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Panda vs eBay — Don’t Poke The Bear

Small Business Mavericks

In this case, Google is following the “rules” they’ve published and is punishing spammy, low-quality content tactics — because quality content is good for the searcher (Google’s “customer”). eBay created a major AdWords campaign that was by all accounts completely spammy.

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Annual Social Media Budget Planning For Companies And Bloggers

SocMed Sean

NOTE: I originally wrote and published this article back in November of 2011 and it has generated a lot of interest over the years. 3) Creative Software to facilitate content creation like the Adobe Cloud suite, video editing software, etc… 4) Publishing and Scheduling tools like Tailwind for Pinterest, Buffer, or.

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The Best Tools for Keyword Research, Competitive Analysis and Trending Topics

Adam Sherk

Google AdWords: Keyword Planner. Google’s Keyword Planner has become a hassle for new users to set up since it now requires having an AdWords account. Specific to search, you can drill down on what percentage of total traffic comes from search engines and get a breakdown by engine and vertical (i.e.

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Display Advertising Is A Failed State

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On one had, the smart advertisers are finding a tremendous amount of value in certain online/digital advertising channels (think about search engine marketing, affiliate marketing, email marketing, specific targeting capabilities on Facebook , being smart with YouTube pre-rolls, etc.). google adwords. meta search engine.

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Search Traffic Declining? You’re Not Alone (and What to Do About It)

Webbiquity SMM

According to research from BuzzFeed , “Search traffic to publishers has taken a dive in the last eight months, with traffic from Google dropping more than 30%…While Google makes up the bulk of search traffic to publishers, traffic from all search engines has dropped by 20% in the same period.”

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Native Advertising And The Trouble It Will Cause

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We had limitations when it came to the pipe (the speed with which a webpage would load) and this forced us - as a marketing industry - to figure out some semblance of unity across publishers and agencies. " Twitter has its own native advertising platform ( Promoted Tweets ), as does Google ( AdWords ), as does Facebook and on and on.

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Marketing Mix Tape: Do These 6 Things to Bring More Traffic to Your Website Now

Firebelly

Each month, the phrase “SEO is dead” is searched about 210 times, providing evidence that a smattering of marketing professionals aren’t entirely sold on the benefits of using search engine optimization to increase website traffic. But push past Google AdWords that you’ve always done into the paid social ad domain.

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