Sometimes humans and machines disagree about what content is duplicate content. Here’s why–and how to beat the system when it happens. As impressive as machine learning and algorithm-based intelligence can be, they often lack something that comes naturally to humans: common sense. It’s common knowledge that putting the same content on multiple pages produces duplicate … Continue reading Human vs machine intelligence: how to win when ‘duplicate’ content is unique
Marketing Land polled marketers about whether or not the Time Well Spent movement plays into their social media plans. Here’s what we learned. Amy Gesenhues on December 11, 2018 Social media apps and mobile device operating systems introduced a number of features this year to help people be more mindful of their digital usage. … Continue reading Marketers say Time Well Spent movement isn’t influencing social media plans
The engagement metric is steering social media marketers very wrong. Here’s what you should be doing instead. Nate Elliott on November 12, 2018 at 11:13 am Brad Smallwood, Facebook’s VP of measurement of insights, published research saying there’s “no link” between trendy online measures and ad effectiveness. (Photo via Facebook video capture) Brands have measured … Continue reading The disastrous consequences of measuring engagement
63% Of CMOs Expect Advertising Budgets To Rise In 2019 by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, November 9, 2018 CMOs are becoming more confident in their technology investments. Marketing budgets remained steady in 2018 at about 11.2% of company revenue, but 63% of CMOs expect their budgets to increase in 2019, according to the latest CMO … Continue reading 63% Of CMOs Expect Advertising Budgets To Rise In 2019
Kickstart 2019 with actionable search marketing tactics that deliver success. Chris Sherman on October 23, 2018 I just met with the Search Engine Land editors to build out the agenda for SMX® West 2019 and I have to say, I think you’re going to love it. We reviewed more than 100 pitches from passionate search marketers … Continue reading Here’s a sneak peek at the SMX West 2019 agenda
Dave Sutton — October 9, 2018 — October 9, 2018 I’ve written before about Chik-fil-A’s transition from its neat-and-tidy “Eat Mor Chikin” campaign to a more diffuse customer-focused approach. Though successful in some important respects, its new consumer value strategy has turned out to be something of a Pandora’s box, with the fast food behemoth … Continue reading The Last Year of the Kow: Some Minor Complications in the Chik-fil-A Story
‘When the map and the terrain disagree,’ conference chair Scott Brinker reminded the audience, ‘trust the terrain.’ Barry Levine on October 3, 2018 Akamai CMO Monique Bonner at the MarTech East conference “The Universe is made of stories,” the poet Muriel Rukeyser once proclaimed, “not of atoms.” Similarly, the marketing universe isn’t made of … Continue reading Message to marketers: Mind the customer before the tech
60+ sessions, 10 horizon-expanding keynotes, 70+ martech vendors. Get the strategies and tools you need for marketing success. Scott Brinker on September 25, 2018 at 5:22 pm Aligning marketing, technology and management is essential to your company’s success. And getting everyone on the same page, moving at the same pace, is tricky. Attend MarTech® for … Continue reading Join us next week at MarTech for expert-level strategies and insights
Search, social and video were the formats and channels that led the way. Finance, Pharma and Technology were the big vertical spenders. Greg Sterling on September 20, 2018 Magna released a bullish assessment and forecast for US ad revenue in 2018 and 2019. The report covers all the major advertising and media categories including … Continue reading Report: Digital now makes up 51% of US ad spending
Our SMXperts share their tactical insights on optimizing crawl budgets, fine-tuning page speed and how to execute on large-scale error-free site migrations. Debra Mastaler on September 19, 2018 The Ask an SMXpert series continues the Q&A segment held during sessions at SMX Advanced 2018 in Seattle. Today’s Q&A is from the Advanced Technical SEO: Page … Continue reading Ask the SMXpert — Page speed, site migrations and crawling
