What are you designing?!?
“Happiness isn’t something you postpone for the future, it is something you design for the present” -Jim Rohn
Sometimes Google is Smarter Than You Think
I learned something new today that made me realize Google is sometimes smarter than you think and yet still pretty dumb.
Since starting at Armstrong Floooring, I’ve been working on the SEO for our new international website. International SEO can be quite complicated especially when you are using the same language in multiple countries. I know I’ve been quiet in terms of blogging for a long time, but I’ll be posting about some of the interesting things I’ve learned and accomplished with the new site.
Anyway, what I learned today has to do with a bug. Something went wrong in AEM (Adobe’s content marketing platform) and some of our non-English sites were showing the URL as their title. So if you went the sites and looked in your browser’s tab you’d see a URL instead of the title of the page. Google crawled the site while the bug was still in place, but was able to determine a title.
Since this isn’t actually the title I did some digging to see where it could have come from. It turns out it is the Alt-Text from the logo. I didn’t realize Google would look there if there was no proper title on the page. Great!
But then I checked the respective English version of the Mexican site, which does have an actual title on the page, but Google is still using the Alt-Text from the logo. So smart, but at the same time so dumb. Oh well.
The 52nd US State – Wuh What?
So I was running a report today to see the traffic to our site per US state. Adobe Analytics returned 52 states. Of course I thought that was odd. Digging a little deeper I realized they were counting DC as a state. Ok I get that, but check out what the 52nd state is…
I wonder what their state motto is. “You’ve got mail!”?
Digital Marketing Plans – Be Prepared!
One the most important things you need to be able to do if you work in digital marketing is adapt.
It’s paramount to create a strategy and plan for how you will accomplish your goals. Whether you want to increase revenue, reignite your client base or simply drive awareness. You need a plan, but you also need to realize even the best plans have obstacles. The digital marketing landscape changes at a breakneck pace, monthly, weekly, sometimes even daily! To be successful you need to be prepare to navigate through these changes.
What Digital Platforms do Teens and Young Millennials Use?
Is you’re target audience teens or young millennials? Do you know where they hangout online? BI Intelligence did a study to find out. You might be surprised with the results. According to the graph below Facebook is on the decline with Twitter and Instagram growing, but biggest jump in growth was with Snapchat.
