SEO Spit Test: Does Removing Banner Ads Impact Organic Traffic?
SEMrush
JANUARY 20, 2022
What do you think would be an impact on organic clicks when removing text ads on blog pages on the SaaS site? Read the full analysis of the test to find out!
9 Tools & Tactics for Effective Paid Content Distribution
Marketing Insider Group
DECEMBER 18, 2023
and Business Insider Target based on audience type, device, geography, income, gender, and age; by channel, by demo or interest The numbers 247M viewers (94% US reach), 122M mobile uniques Consumers look at in-feed ads 52% more frequently than banner ads 500+ Native Ad campaigns delivered since 2012 4. Why Outbrain?
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How to Build a Digital Product Brand That Lasts
Webbiquity
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Hanging onto outdated blog posts and announcements of events long past make your site harder to navigate and make it appear neglected. Improve Your SEO. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is, of course, a set of techniques that improve the visibility of your website and other digital assets in search results.
Does Marketing Have A Marketing Problem?
Marketing Insider Group
NOVEMBER 28, 2022
Traditional advertising campaigns from the 1950s and 60s were translated into banner ads which was fine when click-through rates saw double digit percent. Today, we see banner ad click through rates averaging.06%. Banners have 99 problems and click ain’t one ! So what is marketing going to do now?
CMO Update: SEO Updates and Insights for the Rest of 2017
Adobe Experience Cloud Blog
JUNE 16, 2017
Of course, that doesn’t mean there are 800 potential impacts to your SEO strategy. Really, only ten of the changes that have been noticed this year have clear implications on the future of SEO. If you haven’t had time to keep up with the endless cycle of SEO news and Google changes, there’s no need to worry.
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What is Negative SEO?
SmartBug Media
MARCH 17, 2020
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a dynamic industry that is forever changing to keep up with the modern demands of information seekers. Instead, they’d prefer shortcuts -- Negative SEO tactics -- aimed at knocking down the honest competition and taking those coveted top spots through deceit. What is Negative SEO?
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3 Tips to Designing Blog Pages to Capture Leads
NuSpark Consulting
JANUARY 3, 2017
If you’re doing content marketing right, you’re creating lots of relevant, quality content in the form of blog posts. And hopefully, a healthy percentage of them are evergreen, compounding posts that are building SEO traffic over time. Every blog should have a subscribe form.[/caption]This Add a Subscribe Form.
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Ready To Advertise Online? 7 Strategies To Get Started
Marketing Insider Group
JULY 11, 2023
Display Ads Ah, the trusty, dusty banner ad. However, if you must try it, target your ads carefully. Don’t forget about technical SEO concerns that will bounce viewers from your page. Don’t fret about how to keep outstanding blog articles coming. What is the best strategy for this type of advertisement?
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Google Interstitial Penalty: It Impacts Brands & What You Must Know
Brightedge
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Typically, users have the option to skip the ad or else there is a countdown that will automatically redirect the person back to the original content after a few seconds. Interstitial ads are unique to banner ads as they are sometimes interactive and perform better than banner ads.
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Topical SEO: 7 Advanced Concepts of Link Relevance & Google Rankings
Moz
MARCH 31, 2019
Posted by Cyrus-Shepard Links matter for SEO. How to leverage Anchor Text for SEO: Volumes could be written on this topic. A word of caution : While optimizing your anchor text is good, many SEOs over the years have observed that too much of a good thing can hurt you. Natural anchor text on the web is naturally varied.
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Linkable Content: How to Create Link-worthy Content
seo.co
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
Earning backlinks is really the best SEO strategy, hands down. People trust other people far more than they trust corporations, yet we still see many businesses posting blogs with a corporate brand as the author. This is a mistake; instead, e stablish a handful of personal, individual brand profiles and embellish them in your blog.
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NuSpark Consulting
JULY 24, 2011
So there are two elements here: The website content itself, and content that leads to a site visit (SEO mostly). Are you writing keyword-laden blog posts and press releases that attract back links? Banner ads/enewsletter sponsorships. Here are some questions to ponder for each element: Website. Pure lead generation.
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Content Marketing Strategy; How you need both an SEO and a lead generation/landing page plan.
NuSpark Consulting
JULY 24, 2011
So there are two elements here: The website content itself, and content that leads to a site visit (SEO mostly). Are you writing keyword-laden blog posts and press releases that attract back links? Banner ads/enewsletter sponsorships. Here are some questions to ponder for each element: Website. Pure lead generation.
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100 The Shocking ROI of Influencer Marketing
Convince & Convert
APRIL 19, 2016
Influencer Marketing generates as much as 11X banner ad ROI (highlight to tweet, you’ll love it). The ROI of the blog posts alone (not including social promotion) is 11X the ROI of banner ads , after 12 months. The cost of creating banner ads, television, outdoor, etc.
