Jonathan Franchell
Relax, publications that use guest bloggers and contributors. Google's not planning to penalize you under its new "guest blogging equals spam" warning put out yesterday. Rather, the company says, guest blogging is only bad if the main reason a post is run is to gain links meant to influence rankings in Google.
The telecommunications services business, worth about $1 trillion in annual, global sales, is starting to feel the effects of cloud computing, one of this era's most important advances in high tech. For the most part, the gear for telecom work comes from incumbents like Cisco or Avaya.
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Some marketers, especially those working with e-commerce sites, are forced to deal with content like product descriptions and reviews; things that aren't unique. In today's Whiteboard Friday, Rand offers tips for those marketers to avoid being penalized for their work.
Yahoo has now joined Google in making all searches people do automatically go through a secure server, to help prevent eavesdropping by outsiders. Unlike Google, however, Yahoo has failed to make an important change to how "referrer" data is passed along, which will result in people thinking Yahoo Search has suddenly dropped in popularity.
As we begin the year, a couple trends stand out that marketers should consider in their practices. By now, it is fairly obvious (maybe cliché) to say that marketing is undergoing a constant state of disruption, but it is true. Taking note of evolutions in technology, practices and user behavior is a paramount and vital task for the contemporary marketer.
The number of marketing emails opened on mobile devices continued to climb last quarter according to email marketing provider Movable Ink. The company's US Consumer Device Preference Report for Q4 2013 claims 65 percent of marketing emails were opened on mobile devices during the last quarter of 2013, up from 61 percent during third quarter.
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