Schema Microdata: Stand Out In Search

If Anthropologie is known for anything beside its bohemian vibe, it’s its window displays. They are so important to the brand’s integrity, the pretty exhibits are even part of the digital marketing strategy. Blog posts explain the creativity behind each season’s display while Pinterest boards capture the store’s whimsical spirit as seen through the glass … Read more

Pan Galactic Digital Unveils New Office Space

Pan Galactic Digital is pleased to announce relocation to a new office in downtown Kirkwood. The new location, at 108 N. Kirkwood Road, will accommodate growth in staff and inspires a creative environment for employees. The space provides easy access to highways 40 and 44 and sits in the Kirkwood Special Business District. The Kirkwood … Read more

Welcome Our New COO, Lara Reed

Lara McDougall Reed has joined Pan Galactic Digital as Chief Operational Officer. She will play a key role in strategy development for clients, as well as oversee all business and operations of the agency. Lara brings a fantastic breadth of marketing knowledge to Pan Galactic. Most recently she managed a satellite office for New York-based … Read more

Need to Know SEO: Follow vs NoFollow Links

“Follow” vs “NoFollow” Links & SEO Success No matter the web property, one of the main goals is to get as much quality traffic as possible to your site. In order to do this, you need to concentrate on making your website attractive for search engines and users.  This is a process known as search … Read more

Protect Your Brand’s Online Reputation in 5 Easy Steps

  Social Media is quickly becoming one of the most valuable tools in a marketer’s bag of tricks. By creating accounts on Twitter, Facebook, and Google +, you can engage the community, and build a following in a way traditional advertising could never do. Because of the fluid and unpredictable nature of social networking, however, many … Read more

Why Links Are Important for SEO

Good SEO (Search Engine Optimization) practice is crucial for a business website. Being at the top of Google’s search rankings is much like being at the top of the Yellow Pages listings (or having one of the biggest ads in it.) Customers are increasingly turning to web searches to find what they’re looking for, and … Read more

A Simple Checklist to Improve Your Blog’s SEO

All blogs have one thing in common. It doesn’t matter if you’re dispensing medical advice or recipes, trying to pique an interest in your product or service, or looking to enhance your photography career by showcasing your portfolio, every single blogger on the planet wants to be read. That means, whether your blog is personal … Read more

Why Site Speed Is So Important?

The Internet and Mobile devices have increased the speed at which consumers can get access to information; this increased speed has caused people to expect an almost instantaneous delivery of their digital information. If people don’t get their information in a reasonable amount of time, they quickly move on to something else that is more … Read more

Using Google Analytics to Track Video

Google Analytics is one of the most powerful tools that webmasters have at their disposal. They can get an accurate idea of how many visitors there are, where they are coming from, how long they stay on the site, and what pages are the most popular. The problem is that if you’ve spent time, energy, … Read more

What is SEO? Search Engine Optimization From 10,000 Feet

You benefit from SEO every day, although you might not realize it. Every time you type a search term into Google and click on the first two or three links, you’re demonstrating the power of SEO. Stronger perhaps than any other force on the internet, SEO is the ultimate way to drive traffic to a … Read more

Why Brand Websites Should Rule Your Digital Strategy

My career in digital marketing has seen a lot of changes. In 2004, Google went from powering Yahoo’s search to dominating the market. Forums and chatrooms gave way to Social Media. Now, the Internet is always with you thanks to mobile devices. That’s a lot in a little over ten years, and the acceleration of … Read more

SEO 101: On-Page Vs. Off-Page SEO

A big part of every client relationship we have at Pan Galactic centers around education. Search Engine Optimization is intangible, highly technical, and just downright confusing to many people. Our 101 posts are a response to this situation. Whenever we get enough questions coming through the door on a topic, out comes a blog post! … Read more

How to Perform Simple SEO Competitive Intelligence

Suffice to say that I’m a data junkie. Currently I’m tracking my sleep via my FitBit. I look at how many steps I take each day, and I keep a journal of foods my kids like juxtaposed with their age. Excel is my favorite piece of software. Some people think I have a problem. This … Read more

5 Reasons Responsive Design is Good for Mobile SEO

  1. Recommended by Google Last year, Google came out on the Google Developers blog and laid it all on the line by recommending that “webmasters follow the industry best practice of using responsive web design”. You really can’t get more specific than that. ComScore‘s recent market share report shows Google owning almost 70% of … Read more

Desktop Advertising is Over. Long Live Mobile Marketing!

We’ve been hearing that this is the year of Mobile since at least 2003, but we can definitely say that 2014 will be the final Year of Mobile. From then on out, when we think Internet, we’ll think Mobile. Mobile Internet traffic has been gaining on other forms for years now. In the now ubiquitous … Read more