Search Engine Land
APRIL 16, 2024
SEO is turbulent right now. Between tons of algorithm updates and reports of Search Generative Experience (SGE) taking over the SERPs, there’s a lot of uncertainty and anxiety about the path forward. To me, it’s the perfect time to put some under-utilized SEO research initiatives that we know are effective back in the spotlight. My list of these includes: Keyword trend analysis.
Martech
APRIL 17, 2024
Back in 2017, I wrote an article for MarTech, “ Message to email marketers: Show me something different in 2018.” It popped up again while I was preparing a presentation, so I scrolled through to see if anything I advocated back then had become standard practice. The answer is, sadly, not much. Here’s what I was looking for: Stop depending on batch-and-blast.
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The LeadG2 Blog
APRIL 15, 2024
Unfortunately, there's no such thing as an unlimited marketing budget. For success, you need to develop a strategy that maximizes your resources for the best ROI, but determining where you should invest your marketing dollars can be confusing. Should you focus on branding or sales? Sales marketing centers on promoting products and services to generate immediate revenue.
Aspiration Marketing
APRIL 18, 2024
Are you struggling to keep your content calendar full of fresh, engaging pieces? You're not alone. Content marketing is a powerful tool for building brand awareness, attracting leads, and boosting your SEO – but it requires consistent effort. That's where a content marketing agency can be your game-changer. With a content marketing agency on your side, you'll have a team of creative experts dedicated to crafting high-quality content that resonates with your target audience – freeing you up to fo
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.
SMA Marketing
APRIL 18, 2024
The legal landscape has irrevocably shifted. In the past, potential clients seeking legal representation relied on phone books and word-of-mouth referrals. Today, however, the internet reigns supreme. This digital revolution presents a tremendous opportunity for lawyers to connect with a broader audience and establish themselves as trusted authorities.
Search Engine Land
APRIL 16, 2024
Ad Strength is not a “major factor” that stops a keyword from going to auction, despite what some advertisers may believe. That’s according to Google Ads Liaison Ginny Marvin. Ad Strength. Responding to a post on X from an advertiser who said “Ad Strength is a major factor in stopping a keyword from going to auction due to Ad Rank,” Marvin wrote : “Ad Strength is not used in Ad Rank and is *not* a ‘factor in stopping a keyword from going to auction due to Ad
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Litmus
APRIL 18, 2024
The journey of an email from creation to sending takes hours of behind-the-scenes effort. Email marketers need to consider not only crafting, designing, and developing individual emails but also strategy, planning, operations, and deliverability—and of course, coordinating these efforts with the rest of your team. That’s why the MVP of any email marketing team is an integrated marketing tech stack.
Content Marketing Institute
APRIL 17, 2024
Knowing which creative assets compel your audience to act can bring big success for marketers. But how do you figure that out? You must start testing, and here’s some help to get going today.
SocialPilot
APRIL 15, 2024
If content is king, then conversion is queen -John Munsell Think about it. The fundamental aim of any activity performed by a social media marketer on social networks is to gain followers. But is that enough? Not quite. In fact, it is the first step of any social media marketing campaign. What follows is a powerful strategy involving gentle coaxing and convincing to monetize your social connections.
Aspiration Marketing
APRIL 15, 2024
Are you getting the most out of your SaaS marketing budget? It's a question that keeps many SaaS companies up at night. Without clear data on what's working and what's not, it's easy to waste valuable resources on marketing campaigns that aren't delivering results. The good news? By tracking the right SaaS marketing metrics, you can gain valuable insights that will help you optimize your campaigns, improve lead generation, and ultimately drive sales.
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.
Search Engine Land
APRIL 17, 2024
Paid search advertising revenues reached a new high in 2023 – though annual growth continues to slow, according to a new report. In total, search accounted for $88.8 billion of a record $225 billion in U.S. digital advertising revenues, according to the IAB Internet Advertising Revenue Report: Full Year 2023, conducted by PwC. That figure represents a $4.4 billion increase over 2022.
