For B2B companies, providing prospects with an excellent mobile experience is more important than ever. A recent survey of executives by Forbes revealed that 70% had used mobile devices to research products and services when they first were aware of an offering. The survey found that the mobile experience continues to be important for lead… Read More
Why it’s just as important as ever. Mobile users are taking search by storm. In 2017, mobile searchers had exceeded desktop users, coming in at 57% of searches worldwide. In 2019, Google announced all sites are officially being indexed through their mobile versions (see: Mobile First Indexing). This means if you have taken optimization short… Read More
Marketing leaders increasingly use data to drive campaign strategies and tactics. Metrics like website bounce rate, email opens, ad click-throughs, and conversions are readily available, but assembling them into a useful format that shows what is and isn’t working is often still a confusing and time-consuming process. More importantly, the data available to marketers typically… Read More
Any developer you talk to has something they are passionate about. Some front end developers are into design, or UX. Some (crazy) backend developers get all jazzed up about databases and Javascript ES6 promises. One of my personal passions as a front end developer is animation. See the Pen SVG scroll drawing by Andy (@andyobrien)… Read More
MARKETING AUTOMATION IS REALLY IMPORTANT Businesses are becoming obsessed with marketing automation for good reason. It streamlines marketing campaigns and increases efficiency, and in turn ROI. Operations within a marketing automation software platform have many names – in Marketo they’re called Programs, Hubspot calls them Workflows, Autopilot calls them Journeys. As I have a penchant… Read More
WordPress! If you’ve had any web experience at all (and even if you haven’t!), you’ve probably heard of it. It’s pretty ubiquitous, and there’s good reason for that. At Digital Reach Agency, we love WordPress. We’re experts in it, and most of our sites are built on it! Now you’re probably wondering why. What makes… Read More
What is Page Speed Optimization? Businesses often put page speed optimizations on the back burner, assuming that their site speed represents their entire website performance. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case. There is a crucial difference between site speed and page speed, and it can be a deciding factor in your bounce rate and organic rank. So… Read More
I play a lot of video games. I’ve always loved them and been enamored with their production. I’ve read so many books and articles about how games are made and how they affect our minds. One thing that I know to be true about all good video games, is that the production of the game… Read More
In the process of designing the perfect website we often get distracted by aesthetic elements. We forget the technical aspects of a successful page. Because of this selective forgetfulness, your SEO and marketing can get lost in the colors, font, and topography. It’s not just the overall look that matters, it’s the user-friendliness and the… Read More
With constant algorithm changes, it can be hard to know what’s most important to Google. These days, they are even more tight-lipped, barring us SEO junkies from their precious hoard of secrets. Except, Google has said what they value. In March 2016, Google revealed the top three most important ranking factors in Google ranking: Links… Read More
This is a subject that has come up a few times recently with my clients. You may have also landed on this page wondering the same thing: “Why don’t my ads show up?”. After excitedly typing in your keyword you are perplexed when you don’t see your ad appear on the search engine results page…. Read More
Back in August of 2014, Google began giving a rankings boost to secure websites. What does Google consider to be secure? Well, it all starts with having a TLS (Transport Layer Security) certificate installed. By making this a ranking signal, Google wanted to incentivize security as a feature.. Many companies lagged behind and left their… Read More
