Contributor Brian Wood from Wayfair.com shares data which suggests that title tags that perform well in paid search don’t necessarily indicate winning SEO titles. Brian Wood on March 29, 2017 Title tags are a meaningful on-page ranking factor and are among the most influential factors in determining click-through rate (CTR) from search engine results … Continue reading Study: PPC cannot accurately identify winning organic titles
Retailer Urban Outfitters saw 75 percent conversion increase and 146 percent revenue growth from using offline signals vs. online only. Greg Sterling on February 22, 2017 Location data platform PlaceIQ and mobile messaging tool Appboy have teamed up. In the context of their announcement, the two companies showcased a case study with retailer Urban … Continue reading Case study: location data outperforms online signals as e-commerce targeting tool
The Email Edge: Does The Gmail Study Have The Stuff? by Ray Schultz, Columnist, February 17, 2017 Gmail users are ignoring Gmail’s inbox classification plan — only a third employ it, and they haven’t turned it into a promotional ghetto, according to a Return Path study issued earlier this month. But they still seem to … Continue reading The Email Edge: Does The Gmail Study Have The Stuff?
A new paper from Princeton and Stanford researchers says their model for user identification works up to 70 percent of the time, using only anonymous browsing histories. Barry Levine on February 1, 2017 Data privacy advocates — and marketers concerned about ensuring user privacy — may have a new worry. It’s possible to determine … Continue reading Study: Your anonymous web browsing isn’t as anonymous as you think
David Isman — December 29, 2016 — December 29, 2016 The Idea In a perfect world, an e-commerce company could accurately attribute all of its costs and revenue across each of their paid channels. Using such data, that same company could then allocate their marketing spend more efficiently and set up their remarketing and retention … Continue reading [Case Study] How Finding Your Customer LTV Increases Your ROI
Google’s index has been shifting toward ‘mobile-first,’ making mobile pages the default pages for ranking purposes. Columnist Glenn Gabe uses a case study to illustrate some of the issues this might pose for site owners. Glenn Gabe on December 16, 2016 This fall was packed with announcements about Google’s mobile-first index. First, Gary Illyes … Continue reading Finally going mobile-friendly, but on a collision course with Google’s mobile-first index [Case Study]
Conrado Langer — December 9, 2016 — December 9, 2016 Google now processes over 3.5 billion searches per day, every single day. No wonder 10 out of 10 businesses want only one thing: to appear on the first results page for keywords related to their industry. This kind of visibility is the promise of a … Continue reading SEO Case Study: From Second Page to Second Place in Two Weeks
Brent Holland — November 23, 2016 — November 23, 2016 It would make little sense for an organization to develop a succession management program without a defined plan for evaluating its effectiveness. But how can organizations evaluate their succession management program? The five guidelines below provide organizations with a proven method to determine whether or … Continue reading 5 Ways to Evaluate the Effectiveness of a Succession Strategy [Case Study]
by Laurie Sullivan@lauriesullivan, November 16, 2016 Just 9% of marketers participating in a white paper scheduled for release Thursday admit they can consistently recognize customers across media channels, although 72% say their organizations are pursuing cross-channel recognition strategies. The white paper, From Theory to Practice: A Roadmap to ‘Omnichannel’ Activation, (available Thursday) published by the … Continue reading Brands Cannot Recognize Their Omnichannel Customers, DMA Study Finds
Angie Geffen — November 12, 2016 Follow @AngieGeffen— November 12, 2016 Understanding how users behave online is key to creating a marketing strategy that gets results. If you don’t understand how your audience behaves, how will you know where to post your ads? Or what kind of content to create? Or what kind of SEO … Continue reading What Our Online User Behavior Study Reveals
