Jeff Bullas
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Google is always insisting that SEO marketers should pay more attention to the user’s needs rather than keywords. And while that’s true, search still largely depends on keywords and your site — and ranking for specific search queries. I’d say that it’s not like keywords are now less important, it’s just that the very nature of keyword research has changed.
Aspiration Marketing
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
As a marketer, you're always looking for ways to improve marketing strategies and make the most of your efforts. A SWOT analysis is a powerful tool that can help you do just that. But what exactly is a SWOT analysis, and why is it so crucial for your marketing efforts?
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Hubspot Marketing
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
As any marketer knows, social media is an undeniably powerful tool to reach new audiences and connect with existing customers. However, while it's important to meet your audience where they are, it's equally critical to know which social media channels offer the best ROI for your business. Here, we'll explore which channels provided marketers with the highest ROI in 2023.
Search Engine Roundtable
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Google has published a new, or vastly revamped, document on SEO link best practices. The previous document was just on how to make your links crawlable but the new one adds tips on anchor text placements, how to write good anchor text, internal links within your content and external links from other sites.
Speaker: Neal Boornazian, President and Nancy Harhut, Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer - HBT Marketing
Direct mail has consistently remained a powerful tool in the marketer's arsenal, but in an age of digital dominance, its effectiveness hinges on the strategic integration of behavioral science. 💡 When you incorporate powerful behavioral science principles into your direct mail marketing strategies, you can prompt the hardwired decision-making shortcuts your audience relies on — and that automatically unlocks new avenues for engagement, conversion, and brand loyalty.
Martech
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Programmatic ad campaigns live and die on getting customer segmentation right. For B2C that means looking at large behavioral trends of big groups of people For B2B it’s a more detailed and intricate process, focused on the behaviors of very small, specific groups. We asked Annamarie Andrews, VP for global marketing at Cielo , an international talent acquisition partner, to walk us through two programmatic B2B ad campaigns — how they did it and what they learned along the way.
Hubspot Marketing
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Welcome to HubSpot Marketing News! Tap in for campaign deep dives, the latest marketing industry news, and tried-and-true insights from HubSpot’s media team. Is influencing on its way out? In recent weeks, a new trend called de-influencing has taken over TikTok with the hashtag #deinfluencing racking up over 160 million videos. The initial de-influencing videos that began circulating in January featured social media users talking about the viral products they wouldn’t recommend to discourage ove
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Search Engine Land
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
It’s an ongoing dilemma. Customers demand privacy and control over their data, but businesses strive for personalization to improve customer engagement and drive sales. The rise of first-party data can help balance both of these goals. Join this live webinar and hear from OneTrust’s Consent and Preference Management expert, who will share best practices and actionable insights on leveraging first-party data to drive customer engagement and sales while ensuring privacy and compliance.
Search Engine Journal
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Google Analytics introduces new features for a better reporting experience, including improved data quality identification and enhanced sampling controls. The post Google Analytics: New Features For Managing Large Data Sets appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Sprout Social
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Executing on a social media marketing strategy is like completing an obstacle course. In 2023, amidst recession talk, a cost of living crisis and a seemingly never-ending flood of layoff announcements, it feels a bit like the obstacle course is on fire. If you’re feeling the heat, we see you and hear you. Managing social through down markets requires an additional layer of focus, rigor and empathy.
Search Engine Journal
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Removal of TTI Metric in Lighthouse 10 improves PageSpeed Insights scores for 90% of webpages The post Lighthouse 10 Improves PageSpeed Insights Scores For 90% Of Pages appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Speaker: Carlos Hidalgo, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Exhaust, Author, International Keynote & TEDx Speaker
Recent research shows that only 50% of B2B organizations state that they have good alignment between their marketing and sales teams. This lack of alignment tremendously impacts the ability to meet business goals, and is a limiting factor for building and maintaining customer relationships. While many B2B organizations continue to struggle with aligning their marketing and sales teams, they can take practical steps to unify both teams and simplify their overall approach.
Content Marketing Institute
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
A content writer ends her 10-year relationship with HARO, once her go-to for sources. Her experience offers a lesson in vetting and verifying for all content marketers.
Search Engine Land
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Today’s hot topics revolve around the future of SEO as the race to AI-powered search heats up. Bing will use ChatGPT and Google has Bard. I’m not saying all the buzz is unjustified. These developments simply highlight the nature of search where change is constant and inevitable. Seasoned SEO practitioners know that everything could be turned upside down tomorrow.
Search Engine Roundtable
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Google has released Google Ads API version 13.0 and below is a list of what changed. Version 12.0 was released in October 2022, Version 11.0 of the Google Ads API was released in June, and version 11.1 was in August.
Search Engine Land
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Susan Wojcicki, one of the longest-serving Googlers is stepping down as the CEO of YouTube after nine years in that role and 25 years at Google. In her personal update blog post she said, “after nearly 25 years here, I’ve decided to step back from my role as the head of YouTube and start a new chapter focused on my family, health, and personal projects I’m passionate about.” Over her 25-year career at Google, she “managed marketing, co-created Google Image Search, led Goo
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Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.
