How to Win Search with Effective PPC Campaigns – Part 3 Ad Extensions, Landing Pages, Bidding Strategies, Budget Setting, Auction Insights Part 3 in our PPC series - How to Win Search with Effective Campaigns - dives deep into how to extend the reach and impact of your ad with the versatile ad extensions [...]
How to Win Search with Effective PPC Campaigns – Part 2 Keywords, Match Types, Quality Score, Search Ad Types Search engine marketing with paid ad campaigns is the fastest way to the top of search results in Google. At the time of writing this article, Google is still the heavyweight search engine in the [...]
How to Win Search with Effective PPC Campaigns - Part 1 PPC (Pay Per Click) marketing, also known as search engine marketing (SEM), is an especially important tool in the toolbox of every marketer. SEM uses PPC ads, such as Google Ads (formerly called AdWords) or Bing ads to achieve paid top of page [...]
7 Components for Building A Successful New Website When you begin to consider a new website, do you begin to imagine something visually stunning that injects new life into your brand? Do you picture your competitors seeing this new website and doubting their ability to stay in this race with you? Typically, the biggest [...]
Tips for Evaluating Website Development Partners You have identified that you need a new website or a comprehensive redesign and you have a good understanding of what your business goals are with a new site. Now you are ready to find the right partner to bring your new website vision to life. You can [...]
How to Leverage Customer Reviews to Win More Business How is your brand doing with customer reviews? Are you getting reviews from the majority of your customers, or only from the person who makes the reservation? If the latter situation applies to your biz, you could be missing 50% to 75% of your review [...]
A Letter from Liquid Spark's Founder It is the time of reckoning, at a soul level, for us all. I strongly believe that my business can and should be an instrument of change, to support my sisters and brothers of color. My white lens, by definition, has an incomplete understanding of the racism [...]
Diversity Resources in the Outdoors Sharing Several Groups That Lead the Way At Liquid Spark, we realize that the ethnic diversity of participants in the outdoor adventure industry is not accurately reflected through national and regional marketing efforts. We see it everyday, in our corner of this industry. We commit to listening to—and amplifying—black [...]
Basic Search Engine Optimization - Get the Fundamentals Right How to Improve Your Organic Rankings for Keywords, Images, Videos and Featured Position 0 Snippets Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a dance of art and science. The science is paying attention to what Google’s AI (artificial intelligence) algorithm values. The art is paying attention to [...]
Smart Cancellation Policies: Support Today & Protect Tomorrow Here are some tips for adventure companies on how to re-think, refine and communicate about your adventure company’s cancellation policies in the context of this unprecedented coronavirus pandemic that is disrupting us all on two fronts: 1) Human health - with varying levels of risk from [...]
