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This is the second half of a two-part series on using YouTube to build your brand and business. Here we review how to optimize your video content and then how to report on and measure your video content performance. If you haven’t already, we recommend reading part one. Optimizing Your Video Content Assuming you’ve read the first part of this series, you now know how YouTube-based content boosts your search engine positioning and domain authority, plus the factors in which YouTube videos are ranked. We have identified the four main […]
YouTube was founded in February 2005, almost one year after the founding of Facebook, a year-and-a-half after Myspace, and more than two years before Twitter. A year later, it was the fastest-growing website. By 2006, it garnered more than 65,000 video uploads and 100 million page views every day. By 2015, over 400 hours’ worth of video were uploaded every minute. By the time Google came calling and purchased the platform in October 2006, YouTube estimated they were making $15 million per month from ad revenue — and after the […]
Modern advertising has come a long way since the magazine copy of Mad Men. Yet while recent decades have brought a natural evolution, the biggest changes have come from our technological advances. One example of this is programmatic advertising. Although it might sound complicated, “programmatic” just means “automated,” and refers to the process through which digital ads are purchased and sold. In the past, online advertising was manually exchanged between the advertiser and domain, but today the majority of these are done with AI. Intelligent ad-buying software facilitates, purchases, and […]
The basics… RLSA stands for Remarketing Lists for Search Ads, and it has been a feature on Google Ads since 2013. Instead of targeting anybody searching for a given keyword on Google (or an affiliated search), RLSA specifically targets users who are searching for a keyword after having visited your site. Here, we’ll explore their results and how to best utilize them. How it Works The phrase “after having visited your site” probably brings up mental images of those stalker-ish visual ads for, say, adult diapers that follow you around […]
The online advertising landscape is rich with options from traditional platforms like Facebook to essential players such as Google. What many may overlook when spending precious advertising dollars is the younger, more visually focused option: Instagram. With various ad formats to choose from, this popular social media channel can yield a higher return on investment than its more well-known counterparts. In this post, we’ll examine the ins and outs of the platform, how to determine if the Instagram audience is right for your brand and how to get started if […]
Written by Preston Parshall “Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.” – Peter Drucker Since we started in 2014, we’ve been asked a lot of questions about who we are and our approach. The one question that we have been asked the most is a variation of these: “What’s your juice?” “What’s your differentiator?” and “What makes your team special?” At Fujisan Marketing, it all starts with thoughtful execution. Thoughtful execution is the cornerstone of any viable strategic plan or engagement. Whether you are launching […]
The PPC For Beginners series is designed to help newcomers gain a high-level understanding of the functions for a successful PPC campaign. We recently published the first of our series, PPC For Beginners Pt. 1: Prepare, Target, and Remarket. While Part 1 explains how you can research and prepare for a successful PPC campaign, Part 2 delves into the most important properties of designing a strong and successful foundation. This is a continuation of Part 1 of our series. Our beginner’s series blogs build upon one another, therefore, we highly […]
Whether you’re a newcomer to the digital marketing world with no understanding of PPC or if you’re somewhat familiar, our PPC For Beginners blog series is a perfect place to start. It is written for beginners as a high-level description of the functions of a successful PPC campaign so you can make sure you’re fully informed before beginning your own campaign. What Is PPC? PPC stands for “Pay Per Click”, and it is an advertising tool that allows advertisers to bid for ad placement, most commonly in search engine results, […]
There is some confusion about what a landing page is and is not. As you read on, you’ll understand the characteristics of a landing page, and how you can design effective landing pages to collect data to benefit your company and optimize your online marketing efforts. A Landing Page Is: A landing page is a solo webpage with a focused sales pitch that is designed to get a visitor to take action. A landing page contains a form to collect visitor information. A ‘form’ on a webpage is a section […]
