Here’s our recap of what happened in online marketing today, as reported on Marketing Land and other places across the web. From Marketing Land: How to avoid an outbound link penalty from GoogleNov 14, 2016 by Tony Edward We’ve all heard of unnatural link penalties from having a spammy backlink profile, but columnist Tony Edward…
Managing the volume of marketing content that needs to be created, distributed, analyzed and managed has become complicated, time-consuming and costly for many organizations. A crowded field of content marketing tools has emerged to help brand marketers automate their content marketing strategies and tactics. The 2nd edition of Marketing Land’s “Content Marketing Tools: A Marketer’s…
Three user interfaces (UIs) go to a pub. The first one orders a drink, then several more. A couple of hours later, it asks for the bill and leaves the pub drunk. The second UI orders a drink, pays for it up front, orders another drink, pays for it and so on, and in a…
According to reports, Apple is developing digital glasses. However, if the product appears at all it won’t be until 2018 at the earliest. The glasses would reportedly offer augmented reality experiences. It would also, like Apple Watch, require an iPhone for connectivity. The company is under pressure to produce new hardware products that further diversify…
Native advertising is fast becoming a powerful digital marketing strategy, as traditional display and banner ads become less and less effective. With internet users increasingly ignoring overt sales tactics, average click-through rates (CTRs) for display ads have fallen over time to 0.17 percent, according to Google. In contrast, native ads enjoy much higher CTR and…
