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Attention Marketers and Small Business Owners - did you know you may be missing out on learning valuable information about your web users by not having your Demographics and Interest Reports Enabled ? By just toggling one switch in Google Analytics that takes about three seconds, you can start to aggregate data on who your web users are; how old they are, what kinds of websites they like to visit,...

Have you ever Google'd your business, then wondered why you're looking at search results on the right hand side of the page that have nothing to do with your business at all? Like if your address is being used for someone else's business, or if it is your business, with incorrect information? If you're thinking what I'm thinking, this definitely has to do with your Google My Business listing. But...

Digital Marketers, Small Business Owners and Web Developers, you may all be wondering the same thing (and based on the amount of questions, comments and feedback I get regarding Google Analytics and Google Ads, there's a good chance you probably are) ...  Why aren't my conversions showing in Google Ads? Specifically, they are showing in Google Analytics but NOT Google Ads.  Well, the ans...

Have you recently tried to find your sitemap in your WordPress Website using Yoast SEO , but can't find it anywhere? Recent plug-in updates to Yoast have changed where this is located and it's not easy to find anymore. This video shows you how to find it. The importance of it is so that you can submit the sitemap URL to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools .

Data Driven Daily Tip 300 - Google Analytics Accounts are free with GSuite and with regular Gmail accounts. To activate yours, go to analytics.google.com and log in with your credentials. With your email account, you'll get access to 100 different Google Analytics Accounts.  But if you're like me, those fill up fast. There's an easy way to free up accounts. Don't delete them! You can remove y...

At Data Driven Design, we love change. It's our sixth differentiator. And it's a good thing we do, because Google is changing Google Search Console (formerly known as Google Webmaster Tools) all of the time. It used to be that you had to verify your domains for each domain prefix, www., http://, https:// etc., but now, there is a new feature called "Domain Properties" that takes care of all of the...

I don't get hit with a lot of spam on my WordPress forms, to be honest, but some websites do, big time. And believe me, I know first hand that small business owners have no time to deal with spam from their new WordPress websites.  For a service provider like Data Driven Design and other agencies, spam can ruin the client experience, leaving a bad taste in their mouth, which is why this Data...

A common use case for Web Designers and Developers to need to figure out a client's old IP address after maybe not planning for it, would be something like trying to bring back a clients old website to take a look at the content after pointing the A Record to the new site.  Or, if you're like me, a couple weeks ago, I actually went in during the middle of the night to migrate a client's websi...

In a recent Data Driven Design Q and A session with followers, I was asked, "how can my business build a Facebook Messenger Bot?"  While it's a great question, if you've never built a Facebook Messenger Bot, or managed a chat bot before, I'd recommend starting by utilizing Facebook Ads' ability to place a Facebook Ad with a Messenger Objective that has the ability to add an automated Bot repl...

One question I've been asked a ton recently, and seemingly 40% of all web projects is about adding an automated chat feature to a website. 1. Paul, does it work? 2. Paul, how should we do it? The answer to the first question is, yes, it CAN work, but you have to nurture it just like your other digital marketing and customer service initiatives in order for it to work. For example, an office recept...

One of the things about having a WordPress website is that there are several factors that control your website's health, well-being and performance. One of them that controls your site's compatibility with Plug-ins - among other things - is the version of PHP that you're running. Now, if you've been on a Managed WordPress host like GoDaddy, BlueHost, HostGator or even WPEngine for several years, t...

A super interesting question popped up during one of our recent Data Driven Academy Live Access Sessions. Member Kelly Savoca of CottonandMoss.com asked, I'm thinking of only picking two social media outlets to go deep into putting content out on, due to time constraints, which two should I pick between FB, Insta and Pinterest. Listen to our answer here.

Pinterest has an advertising platform with the ability to run ads and sponsor pins, but the greatest and most powerful thing we've seen when analyzing web data on Pinterest is that simply being active on the platform drives traffic from your Pinterest page to your website. We explain in this video taken during a Data Driven Academy Live Access Session - www.datadrivenacademy.org .

Pinterest is an often overlooked platform as it relates to garnering web traffic and driving conversions for brands. But if your company is creating content for platforms like Instagram and Facebook, the reward of also creating a version for Pinterest should definitely be worth the time. We discuss further in this audio from our Data Driven Academy Live Access session - www.datadrivenacademy.org

There's no coincidence that I'm posting this on YouTube and embedding it in my website. :) Kelly Savoca of CottonandMoss.com asked a great question in a recent http://datadrivenacademy.org Live Access Session for Data Driven Academy Members. Should I be using YouTube or Vimeo to embed videos in my website? Her concern was related to the "suggested videos" at the end of YouTube Videos. Check out my...

One of our principles at Data Driven Design is "don't overthink it." Many small businesses, marketers and content strategists totally over think their content. How many words does it have to be? How many photos does it have to have? Who cares? None of that matters. The only thing that matters is POST FREQUENCY! Find more ways to increase the frequency of your posts and blogs. Watch this video for...

In this fun interaction with Kelly Savoca from CottonandMoss.com during one of our http://datadrivenacademy.org members live access sessions, Kate Hickey and I debate whether or not your content actually NEEDS photos. I highly recommend you listen! :)

Did you know that the data says in order to get conversions on your website, your visitors need to return anywhere from 3-5 times? This means, if you think you're going to sell people products or services the first time they visit your website, you're sorely mistaken. As a result, you need to implement many strategies to get people coming back to your website, among them, deploying Facebook Ads to...

Believe it or not, starting a new eCommerce website and getting conversions is one of the hardest things to do. Improving your website design and functionality is only about 20% of the battle. Assuming the product(s) you're selling is/are good and there's a market for them, you'll now need to begin the battle of building enough awareness for your brand to drive enough web traffic to your site, the...

This video is from the Data Driven Academy - http://datadrivenacademy.org - live access session with myself, Kate Hickey (digital strategist at Data Driven Design) and Kelly Savoca, owner of CottonandMoss.com (and Data Driven Academy Member). In this video, we discuss what a good cost per click on Facebook Ads is.

Regardless of the size of your organization, WordPress is an amazing Content Management System to fit your needs. Not only is everything possible from a design and functionality standpoint, but hosting is streamlined and secure on several easy to use platforms. Perhaps one critical component that gets overlooked in WordPress is just how easy it is to update content everywhere. It's a MAJOR plus an...

WordPress Designers and Developers are capable of making almost anything happen from a User Experience Design perspective, but sometimes fancy things cost extra money and time. Fancy things, for example, like having an animated GIF be an alternate rollover image or "hover state" for a regular image. So when you hover your cursor over it, and alternate image shows of it moving. But I've found a way...

WordPress Content Managers and Marketers and Small Business Owners who use WordPress may need this tip. And even experienced developers and Website Builders should know about it. For any free plug-in downloaded via the WordPress Admin, such WooCommerce, Yoast SEO, My Custom Functions, Header and Footer Scripts Inserter, Use Any Font (all of which are plug-ins we use often), as well as hundreds of...

What is "Advanced Floating Content?" Well, it's the name of an amazing WordPress plug-in, and it's a great way of describing content that can be added to a WordPress site to either float, animate, or stick in place as a user scrolls your website. It can be used to create any number of design features, including Lead Generation overlays, Calls to action that stick as your user scrolls, and even lin...

Data Driven Daily Tip 291. As a marketer, haven't you ever wanted to make your content more personal to your audience? The data says that the more you can personalize your content and make it relevant to the user reading it, the better you can increase your engagement and conversion rates. As, such, I've found the least complicated way to display unique content to your audience based on geolocatio...