Thomas Stern oversees the architecture and evolution of our services lines as Chief Innovation Officer at ZOG Digital. He has over 10 years of digital marketing experience through a range of industries like retail, insurance and travel/hospitality. He has been featured in numerous digital marketing publications, has received graduate level internet marketing education and is a board member of Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) Arizona. Follow us on Twitter @ZOGDigital.
Professional Development
Are you looking for quality hires? Contributor Thomas Stern explains how optimizing the careers section on your site will attract qualified candidates.
Regulation
Columnist Thomas Stern shares how taking care of business at home helps ensure global success.
Amazon
Though many search marketers focus primarily on non-branded searches, columnist Thomas Stern believes it's crucial to invest in a branded search strategy.
Google Business Profile
Multilocation businesses face some unique challenges in today's local search landscape, but columnist Thomas Stern believes they can succeed by finding the right balance between centralized data management and localized content production.
Amazon Advertising
Columnist Thomas Stern shows how a content audit, when done right, can help you assess whether your content is relevant not only to your brand goals and SEO objectives, but also to the customer’s needs.
Amazon
E-commerce marketers, are you prepared for the holiday season? Columnist Thomas Stern shares some ideas on where to invest your paid media dollars to maximize holiday sales.
Commerce
Clothing retailers, listen up! Columnist Thomas Stern explains why apparel brands must evolve their strategies and measurement beyond just conversions.
PPC
Columnist Thomas Stern provides data showing that when used together, SEO and PPC can better achieve desired marketing outcomes such as more qualified traffic and budgetary efficiency.
PPC
In the new year, columnist Thomas Stern argues we should adopt new strategies for monitoring and analyzing the competition. Here are his suggestions.
SEO
Want to reach search engine users in their moments of need? Columnist Thomas Stern explains his process for mapping keywords and content to the customer's path to purchase.
Google recently announced some changes to the way bid adjustments works in AdWords. Columnist Thomas Stern explains how this might affect your device-specific bidding strategies.
Google Algorithm Updates
Columnist Thomas Stern discusses how content marketing performance can fall short if SERP features aren't considered.
Have you noticed your brand CPCs increasingly lately? It's not just you. Columnist Thomas Stern shares data which suggest that branded terms have become more expensive since Google's recent SERP changes.
Apple
Columnist Thomas Stern discusses five essential components of local optimization that increase online exposure and drive offline traffic to brick-and-mortar stores.
Columnist Thomas Stern offers a sneak peek of results and winning tactics from the beta of Google AdWords' online-to-in-store conversion tracking.
Google Analytics
Columnist Thomas Stern explains how paid and organic search efforts can be used together to boost ROI through increased brand awareness and visitor engagement.
Link Building
Columnist Thomas Stern discusses the unique digital struggles retail brands face and how to overcome them with award-winning SEO.
SEO
Keyword forecasting helps marketers predict keyword-to-content value to find potential customers, create smarter content and predict return on investment. Columnist Thomas Stern explains.
Incorporating Pinterest into your online marketing strategy is good -- getting that content to rank in Google search is better. Columnist Thomas Stern explains how to increase the search visibility of your Pinterest content.
Amazon
Looking to increase your ROI from non-branded search campaigns? Columnist Thomas Stern shares tips on how to lower CPC and increase engagement.