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

1

Scarcity

If you're running out of the offer, mention that in the copy - "running out" or state how many are left.

Digital Marketing

ab testing

idea

08/04/22

2

Generate sales copy

For generating marketing and sales copy: "You are an email marketer. Generate an email [or other text] for a marketing campaign that offers our customers a 20% discount if they buy today [or alternate offer of your choice]."

Artificial Int

text prompt

05/20/23

3

Industry outsider

Have a discussion with someone who has little to no interest in your industry. They'll likely have questions that might help you brainstorm content ideas.

Content

idea

research

07/29/22

4

Prediction follow-up

If you've predicted something in the past, write a follow-up piece to re-share that prediction and outline what actually happened

Content

idea

07/28/22

5

Content marketing

Content marketing refers to the creation and distribution of material online. Content can include assets such as blog posts, social media posts, charts, ebooks and more.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/07/22

6

Your About page

Refer to your own site's about page, history, mission and vision. Can you expound on anything in the form of a blog post?

Content

idea

research

07/29/22

7

Related keywords

A good SEO strategy is to target related keywords instead of just one main keyword. This would mean that you'd use synonyms for your keyword in your content instead of just repeating your main word. This strategy helps to add authenticity to your post as well as expand the number of queries the page might rank for.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/08/22

8

CRM

Customer relationship management (CRM) is software that helps you manage your customers and prospects. Many CRMs come with tools that help you to populate user lists, save data, launch email campaigns and track communications with the customer.

Digital Marketing

definition

crm

08/04/22

9

On-page optimization

On-page optimization is the practice of improving components on your website for SEO. This would include meta tags, content, schema, performance, and more.

Digital Marketing

definition

seo

08/05/22

10

Ad extensions

Ad extensions can be added to paid Google Ads to add extra content and increase the size of your ad.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/06/22

11

ZeroToDigital webpage audit

Free tool that audits your webpage and returns data and analysis for foundational SEO elements such as page title, description, content, image alternate text descriptions, and more.

SEO

tool

free

07/29/22

12

Influencer

An influencer is a person on social media who has the power to influence or impact their followers toward a certain brand, product or idea.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/05/22

13

Neustar Localeze

Localeze is a business platform that tries to help users find relevant, quality businesses.

Digital Marketing

directory

backlinks

source

08/31/22

14

XML Sitemap Generator

Create a free sitemap.xml file up to 500 pages that can be submitted to search engines.

SEO

tool

free

07/29/22

15

Location in content

If your call-to-action is within the main body of your page, should you move it toward the top of the content, half-way down, at the bottom or somewhere else?

Digital Marketing

ab testing

idea

08/04/22

16

Industry news

Share related news or information about the industry. Take it a step further and use a platform like Google Alerts to curate daily industry news snippets from around the globe, or share newsworthy Twitter posts related to the industry or replies from foll

Content

idea

07/27/22

17

Removing placeholders

Sometimes form inputs have placeholders to help you know what can be entered. Does your campaign work better with or without them?

Digital Marketing

ab testing

idea

08/04/22

18

Button icon

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

Digital Marketing

ab testing

idea

08/04/22

19

Marketing analytics

Data that can be used to measure the effectiveness of a campaign. In digital marketing, there are metrics for nearly everything - websites, social media, advertising, etc.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/05/22

20

Typeform

Create and embed simplistic yet advanced forms on your website.

Lead Generation

tool

paid

08/03/22

21

Portent's Idea Generator

Try Portent's content idea generator by entering a few words and getting a few ideas for new content.

Content

idea

research

07/29/22

22

Where Goes?

Track where URL redirections and shortened links go from start to finish.

SEO

tool

free

07/29/22

23

Experiment

Run an experiment with your work, customers or projects and share the results.

Content

idea

07/29/22

24

Inspiration posts

Get personal and inspire your audience to action. Provide easy, practical ideas and encourage your audience to follow a simple execution plan.

