The Russian search engine Yandex offers the tool Yandex.Webmaster, which is similar to the Google Search Console (formerly Webmaster Tools) and Bing Webmaster Tools. If Russia is an important target country for your business and you are optimizing your website for Yandex, you should use Yandex.Webmaster. It gives you control …
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Analytics Tips: 6 Tag Management Tools You Should Know
Tag manager tools allow you to quickly and easily add and update tags on your website. Tags are small snippets of code that add new features or functionalities to your site, like web analytics tracking, remarketing or conversion tracking, optimization and testing services, and many other marketing technologies. Tag management …
New Google AdWords Targeting Option: Customer Match
With the new Google AdWords targeting option “Customer Match” you can address your target group more specifically. “Customer Match” allows you to define the relevant target groups based on email lists. You can upload your email lists. They will be matched to logged in Google users. Like this you can …
Google AdWords Tutorial: How to Create Dynamic Search Ads
Visually dynamic search ads look like normal Google AdWords search ads in the Google search results. The only difference is that the ad title will reflect the entered search term. Google uses the website content to display the most relevant ads and link to the suitable page. Therefore Google creates …
Web Analytics Tips: Creating Goals in Google Analytics
Goals are one of the most important parts of Google Analytics and unfortunately, one of the most underutilized. Goals define the most important business objectives (KPIs) for your website. You can then use these KPIs to determine the value of your online marketing campaigns, measure the success of your content …
No more “Not Provided”: Google Keywords Can Be Displayed Again
Since the end of 2013 Google Analytics users have not been able to see keyword data. Google labels almost all of the keywords as “not provided”. Since then the Google Search Console (formerly Google Webmaster Tools) is Google’s only real keyword data supplier. Since the beginning of August 2015 Google …
Content Marketing: Which Content Generates the Most Links and Social Shares?
Backlinks and social shares are both relevant SEO ranking factors. In order to get your content linked to from other websites and shared in social networks, you need to create relevant content. This makes content marketing an important instrument for search engine optimization. But what kind of content generates links …
How to Use the New Native Gmail Ads in Google AdWords
Since the beginning of September 2015, native Gmail ads are available for all advertisers in the Google AdWords interface. In the following you will learn what native Gmail ads are and how to create them. What are Native Gmail Ads? Native Gmail ads are ads within the Gmail mailbox. They …
Google Tag Manager Tutorial Part 3: Tracking Form Submissions in GTM Version 2
Part 3: Form Submissions An updated version of this blog post was published. In the third part of our updated Google Tag Manager Tutorial for GTM Version 2, we show how to track form submission. Tracking forms with Google Tag Manager is a particularly useful technique when your website does not show …
New Ad Extension for Google AdWords: Structured Snippets
Update (27.1.16): Structured Snippets are finally available in the following languages (until now they were only available in English): German French Italian Spanish Japanese Portuguese Dutch Russian Polish Swedish Google AdWords recently announced the implementation of structured snippet extensions for text ads. These structured snippet extensions are a variation of …
12 Free SEO Tools to Improve Your Ranking Positions
You can use various tools to optimize your website for search engines. Complete solutions usually charge a fee, but there are also free tools that are very helpful. Below we will show you 12 free SEO tools you can use to improve your ranking positions. 1. Google Analytics Many websites …
Google Tag Manager Tutorial Part 2: Tracking Downloads in GTM Version 2
An updated version of this blog post was published. In Part 1 of our updated Google Tag Manager Version 2 tutorial, we showed you how to track outbound links. If you have not already read it, please at least have a look at the introduction: all the requirements described apply here …