Martech
APRIL 16, 2024
It’s important to start monitoring consent management as part of your digital analytics strategy. Apart from the EU, various privacy laws in the U.S., Canada, UK, Australia and other regions require notifying users about using cookies at least in your privacy policy or through an opt-out banner if any personal information is being collected. Users are becoming increasingly aware of their privacy rights, opting out of tracking cookies more than ever (call it the fear of being stalked).
illumin
APRIL 18, 2024
Data privacy is critical to successful marketing. Effective marketing requires the collection and analysis of user data across digital platforms. Customer data lets marketers impactfully speak to their audience – driving conversions or brand awareness for their clients without annoying their customers. Data can be used to compile lists of potential buyers, track customer behavior through the marketing funnel, and understand the effectiveness of campaigns to adapt them.
Aspiration Marketing
APRIL 17, 2024
Ever spend hours crafting the perfect marketing message, only to hear crickets? Your content might be brilliant, but if it reads like a college textbook, your audience will glaze over faster than you can say "engagement." This is where readability level comes in. It's the key to unlocking clear communication, the golden ticket to having your content truly connect and resonate with readers.
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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.
Search Engine Land
APRIL 16, 2024
Google Search Console has released a security update around user permissions and controls management where you can better manage the ownership tokens. Ownership tokens are used for when people verify your site in Search Console, Merchant Center and other Google products and sometimes people who had access in the past to your profiles no longer should.
Martech
APRIL 18, 2024
I’ve been writing about marketing tools for over a decade, and some of my earliest published articles were about the new breed of social media monitoring tools. Looking at those pieces today, two insights struck me: The basic approach and strategy of selecting technology tools to help us with marketing tasks hasn’t changed much (the good news). Everything else has changed dramatically (the not-so-good news).
Social Media Examiner
APRIL 17, 2024
Wondering how to prioritize inclusivity, emotion, and social impact in your agency’s work? Looking for a proven model to follow? In this article, discover the keys to conscious agency growth from a serial entrepreneur who has launched several successful companies. Conscious Growth Marketing Through Diversity and Inclusion In today's increasingly diverse and interconnected world, embracing […] The post How to Grow Your Agency Through Socially Responsible Marketing appeared first on Social M
Aspiration Marketing
APRIL 16, 2024
Ever feel like your content speaks a different language than your audience? Tailoring content to each stage of the buyer's journey is critical, but it's a time-consuming struggle. Miss the mark, and potential customers vanish. Fortunately, we know a solution to both challenges. Learn how AI can adapt your existing content to resonate with each stage of the buyer's journey, ensuring you deliver the right message at the right time.
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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 Land
APRIL 15, 2024
Want to rank highly in 2024 and beyond? Then, you must create what Google calls “ helpful, reliable, people-first content.” In this article, I will outline a process that shows you exactly how to do that and provide a simple template you can fill out to take your content to the next level. Spambusters At the time of writing, Google is doing some major spring cleaning to tackle some of the spammy, low-quality content littering the search results.
Martech
APRIL 16, 2024
U.S. internet advertising reached a record $225 billion in 2023, a 7.3-percent increase year-over-year, according to the latest IAB report on U.S. ad revenue, conducted by PwC. Digital ads boomed in the fourth quarter when the growth rate spiked to 12.3% — in 2022 the growth rate for the quarter was 4.4%. Top channels included CTV, retail media and audio, which all saw double-digit growth in 2023.
Social Media Examiner
APRIL 16, 2024
Are you up to date on changes from TikTok? Wondering which recent TikTok updates are important to marketers and business owners? In this article, we explore TikTok changes that affect your marketing. #1: TikTok Sounds for Business TikTok recently launched Sounds for Business – Voice Clips, a collection of 18 custom voiceover audio templates designed to […] The post TikTok Updates: Ads, Notes Photo App, Search Insights, and More appeared first on Social Media Examiner.
