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Content Marketing Strategy Tips for Small Businesses

Content marketing takes center stage in 2013 SEO.Image source

Content marketing takes center stage in 2013 SEO.Image source

It is important for any online business today to pursue content marketing if they wish to improve their Page rank and advance in the SERPs. High-quality content and a far-reaching campaign can do wonders for any website. It definitely needs plenty of time and effort from a team composed of writers, SEOs, and marketing advisers, among others, that a reliable SEO company is sure to be able to provide. Although … Continue Reading » Content Marketing Strategy Tips for Small Businesses

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Google AdWords Changes Keyword Match Types

AdWords recently made changes to the exact and phrase keyword match types. The new change will allow exact and phrase match keywords to be triggered for close variants including singular/plural, misspellings, stemming, accents and abbreviations.

AdWords Match Type Variants’ Example

Below table summarizes the different match types and the current changes in RED

 

AdWords Keyword Match Types with changes

 

Keywords with misspellings, stemming, accents, abbreviations, singular/plural that were triggering broad match will start triggering respective phrase and exact match types. … Continue Reading » Google AdWords Changes Keyword Match Types

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How to Launch Successful B2B Online Marketing Campaigns and Generate Leads Part 2

This is second and final part of launching successful B2B campaigns. You can check the first part here: Part 1.

Factor 1: Understanding the target market and the buying cycle:

B2B Online Lead Generation

Often marketing managers want to get in the bandwagon wanting to launch marketing campaigns on new channels because they see their competition is doing something similar or everybody is talking about the channel without completely mapping out whom they really want to target. i.e. Lack of preparedness in terms … Continue Reading » How to Launch Successful B2B Online Marketing Campaigns and Generate Leads Part 2

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How to Launch Successful B2B Online Marketing Campaigns and Generate Leads Part 1

B2B Online Lead Generation Campaign Performance

B2B Online Lead Generation Campaign Performance

One of the main challenges of B2B marketing managers is launching successful online marketing campaigns and generating leads. Often I come across marketing managers who launch online marketing campaigns generating poor results and complain the channel is not that effective. After working with quite a few of B2B campaigns, it’s obvious that the issue is always not with the channel.

I want to speak in particular about 3 factors that play a key role in success or failure of … Continue Reading » How to Launch Successful B2B Online Marketing Campaigns and Generate Leads Part 1

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Who Wouldn’t Abandon This Shopping Cart?

Abandon This Shopping Cart

Looking for a laptop support today, I reached ikea.ca’s page and added 3 of them to the cart.

Surprise, for a $4.99 item the shipping fee is $34.55. Would you buy online from someone who’s charging that much? Hell, no!

shopping cart on ikea canada, with whopping shipping fees

$4.99 for the product , $34.99 for shipping? Good by IKEA!

You can do all the remarketing in the world, I am not going to buy this product … Continue Reading » Who Wouldn’t Abandon This Shopping Cart?

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How to Build Organic Backlinks with a Simple Functionality

Build Organic Backlinks

If you want to build links naturally (and also have a usable website), you should allow your visitors to easily share/publish links. Sharing can be social or a simple copy link text field. Such functionality is especially important for websites which don’t change the URL when altering data on the page (AJAX based pages).

canpages.ca allows users to zoom into specific areas of the map, but if they want to share the outcome with someone, there’s no way to do it:

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Six e-Commerce Email Capturing Techniques

e-Commerce Email

Your email lists are valuable assets – this is something all online marketers will agree upon. Once you have an email address and permission to contact the owner, you can start cross selling, up selling and recovering abandoned shopping carts.

Capturing an email address should be a Goal within your web analytics tool, and it should be properly setup. Additionally, you should associate a value to each email captured and derive its importance to your business. This way you can properly allocate your budget and prioritize change … Continue Reading » Six e-Commerce Email Capturing Techniques

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7 Optimization Tricks for Comparison Shopping Merchant Accounts and Shopping Feeds

shopping Merchant Accounts and Shopping Feeds

This is a guest post by Andrew Davis, the Marketing Director for CPC Strategy, a full service shopping feed management agency. He is the co-author of the first-ever Merchant Comparison Shopping Handbook, a free ebook that helps merchants optimize shopping feeds and comparison shopping merchant accounts. The author’s views/comments are entirely his or her own and may not reflect the views of Pitstop Media Inc.

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If you have products on sale, high in stock, … Continue Reading » 7 Optimization Tricks for Comparison Shopping Merchant Accounts and Shopping Feeds

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Email Subject Lines Are Not SEO Titles

Email Subject Lines

I got this email in my inbox:

poor email subject line sample

Poor Email Subject Line

The subject line is very poor:

1. The pipe divider “|” reads more like the letter “I” making the sentence hard to read

2. Emails’ subject lines are not SEO titles – don’t use “|” to separate words/sentences

There are other mistakes, but I that’s another story. At least make sure your emails don’t read/look … Continue Reading » Email Subject Lines Are Not SEO Titles

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Guest Checkouts and Opportunity Cost Analysis – Part 3 of 3

Opportunity Cost Analysis

Sometimes is not easy to change your checkout process to go from registration required to guest checkout. This article describes how you could forecast how much you’re losing if you don’t offer a guest checkout option. The method is an approximate but can help you with the number$ needed when making the case for the guest checkout to your boss. The concept behind it is to forecast how many people will not proceed further to the next pages from the shopping cart page, … Continue Reading » Guest Checkouts and Opportunity Cost Analysis – Part 3 of 3

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