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Do Pop-up Ads Actually Work?

SmartBug Media

69% more internet users used an ad blocking solution in 2014 than in 2013; as of the end of 2018, adblocking software has roughly 200 million daily active users. Pop-ups generally have decent clickthrough rates —often around 2%—higher than other kinds of ads. So what data is out there? How do users really feel about ads?

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Content Marketing in 2014: Are You Prepared?

Hubspot

If you''re going to aim for scale in 2014, you need to show that what you''re doing now is working, and will continue to work and warrant equal or more investment. HubSpot, for instance, started blogging before we even had a product. I think a lot of companies are going to put focus on scaling their content efforts in 2014.

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13 Things to Start, Stop & Keep Doing With Your Email Marketing in 2017

Hubspot

HubSpot Postmaster and Email Engineering Director Tom Monaghan distilled his wisdom into a set of guidelines for email marketing for growth in 2017 at INBOUND last year. For example, back in 2014, we found that emails with the recipients’ first names in the subject lines had higher clickthrough rates than emails that didn’t.

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9 New Insights From the 2014 Science of Email Report

Hubspot

Published this week, the 2014 Science of Email Report details data from a survey of 1,000+ English-speaking email users, 150,000+ email campaigns sent by marketers, more than 6.4 But when it comes to email response in the form of clickthrough rates, this metric actually declines with the number or size of images in an email.

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International SEO: How to Optimize Your Website for Other Countries

Hubspot

In that case, there would either have to be an extremely significant shift in search rankings where ccTLDs are rewarded (which Google has not reported), or a ccTLD would have to be favored by users in a way that meaningfully impacts clickthroughs to a website. How People See Your Domain. and one to a representative sample in Australia.

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17 SEO Myths to Leave Behind in 2015 [Free Ebook]

Hubspot

In our new guide, 17 SEO Myths to Leave Behind in 2015 , we reiterate some of the best practices that should continue to guide your strategy through 2015, while also highlighting how SEO has changed over the course of 2014. And it''ll improve search visibility and clickthrough rates …”. Yep, we''re serious. Welp, it’s all over.

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Your Leads Are Annoyed With You: Here's Why [Data]

Hubspot

Mind Games and Misconceptions - How Marketers & Salespeople are Irritating Their Leads from HubSpot. Source: 2014 Hubspot & Linkedin Survey ). Personalised emails improve clickthrough rates by 14% and conversion rates by 10%. Source: HubSpot ). Source: HubSpot ). Source: HubSpot ).