Welcome Software
APRIL 16, 2024
Before diving in to all things editorial guidelines, a quick introduction. I head up the content team here at Optimizely. I'm responsible for developing our content strategy and ensuring this aligns to our key business goals. Here I'll take you through the process we used to create new editorial guidelines; things that worked well and tackle some of the challenges that come with any good multi - stakeholder project, share some examples and leave you with a template you can use to set your own co
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
APRIL 16, 2024
Technology news rag The Verge has published a 700-word article half-filled with content generated by Google Gemini and a heavy dose of sarcasm that has been outranking more in-depth, well-researched and arguably more helpful content written by humans at publications for the competitive query [best printer 2024]. Sound familiar? It should. We wrote about this exact same thing just over a year ago in How The Verge gamed Google with its ‘best printer 2023’ article.
Martech
APRIL 16, 2024
If you’re like most marketers, you’ve been hearing the term “real-time” a lot lately. And you’ve probably been wondering, what is real-time marketing? Are we delivering content in seconds? Milliseconds? Even faster? It can sound like marketers need to live in the world of the Oscar contender Everything Everywhere All at Once. Not necessarily. What matters is that you reach your customers when they need to be reached, with the right experience.
Businesses Grow
APRIL 15, 2024
This week marks the fifteenth anniversary of my blog. Crazy, right? I realize that nobody cares about an anniversary like this … I don’t even care, honestly … but I thought I would use the milestone as a teachable moment because blogging changed my life. And here is the main lesson of the milestone: To stand out in this world, you have to be known.
Social Media Examiner
APRIL 18, 2024
Want to use organic content to grow your reach? Wondering what types of content create engagement the algorithm values? In this article, we’ll explore the type of content that triggers massive reach on social media. Why Is Social Content Important in 2024? In the ever-evolving world of digital marketing, creating content that captures attention and […] The post Content That Triggers Massive Reach on Social Media appeared first on Social Media Examiner.
Speaker: Jay Black, Senior Account Executive
Let's set the record straight: in-store retail isn't dead - it's evolving! Faced with the digital age and the demands of omnichannel shopping, some retailers are thriving while others are struggling to adapt. Join Jay Black in this exclusive session as he explores the strategies that set successful stores apart, including: Crafting unique and unforgettable in-store experiences 🛍️ Mastering the art of retail demands 🛒 Navigating inventory challenges in today's climate 📦 an
Search Engine Land
APRIL 16, 2024
Google is introducing new generative image tools for Demand Gen advertisers worldwide. These AI-powered tools can quickly produce high-quality image assets with just a few clicks. Google is also rolling out a new Generate more like this feature, which lets advertisers create similar versions of existing images that are performing well. Why we care. Leveraging AI to create unique, high-quality image assets can save you time, money and resources, resulting in more efficient campaign management.
Martech
APRIL 17, 2024
On February 1, Google began enforcing spam guidelines for bulk email senders , warning senders to keep their spam rates reported in Google’s Postmaster Tools below.01%. Here are three steps email marketers can and should take now — even if they’re not “bulk” senders — to stay on Google’s good side and keep their email compliance up to speed, regardless of their ESP.
Sprout Social
APRIL 16, 2024
Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to be a data analyst to craft social listening queries that drive results. Social listening has always been a powerful tool for brands that know how to wield it effectively. Even just one solid query can give a brand a rich, unbiased view of consumer sentiment. These insights build stronger messaging, campaigns, product lines—the opportunities are endless.
The LeadG2 Blog
APRIL 16, 2024
In the world of manufacturing, staying ahead in lead generation is a constant battle. With outdated marketing tactics becoming less effective in a highly competitive market, manufacturers are facing numerous challenges that stifle their growth and market reach. However, the adoption of inbound marketing and sales enablement strategies can be a game-changer, offering innovative solutions that resonate with modern buyers and significantly improve lead generation outcomes.
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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
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