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Stay up-to-date on the digital marketing strategies, techniques, and technology that impact your business. From websites, SEO, social, local, paid, the Milestone Inc. blog will help you manage digital transformation and optimize the digital experience. Learn the latest on schemas, AMP, Core Vitals, Local, reviews, and more.
ChatGPT: Will It Revolutionize the Digital Marketing & SEO Ecosystem?

ChatGPT: Will It Revolutionize the Digital Marketing & SEO...

ChatGPT – it has passed the US medical licensing exam, and the Bar and MBA exams (with a few hiccups, of course) and has made history for the fastest-growing consumer...
Succeeding with Google's Helpful Content Update

Succeeding with Google’s Helpful Content Update and Lens...

March 2, 2023   |   Google Update, Web Design and Promotion
For modern businesses, staying on top of the latest developments with Google has become vital to bringing in new customers. The search engine giant continues to look for ways to...
Top Hotel Digital Marketing Trends 2023

Marketing Strategies for the Hospitality Industry in a...

February 27, 2023   |   Hotel, Webinar Recap
How digitization is transforming the hospitality industry and impacting customer behavior, necessitating new marketing strategies for hoteliers.  In the aftermath of...
Five Reasons Your Hotel Website Needs a Makeover

Five Reasons Your Hotel Website Needs a Makeover

February 13, 2023   |   Hotel, Web Design and Promotion
With the hotel industry evolving and travel returning to normal, keeping up with the competition and having a website that stands out is crucial-ensuring that your website is...
Healthcare challenges

Conquering the Marketing Challenges Healthcare Offices Face in...

February 6, 2023   |   Healthcare, Local Promotion, Local Search
Operating a successful healthcare business is more challenging today than ever before. Healthcare worker shortages, ongoing inflation-related worries, and finding ways to acquire...
Data Fidelity and Visibility in a Post-Cookie World

Tracking and Visibility in a Post-Cookie World

January 23, 2023   |   SEO
Consumer privacy is disrupting the digital advertising ecosystem, namely, it is accelerating the end of third-party cookies. To address the increasing demand from users for...
Capturing Current Travelers: Demographic Data and Trends

Capturing Current Travelers: Demographic Data and Trends

January 18, 2023   |   Industry News, Research
The pandemic caused considerable disruption to the travel industry. For over a year, restrictions kept people home. Now, these regulations have begun to loosen, but new trends...
Grow Your CU Membership

Grow Your CU Membership with Gen X & Millennials

January 17, 2023   |   Banking
Credit union membership is growing: Over the last five years, average credit union membership has increased by over 7,600 to 132 million members nationally, a number that...
Generative AI and Your Business Content

Generative AI and Your Business Content: What You Need to Know

January 16, 2023   |   Content Marketing, Industry News
Using artificial intelligence, AI, to generate textual content has recently created considerable buzz across industries. AI can now pass for a human in text, which has...
Local Search in 2023: Must-Know and Must-Do Tactics

Trends in Local Marketing for 2023, Milestone Webinar Recap

January 13, 2023   |   Local Promotion, Local Search, Webinar Recap
Renowned local experts Greg Sterling, Joy Hawkins, Mike Blumenthal, and Benu Aggarwal shared extremely useful information on local search for 2023 in a recent webinar. These...
How Automation Can Help with Labor Shortages in Hotels

How Automation Can Help with Labor Shortages in Hotels

December 29, 2022   |   FAQ Manager, Hotel
Hotels and resorts across the globe are feeling the impact of recent labor shortages, with rising demand for experienced workers at an all-time high. Is automation the solution?...
The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act: What You Need to Know

The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act: What You Need to Know

December 29, 2022   |   Industry News
Virginia is the latest state to protect consumers browsing online. We will walk you through what you need to know about these regulations and how you can protect your business and...
US Hotels Eclipse 2019 Occupancy Rates

US Hotels Eclipse 2019 Occupancy Rates

December 28, 2022   |   Hotel
In one important way, the US hotel industry has put the pandemic in the rearview mirror with mid-December room occupany at 54.5%, up 9% from the equivalent week in...
Banking in 2023: Insights from the BAI Banking Strategies Report

Banking in 2023: Insights from the BAI Banking Strategies Report

December 27, 2022   |   Banking, Research
The year 2022 was dominated by big economic questions as people watched the mortgage interest rates increase dramatically and talks of an impending recession shadowed news cycles....
Investing in SEO in a Slower Economy

