issue with this new documentation is that for years, Google has insisted that factors such as Chrome data, clicks and…

Conversion 101: Creating an SEM Legend for Improved PPC Campaigns

Bryan Eisenberg

In part one of this post, we took a look at the challenges a home remodeler or contractor might have at getting prospects to contact them and fill out a form from their landing pages. Before I go through the process and list all the questions our Persona might have, I want to ask you who do you think is the most successful SEM advertiser of all time? If you answer Amazon, then I would have to agree with you.…

Conversion 101: How to Create an SEM Legend Exercise

Bryan Eisenberg

Don’s Contracting is in steady demand. The local market is tight, supply is low and demand is high. Don will tell you he makes his living off of word of mouth. He doesn’t worry much about online experience. He has a personal edge over many other contractors, because of how he makes his customers feel and the quality of his work. Don doesn’t think about the experience of the people referred to him. He knows this level of demand may…

Are You Optimistic About SEO?

Bryan Eisenberg

Since 2012, Searchmetrics has developed a report that looks at the ranking factors that Google uses which can help content marketers, webmasters, and SEO specialists to focus on those important criteria when developing content for websites, social media platforms, articles and blogs. I’ve been keeping a close eye on this space for nearly two decades and in 2011, I summarized all of SEO into the 5 R’s of search marketing that were evergreen and constant. Focus on how content on…

Super Bowl 2014 Advertisers: Did They Win the Search Game?

Bryan Eisenberg

There were many aspects of Sunday’s game that left people quite disappointed. Forget the game. I don’t even want to comment on the persuasiveness of the Super Bowl television ads. Today, we are just going to look at how well those advertisers did at blocking and tackling the digital marketing fundamentals of capturing search and meeting the expectations of potential customers arriving at their landing pages. You may be as disappointed as I am about what marketers haven’t learned in…

Michelle Smith & Persuading Your Potential Customers

Bryan Eisenberg

In order to plan the click-through-experience models, or persuasion scenarios, on a web site, we develop archetypical fictional characters composed from real data, called personas, who represent your buying audience. We must allow for multiple personas to reach many of the same pages or marketing entities (emails, ads, tweets, etc.), but must separately address their needs. Before designing a single pixel or writing a single word, we get a feel – using a wireframe – for the experience the personas…