Websites & email marketing must be designed for mobile A report by Return Path on December 31, 2013 highlights the importance of mobile for email marketing. Over the 2013 holiday season, 51% of all emails were opened on a mobile device. Desktop had a mere 27% of email opens. Mobile responsive web...
Remarketing allows marketers to display ads to visitors who've previously been on your website as they browse the Web. Remarketing uses programmatic buying to display ads on a broad array of participating websites. Within the Google ad network, a prospect who visited a brand website may see the...
The new year represents fresh beginnings. For a business, fresh beginnings do not happen automatically, but the perspective your team brings to the game, does help inspire, restore and renew. Additionally, updating brand assets help inspire employees, partners, customers and leads. One area we...
Many start-ups face enormous pressure to succeed. This pressure causes many start-ups to adopt bad marketing practices, as they try to drive short-term sales, website traffic and build subscribers. At concern here is the adoption of bad practices like buying links, buying followers, joining link...
If your blog's purpose is to build visibility for your brand or organization, then it may be smart to use a pinging service to notify search engines and other websites when new content is available. Examples of ping services: Ping-o-matic blogsearch.google.com/ping Feed Shark pingoat.net...
There are numerous benefits to Wordpress as a website content management system. At Ironpaper, we work hard to understand the needs of an enterprise in order to make a content management system recommendation. Wordpress is one of our favorites, and here are a few reasons why we love the platform....
Many businesses and non-profits are shifting focus to online PR and SEO efforts. Online PR is very similar to regular PR, but the focus is digital online or digital first. Online PR involves everything from creating great and shareable content to influencing bloggers and inspiring stories within...
People have different reading habits online than they do offline. Online, people tend to scan. They scroll through an article quickly and form an impression. Looking for words, highlighted concepts, photos and commitment level, readers decide whether they need to commit time or if anything "grabs"...
Many brand and marketing managers are under a lot of pressure to drive up numbers for digital marketing efforts, whether the KPIs are traffic, leads, engagement metrics or custom events. Here are a couple tips to keep the numbers moving in the right direction without being too wasteful with spend....
Some businesses have followed bad advice in the past when outsourcing their SEO efforts and have been penalized for link spam. Google punishes websites for buying links or employing link spam to artificially build search ranking. The results of the Google penalty can be measured in radical search...