Henry Thomas

There are many opportunities for apps and businesses to collaborate on co-branded experiences tied to brick-and-mortar locations. TikTok, the video creation app, is looking to monetize its popularity, and for good reason: since its founding in 2016, TikTok has achieved one billion downloads. It was reported recently that TikTok is testing sponsored ads that direct users to advertiser’s websites. This development is not surprising because TikTok has already been doing this kind of advertising in China, where the app is known as Douyin. As TikTok seeks to grow, I think it’s worth considering whether location-based services could be part of the company’s future – a path that streaming app Spotify is exploring already. About TikTok TikTok has an interesting history worth noting here. The app, owned by ByteDance, was founded first as Douyin in 2016 before launching in the United States as TikTok in 2017 and merging with popular video creation app Musical.ly. The app of...

Customers have grown used to searching for exactly what they want. Here’s how to help your brand show up in search results at every step in the customer journey. Understanding how to rank for both branded and unbranded terms in organic search is critical for marketers looking to build domain authority and capture share of search online. After all, over 3.5 billion searches are conducted each day on Google alone . When we talk about branded versus unbranded search, it isn’t an either/or proposition. Both are critical. But to rank in search results at moments of high intent, a business must have a strong grasp of the value of each — and where along the customer journey people are most likely to search for unbranded versus branded keywords. Unbranded search helps you win new customers. Unbranded keywords refer to search terms that do not specify a specific brand or business name (e.g., a Google search for “NYC restaurants with valet parking” or an Alexa search fo...

Do you really need to pay a fortune to find the best SEO & PPC keywords for your business? If you Google for a list of SEO tools, you’ll see there are almost 200 options on the market now. All of them differ in features, amounts and sources of data, and, definitely, prices. But which of them do you really need? And, most importantly, do you have to fork out hundreds of dollars a month, or is there a way to cut the costs? Today we’ll explore 8 of the best free keyword research tools. Each of them best fits a specific keyword research task and does the job no worse than their paid alternatives . 1. Rank Tracker To find the most ample list of keyword variations and analyze their SEO profitability.  When to use:   Your best SEO keywords are often not the most obvious ones. To find real keyword gems, you need to dig out all the possible variations from multiple data sources. And this is where Rank Tracker comes in especially handy with 23 different k...