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Is this practice a lesser evil for the greater good or a true invasion of privacy? Lately there has been a lot of talk in the news about Facebook and other big Social Media companies sharing your data with third parties. Although the data shared is often defended as “anonymous,” many people have understandably voiced [...]
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DigitalHipster Inc. Relocates to Highland Square in Akron, Ohio
After 10 years in Wadsworth, Ohio, we finally became #Emptynesters and were ready to start a new chapter. In September, Wendy and I relocated our digital agency and home to Highland Square in Akron, Ohio. After about a month, its’ starting to feel like home. Even though we work virtually with most of our clients, […]
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Corona Virus Update: Words of Hope | Impact to Digital Marketing | Telecommuting Tips
As we sit self-quarantined in our home offices like most of the world, DigitalHipster Inc. is available 24/7 for all of your digital marketing and website support needs. Our team has always worked from home with the exception of team meetings, so we’ve had no issue in transferring to telecommuting. All of our clients’ websites, […]
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Google BERT Update – Keeping It Simple
Last month Google released the latest algorithm update called BERT. BERT stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, but we like to keep it simple around here. Yes, the BERT mascot looks looks like his buddy is Ernie. Google is now getting better at differentiating the meaning of the search by better understanding natural language. […]
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How much should you pay for SEO in Akron or Cleveland?
Can you really rank #1 in Google searches by paying $99? We all get the spam emails from a random Company with a suspect gmail or yahoo address (i.e. [email protected]) promising to “fix everything wrong with your website” and “rank #1 for All your keywords today!” Can it really be true? For just a one-time […]
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Are you paying attention to Facebook’s 20% in-image text rule for Ads?
Although Facebook now officially says an ad won’t be automatically rejected for having more than 20% text in the image, Facebook’s algorithm applies an “image text rating” for ads or promoted posts. This new sort of sliding scale greatly determines your ad’s potential reach. This can be a huge impact especially for smaller niche audiences which are […]
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Just What is Programmatic Advertising?
Lately lots of Big Media companies like Spectrum Reach, Comcast, and even newspapers have been touting “programmatic ad buying” as 100% efficient for reaching your audience. It’s true that buying ads programmatically can help increase the efficiency, refine your ad reach to more specific behavioral attributes, down to the cable box for location, etc. Oddly, […]
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Are you getting constant calls about your Google Maps listing being incorrect?
We’ve fielded many calls from our clients receiving a call supposedly from Google telling them that their Google Business or Google Maps listing is incorrect. It usually starts with a robo-dialed voice chat bot saying, “Hi, this is Julie, your Google Business Listing representative. I’m calling you today because we noticed information on your Google […]
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Big Changes for Google Adwords Bid Optimization
Google initiated some subtle, but big changes to its Adwords bid optimization in the 4th Quarter of 2017. If you haven’t kept up, those changes could cost you money on your Adwords spend. Are you currently using Google’s Smart Bidding? You may be now, and you may not even know it. Smart Bidding according to Google […]
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DigitalHipster Inc. Announces Partnership with Ad Network
DigitalHipster Inc. has partnered with Semcasting to offer their patented Smart Zones® household, business, direct-to-device advertising and big data to our customers. This new partnership provides DigitalHipster™ with a dedicated Enterprise-Level marketing research team, data, unparalleled access to all major online networks, and gives our creative team better insight to best tailor our clients’ advertising creative for specific niches. “We’re excited about […]