Why Voice Search Marketing is Gaining Momentum

Smart speaker users in the U.S. will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 47.9% between 2016 and 2020, from 16.0 million to 76.5 million. In 2018, more than 18% of the U.S. population and 21.9% of internet users will use a smart speaker at least once a month.

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Rise of Hybrid Marketing and Data Science Talent

“The hybrid marketer is a ‘new marketer’, with communication and creative skills, but at the same time is someone who sees it as part of his role to learn any new, emerging skill that might have relevance to achieving their objectives – data analysis included.”

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Search Engine Optimization Tops List for Digital Marketers

Search continued to lead digital marketing efforts for companies worldwide in 2016. And this was the case in spite of internet users’ widespread engagement with social.

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Why High-Quality Digital Marketing Content Matters

Many marketers are hopeful that digital content creation will integrate their messaging with what people are already reading and watching on social channels. But more than a third of digital media professionals worldwide say quality of content is the biggest barrier to their success.

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How Digital Marketing and SEO Impact B2B Sales Results

B2B buyers strongly prefer to conduct their own online research, without ever speaking with a sales rep. Forward-thinking B2B marketers will embrace this change and enable the customer-directed research journey with self-service technologies — such as SEO and contextual help.

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Why Paid Search and SEO are a Focus of Mobile Marketing

Though newer areas like programmatic buying and native advertising were more commonly expected to enjoy large budget increases in the coming year, marketers expected to put more new dollars toward search than display formats.

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How Digital Marketers Measure Blog Content Performance

Search engine optimization (SEO) professionals consider social shares and unique visits the most important key performance indicators (KPIs) for a piece of blog content. Engagement with a ‘call to action’ and backlinks were the other key KPIs.

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Publishing Best Practices of the Top Ranked Business Blogs

The top 10 business blogs ranked are publishing nearly 8X as many blog posts as blogs ranked from 11–50. This is a huge difference in how often they publish blog posts. It’s interesting that both groups posted 6–7 times per day on Twitter and 2 times per day on Facebook, but the frequency with which they posted new content to their blogs was vastly different.

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Savvy Marketers in France Continue Shift to Digital Media

The economy in France may be relatively flat, but digital media adoption is thriving. As an example, according to recent research, digital ad spending in France reached €1.49 billion ($1.98 billion) net in the first half of this year — that’s a gain of 3.5% compared with H1 2014.

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The Symbiotic Union between SEO and Content Marketing

According to a recent survey, 72% of marketer respondents cited relevant content creation as the most effective SEO tactic. Unfortunately, though, it was also the second most difficult — cited by 46% of respondents.

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