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Performance marketing
Performance marketing: measuring advertising success
  • Online sales

Advertising is a science in itself: self-employed people, entrepreneurs, and experienced advertisers know this. How well it’s received by potential customers can’t always be measured accurately. However, when it comes to online advertising, this problem can be countered with performance marketing. Within this subfield, in which the most diverse strategies are used, from SEO and SEA to newsletter...

Performance marketing: measuring advertising success
clear cookies
Deleting cookies: how to clear stored data
  • Website creation

Some cookies can be very helpful – they let you sleep on those impulse purchases and keep them from disappearing out of your shopping cart, or log into social media sites with just one click. But not all cookies make surfing the web easier, and some may even forward unwanted information to third parties. It is a good idea to learn how to clear cookies, and this guide will show you how to clear...

Deleting cookies: how to clear stored data
WDF*IDF: The Formula for better Content
WDF*IDF: What can the SEO miracle formula really do?
  • Web analytics

One of the most important tasks when it comes to designing your own website is creating and publishing high-quality texts. They shouldn’t just be highly relevant and readable, they should be optimized for search engines to rank highly as well. While the days of using keyword density as a quick path to success are over, semantic analysis methods like WDF*IDF are becoming more and more important...

WDF*IDF: What can the SEO miracle formula really do?
The most important HTTP status codes at a glance
HTTP status codes and their meaning
  • Technical matters

404, 302, 503 – short number combinations with great significance. Users encounter server status reports time and time again and if you know how to interpret them you can act accordingly. Knowledge of HTTP codes is even more relevant for website owners. With the right know-how you can vastly improve user experience on your homepage, which will have an effect on the search engine ranking.

HTTP status codes and their meaning
Chrome Updates
What is Chrome 68?
  • Technical matters

Early next month, Chrome 68 will be launched and the new browser will distrust all webpages that do not have HTTPS encryption as “not secure”. This is a big step in the recent trend towards emphasizing user safety on the internet, a not entirely selfless strategy from Google. In this guide, we will explain what changes will be made, why they are happening, and how you can prepare your website...

What is Chrome 68?
Keyword Planner alternatives you should know
Keyword Planner: 5 alternatives to the Google tool
  • Search engine marketing

Google‘s Keyword Planner has already undergone numerous changes; new features have been added and existing features have been optimized. Since the end of 2016, the keyword-based tool has only had limited usability unless you have a larger AdWords campaign. Instead of obtaining exact values for the search volume of reviewed keywords, users of the free edition only get approximate range values that...

Keyword Planner: 5 alternatives to the Google tool
Local SEO: the basics and tips
Local SEO: how local search engine optimization works
  • Search engine marketing

Small and medium-sized companies are often hesitant about taking their first steps into the world of online business: the competition is too big, they don’t have enough online experience, etc. Even if you’ve decided against selling online and have instead chosen to go for brick and mortar trade, you still can’t afford to neglect online marketing. An increasing number of people go online to look...

Local SEO: how local search engine optimization works
The basics of search engine optimization
Search engine optimization: basics for beginners
  • Search engine marketing

Google helps users to find exactly what they are looking for online. Every website owner should optimize their site in order to be placed as high up as possible in the search results. This is beneficial to the reader and customer as well as the search engine itself. Optimizing is not only about content; it also includes structural and technical aspects.

Search engine optimization: basics for beginners
How does content marketing work?
Content Marketing
  • Search engine marketing

Informative, creative, and adapted to the users’ needs: that’s how all advertising should be. But in reality, it’s a different story. People have grown sick and tired of traditional marketing methods, having developed the ability to ignore even the most aggressive forms of advertising. The solution: offer the customer information and high-quality content in order to transform them from a reader...

Content Marketing
Kibana tutorial
Kibana dashboard tutorial for beginners
  • Web analytics

If large amounts of data have to be indexed and structured, the license-free engine, Elasticsearch, is a popular solution. The Kibana web interface is often used to present the processed data in an appealing form. Together with Elasticsearch and Logstash, this forms the so-called ELK stack. In our Kibana tutorial, we explain step by step how to get the server application Kibana up and running and...

Kibana dashboard tutorial for beginners