Monday, 22 February 2016

How To Create An Effective Content Marketing Strategy For 2016

Content marketing is an intimidating, but necessary, part of raising brand awareness now. Its easy to get lost in the whirlwind of SEO elements, content guidelines, audience interests and promotional strategies. But at the heart of it, content marketing has one simple central tenet: Deliver fresh, unique and informative content that taps into the interests []


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Google To Shut Down Google Compare Products In Us And UK On March 23

The vertical lead generation programs for credit cards, auto insurance, mortgages and travel insurance will start winding down Tuesday, February 23.

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Mobile App Ecosystem: Tap Into Audience Attention

Mobile App Ecosystem

Understand the mobile app ecosystem and how to tap into its audience's attention. Includes research, charts and marketing tactics.


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What are VPNs & why are they so important in Asia?

From the news, you would think that Asian countries are on the verge of shutting themselves off from the rest of the world.


For example:

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Sunday, 21 February 2016

Sujan Patel Plans To Crush 2016 (And How You Can Too)

I've been dying to write a blog post to recap 2015 for some time, but with my workload and travel, I haven't really been able to get away from working to reflect on what's probably been my greatest year ever. But never fear - I finally locked myself in a room and found the time [...]


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Saturday, 20 February 2016

How To Design A Profitable Landing Page

A landing page (LP) is a page that should force visitor to a target action, whether it is purchase, inviting friends, or any other kind of activity. Of course, there is no absolute recipe of how to make an effective website, logo, medicine, toothpaste, or a teddy bear. To do this, you need to consider [...]


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Friday, 19 February 2016

Confirmed: Google To Stop Showing Ads On Right Side Of Desktop Search Results Worldwide

A long-running test is now rolling out for desktop queries: Google will no longer show ads to the right of its search results, with one exception.

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The Must-Have Content Planning Calendar For 2016

You may not have a crystal ball to predict what kind of content will be popular tomorrow, but you can see the future - and it's recurring events that will pique the interest of audiences and publishers year after year. Creating content about popular annual events can lead to an uptick in traffic, SEO, brand [...]


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Engagement is a better route to campaign accuracy than big data alone

It still surprises me that audience engagement remains overlooked as a key metric for campaign success, because focusing on engagement helps align all players in the market and satisfies both marketer goals and consumer needs.


Why is that? Well, for advertisers, having pricing options that are tied to consumer engagement rather than impressions ensures that we're only paying for ads that are seen and engaged with.

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2 Email Address Capture Tools To Build Your List

Email Address Capture Tools

Want to increase your email address capture? Here's an analysis of 2 tools, Hello Bar and OptinMonster that are easy-to-use and install.


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Thursday, 18 February 2016

Facebook to open up Instant Articles: What publishers need to know

Last year Facebook unveiled Instant Articles, which aims to help deliver a better experience for mobile users by natively hosting publisher content on Facebook.


Facebook offered a sweet revenue sharing deal, and prominent publishers like The New York Times signed on.


Up until now, Instant Articles has been available to select publishers only, but the world's largest social network this week announced that it will be opening Instant Articles to all publishers in April.

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How Does A CMO Build A Modern Marketing Organization?

Gone are the days when marketing tasks could be delegated to a couple of interns (although that probably never actually worked). Today's modern marketing organization is complex, and requires purposeful planning and a combination of talent, technology, and consumer insights in order to have a positive impact on the company's bottom line. While there is [...]


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Ad Age: Google Is To Launch AMP In Search Results On February 24, 2016

AMP, accelerated mobile pages, is going live this coming Wednesday in the mobile Google search results.

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Wednesday, 17 February 2016

#110: The Awkward Interview Episode

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Emma, Official Sponsor of the UnPodcast


In this episode of the UnPodcast, we celebrate Valentine's Day by sharing wicked awkward interview stories.





Other topics include:



  • [00:00:00.00]Emma Sponsorship Mention

  • [00:00:42.27]Episode Overview

  • [00:01:06.25]Emma Sponsorship Mention

  • [00:01:18.00]What Our Obsession, with Emma?!?

  • [00:02:07.22]Scott's Nightmare Morning

  • [00:05:44.28]The Internet Makes a Great Valentines Day Date

  • [00:09:28.19]Emma Sponsorship Mention

  • [00:10:14.03]Awkward Interview Stories Are Wonderfully Horrible

  • [00:23:57.28]Scott's Awkward Interview Story

  • [00:24:59.13]That One Interview Question (That's Actually Horrible)

  • [00:30:00.19]A Smart Panel Interview

  • And so much more...


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20 Simple Ways To Boost Your Website Traffic

Ask any marketer what they would like for their content or site, and they will likely tell you: more traffic and more leads. So how do you actually increase traffic to your website or blog? There are many ways you can do this, and while most of these strategies require some effort and time, you [...]


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New Original Content VS Enhanced Existing Content

New Original Content VS Enhanced Existing Content

New Original Content VS Enhanced Existing Content: Which is better for your content strategy? Examine the strengths and weaknesses to decide.


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SearchCap: Bing Ad Network, AdWords Data & SEO Games

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

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