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Your Guide to Technical SEO Success.

You’ve gotten the basics of keyword research and writing for SEO, now let’s take a look at the technical side of your website. If you’re promoting your nonprofit’s mission through content marketing, SEO is a key component to the success of your marketing plan. What I like about this article from Nonprofits Source is that it has a section on technical SEO that breaks down what you need to do specifically (with screenshots for each thing!). Not only that, it links out to helpful tools and resources to make sure you’re not overwhelmed. This is a great, comprehensive guide for nonprofits to read over and implement.

Use These Success Metrics for Facebook Ads

People can accuse Facebook of so many things (like election interference or housing discrimination), but you can’t say the platform doesn’t provide advertisers enough data. In fact, the metrics Facebook provides is so overwhelming that figuring out what to pay attention to is the hard part. AdEspresso has long been my go-to for all things related to Facebook Ads. According to their updated guide for 2020, there are a few key metrics to keep an eye on: cost-per-result (CPR), ad impressions, click-through-rate (CTR), cost-per-click (CPC), conversion rates, and costs per conversion (CPC). A key takeaway here is to “track impressions to make sure that customers who see your ad do something about it. Otherwise, the ad isn’t effective.”

Choosing Your Cookies

Recently, I was teaching a class about Google Analytics and someone asked about those opt-in to cookies messages. Exactly what percentage of people accept/decline them? Well, here’s the research on that. It’s less about how many people accept/deny the consent notices and more about whether a majority of those “notices” are even GDPR-compliant. The data here suggests they’re not.

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