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Cloudimage.io: Cached, Cropped, Resized, or Watermarked Images as a Service
Recently, I’ve been working quite a bit on this site to get the speed up. I’ve removed a ton of the moving parts to simplify how it’s monetized and integrated, but the site speed is still too slow. I’m confident it’s impacting my readership and my organic search reach. After enlisting the assistance of my friend, Adam Small, who operates…
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How to Ensure (And Verify) That Your Content Is Indexed on Google
Getting your content indexed on Google is crucial for SEO and driving organic traffic to your website. Google discovers and indexes URLs through a combination of methods, including following links, processing sitemaps, and recognizing external links. In this article, we’ll explore these methods in detail and discuss how you can expedite the crawling and indexing process. How Google Discovers URLs…
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Specle: Integrated Advertising System for Digital Publishing
Niche publications still continue to drive highly targeted content to distinct groups. While pay-per-click, affiliate and banner ad systems continue to dominate the market for their simple ordering process and low cost per lead, they also typically get a low click and conversion rate. Because they’re inexpensive, they can still reap incredible rewards and have a solid return on investment…
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How Effective Is Live Streaming For Your Brand?
As social media continues to explode, companies are on an evolving quest for new ways of sharing content. In the past, most businesses stuck to blogging on their website, which made sense: It’s historically been the cheapest, easiest, and most time-efficient means of generating brand awareness. And while mastering the written word remains essential, studies are indicating that the production…
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COVID-19: The Coronavirus Pandemic and Social Media
The more things change, the more they remain the same.Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr One good thing about social media: you do not need to wear masks. You can spout anything at any time or all the time as is happening during these COVID-19 hit times. The pandemic has brought certain areas into sharp focus, sharpened rounded edges, widened the chasms, and,…
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Five Ways Martech Companies Play the Long Game Given an Expected 28% Drop in Marketing Spend
The Coronavirus pandemic has brought its own set of challenges and lessons from a societal, personal, and business perspective. Due to economic uncertainty and frozen sales opportunities, it’s been challenging to maintain new business growth. And now that Forrester expects a possible 28% drop in marketing spend over the next two years, some of the 8,000+ martech companies may be (inefficiently)…
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The 5 Top Attacks Made On E-commerce Sites
One of the more startling statistics concerning COVID-19 and the lockdowns is the dramatic increase in e-commerce activity: COVID-19 has massively accelerated the growth of e-commerce, according to an Adobe report released today. Total online spending in May hit $82.5 billion, up 77% year-over-year. John Koetsier, COVID-19 Accelerated E-Commerce Growth ‘4 To 6 Years’ There’s not an industry that hasn’t…
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How Your Martech Stack Fails to Serve the Customer
In the older days of marketing, back in the early 2000s, a few brave CMOs invested in some rudimentary tools designed to help better manage their campaigns and audiences. These hardy pioneers sought to organize, analyze and improve performance, and thus created the first marketing technology stacks- integrated systems that brought order, unlocked targeted campaigns, and personalized messages for better…
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Getting More Likes For Instagram Ads: 8 Best Practices To Follow
Competition is heating up on the platform though, and brands are looking to get the most out of their Instagram ad campaigns. One method brands are using to gauge engagement, and brand value is getting more likes. We are going to be talking about strategies that can improve the number of likes you can get for your ads on your…
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To Tweet or Not to Tweet
A beginner’s guide to decide if Twitter is right for your digital strategy They don’t ‘get’ their users! Shares are down! It’s cluttered! It’s dying! Marketers – and users – have had plenty of complaints about Twitter recently. However, with over 330 million active users worldwide, the social media platform seems to be doing just fine. Usage has accelerated for…