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3 Reasons Why More of Your Brand’s Marketing Dollars Should Go Towards Video
Martech Advisor
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
With the growth of digital video’s popularity, we’ll explore why brands should tap into consumer interest points and deliver key messaging through videos on social media, brand websites, and within online articles or blogs, writes, Chris Roebuck, Founder, and CEO, Clicktivated. Keep up with a Changing Industry.
Return on content: a review of how spending patterns on content marketing are changing
Tomorrow People
NOVEMBER 9, 2018
This blog summarizes some recent research from the Content Marketing Institute. This blog summarizes some of its findings to help you win greater ROI from your content marketing strategy. Because in a world where most content is discovered via SEO, you can’t bore someone into consuming your content; you have to interest them in it.
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Click Funnels: How To Use Them and Biggest Benefits
ClearVoice
JUNE 25, 2021
A landing page is a standalone web page where traffic is sent from various digital marketing channels such as online banner ads, social media sites, or email marketing campaigns. Search engine optimization, or SEO , can be done organically or inorganically. Inorganic SEO involves paid search advertising.
How to Increase Website Dwell Time in 16 Steps
seo.co
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
There’s nothing wrong with a little advertising on your site, whether that’s in the form of branded callouts or banner ads for affiliates, but there’s a point where it becomes a problem. In most cases, this is primarily a problem on your blog, but you also need to consider the value of the content on your core navigation pages.
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SmartBug Media
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Contextual Content: Your prospects are likely coming in from a number of channels (SEO, paid media, referring websites, social media, and so on). One of the best ways to educate your clients is through contextual banner ads that feature webinars , e-books, blogs, or training on their areas of interest.
Six Ways to Connect with Hard-to-Reach Business Buyers
Webbiquity
OCTOBER 16, 2018
Banner ads? Sure, those work great—if you’re happy with a click-through rate of 0.05% (yes, that is five clicks for every 10,000 people who see your ad). The explosion in online content makes SEO increasingly challenging. Social media coverage is spotty.
How Services Firms Grow with Online Marketing (Guest Post)
WriteSpark
MAY 14, 2013
For example, high growth firms focus more on blogging (with a rating over 7), where average growth firms focus on blogging about half as much (with a rating about a 3). SEO and web analytics were among the techniques experts use most and rated the most effective, with blogging and usability testing not far behind.
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Buzz Marketing for Technology
JANUARY 11, 2011
I mean content that can be used for Inbound Marketing (hat tip to HubSpot who created the term) things that can be shared socially like blog posts, eBooks, videos, podcasts, research reports. Remember the days back in 1999-2000 when everyone was trying to get a banner ad on the homepage of Yahoo!
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How to Get Found on The Web
BenchmarkONE
JUNE 18, 2019
Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Search engine optimization (SEO) is all about keywords. Articles, landing pages, and blog posts are all prime places to sprinkle your keywords. Just like referrals and reviews, having an industry expert endorse your product or service is great for SEO.
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4 Content Marketing Tips from Grammarly’s Multi-Million Dollar SaaS Growth Strategy
BenchmarkONE
AUGUST 13, 2020
Grammarly’s approach is to zero in on the demographic of people reading and engaging with their content pieces and then target that same demographic for their social media and paid ads. . Most SaaS and B2B companies advertise with banner ads, touting how good they are and what a valuable solution they’d be. Author Bio.
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66 How Services Firms Grow with Online Marketing (Guest Post)
WriteSpark
MAY 14, 2013
For example, high growth firms focus more on blogging (with a rating over 7), where average growth firms focus on blogging about half as much (with a rating about a 3). SEO and web analytics were among the techniques experts use most and rated the most effective, with blogging and usability testing not far behind.
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5 Ways Badly Written Content Holds Marketing Back
nDash
JULY 9, 2020
Or, the spam networks that monetize by flooding pages with banner ads. From a marketing perspective, the difference between a blog post with a few comma splices and one that looks more like a New Yorker article probably isn’t that significant. You Can’t Crack the SEO Code. You Attract the Wrong Audience.
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Ambal's Amusings
FEBRUARY 15, 2010
So, how do marketers think beyond banner ads and the visual and information overload consumers face today? Display advertising begins to shift from traditional banner ads to interactive and data-driven ad formats. Think beyond banner ads; your users are already blocking them out! Related Blog Posts.
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Inbound versus Outbound Marketing
TrustRadius Marketing
APRIL 23, 2021
Blogs, SERP, social media, and newsletters people sign up for are common examples of this. Most have SEO and content teams working on their internet presence and marketing teams on more traditional ads. Data analytics and SEO strategies can help ensure content stays relevant to the user’s interests and needs.
10 Types of Content Writers and When to Use Them
ClearVoice
NOVEMBER 2, 2018
They can also be good for the kinds of stories you might pitch for third-party placement, content highlighting your company’s history or reason for being, newsletters, community involvement stories — even blog posts that take on a more narrative or investigative angle. SEO copywriter/generalist. Web banner ads.
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Advertising methods are too ephemeral
Biznology
JUNE 3, 2014
Either you’re smart and willing to keep it alive, in conversation, online on YouTube for the spots, or on a blog somewhere for the print work — or you feel compelled to keep on throwing money at it ad infinitum, because contextual ads, banner ads, etc, only last as long as you write checks.
