Retargeting Digital Strategy | Velocity Agency | New Orleans

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How do you only display digital ads to users interested in your brand? The current solution is retargeting. Over the past decade, new online technologies have made it possible for websites to interact with your browser and privately track your navigation. Retargeting or re-marketing aims to fix a problem most marketers face online: users abandoning or “bouncing” from their client’s site before completing an action (“converting”). Whether you want a user to buy a product, submit a form, and/or sign up for a newsletter, retargeting will follow your website visitors throughout their online sessions. Regardless of their navigation after visiting …

Baggett McCall New Video Production | Velocity Agency | New Orleans

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  Baggett McCall Injury Attorneys have been a long time client, and we’ve helped shape their brand in the Lake Charles community. Through well-crafted testimonials, we increased the firm’s brand awareness and reputation. By introducing each lawyer’s story to the local community, we were able to get in touch with their prospective customers at a more personal level. After a year of the original campaign, Baggett McCall now enjoys better brand visibility and great reputation at the national level along with measured results and an increase in overall business. So what was our next step? Show their customers what they …

SEO & Google’s Algorithm: How It Works | Velocity Agency | New Orleans

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Google is making the search engine leg race to the number one spot more exhausting than ever and with the company’s estimated 600 changes to its algorithms made annually, the finish line may never be in sight. Search engine optimization (SEO), however, remains such a crucial ingredient to ensure organizational success. In layman’s terms, an algorithm is a recipe that instructs a computer on how to complete a given task. Google’s algorithms pertain to yielding search engine results that are relevant to the users search queries. Today, Google’s algorithms take into account around 200 factors when determining website relevancy, a …

Marketing Strategy Don’ts: Twitter Edition | Velocity Agency | New Orleans

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In light of the recent Baltimore Raven’s Ray Rice domestic violence tape that went public this Monday, and in response to harsh comments made by public spectators, women everywhere who have been victims of such brutality are taking a stand.  Hashtag #WhyIStayed lets women tell their true tales of horror and despair in hopes to raise awareness on a subject often hidden in the shadows.  Grievous dialogues include, I knew if I left he’d try to kill me and, My fear to leave was greater than my fear to stay, and, I figured if I could hide my bruises I …

iPhone 6 & Apple’s Marketing Machine | Velocity Agency | New Orleans

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Last Tuesday Apple unveiled the new iPhone 6, along with the long awaited Apple Watch. To some, it was a monumental announcement, to others, it was more of the same i-sheep Kool-Aid. Wether you’re an Apple fan or not, there are a few things we can agree on. iPhone 6 Brings Minor Upgrades A side by side comparison reveals very minor differences between the previous iPhone 5S and it’s younger, sexier sister, iPhone 6.  New features include a larger screen, curvier edges and an added pay-by-phone feature called Apple Pay which we’ve seen in other phones.  Both phones are manufactured in aluminum …

#Pantene #SorryNotSorry | Velocity Agency | New Orleans

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Pantene is sorry, they aren’t sorry. Stepping forward with a sequel to last year’s “Shine Strong” campaign, the product line recently produced another attention-grabbing advertisement that leaves its target audience in a standing ovation. In case you haven’t seen it, Pantene’s new commercial features a variety of women in multiple scenarios constantly apologizing for situations that should otherwise be void of a “I’m sorry.” “I’m sorry, this is a stupid question..” a woman says to a group of male co-workers, and a whispered “sorry” as a woman hands a baby to a man as she cooks dinner, are just a …

Google Grants some Users the Right to be Forgotten | Velocity Agency | New Orleans

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For their next trick, Google will now make you disappear… About a week ago, Google out of Europe created a request form regarding outdated, inaccurate or inappropriate search results to be removed by the “Right to be Forgotten.” More than 50 million people live in the area affected by Google’s potential purge, and so far Google has received over 41,000 requests to have content removed (and counting).Within the first 24 hours the site posted the form’s publication, over 12,000 requests were sent to Google seeking to remove personal content. Google supervisors estimated 7 requests per-minute since the form’s availability on …

Universal Analytics Reaches Prime Time with Tracking Changes

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Roll out the red-carpet, Google’s Universal Analytics has left beta and has already begun changing the way visits to our devices are tracked. Since the introduction of Universal Analytics in 2012, Google has been hard at work looking at additional means for marketers to track user engagement with their websites to increase conversions. Last week Google, doing what they do best, unveiled a consolidated view for tracking user engagement on separate devices in one easy to see report. How it works? In the digital age, it’s safe to assume that a large part of your target market utilizes multiple channels …

Domain Authority: Is It Worth the Trouble? | Velocity Agency | New Orleans, LA

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Having your online marketing efforts be successful in 2014 is a big deal. After all, web users around the globe are expected to drop $1.5 trillion this year on their favorite goods and services online. While you undoubtedly understand that great SEO, content marketing, and social media outreach are essential to your success in tapping into that huge revenue stream, you may not have heard about domain authority. If that is the case, you need to become familiar with the concept to start improving your business. What is Domain Authority, and How is It Calculated? To put it simply, your …