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🚀 Transform Your Approach to Attract First-Time Customers

📈 Google Search Algorithm Exposed

📊 Google Ads Now Integrated with Organic Search Results

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ATTRACTING FIRST TIME CUSTOMER

🚀 Transform Your Approach to Attract First-Time Customers

Eager to boost first-time customer acquisition? Here’s how to move beyond offering steep discounts. Let’s explore creative strategies for sustainable growth! 👇🏾

🎁 Get Creative with TOF Offers

Innovative Top of Funnel (TOF) offers can attract new customers while maintaining your brand’s value.

🛠️ Invest in CRO for Website and PDPs

Enhance your website and Product Detail Pages (PDPs) to be more user-friendly and visually appealing, significantly increasing conversions.

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📆 Optimize Email Timing and Cadence

Refine your email strategy with optimal timing and consistent cadence. Well-timed emails nurture leads effectively.

🛒 Remove Shopping Blocks

Identify and eliminate barriers in your current strategy or email infrastructure, making it easier for new customers to complete their purchases.

🎨 Curate a Personalized Shopping Experience

Use data to create a personalized shopping experience. Tailored product recommendations engage customers, making their journey more relevant.

💬 Engage with Proven Marketing Messages

Craft marketing messages that resonate with your target audience. Use compelling narratives and clear calls to action that address new customers’ needs.

Why This Works:

• Innovation in Offers: Unique incentives capture attention without devaluing the brand.
  

• User-Friendly Design: Optimized websites and PDPs enhance user experience, boosting conversion rates.
  

• Strategic Email Marketing: Well-timed emails nurture leads and increase conversions.
  

• Streamlined Shopping: Removing barriers ensures a smooth purchasing process.
  

• Personalization: Tailored experiences engage customers and make shopping enjoyable.
  

• Effective Messaging: Targeted messages resonate with the audience, driving engagement.

The Result?

Implementing these strategies can transform your approach to acquiring first-time customers. Your brand can achieve sustainable growth and build a loyal customer base. So Stop relying solely on discounts. Embrace these smart strategies to attract and convert first-time customers effectively. 

SEO

📈 Google Search Algorithm Exposed
^{Insights from Search Engine Land and Media Post}

A recent leak of internal Google documents has unveiled crucial details about the company’s search ranking algorithms, offering a deeper understanding of the factors that impact search visibility.

The Breakdown:

Document Leak: On March 13, an automated bot released thousands of internal documents from Google’s Content API Warehouse on GitHub. These documents, later shared with Rand Fishkin of SparkToro, reveal significant aspects of Google’s ranking methodology.

Ranking Components: The leaked documents identify 2,596 modules and 14,014 attributes that influence content ranking. The specific weighting of these components, however, remains unspecified.

Re-Ranking Functions and Demotions: Known as “twiddlers,” these functions adjust the ranking of documents based on various criteria. Content may be demoted due to factors like irrelevant links and user dissatisfaction signals.

Click Metrics: Factors such as successful clicks (goodClicks, lastLongestClicks) and content originality scores significantly affect ranking. Longer documents might be truncated, while shorter ones receive scores based on originality.

For SEOs, these insights are crucial. The leaked information highlights the importance of link diversity, user engagement, and brand authority. Additionally, it reveals the use of Chrome data in ranking decisions and underscores the significance of a well-recognized brand presence. Businesses can leverage this information to refine their SEO strategies, better aligning them with Google’s ranking criteria to enhance their search visibility.

GOOGLE ADS

📊 Google Ads Now Integrated with Organic Search Results
^{Insights from Search Engine Journal} 

Google has started mixing sponsored ads with organic search results, prompting concerns about user experience and transparency.

The Breakdown:

New Policy: Google now allows “top ads” to appear below the top organic results on certain queries. This change followed extensive testing from June 2023 to March 2024.

Types of Placements:

• Mixed with Organic Results: Ads may appear within the top organic listings, sometimes in position #2 on the search results page.
  

• Below Featured Snippets: Ads are often placed directly beneath featured snippets, typically in groups of up to four.

Impact and Intentions:

User Experience and Revenue Goals: Google’s aim appears to be increasing ad click-through rates without significantly disrupting user experience. Integrating ads more seamlessly enhances revenue while maintaining the visibility of organic search results.

Analyzing with Semrush:

Tracking Ad Placement: Use Semrush’s “Ads top” filter in Organic Research to identify instances where ads are mixed with organic listings. This practice remains relatively rare despite its official status.

While the integration of ads into organic results is now official, it is not yet widespread. Google continues to balance increasing ad revenue with preserving a positive user experience.

QUICK HITS

🌏 With over 250 million influencers and creators worldwide, how do you begin to find the right partners for your brand? Ryan Prior from Modash interviewed 4 senior influencer marketers to learn how they approach influencer selection. Discover more ways to find your best niches here!

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📽️ Instagram clarifies that videos over 90 seconds won't be recommended in the Explore or Reels Tab, impacting their reach and aligning with earlier insights suggesting that shorter Reels perform better. 

💳Debit cards dominate as the preferred payment option at points of sale, with 82% of Americans under 40 utilizing them.

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