Digital B2B Marketing

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How Google Is Killing Native Advertising

Digital B2B Marketing

Two months ago, I examined the performance of more than 300 BrandVoice articles on Forbes, one of the most established native publishing platforms for B2B marketers. How Google Is Penalizing Native Publishing Programs. The difference on a site like Forbes can be thousands of pageviews on each article. What Marketers Can Do.

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Five Step Guide: Gaming Google for the Long Term

Digital B2B Marketing

Google makes approximately 500 search algorithm changes a year. Looked at another way, Google averages two algorithm changes every business day. Many of these changes, like the well publicized rounds of Google’s Panda updates, are designed to remove ways companies have found to game Google’s search results.

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Five Step Guide: Gaming Google for the Long Term

Digital B2B Marketing

Google makes approximately 500 search algorithm changes a year. Looked at another way, Google averages two algorithm changes every business day. Many of these changes, like the well publicized rounds of Google’s Panda updates, are designed to remove ways companies have found to game Google’s search results.

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Google+ for SEO? Don’t Focus on Your Brand Page!

Digital B2B Marketing

Google, Plus Your World was rolled out just over a week ago, and the online world has adopted the rallying call to get onto Google+ for the SEO benefits. Multiple articles point to brand pages as the solution. The problem is, Google+ Brand Pages are not the ticket to SEO success. Each has its challenges.

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Advertising, Big Data, and Google’s Moves To Own It All

Digital B2B Marketing

Google just made two major announcements. When it comes to online advertising revenue, no one is bigger than Google. Google wants to be both. Announcement One: Google AdID. Companies like RocketFuel will need to work through Google (or a new alternative, see below) to continue operating.

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Marketers Are Dramatically Underreporting Results from Twitter

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On my site ( B2Bdigital.net ), Google Analytics is underreporting Twitter traffic by 30%! The chart below compares Google Analytics and Twitter’s Site Analytics reported traffic week by week. Years ago, there were a number of articles saying Twitter traffic was underreported by a huge margin.

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The B2B Marketing Guide to Paid Content Distribution

Digital B2B Marketing

These links generally deliver a significant lower traffic cost than advertising programs and they have quickly become a favorite for publishers looking to drive traffic to individual articles or increase advertising page views. Your articles, published directly on Forbes.com. If you are not already running search, start with Google. (My