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Facebook adds new reporting for Click-to-WhatsApp ads

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Ad campaign objectives now include traffic, conversions (for website), and post engagement. Why marketers should care Facebook’s Click-to-WhatsApp ads offers marketers and advertisers a way to start a conversation with consumers on its encrypted messaging app. The ads can be purchased through Facebook’s Ad Manager platform and display in a user’s Facebook News Feed. Now, in addition to messages, Click-to-WhatsApp ad campaign objectives include traffic, conversions (for website), and post engagement. Facebook has been aiming to monetize its encrypted messaging app for some time now. In Jan. 2018, the company first launched a business app and business profiles for marketers using the WhatsApp messaging app.   Facebook’s Click-to-WhatsApp ads began rolling out in August of last year, launching a pre-filled WhatsApp chat that allowed users to message a business via the app. (Advertisers running Click-to-WhatsApp ads receive metric reports in their Facebook Ads Man...

Great Tips On How To Make A Good Decision When Hiring A SEO/SEM Agency

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Planning and implementing a successful SEO/SEM requires creating diverse strategies to communicate the valuable content and production of your company through some specific technical aspects that will make you stand out among the others. When SEO/SEM is performed correctly, you will experience positive results that will increase your bottom line.  The World Wide Web is flooded with all kinds of companies or freelancers claiming they offer the best marketing services related to SEO. Before you make a decision about hiring a company to help you with your SEO and SEM need, these are some things you should take into consideration. First of all you, if you don’t know what a SEO/SEM solution is, you should start by doing some research about the overall tasks that it entails and the way it can affect your business. Then, you could be prepared to come up with some serious theoretic and practical questions when interviewing the SEO person or team. Now, thinking that the firm at the top...

What is SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?

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SEO stands for “search engine optimization.” It is the process of getting traffic from the “free,” “organic,” “editorial” or “natural” search results on search engines. To understand what SEO really means, let's break that sentence down and look at the parts: Quality of traffic. You can attract all the visitors in the world, but if they're coming to your site because Google tells them you're a resource for Apple computers when really, you're a farmer selling apples, that is not quality traffic. Instead you want to attract visitors who are genuinely interested in products that you offer. Quantity of traffic. Once you have the right people clicking through from those search engine results pages (SERPs), more traffic is better. Organic results. Ads make up a significant portion of many SERPs. Organic traffic is any traffic that you don't have to pay for. Here's how it works: Google (or any search engine you're using) has a crawler that goes out...

Is “Siri” the new Google’s competitor?

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A new study from Fivesight Research , “US Consumer Search Preferences Smartphone & Desktop: Q1 2017,” finds that Siri is the mobile “search engine” of choice after Google. The study was based on a survey of 800 US adults split roughly evenly between iOS and Android users. Google was by far the dominant mobile search engine, with an 84% aggregate share among respondents. Among Android users, Google’s search share was 90%. Among iPhone owners Google had a 78% share. After Google, however, Siri was named by more respondents as their “primary search engine” than Bing or Yahoo. (However, this doesn’t reflect query volume, just identification as the primary engine of choice.) Siri was the primary search engine of 13% of iPhone owners. This finding is significant because it suggests the long-term, potentially disruptive impact of voice and virtual assistants on traditional “query in a box” results. It’s important to point out, however, that these responses reflect self-report...

What's the Difference Between SEO and SEM?

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Search engine optimization and search engine marketing can be a confusing concept to grasp. Is there even a difference between them? Both terms are often used interchangeably, which makes matters even worse. It is important to understand the difference between the two terms and that they are different. What is search engine optimization (SEO)? SEO is essentially a component of the larger category, SEM. According to Google’s Knowledge Graph, search engine optimization is “the process of maximizing the number of visitors to a particular website by ensuring that the site appears high on the list of results returned by a search engine.” The SEO industry is continually changing due to the frequent changes made to Google’s algorithm. But, there is one aspect of SEO that stays constant: SEO is made up of On-Page and Off-Page activities. What components does SEO include? As stated above, SEO is comprised of two different activities. ·     ...