If you have 2 minutes with a customer, and the law required that you show a random sampling of your links to customer prospects, would you happily show the link to a target customer? This article represents my opinions, but my company has worked on...
In that brief moment, you hastily check a random box just to complete the transaction. Self-reported data is collected when a website/company asks a user any iteration of "How did you hear about us? While self-reported data is leaps and bounds...
Mobile searchers may very well choose to make a local buying decision based on the endorsements and activity of Facebook friends, rather than random user reviews in search results or activity with lesser volume on Foursquare.
A random occurrence like this can happen on any given day within the life of a PPC campaign, but you need to be looking for the overall trends that indicate an overarching problem. When managing PPC campaigns, specific trends and statistics can be...
Many people have a skewed concept that viral videos are random, that the virality of a video is based on luck. But viral content isn’t random. The factors affecting virality have a lot to do with the connection between the content and the...
Better to be associated with a company doing things the right way and adding useful information to the internet than someone just inserting random links. Guest posting in its purest form can be helpful for both the writer of the post and the...
The people who click GDN ads are often random, passing-by audiences who never come back to the same ad spot twice. So, the auctions never heat up, and the CPC is capped at some random price and people often race to the bottom to get cheap clicks.
Developing a good hypothesis is not a random act and should always be informed by some degree of knowledge, irrespective of any certainty around what the outcome may be. Some may choose to skip the hypothesis because it is easier to create a few...
Site developers who were used to slow rollouts and random content updates found a renewed importance in consistently developing readable content. Contrary to the “predictions,” it wasn't the end of the world, just the end of Mayan content.
Remember, it’s OK to be random; it’s actually preferred! Most video marketers have probably heard of the famous “Gangnam Style” video that, since its release in July 2012, is the most viewed and liked video on YouTube.
Among the new participants in the e-commerce platform are Brookstone, babyGap, L'Occitane, Lindt, Dean & DeLuca, Mondavi, Chandon, Fab, ProFlowers, Random House, Inc.and NARS cosmetics. Last week, at an event shrouded in secrecy, Facebook unveiled...
Often they will test the network first on an unsuspecting domain to gauge its effectiveness before switching it to their preferred domain, explaining the occasional random rankings seen recently. Google, the black hats are winning.
On top of that, there are content farms and AdSense manipulators causing random spend spikes. You breathe search. You eat negative keywords for lunch and cook up scrumptious ROIs for dinner. The best part of your day is getting knee-deep in the...
How do you know the conversions and clicks came from the campaign and not random locations? All of our online marketing efforts are useless if we don’t act on and improve upon their results. Email marketing continues to be one of the more common...
Well, in the hundreds of random profiles on the list we’ve checked so far, not one has their email address publicly available. Yesterday, we reported that a blogger claimed to have purchased a list of over one million Facebook user emails, complete...
to “I wasn't sure this list was legit or random but I can see now it's legit and it's working fine. Internet marketer Bogomil Shopov has been blogging his saga of allegedly buying the emails of more than 1 million Facebook users from a person...
The result is that so long as the choice of which version they saw was random enough, then you have eliminated all other variables that might lead to differences between the two users' behavior. If there are definitely no systematic biases (i.e.the...
What you see is the difference between a sample of states I chose at random. Got a business that only services specific areas? Looking to mirror your online investment by heavying up media in paid search in those same areas?
Simply go to bingiton.com, type in five random search queries (Ryan Reynolds? Dorm decor, fall school fashion, and search engines? Microsoft wanted to show young women that its Bing search engine is worth checking out, so when it threw down the...
A video posted to the Bing It On site depicts random people on the street identifying Google as their preferred search engine, then choosing Bing's search results as better and more relevant. While you probably won't find random Microsoft employees...
