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What is Negative SEO?

SmartBug Media

Click Fraud: A specially programmed CTR bot looks for the site’s main keywords and branded terms, then clicks on the listing, only to quickly bounce back to the search engine request page. The online community of webmasters and marketers were shocked and concerned by Google Webmaster’s admission to the existence of Negative SEO back in 2012.

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Content Marketing: Justifying the Costs and Benefits to the C-Suite

SmartBug Media

Back in 2012, Hubspot noted that “the average banner ad has a 0.1% clickthrough rate (CTR), and the standard 468x60 banner has a 0.04% CTR.”. We’re not talking about competitive intelligence research or your marketer’s curiosity—but for-real purchasing or buyer research. Today, display ads have moved up slightly to 0.35

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36 Digital Marketing Experts You Need To Follow On Social Media

SocialPilot

George’s Linkedin profile will make you a Hubspot expert. He has worked with major brands like BBC, London 2012, British Airways, IKEA, and Sky. Bred’s KPI monitoring and diagnosis series is informative and must be followed, where he discusses changes in CPC, CTR, and click volume. Why should you follow him?

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International SEO: How to Optimize Your Website for Other Countries

Hubspot

Respondents are selected at random, and because the sample is statistically significant , the sample should mirror actual user behavior pretty closely -- this type of survey was even used to correctly predict election results in 2012 , 2013, and 2014. We created two nearly identical surveys: one targeted to a representative sample in the U.S.

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New Data Reveals How Marketers Use Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]

Hubspot

In just a few hours, SEOmoz CEO Rand Fishkin and HubSpot CTO Dharmesh Shah will reveal the results from the SEOmoz annual industry survey on the state of SEO and internet marketing in their joint webinar at 1 p.m. How Marketers Are Using Social Media in 2012. Tune into the co-hosted SEOmoz-HubSpot webinar today at 1 p.m.

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Which Links in Your Email Marketing Get the Most Clicks?

Hubspot

To help get to the bottom of it, we analyzed a sample of 26 unique HubSpot emails that we sent to the same audience over a period of three months in 2012. Before we reveal the findings of this analysis, let’s cover the various link types we feature in our HubSpot email sends. Main Call-to-Action Link.

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Social Media Copywriting: How to Compose Text for 5 Different Channels

Hubspot

Plus, according to social media scientist Dan Zarrella , the ideal length is actually around 120-130 characters -- those tweets showed the highest click-through rate (CTR). But in 2012, LinkedIn introduced its Influencers program, which recruited notable business figures to guest blog on LinkedIn’s publishing platform. Source: Buffer.