Why good isn't good enough for mobile

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Why good isn't good enough for mobile
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Jim Yu
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Within the last year, the integration of mobile into our daily lives expanded in a huge way. In fact, the Pew Internet Project found that nearly a third of all smartphone owners describe their phone as "something they can't imagine living without." So far in 2015, we've gotten a glimpse at just how ubiquitous mobile connectivity will become -- this year's Consumer Electronics Show showcased everything from connected watches to smart t-shirts. For marketers, the continuing mobile revolution presents a wealth of opportunities to engage with consumers. However, it also brings with it a set of challenges: We all know high-performance mobile content is important, but creating the best mobile experience while keeping up with such a fast-evolving ecosystem is difficult.

Wearables to Heighten Demand for Local Search: Prepare Now!

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Wearables to Heighten Demand for Local Search: Prepare Now!
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Emily Alford
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As the Apple Watch’s April debut looms, many advertisers are beginning to question whether the tiny screens attached to wearables will really prove all that useful for reaching consumers. But marketers can make the Apple Watch, as well as other wearable devices, relevant for local search if they make the right moves to maximize potential. And now is the time to do it.

Mobile devices have already created an expectation of immediate, accurate local search results. The rise of wearables will most likely only heighten the demand for quick local search, according to Jim Yu, founder and chief executive (CEO) of BrightEdge, a leading enterprise SEO platform.

Optimizing For The Google Quick Answers Box

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Optimizing For The Google Quick Answers Box
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Jim Yu
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Google has made a lot of strides with the Quick Answer box over the past few years, and these developments have evoked mixed reactions from SEOs who see both the challenges and opportunities therein.

The challenge is, if a searcher can find the answer right in the search results, why would they click through to your site? The opportunity, however, is that if your site’s content is featured in the answer box with a link back to your site, you have prominent visibility.

In fact, the latest news in the quick answers dialogue is that Google is showing action-oriented links – basically calls-to-action – for certain queries in their answers box.

Analytics as the Source of Truth – The Power of Data Integration

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Analytics as the Source of Truth – The Power of Data Integration
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Jim Yu
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We’ve all got a big job to do when it comes to our discipline in digital marketing – whether it’s SEO, paid search, social media, or being on a team that does it all. Do you measure your marketing? Do you feel confident in the metrics you’re tracking?

Let’s face it: marketers struggle with and businesses don’t fully have a handle on their Web analytics most of the time. Like most disciplines within Web marketing, analytics is a standalone skill set developed over time.

BrightEdge Integrates Content Performance Tool With Adobe

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BrightEdge Integrates Content Performance Tool With Adobe
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Brian Anderson
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BrightEdge, a content performance marketing platform provider, announced the launch of Content Optimizer 3.0, a tool designed to provide marketers with insights into competitors’ content.

Content Optimizer 3.0 integrates with Adobe Experience Manager, intended to help users tap into web-wide competitor content data, and apply that data to be prepare a more strategic content creation initiative.

Why The Quality Of Your Data Is Crucial For Content Marketing In 2015

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Why The Quality Of Your Data Is Crucial For Content Marketing In 2015
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Jim Yu
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Do you know what content your target audience wants to read — and where they want to read it? If the answer is no, you’re not obtaining enough of the right kind of data.

Faced with loads of data, the modern marketer simply does not have time to sift through it all — the hundreds of potential metrics, the trends in content, and the changes to search algorithms — in order to stitch together a story that illustrates what their brand’s audience really needs.

The key is obtaining the right data without putting in exorbitant amount of time to do so. Let’s examine this issue a bit more closely.

Four Steps To Retail Content Marketing Success

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Four Steps To Retail Content Marketing Success
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Jim Yu
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It’s no secret that retailers are making multimillion-dollar investments in content. From creating new branded magazines to social media “tweet shops,” retailers are using countless resources and big bucks to move the needle.

However, even with all the effort and energy, I’ve found that retail marketers are estimating negative ROI because they are unsure of what generates revenue and what doesn't.

Content marketing is tricky, and it presents its own set of unique challenges for retailers in particular. Retailers typically have millions of pages, products, and categories to consider in their content marketing efforts. With such high numbers, it can seem impossible to create quality content on the massive scale that’s required.

5 Essential SEO Techniques To Master In 2015

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5 Essential SEO Techniques To Master In 2015
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Jim Yu
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Each year, SEO evolves to become a more sophisticated discipline. As marketers refine their skills sets, as search engines improve their search products, and as brands across industries continue to see the impact that organic search can have on their growth, search engine optimization has come from humble beginnings to become a recognized strategic field of marketing.

6 Degrees of SEO Separation – From Data to Content Performance

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6 Degrees of SEO Separation – From Data to Content Performance
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Jim Yu
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Something significant has been happening in the world of SEO for some years. Most of us are aware of the shift, even if we’re not able to quite put it in words. As the SEO discipline grows, the borders and gaps between other disciplines grow smaller.

In fact, if we were to look at SEO in terms of the "six degrees of separation" (for example, how far away SEO is from another marketing discipline) we’d likely find that it’s very closely tied with each and every marketing and business goal in some way.

