Category: Marketing

A conversions report details which content converts the most users, which content contributes to the most conversions and the types of conversions. Content marketing and analytics provider Parse.ly has rolled out the first generally-available release of Parse.ly Conversions. The solution seeks to help marketers address content attribution challenges of conversion reporting. It allows users to select different attribution models for assigning credit to content. The release also includes features such as labels that can be applied to categorize conversion actions. “This release includes a conversions report that shows which content converts…

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DAM can play a vital role in your marketing organization, unifying online and offline marketing channels and leading to more efficient marketing resource allocation. Any good marketing team is awash marketing collateral, blog copy, images, audio files and videos. In fact, the glut of materials produced these days has made digital asset management platforms a particularly important piece of martech for enterprise (and SMB) stacks. That’s because digital asset management can play a vital role in your marketing organization, unifying online and offline marketing channels and leading to more efficient…

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Cautious consumers want more information about COVID-19 precautions. It’s safe to say that the U.S. has badly fumbled its response to COVID-19 and the pandemic will be with us through at least the end of 2020. That means consumers will probably remain cautious about returning to hotels, restaurants, retail stores, gyms and salons for the foreseeable future. Varying levels of consumer comfort. In a recent coronavirus-response consumer survey, the Pew Research Center found: 79% of U.S. adults are now comfortable going to the grocery store. 53% would feel comfortable going to a…

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The way companies evaluate and set salaries is evolving. Get the digital marketing salary trends business leaders and job seekers need as they plan for success. Digital marketing talent—especially those specializing in SEO, content, email marketing, and PPC—remains in top demand. With 92% of hiring managers reporting difficulties finding skilled talent, it’s never been a better time to be a qualified job seeker.  If you’re looking to advance your career, change jobs, or expand your digital marketing team, Conductor’s 2023 Digital Marketing Salary Guide has you covered. Visit Digital Marketing Depot to…

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Discover the emerging solutions and channels that cultivate stronger customer experiences. According to a new survey from Forrester, 56% of your marketing peers plan to increase investment in advertising/marketing solutions over the next year. Where do they plan to invest? Join this webinar to hear experts from AWS, Forrester, Merkle and Treasure Data discuss findings from the study about the state of customer experiences and the advertising and marketing technologies that influence your ability to meet customer expectations. Register today for “If the Customer is Always Right, Your Technology Should…

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This overlapped other ranking updates and a Google map and local pack update design change. Google has confirmed that it ran a local search ranking update between November 30th and December 8th — it is calling the November 2021 local search update. Google said this update was about “rebalancing of various factors we consider in generating local search results.” Why we care. You may have noticed significant local ranking changes in the Google Maps and local pack results. This, along with the new local interface update, may have resulted in traffic changes to your…

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Google is aware of the issue and has advised business owners to flag the reviews or contact Google support to get them removed: Restaurants around the U.S. are under attack from negative reviews. The New York Times covered the newest scam, where people are leaving 1-star reviews for restaurants and then emailing saying that they have to send them a gift card before they’ll remove the reviews. Google’s response: “We’ve recently become aware of a scam targeting businesses on Google with the threat of 1-star reviews unless they send money via gift cards.…

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Google had sought to avoid paying copyright licensing fees by getting publishers to waive them in exchange for being included in search results. Google must pay to display news content in France. That’s the decision of French antitrust authorities, according a Bloomberg report on April 9. The antitrust regulator has given Google three months to work out a deal with French publishers. No pricing or licensing framework has yet been determined. Google told Bloomberg that it would comply with the decision and that the parties have already entered into negotiations. A significant…

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The new feature attempts to make the checkout process easier for merchants to convert shoppers by removing several steps. Pinterest just introduced an easier way for shoppers to check out on their platform. Hosted checkout is here. Hosted checkout is being launched first on Shopify and provides Pinterest merchants and advertisers an easier way for their shoppers to check out. The new feature should remove several steps from the current purchase process, which should increase conversions and decrease cart abandonments. Improving the current process. Previously, merchants and advertisers who used Pinterest to…

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The posts that do not comply with this guideline may be rejected and removed from Google Maps and Google Search. Google has updated what it considers to be spam when it comes to Google Business Profile posts in the Business Profile posts content policies. The new line added under the avoid section says “examples of such content that is not allowed includes “duplicate photos, posts, videos, and logos.” Duplicate. Yes, the new line says that “duplicate photos, posts, videos, and logos” was added as an example of Google posts that would be rejected…

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