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i ran into the same problem
i now use shopperapproved and they're quite cheap (http://www.shopperapproved.com/pricing.php)
you can email customers a link, put javascript code on your thank you page so that they get a customer survey and then they get emailed a request to do a full survey later on
plus you can feed it to google
Thanks, David.
I do have some sites that has country level targeting (.com.au and .co.uk) which are ranking in Google.com as well as Google UK & Google Australia.
I thought what you meant was that I wouldn't lose the UK and Australian rankings if I switched off geotargeting
Did your rankings improve for Canada/US after you turned off targeting?
'drug rehab Lincolnshire' is coming at page 5 for me on Google.co.uk
The keywords aren't that competitive -- you should be able to rank them in the top 10.
A few comments:
I don't think the change to HTML is the only cause for your drop in rankings
The footer displays a bit funny for me on Chrome browser
There aren't many back links to your website and a lot of them are nofollows
'Drug Rehab Bedfordshire' is coming up as number 8 on google.co.uk for me
You can create the report as is and then filter for conversions in excel
I would do pretty much what you're doing
I would also check and see who's paying money to advertise clickbank products via PPC
You can use tools like keywordspy for this
you can enable commerce tracking on bigcommerce
https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/gaTrackingEcommerce
http://cutroni.com/blog/2013/03/22/tracking-ecommerce-transactions-with-universal-analytics/
After you have set up analytics for your ecommerce, they can be used by adwords
it could be clashing with another plugin
well it shouldn't be tracking your adwords traffic -- only your organic traffic
do you have automatic tagging enabled on your adwords account?
I have no idea what a good CTR would be for the fields you mentioned
You should start the campaigns, split test different ads with different images, headlines, CTAs etc for your remarketing campaigns and keep improving your CTRs
Is in your opinion the Remarketing a good solution, in terms of increaseing the PPC budget by a reasonable profit margin for these 4 market fields (a, b, c, d )?
if the website is set up correctly, then remarketing can work well for all of these. if it's leather bags and they added the bag to the checkout but didn't proceed, then you can target these people specifically and lure them back to the website to finish the transaction.
I assume with automotive the objective is to get their contact details in which case remarketing will work well
Which kind of PPC (other than AdWords) would you use for them?
well i don't know the specifics of the business so it's difficult to say
for online printing, if it involves printing photos, then fb marketing can work well. leather bags could also work well on fb
beds and mattresses -- you could try yahoo & bing advertising as you would probably get lower cost/click than u would on adwords
Monthly subscription indeed!
Customer value is around $190 at the moment and remarketing brings them in at around $19 at last count
What product/service are you thinking of using remarketing for?
Pay Per Lead.
Most agencies will charge as a percentage of spend which will incentivize them to spend more of your dough. That doesn't work well for you as a business owner.
If instead you are charged per lead, then an increase in spend means an increase in leads and more customers.
If you run a limousine business for example and the value per enquiry is $20, you can ask the company how much they would charge on a per lead basis. If they say $10, then you should try it out and see how well they convert.
This is the best way to make sure that you get a positive ROI on your spend and it reduces your risk as well as the amount of work you have to do screening for people that have no idea what they're doing. If they can deliver solid leads to you at a decent cost, then they know what they're doing and you get a win-win situation.
Good luck!
Well 100 impressions is nothing. You need a lot more impressions to get some clicks. As John has suggested, try increasing your bids.
A retargeting campaign can certainly be successful with a compelling ad even if the small audience size is small
I have a client who wanted to say thank you to a list of 80 high value customers. So I cookied these customers and displayed thank you images as part of the remarketing campaign which got great feedback
I run an education product.
I'm getting around 0.81% on the remarketing campaign over the last 30 days but conversion rates are crazy -- I'm getting triple the normal conversion rates.
I don't know if the CTR is a good one but compared to normal display campaigns where I get around 0.20-0.27%, it's a much higher CTR than what I usually get
Matthew,
Looking at your blog page, you should have an opt in form on the right bar and maybe something at the top also. The good thing about aweber is that it's very easy to set that up.
You can incentivize people to sign up by offering a short eBook that would be useful and interesting for your target market. Maybe 7 Ways to Increase Your Traffic
Re starting up, you should look at Neil Patel's blog -- Quicksprout. There's a lot of useful information there
A) Send one email to EVERYBODY (ongoing clients, past clients, contacts who subscribe, website visitors, blog subscribers) or customize my messages for different groups?