BrightEdge Unveils LPO Intelligence Integration for Adobe Experience Manager

LPO Intelligence Integration for Adobe Experience Manager | BrightEdge

Latest Machine Learning Innovation Empowers Marketers With Deep Competitive Insights and Mobile Recommendations to Boost Landing Page Performance

SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwired - Mar 10, 2015) -  BrightEdge, the essential content performance marketing platform, today announced that it will preview LPO Intelligence at Adobe Summit 2015. LPO Intelligence will integrate seamlessly with Adobe Experience Manager, offering landing page ideas that marketers should consider when using AEM's new performance targeting capabilities, powered by Adobe Target, to test landing page variations.

LPO Intelligence empowers marketers with unmatched and immediate web-wide competitive insights to inform creation of high-performance landing pages. Powered by the BrightEdge Data Cube, machine learning automates decisions and democratizes landing page testing. LPO Intelligence helps marketers boost conversion rates and deliver impactful business results.

Machine Learning - Gaining The Competitive Edge On The Content Battleground

In today's content battleground it's increasingly important for marketers to understand the performance of their content within the context of the broader marketplace. Today, marketers have data visibility limited to their own content, but no insight into competitors'.

Following the latest release of Content Optimizer 3.0, LPO Intelligence is specifically designed to improve landing page performance.

"LPO Intelligence is powered by BrightEdge Data Cube intelligence. The Data Cube uncovers opportunities at web-wide scale and delivers valuable insights to marketers in the form of specific, actionable recommendations," said Jim Yu, CEO of BrightEdge. "With LPO Intelligence, for the first time ever, marketers will be able to automatically optimize landing pages to win on the content battleground."

The BrightEdge Data Cube -- the industry's largest dataset of web-wide content that includes rich media, search terms and social signals -- powers both innovations. Historically marketers have been forced to rely on first person data, which gives them an incomplete view of how their content is performing. Marketers who use LPO Intelligence alongside Content Optimizer 3.0 will now have access to an industry-first complete set of data, actionable insights and recommendations for all types of content.

Michael Kirchhoff, Director at PennWell Media stated, "Adobe continues to lead innovation in the Marketing Cloud and Adobe Experience Manager makes it easy for me to create and manage content across all my digital marketing channels. As a data-driven marketer, I am very excited about the BrightEdge LPO Intelligence integration in the Adobe Experience Manager environment. BrightEdge Machine learning and the subsequent data-driven insights will further empower me in my role to ensure that content marketing performs with maximum efficiency and scale."

"In any customer acquisition strategy, optimized and relevant landing pages are a competitive advantage, especially as brands vie for consumer attention. Marketers need strong content, analytics, and personalization capabilities to come out on top," said Aseem Chandra, Vice President, Adobe Experience Manager and Adobe Target. "Our customers will be confident knowing that they are delivering the best digital experiences with Adobe Marketing Cloud and innovations from partners such as BrightEdge."

Key LPO Intelligence features include:

Competitive Insights: BrightEdge LPO Intelligence provides value where other solutions traditionally fall short. It not only analyzes a brand's own webpage, but it also provides unique insights into their top competitors' landing pages. This is an inside look into the strategies, failures, and winning experiments that marketers at these companies are taking. This value is unique to the BrightEdge Data Cube, as it delivers to marketers the same level of web-wide intelligence at massive scale that Facebook and Twitter bring consumers.

Mobile Best Practices: By analyzing mobile websites across all major industries, BrightEdge has identified the most effective page elements across each vertical, as well as a set of common mistakes that negatively affect page performance. Tailored industry insights -- such as needing an effective mobile top bar layout for ecommerce sites -- allow marketers to bring their landing pages closer and closer to the ideal performance. BrightEdge couples those competitive insights with website optimization best practices for desktop and mobile lading pages, and provides actionable recommendations that marketers can integrate into an A/B test. 

Landing Page Experimentation and Optimization: BrightEdge technology identifies and dissects page layouts by industry and by competitors. These insights will unlock specifics like the minimum spend required for free shipping across all of a given ecommerce company's competitors, or elements like effective CTA text, color, and size. Instead of iterating with no resulting improvements, marketers can get prescriptive knowledge for how to boost the performance of their landing pages. These insights can then be used to inform landing page optimization efforts through AEM's performance targeting features.

Internet Categorization powered by Machine Learning: Though most businesses leveraging machine learning are limited in scope to their own experiments across their own websites, BrightEdge LPO Intelligence leverages sophisticated natural language processing to identify all the headlines and CTAs across the web. Additionally, search volume trending capabilities spot trends to see what works. BrightEdge's predictive analytics offer data-driven insights and recommendations to take a company's landing pages to the next level.

About BrightEdge
BrightEdge is the essential content performance marketing platform for modern business. It transforms online content into tangible business results such as traffic, revenue and engagement. BrightEdge's S3 platform is powered by a sophisticated big data analysis engine and is the only company capable of web-wide, real-time measurement of content engagement across all digital channels, including search, social and mobile. BrightEdge's 8,500+ global brands include leaders like 3M, Microsoft, Netflix and Nike. The company is based in San Mateo, CA with offices in New York City, Chicago, London and Tokyo.

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