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Digital marketing & website development lists of ideas, links and resources

1

Digital marketing services

ZeroToDigital offers digital marketing services for a number of different industries. We created a "complete guide" template that populates content based on the industry selected.

SEO

programmatic

example

08/03/22

2

Local business list

ZeroToDigital has accrued a large list of local businesses in New Hampshire, their towns and industries. With a current list of over 1,000 businesses, a hundred industries and dozens of towns, we are able to generate over 50,000 unique URLs that we've submitted to search engines.

SEO

programmatic

example

08/03/22

3

Target audience

Your target audience is the group of people highly relevant and in need of your product or service that you tailor your marketing towards.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/05/22

4

House list

Your house (or retention) list is an email list that a business has built manually over time. It's often the highest quality of email lists and is valuable to your marketing and sales efforts.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/05/22

5

Focus on your audience

Your audience sees enough sales-y posts. Focus, instead, on engaging with them in a real, personal way.

Digital Marketing

trend

08/09/22

6

NFTs and crypto

You might not think that these relate to your business, but they might. There are many companies producing technology that does cross over various industries and can be leveraged by regular businesses.

Digital Marketing

trend

08/09/22

7

Redirect

You can create a redirect on your website to send users who try to visit a specific page or path on your site to another internal or even external page.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/06/22

8

HTML emails

You can build your email purely with HTML and some publications may require that you send them an HTML version of your campaign to send.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/05/22

9

LinkedIn

Yes, LinkedIn is making a comeback as their monthly users continue to grow and more and more businesses are reporting positive lead generation figures.

Digital Marketing

trend

08/09/22

10

Yellow.place

Yellow.place is a platform to help users search for local businesses.

Digital Marketing

directory

backlinks

source

08/31/22

11

Opinion pieces

Write open-ended pieces of content based on a topic that matters to your audience. Formulate a popular or un-popular opinion and write about it.

Content

idea

07/28/22

12

Press releases

Write an article for print or online publications whenever anything newsworthy happens within your organization.

Content

medium

07/28/22

13

Book review

Write a review for an important book for your industry to educate or inspire your audience.

Content

idea

07/27/22

14

Whitepapers

Write a persuasive, authoritative, in-depth report about an important element of your business or industry

Content

medium

07/28/22

15

Testimonials

Write a high-quality review for software that your company uses and share it with the software company. Suggest that they can share the review on their site if they provide a link back to your article.

SEO

backlinks

idea

07/30/22

16

Industry history

Write a feature about the past of the industry, what shaped it into what it is today, and even where you see it going in the future.

Content

idea

07/28/22

17

No image

Would your ad work better without an image? Try it with and without and see what produces more results.

Digital Marketing

ab testing

idea

08/04/22

18

Image or video

Would an image work better in that container or a video? Which one commands more attention and leads to more conversions?

Digital Marketing

ab testing

idea

08/04/22

19

Button icon

Would adding an icon to the button help to get more clicks?

Digital Marketing

ab testing

idea

08/04/22

20

Quality interactions

With the excess of automation and chatbots, focus on real, conversational and quality interactions that you can have with your audience and customers.

Digital Marketing

trend

08/09/22

21

Whitelist

Whitelists help your email to always appear in your recipients' email inboxes. It requires that the email address be manually added to the list by the recipient however. It's a good idea to make sure your clients and email recipients add you to their whitelist.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/05/22

22

Multiple campaigns

While a page having 1 goal or call-to-action is typically preferred, maybe there are times when you should consider the primary goal and then a secondary goal as well in case the first one doesn't convert.

Digital Marketing

ab testing

idea

08/04/22

23

Support forum

Whether or not you offer a product that sells to hundreds or thousands of customers, you can create a support forum. A place where you allow customers and prospects to ask questions and you provide answers.

Content

idea

07/29/22

24

Disable double-optin

When populating an email list, it's often a good idea to have the email platform send a double-optin email to make sure that the email address is valid and confirm that the user wanted to sign up.

Digital Marketing

ab testing

idea

08/04/22

25

Controversy

What are controversies in your industry? You can share your side and perspective of the situation, or even just describe the debate and open it up for discussion.

Content

idea

research

07/29/22

26

Google Analytics

Website data and analytics for traffic information such as users, page views, acquisition source, behavior and more.

SEO

tool

free

analytics

07/29/22

27

Vet backlink sites

Want to vet sites for possible backlinks? First, look for related websites via "related:". Then, check to see the percentage of pages include keywords that you also focus on for your site. You can do this via "site:" to get all of the pages, and then "site:" and keyword. If around 50% or more of the pages contain your keyword then you know it's a relevant backlink prospect.