Why the Blog Post Is the New Ad Unit
Hubspot
APRIL 3, 2013
Back at the turn of the century, blogging was in a nascent state. Over the next five years, many individuals and news organizations discovered the benefits of blogging. Social media was all the rage, and blogging was, well, old and worn out. The Blog Post as the New Ad Unit. But all is not lost!
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17 Ways to Promote Your White Paper for Lead Generation
NuSpark Consulting
MARCH 3, 2016
Store your white paper on a separate page of your site, as shown on the right, with an SEO-friendly URL, title, and Meta description. You might want to add a banner at the top of the page or put it in a sidebar to attract more attention. Company Blog. Write a blog post providing an overview of the white paper. Newsletter.
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Marketing For The Small Business: How To Get Started
Marketing Insider Group
MAY 31, 2011
Keywords and SEO. I believe that if you have any background or even a basic understanding in SEO and the importance of keywords, your marketing can succeed in today’s interactive world. Maybe more important is the perspective that anything that does not start with SEO is doomed to fail. The Importance Of Blogs.
What is Content Marketing, Really? (And Other Content Questions Answered)
Marketing Insider Group
MAY 11, 2020
By using SEO and content insights as critical components, content marketing is increasingly more and more aligned with customer needs. Isn’t it just throwing up a blog every now and then? More chances for your brand to get in front of the right eyes: 47 percent of internet users read blogs daily. Source: Aberdeen).
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5 Key Mobile Marketing Tactics for Business
Sharpspring
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Mobile ad retargeting is also highly effective. Retargeting works by serving off-site ads to previous website visitors. The average click-through rate (CTR) for retargeting ads is 10x greater than for typical banner ads. Leverage SEO for Mobile. However, mobile SEO is very different than for desktop.
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52 Custom Reports: Measuring Lead Generation Conversions with Google Analytics
NuSpark Consulting
MARCH 9, 2013
What Referring Sites (including social, email, and any website that has my link- a measure of SEO) give me the most conversions and best conversion rates? You can measure back links from SEO, guest blog links, social media sites, banner ads on enewsletters or websites, etc. Keyword Conversions- SEO.
How to Build a Keyword Strategy That Turbo-charges Your School's SEO
Hubspot
OCTOBER 16, 2015
If you think planning and implementing an SEO strategy for your school is a luxury you can’t afford, you’re definitely not alone. With majority of prospective students researching colleges, graduate programs, and private schools online, schools keyword research and SEO fueled content creation should no longer be optional.
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4 Ways You Can Reap the Benefits of Online Marketing
Hinge Marketing
DECEMBER 18, 2015
Creating a solid Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ranking is very important so that when your audiences search for keywords related to your industry or services, your organization shows up on the first page of search results. Improving your SEO will take time and constant attention through creating relevant and great content.
What do gates have to do with content? A guide to paid, earned, owned and shared media
Integrated B2B
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
This curated content should clearly express your unique selling points and needs to be distributed via multiple channels such as your website, social media accounts, third-party sites, newsletters and blogs, to name a few. Some examples of paid media include banner ads, radio ads and LinkedIn ads. Owned media.
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How to Start a Blog That Makes Money: The Ultimate Guide
Optinmonster
JULY 7, 2023
If you want to know how to start a blog, you’ve come to the right place. Bloggers were some of the first online businesses, and blogging is still a viable business model today. The most successful bloggers can even blog as their full-time job. Starting a blog may seem like a big task. What is a Blog?
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The 4 Marketing Metrics Mandates
Convince & Convert
NOVEMBER 23, 2010
5-star ratings on Yelp.com from blog readers. Banner ad stats. I can do the exact same thing for your paid search campaign, banner ad campaign, and your website home page. Postrank is now allowing you to compare your blog’s performance to that of up to four other sites. Sales from Facebook fans.
How the CEO Can Enhance Sales, Marketing, and the Executive Branch
ViewPoint
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
Anyone who is intellectually honest and not employed by an inbound marketing company will admit: It’s a fantasy that search engine optimization (SEO), Facebook and tweeting about our community-building , value-creating blog are sufficient to produce the volume of face-to-face sales meetings required to hit our new business objectives.
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18 Ways to Promote Your White Paper for Lead Generation
NuSpark Consulting
DECEMBER 9, 2012
There are a myriad of methods to promote your white paper, generate interest, and get Google to index them for SEO. Store your white paper on a separate page of your site, with an SEO-friendly URL, title, and meta description. Company Blog. Write a blog post providing an overview of the white paper with a link to it.
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Pressure
Content Standard
MAY 22, 2016
Lack of ads. The Fall of Display Advertising and the Rise of Ad-Blocking. Similar to television advertising, banner ads were born out of necessity on a medium that grew much faster than many had expected. More than that, banner ads have perverted the content itself.”. Meaning the average person clicks on 1.7
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