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What every marketer needs to know about programmatic advertising

Martech

There are very real problems with it, including data accuracy, collusion by ad sellers and buyers, and click fraud. The conflicts of interest are so glaring that one Google employee described Google’s ad business as being like ‘if Goldman or Citibank owned the NYSE,’” said Sen. businesses saying ad fraud is a problem for them.

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What is Negative SEO?

SmartBug Media

For ethical businesses like yours, knowing how to identify the negative SEO players in the market and responding quickly is paramount to maintaining your competitive positioning. What is Negative SEO? Forceful Crawling: Slowing down websites is an easy way for negative SEO practitioners to cause damage. Final Thoughts on Negative SEO.

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CPA – The Holy Grail of Online Advertising?

readwrite

Finding expected click yield ; Numbers of impressions (to be sold or from the. past data) x % CTR = Expected click yield. Determining Target cost per click ; Pricing benchmark / Expected click yield =. However, the recent issues of click fraud , click attack , ad tracking. fraud, etc.),

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How to Avoid the ABM Trough of Disillusionment

Engagio

In the post, Steve Watt argues that the Hype Cycle doesn’t just work for technological adoption, it can also be applied to new business strategies such as ABM — and as I’ve often argued, ABM is NOT a technology category, it is a business strategy. I get it — ABM done right is hard, and marketers are busy. I’m an executive.

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How to Get Started with Performance Marketing

Outbrain

While major corporations can spend millions of dollars on branding, most businesses need to focus on the bottom line to stay profitable. You determine the action, then pay when that action has been completed – whether it’s a sale, lead, or click. Performance marketing puts power back in the hands of the advertiser.

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Banners Have 99 Problems And A Click Ain’t One

Marketing Insider Group

But clicks aren’t the only problem that banners face. Click fraud: Websites that fake clicks on banners. Bots: Automated scripts that scour the web and click on advertiser banners. And trust is what drives conversion to real sales, real customers and real business value. “ Mobile CPMs are 75 cents.

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