We’ve all heard that content is king and that you need to write high-quality content, or now “10x content,” as coined by Rand Fishkin. Ask SEOs what “quality content” is and you’ll receive a lot of varied and opinionated answers. Quality is subjective, and each person views it differently. Ask SEOs what Google considers to…
As it turns out, finding out which conversations on social media are connected to terrorism is not that different from finding out which conversations lead to a sale. Menlo Park, California-based Quantifind, founded in 2009, was involved at one point in the former task, but now it is solely devoted to the latter. But, unlike…
Part of the fun of being in the SEO space is that we get to play with a lot of crazy tech developed in the name of reverse-engineering Google’s algorithms. We all have our favorites — when I first started learning SEO, my fave was SEO Altar, a service that allowed you to make a…
Virtual furniture on real space in Lenovo’s new Tango device, demo’d by TV renovation expert Nicole Curtis. Marketers, get ready to present your products and experiences inside real-world spaces. Today in San Francisco, Lenovo introduced via live video stream its phab2PRO phone, the world’s first Tango-enabled phone. Tango — formerly Project Tango — is Google’s…
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: Snapchat: We can prove people watch mobile videos *with* soundJun 9, 2016 by Tim Peterson Snapchat’s claim that two-thirds of its videos are watched with sound counters Facebook’s efforts to convince…
Facebook has conditioned brands and media companies to believe mobile videos are best when they’re basically silent movies because they’re usually played on mute. “Not true!” according to Snapchat. Snapchat claims that two-thirds of the videos posted to its mobile app are viewed with the sound on, the company announced on Thursday. And it’s putting…
Online retailers not offering free shipping may want to reconsider their delivery options. According to the Walker Sands Future of Retail 2016 study, nine out of 10 of the survey participants said free shipping was the No. 1 incentive when asked what would make them shop online more often. Surveying more than 1,400 US consumers…
If you’re a Google Analytics user and you’d like to know which iOS models and devices your visitors are using, there’s good news and bad news. The good news: When it can, Google Analytics is now breaking out specific iPhone and iPad models and listing them separately in the Audience > Mobile > Devices report….
Businesses need to shift their focus to the customer-managed journey as opposed to the static, “mapped” customer journey. This means moving from the idea that the customer journey is a controllable process to one that acknowledges that the customer is ultimately in charge. By understanding actual customer behaviour, businesses will gain what’s really important, customer…
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: Link building outreach: preparation meets persuasionJun 8, 2016 by Andrew Dennis Obtaining valuable, future-proof backlinks requires human interaction — and that means being prepared to offer something of value. Columnist Andrew…