Martech
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
IAB Tech Lab today announced the launch of its Data Clean Room (DCR) Standards portfolio, which includes the release of DCR Guidance & Recommended Practices, and also Open Private Join & Activation (OPJA) specifications. The standards will remain open for public comment for 60 days, until April 17, 2023. As part of their Building for Privacy Series, the organization also released a primer for clean rooms that outlines the industry with definitions and concepts, and includes a roadmap of
Search Engine Roundtable
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Matt McGee posted a poll on Twitter asking how much of Google's search engine usage market share do you expect the new Bing with ChatGPT to take in the next year? Most who responded, who I assume are SEOs, said less than 5%.
Search Engine Land
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
In 2004, SEO as a discipline was perceived as some kind of dark art performed behind the scenes. This “SEO voodoo” had minimal effect on a website and nothing to do with the actual business. Some people bought some links on more or less shady corners of the web and miraculously the Google rankings shot up. Fast forward to 2023, we still don’t have proper jetpacks, flying cars or hoverboards, but modern SEO is a far cry from 20 years ago.
SMA Marketing
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Have you ever scrolled through your inbox and had an emotional reaction while reading an email subject line? This happened to me the other day. The email subject said, "Want to know why your 6-month-old puppy stopped listening?" Why did this simple question evoke an emotional reaction ? Because just a few days earlier, our 6-month-old puppy had stopped listening to our training commands.
Speaker: Jeff Tarran, COO, Gunderson Direct & Margaret Pepe, Executive Director of Product Management, U.S. Postal Service
Learn the secrets to direct mail success for growth marketers! Industry veterans Jeff Tarran and Margaret Pepe are here to delve into how direct mail has completely evolved in recent years, and has rightfully earned a seat at the table alongside the email and digital marketing plans of SMBs, enterprise companies, and agencies as they look into strategy for 2024 and beyond.
Search Engine Land
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Google has asked its employees to test Bard – Google’s answer to ChatGPT – by rewriting answers or providing other forms of feedback. Googlers have received an email with a list of dos and dont’s for fixing Bard’s responses in an email from Prabhakar Raghavana, the senior vice president at Google who oversees Search. This followed a companywide email from CEO Sundar Pichai, who asked employees to spend two to four hours of their time helping improve Bard.
Martech
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
It’s an ongoing dilemma. Customers demand privacy and control over their data, but businesses strive for personalization to improve customer engagement and drive sales. The rise of first-party data can help balance both of these goals. Join this live webinar and hear from OneTrust’s Consent and Preference Management expert, who will share best practices and actionable insights on leveraging first-party data to drive customer engagement and sales while ensuring privacy and compliance.
Search Engine Land
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
On Wednesday, Twitter revised its advertising guidelines to permit the promotion of cannabis on its platform in states where it is legal, while following federal regulations. How it works. According to a policy update published on its website , Twitter will only allow a limited number of cannabis ads. CBD and THC firms are permitted to advertise their brands and provide cannabis-related information, but the ads must not sell or promote cannabis products, with the exception of topical (non-ingest
Search Engine Journal
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Learn the most in-demand skills for 2023, according to LinkedIn's annual report, featuring both soft and hard skills. The post LinkedIn: Top 10 In-Demand Skills In 2023 appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission
Search Engine Land
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Microsoft has found out a lot – both good and bad – in just a week since it launched the new Bing AI search and chat features. The company has shared some of the positives and negatives of this new search experience. The good. Overall, most searchers seem happy with the results, Microsoft said. In fact, 71% of searches graded the results a “thumbs up” in the search interface. “Increased engagement across traditional search results and with the new features like summarized answe
Search Engine Roundtable
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Google's John Mueller posted at Reddit why he is not a fan of using keyword-rich hyphenated domains. He said, "I'm not a fan of keyword-keyword domains, but YMMV.
Social Media Examiner
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Wondering what types of content perform well with TikTok ads? Need fresh and proven ideas that really work? In this article, you’ll discover how to make TikTok ads that work. How to Use TikTok in Your Social Ads Strategy Different social networks are valuable for different things. On Facebook, you can set and forget campaigns; […] The post TikTok Ad Creative That Delivers Results appeared first on Social Media Examiner.
Search Engine Journal
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Two new audits in Lighthouse 10 help improve site security and performance The post Google Chrome Lighthouse 10 Contains Two New Audits appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
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Learn how to optimize email deliverability and drive greater email ROI. What lands your email in the customer’s inbox? Understanding those factors, otherwise known as email deliverability, is critical to getting the most return on your campaign investments. But the “rules” around which factors land you in the spam folder aren’t always easy to keep up with.
Search Engine Roundtable
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Microsoft published a new blog post on the Bing blog about its learnings from its first week with the new Bing AI search and chat feature being live. Microsoft said the new Bing experience has mostly been "positive," where "71% of you giving the AI-powered answers a thumbs up" in the interface.
Search Engine Journal
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
Video editing has a steep learning curve. Let’s look at some of the best beginner-friendly video editing tools in the market today. The post 13 Best Video Editing Software Tools For Beginners (2023) appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
CMO Network
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
ChatGPT is a major disruptive technology in the making. With the smartphone being perhaps the most recent disruption of similar scale, let’s consider three lessons from the smartphone’s emergence and the business implications for ChatGPT and generative AI overall.
Rock Content
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
The 2023 Super Bowl delivered exceptional ratings and an exciting game. As per usual, however, some viewers were more interested in the commercials than the action on the field. This year’s lineup certainly delivered, even though the ads were far from groundbreaking. While we anticipated all the usual themes for this year’s commercials, there were a few modest surprises.
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Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.
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