Content

idea

07/28/22

25

Conversion path

The conversion path is the series of events that led a user from awareness of your brand to converting or committing an action on your website or social media accounts.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/05/22

26

filetype:

Use "filetype:" to filter the search results to certain file types. For example, apple filetype:pdf. The "ext:" operator can also be used for the same purpose.

Misc

search operator

definition

productivity

08/08/22

27

Wireframe

A wireframe is used in the website development process as a draft of the proposed design for the site or specific pages.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/08/22

28

Keyword research

Keyword research refers to the practice of identifying best keywords to target based on competition, volume of searches and relevancy to your business.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/08/22

29

Directories

Find quality directories that are related to your industry and not full of spam and links. Join and participate in the discussion and reference your relevant content when relevant to the discussion.

SEO

backlinks

idea

08/01/22

30

Copy voice

Does your copy perform better if it's written in first person (I, me, we, us) or second person (you, your, yours)?

Digital Marketing

ab testing

idea

08/04/22

31

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

32

YellowBook

Like Yellow Pages, add your business and contact information on YellowBook.com.

Digital Marketing

directory

backlinks

source

08/31/22

33

Hub.biz

Hub.biz is an online business directory website.

Digital Marketing

directory

backlinks

source

08/31/22

34

Indexing

Indexing is the process of a search engine adding a URL to their database of pages.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/08/22

35

Unique value proposition

A unique value proposition describes what makes a certain product or service the best choice for the user.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/08/22

36

Cross-sell

Once a user adds an item to their cart, try suggesting other, similar products to see if that boosts their sales.

Digital Marketing

ab testing

idea

08/04/22

37

Social media audience

Ask your social media audience. Chances are that if people follow you on social media, they must like your content so it wouldn't hurt to ask them to refer to your site from their own. You could even ask them to submit their own pages for a possible link

SEO

backlinks

idea

08/01/22

38

A/B testing

A/B (or split) testing is a process of making changes to a campaign, page or other marketing material and measuring to see if that change improves results. Typically, you'd want to change just one element at a time so that you could identify which change caused the impact.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/05/22

39

Guest posts

Allow others to create and post content on your site.

Content

idea

07/28/22

40

Book review

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

Content

idea

07/27/22

41

CTR

Clickthrough rate is the percentage of clicks to impressions that a campaign receives. If 10 people saw your campaign and 1 person clicked on it then your CTR would be 10%.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/04/22

42

Bounce rate

Bounce rate measures the percentage of users that "bounce off" of your website or, simply, visit a page on your site and leave without visiting a secondary page or taking any other action.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/05/22

43

Blacklist

Blacklists are lists that major email clients use and refer to in spam detection. If your email or domain gets added to a blacklist, it will be difficult or impossible to send emails to your prospects or even existing clients.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/05/22

44

Countdown timer

Add a countdown timer to an offer whether it's good for a limited time or not. Urgency often helps with closing the sale.

Digital Marketing

ab testing

idea

08/04/22

45

Dashboard

A dashboard typically refers to a view or source where you can review an overview key data, metrics, and performance related to the technology.

Digital Marketing

definition

08/07/22

46

Large typography

To make a bold statement, many websites are turning to large, bold text in place of hero images at the top of webpages.

Website Dev

trend

design

08/09/22

47

Meta tags

Meta tags are HTML tags added to websites and used by search engines and social media websites for descriptions and images.

Digital Marketing

definition

seo

08/08/22

48

Competitor websites

Comb through a competitor's website and see what type of content they're sharing. Repurpose some of their content or look for gaps that you can create content for.

Content

idea

research

07/29/22

49

Search for broken links

Browse and review the external links for blog posts similar or related to yours, and look for links to pages that no longer exist (return 404 errors). Contact the blog owner and request that they fix the link and provide your relevant article to be linked

SEO

backlinks

idea

07/29/22

50

Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Crawl your website for errors related to search engine optimization

SEO

tool

free

07/29/22

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