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What is Negative SEO?

SmartBug Media

In the past, negative SEO may have been as simple as hijacking your site with questionable banner ads. 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.

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How to Avoid the ABM Trough of Disillusionment

Engagio

As Michael Brenner said , “If content marketing is the hero of the modern marketing story, then banner ads are most certainly the villain.” Display ads carry an average CTR of 0.1%. In fact, you’re more likely to survive a plane crash, get into Harvard, or win the lottery, than have someone click on your banner ad.

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Banners Have 99 Problems And A Click Ain’t One

Marketing Insider Group

A couple of years ago, when he was still with WPP’s Mindshare, I heard Scott Sorokin explain how 99.99% of people who see a banner ad will ignore it. This has become one of my favorite content marketing quotes and I use it in almost every presentation: Banners have 99 problems and a click ain’t one! Tweet This ].

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