That depends on what you plan to send out. If you send out a general newsletter or a new blog post, then you can put them all on one list. If you have something specific that you want to say to ongoing and past clients for instance which could potentially increase your revenue, then you're better off segmenting them.
When you add emails to aweber, you should segment them anyway so you know what source they came from.
When you send out an email, you will see which emails engages which groups the most. You will probably find current clients to be the most engaged in terms of open rates and click throughs.
Also be mindful of the fact that aweber does require double opt in sometimes so if you add a person's email from the CoC meetings, they will be sent an email confirmation that will opt them into the list. You can turn it off but you also need to delete the email confirmation message which is on by default if you don't want them to receive the email.
In any case, strictly speaking, you're not suppose to add the people you met at the meeting to your email list as it may be considered spam. So it's better to write them an email and tell them about what you're doing first and mention all of the really interesting stuff that you'll send them by including your best posts or something.
http://ug.infusionsoft.com/article/AA-00352/152/Marketing/Email-Delivery-SPAM/What-is-SPAM.html
B) Put whatever I want to share on my blog and share it via social media AND send an email to my list inviting them to check out what I posted so I get the most bang for my time? (LINKS BABY!)
That's the best way to share your blog. You should also ask in your email for them to comment, share etc. People on your email list are much more likely to do these things than a casual visitor
It depends on what your end goal is.
The #1 position will always get the lion's share of traffic. If getting more revenue is the end goal and moving from 30 to 2 has been profitable for you, then it will likely remain profitable for you to go for 1.
Not all competitive terms are profitable so you should monitor the performance of your search term to help you decide what to do next.
Well the only way to know is to try it first.
If you can sell the idea to them, then it can work.
I think ReachLocal does this so they can control the pages and track analytics on their side.
I would check if there's a robots.txt file and see if indexing is disallowed
I have a client with the exact same problem. They used Fiverr to get lots of dodgy backlinks.
I am still looking at the damage but we are considering moving to a new domain altogether
i've been using liquidweb's VPS server on the west coast and i've been really happy with them
someone here has posted that liquidweb's phone support isn't great but i haven't had to use it as their online support is fantastic and turnaround time has been better than anything else i've experienced before
I agree with what Tom said.
It depends on your website. If it doesn't have much traffic then you're better off posting on Squidoo or guest posting. Alternatively you could leave it on your own website and look for ways to promote it by reaching out to bloggers
Hi Alex
You're asking if it matters whether the URL is absolute or relative.
It doesn't really make a different from an SEO point of view as long as both resolves
Focus on great content marketing and don't go for the competitive keywords straight away.
Aim for the long tail, at first at least to see some results
In terms of social networking, are you at least allowed to share your content on social networks?
Yeah adding more information that's specific to a particular product is good for capturing long tail SEO traffic and they rank much quicker as well relative to competitive terms
I lived around 23 years in Sydney. Once you have a network and something to show, it's pretty straight forward to generate business but I think this is true in Sydney as it is in most places around the world.
Good luck with everything Danny and let us know how you do!!
First of all, I think that you'll have a fantastic time travelling in Australia. I actually spent most of my life in Sydney and now I find myself traveling around Europe. So my advice is just to get out there and do it!
I have clients in various places around the world on a monthly retainer and I set expectations at the start. I do most of my work remotely and I outsource as much as I can that I don't need to do myself. This gives me the freedom to be anywhere I want to be as long as I have my laptop and an internet connection.
I'm not sure trying to get consulting jobs city to city would work. But if you can get your existing clients on a monthly retainer, then you can just work on them while you're travelling and pick up some freelance jobs here and there to supplement your income.
Are you trying to rank for Baidu?
Given that favoredental.com has aged and it has authority, I would say it's better to optimize for the existing site
The alternatives wouldn't be of great value for SEO but for argument's sake, if the brand has value, it's worth getting the alternatives anyway
My 2 cents
Hi Laura,
That would depend on the theme you are using
If you can't find it in the header file you could check the other files
It looks like it's actually the nav bar that's coming on the title
Boo,
How are you ranking on Yahoo! at the moment for keywords that you are targeting?
It may simply be that Google has the lion's share of the search market
Cheers
Rui