Organic Is the Go-To Channel in a Tough Economy

December 20, 2022   |   SEO
Organic is the largest channel, generates the most leads, and contributes the highest share of revenue for most sites according to Milestone Inc. research of hundreds of...
Must-Haves for Search Marketers 2023

5 Top Digital Trends and Must-Haves for Search Marketers in 2023

December 16, 2022   |   Digital Marketing Ideas
Google released several algorithm updates in 2022. These algorithm updates can be classified into three broad categories.  Core algorithm updates: Make search better and...
Ways Hotels Can Increase Group Bookings

14 Ways Hotels Can Increase Group Bookings in 2023

December 16, 2022   |   Web Design and Promotion
Moving into 2023, the hotel industry faces several factors impacting business and leisure travel. On one side, the past few years of COVID restrictions mean that people have a...
What Are Merchant Listings Rich Results and How Do You Generate them in the SERPs?

How To Generate Merchant Listings Rich Results in the SERPs

December 7, 2022   |   SEO
In 2021, global e-commerce surpassed $5.2 trillion. The convenience of shopping from your mobile device or computer from the comfort of your home appeals to customers worldwide...
Guide to Image Optimization for SEO, Site Experience, and Accessibility

Guide to Image Optimization for SEO, Site Experience, and...

December 7, 2022   |   SEO
People like images. They engage more with posts and articles with visuals applicable to the text. As you develop content for your website, including pictures across your pages can...
How to Track and Measure Schema Markup Impact

How to Track and Measure Schema Markup Impact

December 5, 2022   |   SEO
More than half of sites Milestone tested showed some schema markup. But as you talk to SEOs and read on the internet, people are not certain they can detect an impact. There are...
 HSMAI Honors Milestone Inc with Four Adrian Awards for Digital Marketing Excellence

HSMAI Honors Milestone Inc with Four Adrian Awards for Digital...

November 29, 2022   |   Award Winning
We are proud to announce that Milestone Inc will be honored for travel marketing excellence by the Hospitality Sales & Marketing Association International (HSMAI) at the...
How to market & message in a high interest rate environment

How to Market & Message In a High Interest Rate Environment

November 28, 2022   |   Industry News, Web Design and Promotion
Credit Unions throughout the U.S. are working hard to provide the right mix of services to members during the current period of inflation and high interest rates. The challenge is...
GBP’s Special Hours Options That You Can Set In Advance

Holiday Season Is Here: Drive Search Visibility with Google...

November 26, 2022   |   Web Design and Promotion
As we get into the hustle of the holiday season, making your Google Business profile (formely Google My Business or GMB) data accurate and relevant should be your focus to make it...
Digital Marketing Trends 2023

Webinar Recap: Critical Digital Marketing Trends for 2023

November 17, 2022   |   Digital Marketing Ideas, Webinar
In this session, Milestone experts shared extremely useful information on digital marketing trends and must-have solutions for 2023. These included useful insights on multisearch,...
Generational patterns for Financial Marketers

Generational Patterns that Financial Services Marketers Should...

November 15, 2022   |   SEO
The rapid development of technology and shifting social priorities has resulted in generational patterns between Boomers, Gen X, Millennials, and Gen Z that can be useful to...
Scale Your Enterprise SEO with Schemas and FAQs

How to Scale Your Enterprise SEO with Schemas and FAQs

November 14, 2022   |   Schemas, SEO
Drive value by enabling schemas and FAQs across your digital properties  Schemas, FAQs, and entity search optimization strategies can significantly improve content visibility...
How to Make Your Emails More Relevant

Audience-Driven Email: How to Make Your Emails More Relevant

By Lisa Phillips, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer – Clairvoyix  Location, location, location – it’s the number one rule in real...
Top 10 Tips to Market Your Credit Union in 2023

Top 10 Tips to Market Your Credit Union in 2023

November 7, 2022   |   Banking, Digital Marketing Ideas
Where to invest your time, effort, and resources to maximize your impact Headwinds point to a tougher economic environment for consumers worldwide, higher interest rates, and a...
Why Hotels are Better Than Airbnb

Why Hotels Are Better Than Airbnbs

November 7, 2022   |   Hotel
By Keith Brophy, Senior Director of Hospitality Customer Success at Milestone Inc. LinkedIn Since its introduction back in 2008, Airbnb has been marketed as an alternative to...
Taking your Site to the Next Level with Storytelling

Taking Your Site to the Next Level With Storytelling

November 4, 2022   |   Web Design and Promotion
When a user lands on your website, it’s not enough to just catch their attention. You want to keep it. The end goal, after all, is to create connections and ultimately lead them...
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