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Higher Ed Marketing Insights From Paula French’s Article for University Business
Search Influence’s Director of Sales and Marketing Paula French recently wrote an article for University Business sharing expert insights for higher education marketers. This article, titled “How to boost adult learner enrollment by tracking the right costs,” discusses the importance of establishing a metric-driven approach to efficiently attract the modern …
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Not Tracking Cost Per Inquiry? Expect Budget Waste
Key Insights Tracking and optimizing CPI is crucial for higher education marketers to ensure budget efficiency and maximize return on investment. Failing to track CPI can make it difficult for higher ed marketers to correlate marketing success with enrollment, justify budget allocations, and optimize campaigns. Tracking CPI empowers higher ed …
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AI Content Marketing: Achieve More in Less Time [ANYWORD X SEARCH INFLUENCE WEBINAR]
Key Insights: AI content marketing is changing the way agencies, internal marketing departments, and freelancers go about their daily workflow. As more marketers add generative AI to their competitive toolkit, the gap between those who use AI versus those who don’t will grow. This makes jumping on the proverbial AI …
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Social Search: How Gen Z & Millennial Search Habits Are Changing
Key Insights Gen Z and Millennials increasingly favor social search over traditional search engines like Google. As social search becomes more prominent, brands need to optimize their presence on social media platforms to capture the attention of younger, tech-savvy audiences. Social search engines prioritize visual content, which resonates more with …
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Will Scott Talks Higher Education Schema in Seer Interactive Guest Blog
In a June guest blog for B-Corp certified digital marketing agency Seer Interactive, Search Influence Co-Founder and CEO Will Scott breaks down a fundamental, yet often overlooked, higher education SEO tactic: schema markup. Schema markup for higher education websites is a form of microdata added to a website’s HTML to …
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Get Ahead With AI for SEO: Will Scott on “Make Marketing Make Sense” Podcast
Search Influence Co-Founder and CEO Will Scott made his first appearance on the Make Marketing Make Sense podcast to share how marketers should utilize AI to supercharge their SEO efforts. Make Marketing Make Sense is a weekly podcast hosted by Comfy Stone Films Co-Founder and Account Manager Josh Owen. The …
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Google officially launches AI Overviews for search
Google announces AI Overviews are available for all US searchers Google is trying to steal your searches, what can you do about it? At yesterday’s Google I/O, Google announced it is rolling out “AI overviews” for all US searchers. Without getting too geeky, the AI Overviews are “retrieval augmented generation,” where essentially Google looks into its large language model (i.e. big ol’ database of knowledge) …
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Google Renames Conversions in Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to “Key Events”
To differentiate from Google Ads, GA4 has renamed conversions to “key events.” What You Need to Know: Analytics conversions have been renamed as “key events” in GA4 to distinguish them from conversions in Google Ads. “Conversions” still exist, in the context of Google Ads which are also reported as Ads …
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Effective SEO Strategy Must-Haves: Why Partner With Search Influence
Key Insights Not all SEO strategies are created equal. Effective SEO strategies demand a customized approach that takes into account the unique goals and challenges of a business. Search Influence uses three pillars to drive SEO strategy: boosting search rankings, empowering local SEO, and enhancing technical SEO. Partnering with a …
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AI for Digital Marketing With Will Scott at DFWSEM State of Search
Key Insights AI-powered tools offer numerous opportunities for digital marketers, from generating content ideas to researching keywords and programming code efficiently. While AI can produce impressive content, human intervention remains crucial. Relying solely on AI for content creation can lead to subpar results and may not align with Google’s E-E-A-T …
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