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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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How to Measure Paid Advertising Success in Higher Education—and Why an Agency Can Help
Key Insights Tracking, reporting, and analyzing are three pillars of a successful higher education advertising strategy. From click-through rate to cost per inquiry, several metrics temperature check your paid ad campaign performance. Search Influence and UPCEA collaborated to establish the first industry-wide cost per inquiry benchmark to help higher education …
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Gain Recruitment SEO Insights From Will Scott’s Recent UPCEA Blog Post
Search Influence Co-Founder and CEO Will Scott recently wrote a guest blog post for our higher education marketing partners at UPCEA. The blog post, titled “Drive Success: Using Recruitment SEO to Fill Higher Education Seats,” takes an in-depth look at how higher learning institutions can utilize recruitment SEO to adapt …
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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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2024 Higher Education Marketing Benchmarks: Get Past Your Blindspot
Key Insights A shifting higher education playing field is causing universities to reevaluate their results and the costs associated with them. Despite increased competition and an evolving modern learner, higher education marketing departments can still reach their enrollment goals by tracking the right metrics to inform future strategies. New Search …
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Higher Education Marketers: Here’s How to Convince Your Boss to Invest in SEO
Key Insights SEO is critical for higher education institutions, yet only 51% have an established SEO strategy. If your institution isn’t investing in SEO, you’re missing opportunities to reach prospective students and keep up with your competition. Understanding and communicating the long-term benefits of SEO to your higher-ups can help …
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10 Winning Higher Education Marketing Strategies
Research shows that 93% of Americans think they are better drivers than average, 90% of teachers think they are more skilled than their peers, and this overestimation is pervasive across many skills — including logic tests. For the typical higher education institution, effective marketing strategies are like that. Mathematically speaking, …
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Unlocking Higher Ed SEO: Insights From Alison Zeringue’s UPCEA Blog
Search Influence’s Director of Account Management Alison Zeringue wrote a blog post for our trusted partners at the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) titled “Paid Search & SEO in Higher Ed: Are Our Search Marketing Priorities Right?” Summarizing Alison Zeringue’s UPCEA Blog In her blog post, the digital …
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Demystifying Higher Ed SEO’s Real ROI: Insights From Will Scott’s UPCEA Blog
For many higher education institutions, SEO is an untapped goldmine. Despite reigning in higher website visibility, user traffic, and conversion rates, colleges and universities overlook SEO as part of their digital marketing strategy. Why? They don’t see SEO as a tactic that will deliver a solid return on their investment. …
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From the Minds of Higher Education Marketing Experts: Highlights From the UPCEA SEO Research Study
Key Insights Universities are investing in paid search, which demonstrates they see search as an important part of the prospect’s journey. However, SEO does not get this same level of investment. SEO is an underleveraged opportunity for schools to increase enrollment. SEO is critical in reaching prospective students and the …
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