Misc

search operator

formula

08/08/22

28

Hotjar

Visual recordings and heatmaps of your visitors' actions on your website.

Digital Marketing

tool

free

paid

conversions

08/03/22

29

UX

User experience (UX) design refers to the practice of testing and modifying your website or application to ensure that it provides the best possible experience to the user.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/05/22

30

Social selling

Used in tandem with social listening, social selling is the practice of responding to users who are discussing your brand or related products or services online.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/05/22

31

Indexation errors

Use the "site:" search operator to check the indexed pages for your website - like site:zerotodigital.com. You can also check a specific URL like your blog "site:zerotodigital.com/blog" or subdomains "site:*.zerotodigital.com -www". If any pages appear that shouldn't, you should no-index them.

Misc

search operator

formula

08/08/22

32

Illustration

Use non-related, everyday moments to help you capture, explain and inspire your audience. For example, you can watch how an ant is constantly working and moving, and never gives up. Can you use that to inspire your customers with a tough task related to y

Content

idea

research

07/29/22

33

AI in digital marketing

Use artificial intelligence to predict what your prospect might do next and ensure your campaign or promotion is there when they need it.

Digital Marketing

trend

08/09/22

34

-

Use a hyphen before a word to remove any results that would relate to that word. For example, jobs -apple.

Misc

search operator

definition

productivity

08/08/22

35

_

Use "_" in a search query to trigger autocomplete options. For example, apple CEO _ jobs.

Misc

search operator

definition

productivity

08/08/22

36

weather:

Use "weather:" directly before a location to find the weather for that location. For example, weather:new hampshire.

Misc

search operator

definition

productivity

08/08/22

37

stocks:

Use "stocks:" directly before a stock ticker to see the stock information for that company. For example, stocks:aapl.

Misc

search operator

definition

productivity

08/08/22

38

source:

Use "source:" directly before a news source to find news results from that source. For example, apple source:the_verge

Misc

search operator

definition

productivity

08/08/22

39

site:

Use "site:" to limit the search results to a specific domain. For example, site:zerotodigital.com.

Misc

search operator

definition

productivity

08/08/22

40

Duplicate content

Use "site:" plus a section of text in double-quotations to find occurrences of duplicated text on a site. And then try "-site:" to find how many times this exact block of text was located elsewhere. If so, you've identified duplicated content and maybe even plagiarism.

Misc

search operator

formula

08/08/22

41

Odd/old files

Use "site:" and "filetype:" to find old or no longer active files on your site that might need to be cleaned up and removed.

Misc

search operator

formula

08/08/22

42

Internal linking opportunities

Use "site:" and "-site:" and your keyword or keyphrase to search your own site for internal linking opportunities. For example, if you just wrote a post about basketball hoops, you could search something like 'site:mysite.com/blog -site:mysite.com/blog/basketball-hoops intext:"basketball hoops"'. We're searching all pages on our blog except for the URL of the post.

Misc

search operator

formula

08/08/22

43

Non-secure pages

Use "site:" and "-inurl:https" to find non-https (non-secure) webpages and make sure that they have active SSL certificates and are being redirected properly. For example, "site:zerotodigital.com -inurl:https" returns all non-secure, indexed webpages for zerotodigital.com (fortunately, this returns 0 results).

Misc

search operator

formula

08/08/22

44

Similar posts

Use "related:" to find blog posts similar to yours and either compare or identify a backlink opportunity. For example, "related:zerotodigital.com/blog/web-dev-business-guide".

Misc

search operator

formula

08/08/22

45

related:

Use "related:" immediately before a domain name to find other related websites. For example, related:zerotodigital.com.

Misc

search operator

definition

productivity

08/08/22

46

OR

Use "OR" or "|" to search for this OR that. For example, jobs OR gates (or jobs | gates).

Misc

search operator

definition

productivity

08/08/22

47

movie:

Use "movie:" directly before a movie title to find information about that movie. For example, movie:steve jobs.

Misc

search operator

definition

productivity

08/08/22

48

map:

Use "map:" before a location to see map results for a specific location. For example, map:new hampshire.

Misc

search operator

definition

productivity

08/08/22

49

loc:

Use "loc:" directly before a location to find results for a specific area. For example, loc:"new hampshire" marketing.

Misc

search operator

definition

productivity

08/08/22

50

link:

Use "link:" directly before a domain name to find the webpages linking to that domain. (This was deprecated in 2017 but still works with mixed results).

Misc

search operator

formula

08/08/22

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