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Google Analytics: Getting Rid of Pesky Spam Site Data

August 24, 2015 | Stacey Titemore

If you’re using Google Analytics to track your website traffic you’ve probably come across sites like semalt.com, floating-share-buttons.com or get-free-traffic-now.com in your traffic reports. But…what are these referral sites? Is this legitimate traffic to my website? Does this affect the rest of my Google Analytics data? How do I remove these sites from my Google […]

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Content Marketing: You’re Doing It Wrong

August 6, 2015 | Megan English

Don’t worry, it’s not your fault, you may not even be doing it at all. Maybe you just don’t know what the heck it is (hold on…we’ll explain). At any rate, content marketing has a lot of buzz, a vast definition and a big, fat gray area when it comes to results. Let’s break down […]

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Social media hits its stride.

January 22, 2015 | Beverly Bankert

If you have been following the annual Marketing Pulse over the past few years, you know we like to keep a close eye on the influence and effectiveness of social media campaigns. As a digital marketing agency specializing in the builder industry, it’s quite exciting to watch the community not only embrace Facebook, Google+,  Twitter, […]

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Facebook is Your Bridge to Mobile Users

January 21, 2015 | Adam Van Bavel

Half of home shoppers are using mobile devices, but how do you make sure they find you on the small screen? Many people still feel like social media – Facebook included – isn’t necessary for marketing success. While that question can be debated, it doesn’t hurt to be found online outside of your website. Facebook […]

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Google, Mobile, and World Domination

January 20, 2015 | Adam Van Bavel

How are people going to find your website? You might have your own ideas, but the data says if you’re looking to be found online…it’s likely going to happen via Google. Don’t believe us? Put your seat belt on! Traffic coming from Google to builder websites jumped from 52% in 2013 up to 62% in […]

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Did You Miss the Facebook Webinar?

January 4, 2015 | Dennis O'Neil

If you missed Dennis’s webinar in December, then we have some good news. “Facebook Fact & Fiction. Real Numbers. Real Engagement. More Sales” is now available on YouTube in its entirety, and you can watch in just 34 minutes. If you don’t see the video below, click here to watch it now. You can download […]

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Facebook Webinar: Wed, December 17th at Noon CT

December 12, 2014 | Dennis O'Neil

Next Wednesday, December 17th at Noon Central Time, we are honored to be participating in Smart Touch Interactive’s professional webinar series. For about 40-45 minutes, we’ll be discussing builder social media participation trends, the measurable results they’ve seen (and not seen), and discuss specific tactics that have proved successful in driving traffic. I really, really, […]

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Mobile vs. Desktop. Who’s on the Ropes?

September 23, 2014 | Dennis O'Neil

In this final installment of the mid-year 2014 Builder Web Stats report, we dive into the trends of mobile device usage and traffic. Mobile device traffic has been on the rise since we’ve been measuring it, but has more recently hit some major milestones. Watch the video now for a can’t miss perspective on how […]

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Where Social Media wins and Twitter Fails

August 27, 2014 | Dennis O'Neil

For many many years now, marketers have been beating the social media drum. With hesitation, many home builders have adopted some level of social media in their overall strategy. Even today, and rightfully so, we’re so often asked about the ROI of social media. Does it work? Does it help? What networks do we have […]

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Do you need more traffic? Or the right traffic?

August 14, 2014 | Dennis O'Neil

All marketing budgets have their limits. I wish we could do it all. There are so many amazing opportunities in digital marketing, deciding where best to utilize those limited resources is not an easy decision. The best answers can only be given based on a personalized review of circumstances and goals, but the question is so […]

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Is a Bounce Good or Bad?

July 29, 2014 | Dennis O'Neil

We’re now in our 4th year of Builder Web Stats reporting, and this may be the last time we include a global bounce rate statistic. After logging more than 10,000,000 page views, the ability to learn something valuable from this number alone may not be possible. “How does our bounce rate compare with other builders?” […]

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Builders Adopt the Mobile Web in a BIG Way

February 6, 2014 | Megan English

Builders responded to consumers demand for mobile usage in BIG way in 2013, with 86% now reporting having a mobile friendly website, up from 53% just a year ago. Like we stated in the Sales & Marketing Pulse 2013, not having a mobile website now puts you in the minority, and provides a uniquely poor […]

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Turning Social Media into Sales Seems to be Easier with Help.

February 5, 2014 | Megan English

We’ve already established in our post from yesterday afternoon that social media is easy to start, but hard to maintain, and even harder to maintain well. It seems as though, by analyzing our Pulse results, that more builders are leveraging outside help to manage, or at least supplement the management, of their social media efforts. […]

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Social Media Goes Up. And Stays Up.

February 4, 2014 | Megan English

Its not news that home builders have embraced social media. However, we were shocked to learn that in the last 3 Pulse surveys, not one social media service included in our survey was used less than it was the year prior. This indicates that most of you that launched a Facebook page or a Twitter […]

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